19th, March, 2008
I went downtown this weekend and I found something. It is the different in the clerk’s behavior between Japan to America. I visited many shops. Then the salesclerk asked me ‘Can I help you?’ or ’What do you want to find?’ so I always replied to them and I could have a short conversation. It was fun and it became good practice for my English so I thought it was useful!! However, when I came back to my dormitory, I had question. Every clerk talked to me in English but I am Japanese so I think that clerks were oblivious of Japanese. If I couldn’t speak English completely, what did the clerk do? If I were a clerk, maybe I couldn’t say anything because I would worry about their response. Also I am a chicken sometimes. However I could have a conversation with customers in English in Japan. My part time job was front desk clerk of karaoke. One day some foreign travelers came to my shop and they talked to me in English. That’s why I could have a conversation. By the way, in that conversation I used traveler’s language so I didn’t speak Japanese. However if I had talked to them in Japanese, they couldn’t reply so it was a different experience for me. It is a kind of culture observation!!
I went downtown this weekend and I found something. It is the different in the clerk’s behavior between Japan to America. I visited many shops. Then the salesclerk asked me ‘Can I help you?’ or ’What do you want to find?’ so I always replied to them and I could have a short conversation. It was fun and it became good practice for my English so I thought it was useful!! However, when I came back to my dormitory, I had question. Every clerk talked to me in English but I am Japanese so I think that clerks were oblivious of Japanese. If I couldn’t speak English completely, what did the clerk do? If I were a clerk, maybe I couldn’t say anything because I would worry about their response. Also I am a chicken sometimes. However I could have a conversation with customers in English in Japan. My part time job was front desk clerk of karaoke. One day some foreign travelers came to my shop and they talked to me in English. That’s why I could have a conversation. By the way, in that conversation I used traveler’s language so I didn’t speak Japanese. However if I had talked to them in Japanese, they couldn’t reply so it was a different experience for me. It is a kind of culture observation!!
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