Lesson 1 Soooooooooooooo I have found from my first session that I have non existent Japanese spoken and reading skills, but that is fine! I shall not be deterred!!!. I will try to take as much as I can from the first session, which was expertly taught! Here are my notes and what we have talked about: -First off we talked about Japanese culture and why I am interested in learning Japanese We created my first spoken Japanese sentence: にほんごのぶんかおもしろいこいはすしとかひとぴとです。 にほんごのぶんか - Japanese culture (の is a possession marker in this sentence, this is new for me also) おもしろいことは-Interesting things (は being a topic marker) すし - sushi とか - and so on.... ひとぴと - people This was very interesting to experience sentence structure! Also listening to a Japanese native made me realise that I find it hard to separate the information that is spoken so I can work out the sentences, but I think the more conversations I have, the more I will be able to understand. -Next we talked about citizenship in Japan and how a general conversation would go. We used the following sentence: げんざいにほんはがいこくじんをあまりうけつけませんそのためにあなたのりれきしょがひつようになります。 This sentence states　that　at　the　current　time　in　Japan,　there　is　not　much　acceptance　for　foreigners and for that reason my personal history is necessary. げんざい-Current/present にほんは-Japan がいこくじんを-foreigner あまり-not much うけつけません-acceptance そのために-for that reason あなたの-your りれきしょが-personal history (paperwork) ひつようになります-necessary -Then we talked a bit about family あなたのかぞく - your family たいじ-infant ぼくは-I ごかげつの-5 months もってます- with つま-wife (this is just my babbling notes just so I remember) ぼくはにほんえ子れてとっても嬉しいですーI am very excited to come/be in to Japan じかいにほたありましょう Please visit me on https://www.tumblr.com/blog/stewymitch I will be updating my progress as I prepare within the next 4 months for my move to Japan. Hopefully the blog will be useful to anyone fancying a move. I will be stating every step it takes for me to get to Japan throughout the blog and also updating my Japanese progress!