Writes an American in Japan: “I’ve been an ex pat for 16 years, so it’s rare for me to hear native English being spoken by real people anymore. Sometimes I watch Hollywood movies or US television, but those don’t count, since people in movies and television (including TV news) are not real. “One day at a coffee shop in Tokyo, a conversation in English cut through the background of Japanese. A young American man was giving an older Japanese man an English lesson a few tables away from me. I tuned back out, but embarrassingly eavesdropped again when I heard … Continue reading Overheard in Tokyo