Like I believe many learners speaking japanese is my absolute weakest point. I want to try to implement it more in my learning by maybe first reading texts out loud and later when I find the confident trying to talk freely (to myself). But it is difficult because I don't really talk much in my native language and often do not really know what I should talk about.
When it comes to reading and especially listening as I started I needed a very long time for each sentence because my brain just didn't get the japanese sentence structure and I had to convert it back to my native language for each sentence and that really slowed the listening or reading down.
But one day after months and months of listening it was like a switch in my brain was switched and I suddenly could understand it and now I am at a point where unkown vocabulary can be a problem but the syntax is in most cases no problem and I can understand it without thinking too much about it.
So can this switch that you suddenly get it also happen with speaking that when you practice it a lot? That one day you can just speak without thinking about syntax etc? Where it starts to just flow? And if "yes" is this possibe to do on your own or is this only really achievable with a tutor/teacher?
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