I was in Japan for a week,
For context: I spoke growing up but lost it when I moved to the US. I’ve been re-studying Japanese for about a year. I’m half.
Conversational feels pretty natural to me, I know what good pronunciation sounds like innately (because my mom has spoke to me my whole life) I know my pronunciation at the very least is ok to medium good, there’s some snags but my American accent isn’t that strong
So the problem: when I was in Japan, 50% of my interactions were entirely in Japanese and 25% responded entirely in English. The other 25% was a mix of Japanese and English. No 上手s yet. I’m feeling a little uncertain about my skill level, I feel like I spoke perfectly fine but the 50% that responded with some kind of English made me feel idk… weird? Is it because I’m white passing? (Especially without my mask) Is it that they want to practice English? Or my worst fear, am I overestimating my ability?
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