Hi! Thank you for sharing your thoughts. YES, I think so. In my case, in retrospect, I struggled a lot when I first came to the UK for not being able to keep an interesting conversation going. I thought it was entirely due to the lack of my English at the time. Partly so, but I was never good at verbal conversations/debates in Japanese either anyway. I covered it very well by being cheerful, polite, caring, and laughing a lot, and that was enough with Japanese friends. But over here (and I guess in many other countries) I'd be seen as just a sweet guy but not much in my brain. 😅

Anyway all that was when I was young and I didn't see it as a struggle (now I'm so old, I don't really care! 😂) Thank you so much, I'll catch you up soon. I like your music!