High School Robotics in Japan?

[Scott L.]

What language do you need to communicate in, I am learning Japanese(no formal classes, just Anime and dictionaries)

[whytheheckme]

Originally Posted by Scott L.

What language do you need to communicate in, I am learning Japanese(no formal classes, just Anime and dictionaries)

C++, and possibly LabView.

[GaryVoshol]

Jason, you have an opportunity here! It's quite possible that someone in your sister school is acquainted with FLL. Now you can lead them to the next step.

Team 1188 became involved with FLL teams in South Africa about 4 or 5 years ago, through one of our mentors who does FLL. That blossomed into a full-fledged cooperation effort. The South African team members focused on the website and animation. Team 1025 continued the cooperation, and this year the students in South Africa built a robot (after the season was done) that could play Overdrive. We sent them some old parts, and they picked up other things on their own. It's still not to the point where they can compete as a separate team, that's incredibly expensive outside North America, but things continue on.

[Luckyfish05]

Originally Posted by Scott L.

What language do you need to communicate in, I am learning Japanese(no formal classes, just Anime and dictionaries)

Most Japanese people know some english. Though it seems like the more they are in big cities the more they know and are willing to use it. Maybe it just has to do with confidence, maybe it has to deal with there is more of an oppertunity to use it in the larger cities. Maybe it is a combination of the two.

So to answer your question. They can talk in English mainly though there may be a need to explain a lot more than if they were to talk in Japanese.