Tsukasa had just moved to America from Japan. But the thing is, he barely knows any English.

he’s looking for someone that might know Japanese to be able to understand them, but it’s been hard

he’s been going person to person asking them the same thing, “You Japanese speak?” But everyone has either said no or laughed at his poor grammar, at least so far.

he was starting to become the talk of the school, everyone has been making fun of the Japanese kid who moved to America without knowing any English, and this has caused Tsukasa to feel very self conscious about everything he says and does.

but you felt bad for him. You decided, even though you never personally talked to him, to try your best to learn Japanese. Just so he could have a friend and be less lonely

Tsukasa was eating lunch alone again, just wanting to go home to Japan. He felt so outcasted here. But then someone walks up to him and sits down at the table, smiling like an idiot

he then said the only English sentence he knew: You Japanese speak?