[JEWELian]

^Your mum doesn't live in an English speaking country though. Timmy's been here for 4+ years and would be hearing Japanese all day every day.

About comparisons with Western countries, those don't really hold up. In US, Canada, Australia, UK, France etc. there are significant culturally and linguistically diverse populations. The same cannot be said in Japan, at least when it comes to Westerners. Timmy would need to speak the language to live here - there's no way around it. There's no "Western town" where all the shops are run by white people who sell imported food and other items from US/UK. The overall ability of Japanese to speak English is limited as well. So yes, Timmy is either faking bad (speaks Japanese well and is pretending to not be able to) or he's an idiot (can't/won't learn the language but will still live here). Either way, he's still giving foreigners a bad wrap in an already highly unicultural and somewhat xenophobic country.


Anyway. I'll get off my soap box now.

Here's the audio from last night: https://soundcloud.com/goldtransam29...15-zepp-nagoya