If you are a foreigner living in Japan, odds are high that language learning has played a key role in your residency.
Perhaps it's provided the glue that has bound your bicultural life together. Or maybe it's been more like Tabasco. As in adding a dash of zing to your every interaction.
And have you ever got Tabasco on your fingers? And then rubbed your eyes? If so, you possess tingling insight into my own dealings with the Japanese language.