Language Education

  
As the world’s economy development and closer cooperation, it becomes more necessary to master a second or third foreign language. I, a native Chinese girl, born in China, grow up in China, just immigrated to Australia at the beginning of 2010 after living in Thailand for almost 1 year. Following is my personal opinion about the language education in these three countries:
   

Australia:
Most schools have only Japanese as their second language say, in Yeppoon, in Rockhampton. There might be other choices in big cities, say, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane. 
Referring to my personal experience, I wrote a letter to most of Yeppoon schools to express my enthusiasm to be a volunteer Chinese teacher 1 month ago but so far I got no reply.
As for Japanese language which is taught at most of schools, most students still can’t talk or understand the language and forget it after they leave school.
As for language training centre, there is few in the market. What you can find is just one to one personal amateur traning.
   

China:
English is a compulsory subject from junior school, senior school to university. Some students can’t graduate just because they fail in their English examination, even though they might have no chance  to use it in their future life.
Recently more and more kindergarten and primary schools have introduced English into their daily education as well.
Thanks for China’s revolution and open to the world policy, more and more adults feel it necessary to learn a foreign language. Therefore there are many big training centres/ companies in the market and create a huge profit industry.
  

Thailand:
Most of government –run schools have English education. While Chinese language education is added in most international schools besides their native Thai and international English education. They call it tri-language advantage.

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