turvy: Well, the first year was all passive. I just experienced understanding more and more. First I was able to read well, then my listening started to improve and then I headed for Japan and had to start speaking. It was kind of like a sink or swim situation go to Japan the first time...
IceCream: Haha! Thank you so much! If you hook me up with a gig in England I'll head over right away
Inny Jan: Haha! I'll definitely hire you as my private detective if I were to screw things up here in life...
bbvoncrumb: Please read the whole thread. I answered this before - you find them on d-addicts
AlexandreC: Well, I haven't said it to you before, but when I first read your posts on accent and phonetics I got kind of mad. Not at you, but at my own stubbornness. I wanted to go on the way I did, focusing everything on reading/listening and hoping that one day my Japanese would sound native. However, that was stupid of me, and I felt refreshed reading some of your posts, even though my ego was killing me. I believed that "my way" was "the only way". I was wrong.
I'll definitely continue improving my vocab and understanding, but I'll do my best to practice speaking as well from now on. We'll see how it all turns out...

So I had another ocarina lesson on Wednesday, so I figured I could post a short clip from that lesson (me and my teacher talking + me playing ocarina ) since it's been around a year since my last update.
Even though my Japanese is far from perfect, I've been focusing a lot on production / speaking during the last year, and that has really helped me when it comes to speaking on the go. This made me feel much more comfortable this time around during the lesson, as I could say whatever I wanted when I wanted

http://chirb.it/ENN9kF