I’d be very grateful if you tell me your strategies or you share your stories regarding this.
I’ve been practicing speaking Japanese for about a year, an hour per week, and I’m having some struggles that I’d like to get over.
The first is that I keep getting stuck whenever I’m explaining something over 2 sentences. The second is that in the lessons I speak about 30% of the time and the rest is the tutor talking.
You might think that because I’m a beginner or because I’m not understanding what’s said to me but no, I usually understand 100% of what they’re saying and I should have the knowledge to reply, and in most cases I’m able to do that when thinking about it afterwards, but heck I don’t know why I can’t seem to do it during the lesson.
I tried taking lessons with new tutors, but they all say I’m fine and my Japanese sounds pretty native and the comforting talk starts (I guess they think I got a mental breakdown from studying or something haha) and nothing changes.
I’ve never taken the JLPT so I’ll use this description as a reference, I’ve been consuming Japanese content for 8 years, 6+ hours a day, and I understand 95-100% of what I’m watching most of the time (except when listening to something I don’t know about at all ofc(.
What could help?
by Chokohime