Online speaking/chatting/language exchange opportunity

[Buntaro]

Here is a video about a place online to go and chat in Japanese, from one-on-one to groups. The man mentions that if people just want to 'enter a room' and only listen, that's okay. I have not tried this place personally, but it sounds like it might be a good place to practice speaking and listening Japanese.

 

[nice gaijin]

ohh yeah I remember that guy exchanging an interview with Dogen, they both have really interesting approaches to study.

Dogen interviews Matt:


Matt interviews Dogen:


For me it was 3 years of college courses and a tight group of friends in the language department that finally had me conversing relatively comfortably, right before I spent a year of study in Japan where I deepened my conversation skills by living with a Japanese host family and trying to conduct most of my daily life in Japanese, and discovered my interest in phonology and accent reduction in my official studies.

While back in the states, unfortunately, I find myself with very little opportunity to practice my conversation skills, and they're definitely rusting as time goes on. I've been looking for local groups to meet up with because I much prefer in-person communication, and even volunteered as a college tutor for a semester. Maybe if I get desperate enough I'll dip into the mystery box of online chatrooms

 

[Grandpa Frank]

I tried to keep my language skills up , but found almost no one in Maine who spoke Japanese. About 10 years after I left Japan , the local night school offered a Japanese class. I was so excited only to find it was kindergarden level for beginners. The female teacher shot me down big time saying my Japanese must have come from high school dropout hippies , LOL. I also remember when I once traveled to Tokyo and Japanese there saying my Japanese was filled with slang and vulger words. I guess considering I learned most of my Japanese at the underground bar where I worked. I was too lazy to learn hardly any Kanji. Because Fukuoka was a military town , almost all signs were in English & Japanese.