An excerpt from "まるこだった”, the book I'm currently reading. This chapter talks about apprehensions for natural disasters, especially earthquakes and tsunamis
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「私は日本人です!英語なんてできませ~~~~ん!」座ったまま一人の生徒が大きい声でそういました。 His words brought a smile to my face. I couldn't help but smile at his comment because that's probably what most of my students think. At the time I wanted to say to him, if Japanese can't even learn English, WHAT can they do? As a Japanese, shouldn't you represent instead of giving up so easily?