A/N: Written for the Digimon Flash Bingo, #003 – capital.
Dotting the i's and Crossing the t's
English was a very different language to Japanese. Her teachers said it was simpler. Maybe for them it was. One had taken Japanese at university. The others didn't know it at all. She knew some English at least before coming. Many schools in Japan had taught, including hers.
But she didn't find it easier. Maybe because Japanese was her native tongue: the language she'd been brought up on and English was just an extra thing she'd never expected to have this much value. Then again, she'd never expected to be saving the world as well. Though she supposed she could have expected her parents being freaked out over such an experience and moving halfway across the world.
Writing wasn't so bad. She knew the letters and all she had to remember were the spelling and capital letters and the additional bits of punctuation. Speaking was different though. Trying to train out accents ingrained into her – because their teachers back in Japan had those accents as well. Accents that apparently the Americans found quite difficult to understand. Not a walk in the park.
But she managed. Even if her English hadn't started off great, she was pretty and nice and made friends quickly. And she practised. It was just a matter of dotting the i's and crossing the t's and thinking more in English and less in Japanese…
She didn't think she had to worry about forgetting Japanese at least.