2006/08/15

My behavior, their behavior

I talked about European and American people’s behavior in Japan with someone the other day. Honestly, I thought it was horrible when I was in Japan. They always gathered just by themselves who can speak English well. It seemed they didn’t want to have communication with us, Japanese. Of course, it was right in a way. But I reconsidered it these days. Because it was possible there were some foreigners who can’t talk to Japanese people, even though they really wanted to converse with us. Almost all of them don’t speak Japanese well. That’s the sufficient reason for them to behave like that.

As for me, I haven’t made a lot of non-Japanese friends here yet. That means I have behaved like them, foreigners in Japan!! Honestly, I thought foreigners as I wrote above are stupid. But if I apply my logic to me, I am apparently stupid as well. I’m not such shy, but I think my English is NOT good enough to have communication with them. Maybe I should be much more positive and optimistic for the matter. But what should I do exactly now?

2 Comments:

At 月曜日, 9月 11, 2006 8:31:00 午後, Anonymous 匿名 said...

Hi! I just got back from Japan :)

Ok 2 things I noticed while I was there.

1: The Japanese people there spoke English to me at first, but when I spoke to them a bit in Japanese, they carried on in Japanese. Speaking and writing are two very different things... I couldn't understand very much, but it was okay.

2. Most of the other foreigners didn't seem to try to speak Japanese. One American lady stopped me in Shibuya to ask me the way when she should have asked someone who lived there. She was too scared to try and so she asked me out of hundreds of people as I was the only other person who looked like her.

I think it's hard to get over being scared to talk outside of your own language. I was too scared for the first few days and only spoke English, but then I remembered what you said. It was hard but I did okay :D

一緒に頑張りましょうね!

-evie

 
At 土曜日, 10月 07, 2006 7:33:00 午後, Blogger tak said...

Sorry, I haven't checked my blog for a while. Yes, you are right. It is very scared to speak other languages with other people. But we have to get over it, casuse we like the language. Right? Anyway, 頑張りましょう!as you said.

 

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