Before my first trip to Japan back in 2023, I learned how to speak Japanese. I wasn't great. My Japanese was so broken that I felt embarrassed just speaking it.But the amount of people who appreciated the fact that I knew even a little Japanese was astounding. I must have heard "日本語上手" at least a thousand times.Now, I knew my Japanese was awful, and they knew it too, but they were just happy I was making the attempt.After my intial greeting, we would talk with a mixture of broken Japanese on my