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[-] g8phcon2@k.fe.derate.me 15 points 2 years ago

It's not just America. I heard on Public Radio that practically every country in the world has scored worse on reading tests since 2020. I think Japan was the one excpetion.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

Of fucking course the country with the most convoluted writing system ever devised by men is the one that's able to maintain literacy scores lol

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

It's not at all that complicated. I'll take kanji strokes over spelling any day. (I passed ikyuu a decade ago.)

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