Bingham Bulletin | 1925-06-05 | Page 2 | Japs Learn English as Matter of Course

Japt Learn English as Matter of Course English is taught In the public schools all over Japan. Later, when I came to travel widely In the Interior, I , often found hrlglit schoolboys fourteen four-teen or fifteen years old who would volunteer as Interpreters. Theodore Geoffrey writes In the Snturduy Eve nlng Post. In another generation English mnj be a second language for the Jnpanese, even as the Dutch toduy are competent linguists, because the world cannot be bothered to learn Dutch. English, unless a Japanese hns been educated abroad, becomes rather pe-culiur pe-culiur In Japanese mouths, for according ac-cording to Japunere custom, every consonant con-sonant must be followed by a vowel, nnd there Is no "I" or "v" or "th." Thus "beer" becomes "bieru"; "glass," "purssu," nnd "hotel," "hoteru." I