Who am I? ９
When I spoke to one of the Westerners
in Yokohama
which had been open recently
to the foreign market,
I was surprised I couldn't
get myself across to them.
They said, “We don’t understand you.”
It was a great shock to me.
I had been studying Dutch
for a long time.
But he was not a Dutch.
I knew my long term effort was useless.
Almost all the Westerners I saw there
were Englishmen and Americans.
They didn’t speak Dutch.
I was confused and didn’t know
what to do.
But I had no time to regret.
On the very same day it happened
I decided to start to study English.
Later on when I visited America,
I bought a “Webster Dictionary”
which contributed much
to English education in Japan.
You often see me when you go shopping.