Tim de Mello timdemello2 at hotmail.com on Tue Sep 10 20:47:28 PDT 2013 stated:
“The Japanese, Chinese and Koreans did not succeed because of their proficiency in English. As a matter of fact if one visits these places it is hard to find locals who speak English.” COMMENT: It all depends what one considers as “success”. The Japanese have the highest rate of suicides world over due to job stress. Is that a sign of success? The Chinese are going downhill for exporting all spurious commodities. Besides, the labour is cheap and majority live poor conditions which is not an indice of success. I have worked with the Japanese for over a decade, and it was made mandatory for them to learn, comprehend and speak fluent English if they were working abroad. Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.
