1. Ya know, in the 80s they said the same thing about the Japanese
How the Japanese were buying up everything, so everybody had better learn Japanese. Look at what happened to Japan. (Well, their products are excellent, but Japan Inc. is in no shape to take over the world)
2. True, but they're still planning more intelligently than we are
They're saying,"We know that the oil is running out. We know that the climate is changing. We know that our population is aging. Let's figure out what we need to do and then do it."
They're not going to take over the world, but they're at least taking some serious steps to deal with the issues facing them.
Uniformly clean and nice - with an excellent universal health care system. Now China is a different story - an environmental nightmare everywhere I visited.
7. As a former professional language teacher, I think it's okay for a basic
introduction to a foreign language, but you'll never become proficient with a self-study course, at least not from what I've seen in the sample lessons.
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