A Japanese girl had learned English in the classroom for two years and she always wanted to visit London．Now she arrived there at last．When she went out of the station, she didn’t know the way to the hotel, so she asked a policeman standing at the station gate．She spoke slowly and clearly．But to her surprise, he didn’t understand her at all．She asked the same question again and again and then the policeman understood at last．He answered her, but she didn’t know what he was saying．Her teacher never spoke English like that!“ I’m a Japanese．I’m new here,” the girl said．The policeman spoke more slowly than before, and she listened very carefully, but still she couldn’t understand him．They looked at each other and smiled．Then he said something she understood．“You’ll soon learn English!” Then she knew that the English she had learned was quite different from the English people speak!