[Kai13]

My writing skills (grammar, kanji, etc) are very, very good, even though I'm at a basic level.

When I'm on the class breaks and talk to the sensei however, my knowlegde does not come out, I just say things like "chotto", "ee", "sou desu ne", ...(sorry, no ime in this computer), when I try to make up a whole sentence I have to think first in my language and most of the times I cannot remember what grammar to use, and even forget particles now and then :P, but as I said, my writing and listening skills are very good (at least for my level).

I practice talking to myself, but that's not enought, though I'll try to do that more often. I also have been listening a lot more japanese daily (sound files of JLPT 3 and 4, cd's from Genki and an integrated approach to intermediate japanese, etc etc...), and my listening skills are improving I believe.

Do you have any tips? There's no way to have japanese friends because there are no japanese here.

If you know any threads regarding this let me know.