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Hi everyone! My name is Shawn and I am from America. I currently live in Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan, and I'm looking for language exchange partners who are native Japanese speakers. Feel free to message me and say hi!
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    If you found the N5 practice test easy, at least push for the N4 test. If parts of the N4 practice test confused you, use that as motivation to study hard. The biggest thing you can take away from your first test is the mechanics and structure of the test, and that is all the N5 would test would give you without identifying areas you are lacking in. 

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    April 25, 2015
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    Problems I run into in Japan is when I travel to foreign touristy populated areas and people speaking English. Just today at the flower shop even, I asked some questions in Japanese, and the worker kept responding in English.

     

    What keeps me motivated to learn is for the times I am not in those areas, and I'm off finding a hole in the wall restaurant or bar, and English is worthless. It leads to fun practice and interesting experiences often. These forced use experiences give me that rewarding feeling and recharges the motivation batteries, because you realize what you wanted to say but didn't know the right way to say it.

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    April 25, 2015
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    I'm interested, and I'm sure I could talk my wife into joining at times as well (she's Japanese). Please PM me.

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    April 24, 2015
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    Genki series so far has been a solid starting point for me, (I'm almost finished with Genki 2) so you cannot go wrong if you put the study time in. My friends at my school just introduced me to a site that has been very fun for learning kanji, and I wish I would have known about earlier. www.wanikani.com The site is in beta though, so once you sign up it may take some time before you receive the invite. I am in no way affiliated with the site, but the convenience of having the lessons view-able through the mobile app and PC has been great. Give it a shot and I'm sure you will enjoy it!
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    April 24, 2015
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