A little over two years ago I decided to start studying Japanese on my own after I fell in love with anime and manga after watching and reading Black Butler (Kuroshitsuji). I've been doing okay on my own, using the program, Human Japanese, Memrise.com, and Remembering the Kanji Vol 1. I've been focusing and getting vocab in and grammar and now some kanji in. Since I haven't been focusing on speaking I've realized that due to lack of practice I can't form the thoughts out loud fast enough for a conversation. I'm pretty shy so I'm still nervous about taking tutoring lessons on italki even. I hope to overcome the nervousness and shyness so I can level up and learn more faster. I've also realized that since I'm focusing on learning more vocab and kanji that I'm still not that great at forming sentences in general either. I have a hard time finding a well rounded way to learn to start thinking in Japanese so I can improve my writing, speaking, and understanding all at once.