yea, it's english!! i love english so much yet i hate it so much these days... i've been using english since i was young... i still remember i read 'peter and jane', those books read by kids, to my mum every night when i was a kid... man... but now... heck man... i don't like the way the japanese learn english... it's like.... erghhh.... the way they learn, they learn it like a robot learning english... the teacher's so peculiar in things... just look at the way we, malaysian, learn english... since primary school, we were thought to make sentences... but, in japan, you won't learn those... you'll learn vocabulary... teacher here emphasis more on that... i've no idea why... english sucks when it comes to japanese... you gotta translate from english sentences to japanese or vise versa... man, i'm not a translator here!! please! they learn english using japanese... haha... it's like learning english in bahasa melayu or chinese or hindu.... that's why, it's a loss IF you dun know the meaning of the certain japanese character during exams... i just can't understand that... no doubt, the standard of the exam is not high, i think it's around primary school level... i'm not sure... but the pro is, JAPANESE!!! of course, to the japs, they've no pro cause they're so 'pro' in japanese, but us, the MALAYSIAN, man... having tough time figuring out what's that... wit so many kanji to memorise... erghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! weird,weird, indeed...