My weekly language classes have taught me humility more than anything else. Ayaka Ono, my current Japanese teacher, estimates ...

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I find older students take tiny, tiny steps and then they fall back,” Ono-san — san is an honorific in Japanese to show respect — tells me. “They can’t focus as long. I teach something one minute and ...