Confidence.

Dunno about other countries but basic language education in hungary is quite shit. The only reason i can speak english is that i've been to lessons outside school and used it a lot since i travel a lot. Games and the internet helped a whole lot too.

You travel a lot for work or just vacation? It's weird because Koreans I've met at the University have been learning English since elementary school and went to prep schools for supplementary English lessons, but their English is quite poor compared to European exchange students and they said that learned English mostly from just school. I wonder European English school curriculum is much superior to Korean one.

This post was edited by high_king_q on Jan 28 2013 03:38am

I just travelled a lot with my father for vacations (I'm 17). It can be, the average western european speaks a fluent english, it really depends on the schools. I guess they just have better methods and focus more on actually using the language rather than just studying shit (wich they do here and is a terrible way to teach a language). I don't know why are the Koreans like that, maybe they just don't feel like it's a need for them, they don't use it that much.

This post was edited by Cpt_Ghost on Jan 28 2013 04:29am

i think it really depends. english def is not as common in korea as it is in europe.

if a korean student is planning on leaving korea (international students), they usually have a more than acceptable grasp of the language...at least the ones i know.


but unless they have explicit plans to move out here, they usually wont be as learned up. more of a planning thing imo. europe has a bunch of english primary speaking areas...so it would follow that the average euro has a higher chance of being good at english :D.

European languages are more similar to english then korean, sentences order, grammar etc
Koreans have to learn a new alphabet etc, it's totally different.

EU regularly speak English.
Korea does not, that's why.

im sure it also has something to do with the similarities between English and other european languages (sharing letters/pronunciations/latin origins etc)

Well i can't speak for all European countries, but the television in the Netherlands is absolute shit....
So basically everyone ends up watching mostly American movies/series.

That plays a much bigger part than the actual education imo.

There is like nothing common in hungarian and english or any slavic languages, just saying.