Indeed, everybody tied with Engsh

Yesterday, I talked with my friends, and the topic was about learning English. Since my English is better than theirs, we discussed the way of effective learning English, and one of my friend got really serious and he is now determined to master it, actually his English is poor, but I hope he will get better, and I hope I can help him. The implication here is that, English is kind of status, after they noticed that I took the most difficult English class, they started to ask me about how I did.
English is a status, this is what is going on, and I think that's nice, I want a unified language, and that should be English. I think this movement or stream will continue to get faster, and when next few generations get leadership in business, Japan will be divided into 2 parts, people who speak English, and those can't. If you see around, there are a lot of people speaking English, English won't be a such status anymore, it's normal, it's like a so what? thing.
Japanese are said to be poor at English, and actually are. Maybe because of difference of grammar. I won't talk about this, but talk about what's going on in a real context of educating English.
Japanese students learn English in middle school as compulsory and most of them go to high school and learn too, and about 70% go to University and learn too. They learn English about 10years, but they can't. I think one stupid custom makes it happen, in real context, students tend to pronounce in Japanese style, because it's considered to be embarrassed to pronounce in English style. And this stupid tendency prevent them from learning well.