Yesterday at dinner time, Mayuki decided to pretend that I was an American customer who didn’t speak Japanese. She bowed properly to me, and told me about the dinner in English, staying in English when she talked at the table as well. She kept it up for quite a long time before she “went home” and talked to her toys in Japanese about her day.
Obviously, it’s great that Mayuki wants to practise English, but if I have to pretend to be American, I’m not sure about it…
The immediate motivation seems to have come from talking to my father by video chat in the morning. She was explaining, in English, how she wanted to go back to America, and even said, in Japanese, “I have to practise English soon!”. So I think we will have to look into arranging another visit a bit sooner than we originally planned.
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