In Japan, 30% of those surveyed by Goo Research’s online monitor group would like to . Or at least that's what was said in April this year (I've only just seen this now) - I wonder, if you asked the same people now, would the answer be any different? How many of those people have tried to study English in Second Life? And, Perhaps the answer would have been different if they had used a different verb instead of study - learn or practise , for example. It's amazing what you find by chance... I came across the What Japan Thinks survey (" Are you interested in studying English in Second Life? ") while trying to find out the source of an extremely annoying error message* that keeps nagging my avatar ( see below ). Needless to say, I got sidetracked and now find myself blogging about the survey instead of finding the solution to my Second Life problem. Learning a language in Second Life This topic was discussed extensively at the 2007 Second Life Languages Semina