For several Japanese youths, who were all students studying abroad, not only could they understand Chinese, but they could also speak it, albeit not fluently.
The reason they had not spoken Chinese before was that they felt speaking Chinese was an embarrassing thing—in their view, speaking Japanese was much classier and more tasteful than speaking Chinese.
It wasn't just them who thought this way; the female students from East Sea University of Foreign Languages, including Yangyang, also believed that speaking Japanese was an impressive feat. Therefore, after their college entrance exams, they specifically chose Japanese as their major. Moreover, they often put on an affected air while speaking Japanese at school.
Furthermore, when it came time to find boyfriends, these girls wouldn't consider Chinese boys; instead, they would clingingly cry and beg to be with those Japanese international students.
