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Here in Seattle there is an extremely large population of Japanese and Chinese people, luckily for me lots of those people want to learn English, and double lucky for me I want to learn Japanese.
Tomorrow after class I get to meet up with Ayako who is a ESL student at one of the colleges near me. We are scheduled to have an initial hangout session essentially and its my job to make friends with her so she can have some real conversation in English, and I in Japanese. If you live in a large city you can probably get in contact with any of your schools diversity/cultural/etc department and see if they offer something like this. I doubt you need to be a student either!
Ugh normally I edit my posts after I post them but I think the edit feature is broken *cough* Koichi! *cough*
I need to make some more real life Japanese friends T.T
What an opportunity you’ve just been given! I wish you luck with Ayako-san.
I have a Japanese tutor (who is a native Japanese woman) and she has 3 children but one of them is usually instead at a friends house because he’s little and distracts the lesson sometimes.
I learn with her other 2 children who amaze me with their knowledge of kanji.That’s a good plan :)
When I start my 3rd year at uni in September I might try and find out more about the international student community. Good luck with your speaking and have fun!For what it’s worth, I signed up for a Japanese course, and found it to be slow. So then I went to Craig’s List and found a native Japanese speaker who is willing to give me private lessons for essentially the same cost as the tuition for the course. I work through a unit in the textbook on my own over a week, and then we meet to review the grammar points, practice the exercises, and have a conversation based on that unit’s material. My tutor is a wonderful person, young and energetic, and proud to share her culture. I’d really recommend this way of learning.
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