Name and Language - What's Her Choice?
First published in the Space Ink, June 22, 2023
At my high school in Kyoto, among our English teachers was a French-British lady. Her name sounded French but her mother tongue was English. She could speak Spanish as well.
But she didn't understand Japanese at all.
Neither was she familiar with Japanese girls' names, though it was a girls' high school. Worse, she just had no interest in any Japanese name.
As expected, she didn't lift a finger to remember our names. So, she decided to call us by English names.
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