My "ears" perked when I heard English mixed in with all the syllables of alien sound. Thank Merlin that this Kagome seemed to be learning English! Maybe I can finally make sense of everything I was hearing! Only my frustration at this girl for not writing in my diary outweighed my frustration at not understanding the majority of sound that permeated my cover.
To my dismay, these English lessons were highly irregular and not very long. All my concentration was needed to hear and remember all the English words and the foreign sounds that I discovered to belong to Japanese. It would be leagues easier if she'd use my diary as a notebook but I have long ago given up on that happening.
Grammar was difficult to grasp in my current state. Vocabulary was the easiest to pick up but the professor did not assign many words per lesson, further limiting my learning. I found some of the vocabulary utterly useless! Congrats to me for now knowing the Japanese words for 'toilet', 'dog', 'cat', and 'alarm clock'...I now recognized some numbers and most of the days of the week. I now knew the Japanese added honorifics at the end of names. I learned some common verbs, but it seemed that they conjugated those so it didn't really feel like I learned them at all. I also learned that Kagome was failing English. A shame she won't ask me for help.