In Japan, it's you are a foreigner in a foreign place. You can't even figure out how to use a pay phone back when I was there the first time in the late 90s. The language is learning Spanish from English. It takes about 600 hours of concentrated study. Japanese is like 2,200 hours, three and a half times, four times more difficult than like a typical romance language. So it makes sense, but super cool place. And again, it speaks to the more you travel the better because the more you can learn...you do not only notice the differences, but the commonalities that we human beings share regardless if our cultures are very different.

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