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Essay on importance of foreign language
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Importance of foreign languages in the education system
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Alea Ortiguerra
ASH 4442
Fall 2014
Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi
1. Why did Fukuzawa Yukichi decide to learn Western languages?
At first, Fukuzawa learned Dutch. After the arrival of Commodore Perry, many samurai were interested and asked to study gunnery, but the best way to do so was through Gensho, or books published in Holland. Fukuzawa had learned Chinese fairly easily and with the wishes of his brother he moved to Nagasaki in order to learn Dutch and study the Gensho. Truly, Fukuzawa wanted to escape from Nakatsu. However, as he became more engrossed in the language he wanted to learn more and moved to Osaka in order to be under the tutelage of the Ogata School. Later, Fukuzawa actively wanted to learn English. After years of Dutch learning, with the arrival of other western powers, Fukuzawa was distraught when he could neither communicate with them nor read their language, giving him the impression that English must be the most widely
The first was to gather young men together and give them the benefit of foreign books as well as education. Due to this belief he had bought many foreign books, started his own school of English education, as well as his creation of the Japanese-English dictionary. His second purpose was to open the “closed” country and bring it more towards western civilization. Fukuzawa believed that through westernization Japan could become strong in both the arts of war and peace and become a world power as well as a symbol of progress in the world. He advocated it through word of mouth, the way he ran his school, how he practiced new forms of public speaking, and his adoption of simple and easy scholarly style for any to enjoy. When he had traveled overseas, he studied the western nations and wrote a whole series of books on the culture, economics, business, and political practices of the western countries he visited, in order to spread western civilization to his
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