One of my Japanese coworkers brought parts out to the lab to be measured on Friday, and we exchanged a few phrases in Japanese, which was fun. I asked him about where I should go in Hokkaido if I went on vacation, to be sure I would find people who spoke at least some English. He said I should be fine in any of the bigger cities, as most even have signage in English as well.
While I was explaining to him how long I'd been learning (640+ days in a row now, aside from weekends), I pulled up Duolingo and went to one of the most recent lessons I'd done. The lesson would speak a Japanese phrase, and then I would have to pick out the kanji from a list below, to build the sentence (the list had incorrect kanji as well). I solved it rather quickly, and when I showed him this, he was very surprised and impressed that I can also read kanji! (I think he believed I was just learning how to speak it.)
Anyway, I was asking him if he knew of any groups in town that might be good for practicing my Japanese speaking, and while he couldn't think of any off-hand, he said that he knew there would be a couple of transfer students coming from Japan, at one of our local colleges this year. He said he also knows a staff-member who is Japanese, and who's husband is American, and that he would ask her if there were any people she knew who would be interested in a sort of 'language exchange', where I could help with their English, and they, with my Japanese!
I'm hopeful that he can find something, because it would be very cool to improve my ability to process and speak, in addition to learning the kanji online. Also, it would be great to meet some new people, that have nothing to do with the bar/music scene here in town. I need a new group of friends...
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