Hello Wendy, thank you for taking my trial lesson. We had a nice conversation even if we didn't have much time, 30 minutes is maybe too short to know each other and to give the best advice to the student. If you want to get the best way from a teacher, I recommend that you take a professional teacher's lesson once. Tutor doesn't know how to teach Japanese language and doesn't know how foreigners are studying.Because the way to study grammar is quite deferent as ours. I don't want to give any irresponsible advice, so I said anything about that. Professional teacher's lesson's fee is higher than tutor, but they have experience in training. I hope that you could study correct Japanese language with pleasant atmosphere. I'm sorry I couldn't be of any help. Good luck :) ! Regard Lisa