Story #3 - How Do You Say it in English?

“So, what did you do last weekend?”

In broken English, one of the students in the ESL class I taught in Los Angeles said he had flown to New York to “hook up with chicks.”

My famous Japanese pop-star student was doing a poor job of concealing his true identity.

Jin Akanishi of KAT-TUN - the Japanese equivalent to boy bands like *NSYNC or Backstreet Boys – took a break from the pop-star life to learn English. Within weeks, Japanese journalists had infiltrated our school, posing as students, for an exclusive story on Jin. Needless to say, his studies were short-lived.