I want to understand English more I have to confess that I did'nt study English at all this year. It may be just an excuse that I was just busy for my work... Being surrounded with my English native coworkers made me feel like I was studying English everyday just by speaking with them. But actually, I was not. It is because they speak very good Japanese so much as I need not to speak English. We always momentarily struggle to decide which language we use for conversation, Japanese or English. But, I always lose because I hesitate to take commands of English to talk work topics, since it takes longer to make each other understood in English between us. (Maybe about 5-10 seconds of silence of confusion caused by my lack of vocabulary can be saved for each dialogue) Their Japanese are too good for me to make them comfortable enough to use English with me, after staying here for more than 15 years... But, obviously, they are different when they speak English. I would like to know more about them by making them less anxious about how much I could understand their natural speed english and variety of vocabulary. So, I try to study English a bit more next year...hopefully, they gradually regard me as an "English speaker". Maybe, you might suggest me to go abroad, but not now.