[YuriTokoro]

Hi.
Could you correct my English?

"To Praise the Members of Your Family"

You are not expected to praise the members of your family when speaking or writing in Japanese. However, this seems to be a little difficult to understand to some American people. (I don’t know about people from other countries.)
One of my American friends has started studying Japanese. He wrote me something in Japanese, and he always said his wife is beautiful. This sounded very strange to me.
In Japanese, we say about our own family modestly. If you praise them, you sound a kind of rude.
When I warned him not to praise his wife, he insisted that was his manner.
He didn’t understand that he should say things in Japanese way when speaking in Japanese, or learning foreign languages is learning foreign cultures. He ended up giving up studying Japanese.
Nevertheless, many young people read Japanese manga and know Japanese culture nowadays. I believe this is great. Studying Japanese might be easier to them.

Thank you.

Nagoyankee, thanks for the first sentence.