Asian countries have had this knack of learning the English language no matter what due to the demands that English speakers get from employers, not only in their countries, but around the globe.

If you go to places like India and the Philippines, the call center industry is pretty much a great gig to have. It pays more than the normal minimum wage set by their governments, and it opens up a lot of opportunities because as you go on within the industry, you certainly get to improve your verbal communication skills using the English language. In South Korea and Japan, a lot are studying English online and they achieve this via IP telephony or through the use of online messengers like Skype and Yahoo.

The demands for English speakers, native or non-native, are quite high within these countries that they would even branch out to other Asian countries for support. The Philippines also has this industry, and it is selling like hot pancakes. For native speakers, they get even higher pays, more specifically from South Korea as most of its citizens would rather talk to the natives, more specifically the Caucasian English speakers as they have this mentality that Americans should be the only ones to teach the language.