Helping my daughter with her English homework (2) But I was disappointed with my daughter. She was too shy to talk with a student from a foreign country. I had forgotten ( I had realized but I wanted to believe she was not so) she was a person who was not good at making friends speaking even in Japanese. She could not talk to the homestay student even in Japanese during her homestay for 12 days! Instead, for me it became a chance to talk in English though I hadn’t used any English for 2 decades. The student told me using “Google Translation” about herself in English which she had studied for only 5 years, even though her native language was French. I felt my English was poorer than hers. By the way, she enjoyed staying in Japan, which made me relieved. And it was a wonderful thing that my daughter seemed to study English harder than ever, thought she said "I will never accept any homestay student!". to be continued...