You should be so proud, I can speak English quite well!

This morning in a first-year English class I was doing the routine stuff- flashcards and dialogue repetition. After I read the first dialogue (which consisted of: "This is my teacher Lisa Brown. She's from Australia." "Nice to meet you." "Nice to meet you, too."), I was quite surprised that I got a round of applause from the students! The first-year English teacher is pretty funny and relates really well with the students (sometimes he's like a comedy act!), so he explained to them why it was so weird that they clapped for my English pronounciation. He had a small conversation in Japanese with a student and then started clapping and saying how the student spoke such good Japanese and had such a good accent. I think the students could understand that my English pronounciation is nothing to clap about- it wasn't achieved after years of practice and intense study. Nevertheless, it just goes to show you how impressed some Japanese speakers are with good English pronounciation (this isn't this first time I've been applauded for my pronounciation!).