"It's not so hard to learn, I promise. I can tutor you. I have students all the time who tell me they aren't good at English and they're always better than they think. Tae is good at English. Aren't you, bud?" Well, he could say his name, age and introduce himself pretty basically but that was still really good for a kid his age. He kept trying to encourage him to learn more and more.

Language was a great skill and the earlier it's learned, always the better.

"My Japanese is less good but it's not bad, you know?"