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brestugo posted...

I studied for 20 years. I don't actively do it anymore. I'll watch a movie in Japanese or the sumo basho now and then and of course if I go to Japan I'll speak it. Most of my Japanese friends (in the US & Japan) prefer to speak in English with me nowadays. I do order in Japanese when I go to a Japanese restaurant, even in the US. For whatever reason though, I am finding that many Chinese and Koreans are opening Japanese places and the staff doesn't speak Japanese. Sitting at the counter and chatting up the sushiya and watching him cut fish can be enjoyable.

I doubt I'll end up being any good at speaking Japanese since I really have no way to practice it. I'm mostly interested in reading/listening anyways though, not active participation, but it seems like a waste to learn the language and be unable to speak it well.