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I've been learning Japanese for 2-3 years on and off again and I'm trying to get on par where I can at least hold a decent conversation in Japanese. I first became interested in it about 2009, but stopped for personal reasons and obligations, but now I really am looking to learn as much as I can, as quickly as I can. I am proficient in English and have spent most of my life in the Southwest of the U.S.A., but foreign languages have always been an Achilles heel for me and when things are so difficult, I usually give up on them, but now I am going to force myself into unfamiliar territory of speaking it, or attempting, at least.
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    How to practice language in Japan You'd think this would be a cinch, but I actually find it difficult. Most time I get a chance to actually talk with people in Japanese, it is usually people who are working and they are usually very busy because... it's Tokyo so I don't want to waste their time fumbling around searching for words, but I also know this is pointless so I'm trying to wonder how to practice the language without being a nuisance. I am also generally an introvert so talking to random people pointlessly and out of the blue is difficult.
    June 20, 2019
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    I agree. 3 is the strongest in terms of emotion, when you're really upset, though if you use it with strangers instead of with friends/people you know, but you also run the risk of starting an incident. If you meant strongest in terms of sentence structure, they're all very sound. On the opposite end of the scale (soft instead of strong), you could say "It's really upsetting me." Which would imply it is almost hurting you emotionally.
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    January 17, 2019
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    Grammar, Vocab, and Recalling Hello! I'm new to italki and I just had my first tutor meeting and just realized...this is terrifying. I've been studying off and on for 2-3 years on my own and when I was talking to my teacher, it gave me horrific flashbacks of the one time I was in Donki in Tokyo and tried to ask the clerk where an item was, but I completely froze up and couldn't recall the grammar, let alone the actual words I needed to say. 

    Is there any study methods or tricks that anyone could recommend on how to be able to do this? It's the situation where you mess up once and it just starts to snowball and get worse each time for me, so any recommendations would be amazing. 

    Thank you for help!
    January 17, 2019
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