There's a huge number of $100+ an hour tutoring businesses to be built, and plausibly some very large companies serving as demand gen, around this.
The need isn't new, at all, but the addressable scale is.
The need isn't new, at all, but the addressable scale is.
I know a relatively small number of Japanese professionals who paid "lawyer money" for either English practice or, from the one who was savviest, effectively just accent modification. (He worked in finance in NYC and his explicit goal was sounding "from nowhere in particular.")
(As long as we're doing storytime: I attempt to have my Japanese accent suggest "generic Tokyo salaryman, maybe a bit too polite" because when I let it drift into the accent/dialect that prevailed at my university or in Gifu people thought they were *hilarious* from a white guy.)
