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Hi guys, I don’t usually use the forum but i should, I have been learning for abut three years from various sources, now i have many friends and no many words, but my grammar, is still horrible, i try to use lang-8 but i really feel bad about it because it is absorbing(using a translator).
I am a writer by trade, and so i speak deeply, now that i have so many friends, and feel something a little less then begginer, its frustrating to not be able to say the things i have practiced.
I have a lot of language partners, but im not learning how to speak..this is a problem and i’m not sure how to solve it, i have wasted a lot of time watching dorama and experimenting with nico nico in order to hear Japanese.
How can i stay diligent?
Welcome to TextFugu, Trevor!
Good luck learning Japanese.
P.S. I don’t have time to answer your question right now because I have School but hopefully somebody else can help and/or wait until I get home.
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This reply was modified 12 years, 11 months ago by
Kaona.
Hey welcome to Textfugu. Where are you from by the way?
Welcome Trevor,
You mentioned watching Dorama, but have you tried shadowing? Koichi just posted a nice guide on this over at tofugu just the other day:
http://www.tofugu.com/2011/06/10/studying-with-japanese-drama-how-to/#more-5711
Give it a whirl?
trevor – welcome! It is hard to make a transition between textbook Japanese and real life. Have you tried talking to people over Skype? That might be an option. Or the shadowing that Ncroleptic mentioned.
Good luck!
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