This is my 10th speech.
Two years have passed since my first speech.
I made a speech about my dream that I wanted to speak English in order to become a international person.
Now unfortunately I can't speak English fluently. I am not a international person.
But I think that my English skills have improved since two years ago.
For example, now my TOEIC score is over 700, while two years ago it was about 400.
One of the reason I can keep studying English is Social Network, Twitter, Facebook, Blog.
Twitter friends studying English motivate me a lot.
I also started studying online and I went to Philippines to study English thanks to them.
You may think Twitter is shady.
But even if we've never met, we feel like we have long known each other because we have a clear and common purpose to study English.
I posted the script of my first speech to my English blog.
At that time, a college student commented on it and we became Twitter friend.
Now she is a business person working in Tokyo, and I met her the other day when she came to Hiroshima on a business trip.
She's good at English, her TOEIC score is about 900.
I felt that she was full of hope and strong confidence.
She said that English changed her life.
English changes our lives.
At this moment a large number of people all around the world are studying English to change their lives.
Globalization continue spreading further.
The days of Japanese having business with Japanese using only Japanese language are coming to an end.
Jobs that anyone can do will be taken by foreigners.
For example, Chinese whose salary is one-tenth of the Japanese have a call center business for Japanese customers in Dalian.
We are facing the hyper competition with excellent and hungry people in emerging countries.
Moreover this trend will further accelerate in the next generation.
The education gap between advanced countries and emerging countries will be eliminated by the Internet.
There are many courses that anybody can attend for free on the Internet from prestigious universities in the United States.
Recently an 11-year-old Pakistani girl completed the artificial intelligence course of Stanford University with excellent results.
A 15-year-old Mongolian boy completed the electronic circuit course of MIT with excellent results.
It is a great thing for the human race. Such talents would not appear without the Internet.
But it means that the advantage of "education" the advanced countries had will be eliminated.
Hyper global competition has began among our children.
Recently my friend's family has moved to Malaysia to have their children study at a prestigious British school.
With such an event like this taking place around the ordinary domestic person like me, I realized that globalization is rapidly coming.
I think that the day will probably come when we can't keep current level of living without English ability.
So I must keep studying English for upcoming future.
