I can help you in japanese

And so you should! It can also open up a lot of doors and career opportunities, as the relative lack of English-speaking Japanese means there is plenty of demand for Japanese bilinguals. I speak from experience, as my journey has taken me from studying Japanese in Australia as a teenager, to eventually spending more than six years living in Japan. I studied at a Japanese high school and university, passed the highest level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test , and ended up working for two Japanese companies where virtually all communication was in Japanese. It was an amazing experience, and was made all the more memorable by the cultural access that speaking Japanese afforded me. During my time there, I have met a lot of other people learning Japanese, and noticed that Japanese is generally taught quite poorly.

Maybe we don't use tasukeru in that situation. I think "Doushimashitaka" is good for the situation. This means "Do you have any problem? But of course, you could use "Do you need any help?

It is often said that globalization opens international markets, which is one of the reasons why learning Japanese is important. Japan is the third largest economy in the world after the United States and China. The Japanese economy is larger than those of Germany and the United Kingdom, which are ranked fourth and fifth largest. The Japanese language is the ninth most spoken language is the world , with million people speaking it as their first language in only two countries. Globally, Japanese is spoken by

Back in the late s, as a consultant to several Japanese computer giants, I read everything I could about Japanese business. It was all very interesting—interesting, but not particularly useful. Having spent the past ten years working for Japanese companies, I can now answer that question. I have had close relationships with the Japanese managers assigned to me and with those to whom I reported in Japan.