My friend Emiri came over to New Zealand a year ago, she couldn't speak very much English before that. She studied hard every day and she tries really hard to speak in English. She's gone back to Japan now and has decided to learn Chinese instead - but every Japanese person I've met has always been very interested in English and how to speak it. I doubt it would be the same if I went to Japan - where a lot of people don't ever need to speak English.