It was a remnant of the past and sort of the past of the occupation with Korea being occupied by Japan. And my grandmother, my father’s mother, who raised me was speaking Japanese, that was her private language. Simple communication was very difficult for me and my family, especially in a family where we were speaking several languages. I think I must have been five before I was uttering some of my first words and trying to articulate. I had delayed speech, and I had quite a bit of trouble with speaking at all and with learning and also just simply getting into school. I remember listening to them before I could speak.
