East Asians tend to spend a lot of time to drill children to perform well on standardized tests with doesn't leave much time for things like learning English.
I've seen them spend a lot of time drilling for standardized English tests, but those tests miss a lot of things, and quite a few students do well on those tests but can't have a conversation in English. Or know what "staunch", "bristle", and "bulwark" mean, but not "bullshit".
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