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Originally Posted by tokusatsufan
Interesting. Cool story bro! I don't know if you should be encouraging people
not to learn Japanese though!
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I don`t think he is encouraging anyone to stop learning Japanese. I read it as his personal experience. Living where he lived and doing what he did, he experienced a deterioration of his Japanese rather than an improvement.
I don`t think it is an isolated case, really. There are countless foreigners in Japan who cannot speak Japanese, even after 10+ years in the country. They just surround themselves with English speakers, and do not go out of their way to learn. People tend to take the easiest route to communication - if everyone around you can speak English... Why bother with Japanese?