Japanese Word for "English"
The Japanese word for English language is eigo. The pronounciation of eigo rhymes with the words "gray" and "snow".
Below are the two kanji for eigo. The first kanji by itself means "England", and the second one means "language" or "words".
 
Here's the hiragana writing of eigo, the Japanese word for English:
  
The way to ask "do you speak English?" in Japanese is "Eigo o hanasemasu ka". To say that you do speak English, in Japanese you would say "Hai, hanasemasu."
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