One. Japanese is a tough language to learn. It's even more difficult to learn how to speak it well enough to be conversational with native speakers. In terms of language learning, Japanese is hard mode.
Two, Japanese are real pricks when you try to speak their language to them and you're not doing it perfectly. Believe it or not, there are Americans who are self conscious and sensitive about offending other cultures. Americans who are attempting Japanese are likely to be highly intelligent but also high self critical. They don't want to come off as the stereotypical dumb American so they likely are going to stick to English when overseas unless they have a lot of confidence in their abilities. Also, even Americans who speak Japanese well are likely to get a degree of mockery because Japan is kind of a racist country.
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u/Comprehensive-Finish 2d ago
One. Japanese is a tough language to learn. It's even more difficult to learn how to speak it well enough to be conversational with native speakers. In terms of language learning, Japanese is hard mode.
Two, Japanese are real pricks when you try to speak their language to them and you're not doing it perfectly. Believe it or not, there are Americans who are self conscious and sensitive about offending other cultures. Americans who are attempting Japanese are likely to be highly intelligent but also high self critical. They don't want to come off as the stereotypical dumb American so they likely are going to stick to English when overseas unless they have a lot of confidence in their abilities. Also, even Americans who speak Japanese well are likely to get a degree of mockery because Japan is kind of a racist country.