{"id":9206,"date":"2009-11-11T08:46:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T12:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=9206"},"modified":"2009-11-11T08:50:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T12:50:16","slug":"why-learn-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/11\/why-learn-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Learn Japanese?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Japanese Doctor <\/em><\/strong>is a recurring feature written by Friend Of JET, Jon Hills<\/strong>, who maintains the blog for Hills Learning<\/strong> (<\/em>www.hillslearning.com<\/em><\/a>). \"doc<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a certainly a question that is asked of both myself, and of Hills Learning. Japanese in the 80\u2019s was what Chinese is today, a language that is learned for business, political, and most importantly future expectations. If a language is perceived<\/em> to become more prominent, people will try to learn it. Chinese is seen as a language that might even take over English in prominence, so people are desperate to learn it. Potential students for Japanese these days, so people tell me, are manga and anime fans.<\/p>\n

While manga and anime fans certainly have an interest in Japanese culture, I would say still today schools, businesses, and individuals are still legitimately interested in learning Japanese. The majority of our own students are not manga and anime fans…<\/p>\n

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The Japanese Doctor is a recurring feature written by Friend Of JET, Jon Hills, who maintains the blog for Hills Learning (www.hillslearning.com). This is a certainly a question that is asked of both myself, and of Hills Learning. Japanese in the 80\u2019s was what Chinese is today, a language that is learned for business, political, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-2ou","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9210,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9206\/revisions\/9210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}