Losing English Abilities: Just Another Reason to Get Out?
These days, I have really been feeling like writing these blog posts have become more and more mentally stressful...and time-taking. Just sitting down and pumping out words on a blank screen used to be such a simple task, but now it feels like I have to repeatedly question myself whether each word I am using is indeed correct and suitable for the situation. And not just blog posts, each email in English and whats more, each sentence in English I write or say under any situation has become more of a mental exercise and a battle with self-doubt. Yes, I am losing English. While my Japanese speaking and writing abilities have been growing by the day as I call up more and more merchants on the phone , the ability to relaxingly do the same in English has been going down in an increasingly obvious way. Putting together any sort of fluent, long-ish sentence, not to mention a logical argument, have, surprisingly, become easier in Japanese, and I am fearfully finding myself trying to transla