Hi, all

How is going?

I recently hung out with some foreign universtudents to do drinking and sightseeing to give opprtunities to meet Japanese who can not speak English and do not know other culture well.

 They came to here learn Japanese, Japanese culture, and stuff like that. But what they are doing is just hung out with other foreigner students or some Japanese who are interested in English or some lungage they speak.

Usually, in Japan, people are not interested in English and can not use it. That's because we do not need to speek English even though we  have learned for some years. And peopel like me who are just interested in English and use it are kinda special. Except for some business such as sightseeing, I think we hardly use English in Japan.

If you come to Japan to learn Japanese  culture as a student, you should try to make friends from not only  people interested in English or other culture, but also people who have no idea about other culture, I mean very Japanese.

This is what I did in US.

I have many friends, even though I had just stayed for ine year. Some American friedns are interested in Japan for some reason not because of me. So they talk to me. At the same time, I thought I should have talk to others who have no idea about Japan.

And what I learned from my experiences is there is slight difference between those people. I exchange my culture with both of them, but I think I got  more new idea and  exchange culture more with people who have no idea.

I believe that situation with people who do not know each other well gives rise to big understanding and good experiences for them.

So, now I try to make opprtunities to meet Japanese who have no idea about other culture, not like me, for the foreigner students. I am sure they can exchange their idea with them more than with people like me. Besides, while they and I are talikng, tt\hey tend to speal English because it is much easier to talk than in Japanese. I think they should use Japanese. That's purpose of their staying here.

So, I expect them to enjoy the chances to exchange culture with peopel who can not use other lugage except for Japanese and do not know other culture.