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English Idiom: Go Native
So, I have been living in Japan for close to 20 years now.
Some of my friends think that I have gone native.
I’m not so sure.
You see, to go native means that a person living overseas for an extended time gives up their own culture, customs, or way of life and adopts the culture, customs, and way of life in the country in which they are living.
Yes, I eat Japanese food daily; yes, I shop at Uniqlo; I drive a Japanese car; and yes, I have a Japanese house with tatami.
But I still think and act like a Canadian from the ‘true North strong and free.’
I love hockey and the Blue Jays and miss my Tim Horton’s double-double.
Perhaps I have not gone native after all.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is simple and easy to read. It’s likely to be understood by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 81.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.