Ara ara…Thank you both. I will try hard. I actually know several Japanese people.

The second person that came to study at my house knows English well so I can ask for help…the person lives in Tokyo too…the person returned to Japan/Nippon but will return next for the next semester at the local college…I hope to have some progress to show by then…maybe I can have built on with better tutoring. Tomorrow will be the start of my second week of work…I have memorized the hiragana and I am working hard at the beginning of sentence structure. Positive and negative words…it is good stuffs. I speak to myself mostly slower then the example voice recordings but I will try my best to match it.

Again, thank you for being supportive.