I take a train once a week to visit my parents. Yesterday, I was heading to my hometown again, and when the train stopped at Kyoto Station, a foreign family got on. I was sitting alone and made a little more space for them. The father thanked me in Japanese, "Arigato" and smiled. I replied him in Japanese, "Dou itashimashite", which means, "You're welcome".

He kept smiling at me, so I asked him if he was learning conversational Japanese. Then, we started having a small talk. He and his family were from Denmark and had stayed in Kyoto for four days. They were heading to a beach in my hometown. He told me that Japanese people are very nice, Japan is very clean, Japanese culture is unique, and he loves those things. I love listening to compliment about my country. He also said in Denmark, people speak Danish, French, and German. I have a friend who had to move to the country due to her husband's job, and I've already known people speak French because my friend often complained how hard to speak it was. He said my English sounded excellent, but I was shocked because he didn't mention about his English at all, and his English was also really good. I only speak Japanese and English, but he speaks three languages fluently and speaks English very well as well. I felt a bit ashamed. While we were talking, his daughter and his wife joined our conversation. I usually spend my riding time to read books in English, but it was much fun to speak somebody in English.

It was my first time talking to somebody from Denmark, which made me excited.

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