UmiNotsuki

Hey, maybe you could help me out!

I've studied Japanese language in formal classes for 5 years (all through high school, one year in college.) I feel like I'm very poor at learning language in general, as before Japanese I studied Spanish for 7 years and never got very good at it (better at Japanese now than I ever was at Spanish.)

My current level of understanding is alright, but I stumble and have to think. I make grammar mistakes fairly often (though rarely bad enough to change the meaning of my sentence -- think the Japanese equivelent of English's "My name is Umi" and "My name being Umi."

Can you suggest anything that might take my foundational understanding to fluency?

Thanks!!

In my opinion, the answer is in the question here: we all need to stop blaming "the other side" while turning a blind eye to the abuses of those we perceive as being on "our side". Principles only work when they're consistent.

On an individual, person-by-person level, this has to look like tolerance and not attempting to silence or bully those who disagree with us. I know that no matter what you believe, it's the other guy who started it -- but we as a society need to learn to be more mature people, even when we're tested with profound ignorance. Any high-minded ideal will require an even hand every bit as resolute.

Cool! Is there any way to tell which level I should start with? Some kind of placement test?

5 years ago I tried the beginner version, learned "boy" and then gave up and started formal classes, but I'm not sure how far I've advanced!

She wasn't kidding when she said it's rare, holy shit.

Interesting... I know how to use the grammar for that sentence, easily, but don't know the vocab. Still worth starting from the beginning, or should I just study vocab?