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Originally Posted by minminRW
Native Japanese do not use Juu-nen-sei (10th grade) but Koukou-ichi-nen-sei (high school 1st grade).
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It's tough to translate this into Japanese but use Japanese in a US cultural context, though, because 高校１年生 would mean 9th grader, not 10th grader, to someone who knows Japanese but not US culture. Our high school begins at Japan's 中３年.
Thus, I think US Japanese classes teach １〜１２年生 to avoid that problem.
Sort-of relatedly (but not really), 海外旅行 makes less sense in the US, because it's possible to travel abroad without crossing an ocean. I was taught pretty early on in my Japanese courses that I (a Texan) could use 海外旅行 to talk about my trip to Canada, even though I never cross an ocean.
In Japan, on the other hand, any travel abroad is 海外 since it's an island nation.