Glad you are enjoying my posts so far! At home we speak English all the time so my daughter is immersed in it and used to speaking it with us. Then at school she gets the Japanese language exposure. We always watch movies in English with the subtitles on, and my daughter picks up natural expressions / idioms from watching English YouTube & playing my video games. Her grammar isn't the best, and her reading level is a bit below American kids of the same age, but I suppose that's to be expected given the circumstances. She's always asking me how to spell new words so she can look stuff up on the Internet, so that's a good sign that she's interested & wanting to improve her language skills.

I just wish I could help her more with her homework. Whenever she shows me her school books and says "Daddy I don't know what this says", all I can do is wave my hands helplessly and say "go ask Mommy".