日本の学校で今どんな授業しているか
I'm not quite sure what kinds of classes are being taught in Japanese junior high and high schools these days.
When I was studying English in junior high and high school, I don't recall specifically being taught the word "awkward," as in "This is so awkward."
After graduating from high school and university, I went on to a graduate school in the U.S. in the early 1980s. I feel like I didn’t hear the word "awkward" very often even in America back then.
However, in 2017, I was invited as a researcher to an American university and stayed there for about six months. During that time, I heard the word being used quite frequently.
The vocabulary used at any given time, whether in English or Japanese, might have an element of fashion or trends to it, don't you think?
I'm not sure if this change in language is simply due to the natural evolution of words over time or because the places I visited the first and second times were different.