To –san or not to –san? Should you use the Japanese honorific suffix when speaking English? soranews24.com

And yet, often when I hear someone use the Japanese honorific “-san” when speaking English, it feels awkward and superfluous to me.
Okay, so we’ve seen there are a couple of legitimate arguments to be made for using –san in English speech.
Insisting on adding it to a Japanese person’s name when speaking English can give the impression that you’re trying to dumb down the language, based on the assumption that the person you’re speaking to is less than proficient in English.
There’s also the fact that while –san is a general-purpose “polite” suffix, there are times when the word would feel awkwardly out-of-place even when speaking Japanese.
My name is Angie,” and you get the response, “Oh, hi Angie!” then maybe it’d be best to drop the –san when speaking English together from then on.