Just wasted (half empty) - invested (half full) - seven minutes and fifty-two seconds watching a video on Youtube. The video editing was well done; the Japanese pronunciation… not as well done, but five stars for giving it the ole college がんばれ！ I’m sure in a year or so, they will be ペラペラ.

Seeing this video with an American and Italian speaking Japanese reminded me of a rule I had while in Japan. I tried my best to spend time with non-English speaking friends - or at least people whose first language wasn’t English. That way we could practice off each other without the fear of making a fool out of ourselves - hey, we’re both learning. (Un)fortunately my closest friend was an American. This meant defaulting to English often. I guess it was therapeutic to speak English once in a while.

I hope these two will continue to make videos showing off their language learning journey. They certainly got the へぇー down pat!