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Easter Clark · Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Location: Hiding from Yie Eun-woong

Excluding Singapore or the Philippines, which of these countries has the highest level of English? I'm talking about the majority of people being able to interact with English speakers on a daily basis, btw.

In my experience, Japan has more people that seem willing (or able) accommodate English speakers and the folks there seem a bit less intimidated when it comes to speaking English.

jvalmer · Joined: 06 Jun 2003

Malaysia or Hong Kong.
Most of the Indian and Chinese-Malaysians can speak amazing english (at least the ones I've interacted with). However, the native Malays I've encountered was like a gamble if they could speak english.

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

Sign, Burma, Malaysia

Newbie · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Aren't there studies, rankings, test result rankings etc. that shows Korea to be pretty much at the bottom of the barrel? I'm sure there are.

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Malaysia, especially in the cities.

VanIslander · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject:

Japan?

I've been there six times and don't know where all the English-speaking Japanese are: bloody impossible to communicate with and the few that could say anything had serious pronunciation problems.

It was nearly impossible to function using English alone in Japan. Totally the opposite of Korea.

Suwon23 · Joined: 24 Jan 2008

sojourner1 · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 8:24 pm Post subject:

Thailand impressed me greatly, but Cambodia surprised me with their near fluent English speaking abilities. Those looking to get their boats lifted out of poverty are highly motivated to achieve their goals such as speaking English to successfully do business with westerners.

visitorq · Joined: 11 Jan 2008

darkcity · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: SF, CA

indonesia, malaysia, hong kong, india

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

How can anyone with a clue not vote other? There's a lot of English in many Asian countries, but certainly not the three listed.

little mixed girl · Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Location: shin hyesung's bed~

india?
hong kong?
thailand?

seems like the people there have a pretty good grasp of english.

yawarakaijin · Joined: 08 Aug 2006

I would have to go with India. I mean come on people. It is not like you are getting transferred to a Chinese dude or a Japanese lady when your pc won't work anymore. India wins hands down.

Hank the Iconoclast · Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Location: Busan

India

PeteJB · Joined: 06 Jul 2007

Does Hong Kong even count? It used to be a British colony..