As you say that if you have any Japanse native speakers or communities in your neighbor is kinda big deal with improving it.

As my experience form study abroad in the State,

study it, then learn it and use it are the best and fastest way to get it.

I think that we do not always need to abroad when we learn a foreign language if we have skype.

on italki there are lots of native Japanese who can speak English. so why don't you use them?

I can help you too.

To ride a horse in Japanese will be 「馬に乗る」

you can say 「うまにのります。」

as Bryan said, "Riding a horse" would be more like 「馬に乗ること」is correct.

but we have a word 「乗馬」pronounceation is 「Jyou ba」which stands for 「馬に乗ること」

I can drop the word as a tip for you :)

はじめまして。

日本人です。一緒に勉強しませんか？

できる事があれば助けになりたいです。

私も英語練習です。よろしくお願いします。

Hi Tony. I'm asking that if I would like to join your plan for you.

I am a native Japanese and I also studying English and so on.

I'm so happy if you give me a chance to help your lesson.

thanks,

We learn and memorize each 50 of Hiragana and Katakana letters first when we are little children.

You can write the letters on a sheet of paper with pronunciation.

for instance, when you write the Hiragana ”あ”, you say "a" until character and sound match each other.

you can memorize Kanji as Chinese letters later.