Japan ranks 92nd in English proficiency, lowest ever: survey - The Mainichi
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TOKYO -- Japan ranked a record low 92nd in the 2024 English proficiency ranking of 116 countries and regions where English is not the native language,

Summary

Japan’s English proficiency ranking dropped to 92nd out of 116 countries, the lowest ever recorded.

The decline is attributed to stagnant English proficiency among young people, particularly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Netherlands ranked first, followed by European countries, while the Philippines and Malaysia ranked 22nd and 26th, respectively.

  • loppy@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    I think he titled it 7 because he explicitly presents 7 different cases. I’m not sure what you mean by saying three are the same though? Two are obviously exactly the same. Personally, I would only consider it three different “things”:

    • A uvular nasal at the end of an utterance.
    • The nasalization of a following consonant when that consonant has the tongue contacting the roof of the mouth.
    • The nasalization of a preceeding vowel when the following phoneme has the tongue not making contact.

    I think it’s fair to even say that it’s almost exactly one thing: an instruction to let air out of your nose whilst producing the surrounding phonemes.