Our common language わたしたちの共通語

One day, I had the lunch , sitting on the bench besides the street in my University.
Besides me, there were 2 Japanese students ate the foods, too.
It was a really normal life on the sunny days.

However we heard the 2 European or American students ' voice.
They were talking on the street in front of us.
Of course, we didn't surprised becuse they were foreigner.
My university has so many returnee children and foreign students.
Sometimes our university looks American school or college , because they speak English loudly and frequently on the street.
But that day was different.
2 foreign students spoke Japanese.
for example They spoked like this.
「Ohayo, kyou jyugyou aruno?」おはよう、今日授業あるの
「nigennkara.｣　二限から
（Good morning, today do you have a class?」
（I have second period's .）←i don't know how to say.
They must foreign students from other countries,
Their japanese was quite good.
This made us happy but our hearts beat first. ( a little bit)


Later, This experience reminded me my memory.


I have one french friend (B) .
He majors in the same part with my study, so we made friends with him soon.
However at first i wondered what we should choose as our common language.

B mother language French ◎　(100)
2nd English　○ (70)


Me 　mother language Japanese ◎ (100)
　　　　2nd English △ (40)


I can't speak French, and he can't speak Japanese.
He can speak english better than I, so sometimes i can't express my opinion at the same speed with him.
This seemed not good way for me.


Imagine, how we solved this problem.(:D)


Fortunately, we met in Cambodia as the students!

Fortunately, I studied Khmer.

Fortunately, He started to study this language.

Our ability was not so different.


So we decided to speak Khmer for 2 months.

We spoke for a lot of time in the local restaurant or our office in Khmer.


This experience was the good and funny memory for me.
Of course we talked with many Khmer student everyday.
Our common launguage was Khmer!!!

I think local language leads us to making good friends and ...........studying well!

しかし、日本人とフランス人の片言クメール語会話は店の人をはらはらさせたかもしれません。