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Today’s Word: self-conscious

Today’s Word: self-conscious

August 9, 2018   =========

☆  self-conscious   自意識の強い

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Someone who is self-conscious is easily embarrassed and nervous because they feel like everyone is looking at them, and perhaps judging them. This week’s useful phrase is, “I feel so self-conscious when I travel abroad.” What do you think about this?

For me, it depends on where I am traveling. Because I am Anglo-Saxon, it’s pretty easy to travel without looking different from the people around me. However, traveling in Asia, I felt self-conscious, not so much in Japan, because I was confident about my ability to communicate in the Japanese language, but in other countries where I didn’t understand the language and I looked different,Read more about Today’s Word: self-conscious[…]