5 good reasons to learn Japanese

1. Japan has the second biggest economy in the world

Japan is a rich country and has the most diversified economy in Asia. The big japanese companies are among the most powerful, most eficient, most known of the world. Everybody knows Sony, Toshiba, Sanyo, Casio, Canon, Minolta, Honda, Toyota, Mitsubishi. If you work in the fields of trade, engineering, technology – you probably or work for a Japanese company or your company is in close competition with a japanese company.

2. Learning Japanese creates opportunities

Japanes Consumers spend more than 100 billion Dollar a year to purchase goods and services. The typical japanese family has more than 100.000 Dollar in Savings and a monthly budget of nearly 4000 Dollar. Speaking the language of your potential future clients would be are real advantage to other competitors or even a necessity if it comes to enter the japanese market. If you learn Japanese you are a very interesting employee for different companies. Usually people speaking several foreign languages earn more money that people only speaking English. Buy the way, when you learn a language, you also learn more about the people speaking it – so you can avoid trial & error with future japanese business partners.

3. Japanese opens you the door to Asian Culture, Asian Languages

In the past, Japan had always a huge influence on other asian countries inclusing China, Corea and India. Asian thinking, behaving and business is different to the western world – you can learn a lot about it when you start with Japanese. Many Asian countries have close economic and cultural ties with japan – speak japanese and you can benefit from that. Japanese pronunciation is much easier than Chinese – you can learn the language quicker and it helps you to learn later on Chinese. If you are interested in Asian Religion, Ethic, Fashion and Culture – why don’t you start learning Japanese right now?

4. Japanese is the 3rd most used language in Internet

The third biggest linguistic comunity in the Internet is Japanese (after English and Chinese). More than 88 million japanese are conected to the internet (that’s more than 9 per cent of all Internet Users). If you speak japanese you can contact them, find friends, partners and more. You have access to a wide field of information available online. Even learning Japanese you can use Chat, Video, Japanese Online Newspapers to improve your Japanese.

5. Learning Japanese makes you different

Most students who want to learn a foreign language chose Spanish, French, Italian or German - only european languages. Chose a different one and you make yourself much more interesting when it comes to apply for internship, part-time job or your first job after University. So le’ts go: Start Learning Japanese.