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Originally Posted by 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.
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Before I came to Japan for the first time I had taken two years of an elective course, so I had some knowledge, certainly enough to make a conversation, but it was hard. After living in Japan though for about 4-5 months I finally started to feel like I could have somewhat of a fluid conversation, even if I was just doing most of the listening. For me, a little immersion was what I needed to push me over the hump.
But for you though, since you do not have that opportunity, just as KyleGoetz said, practice, practice, practice. Find somebody who will talk with you, even if it is just another classmate. I have seen Japanese people do this a lot to practice their English.