We did a fair amount of conversation again, which is always good, talking about travel plans etc. :) Then we did a few textbook exercises and it's nice to see that nowadays it's not only about reading out sentences but we can elaborate on the topic, Maki-san asks me follow up questions, so I'm forced to actively recall and build sentences. That is ofc painful for my brain, but there is no way around it haha. :) Thank you Maki-san and let's continue after our holidays :)

New everyday life topics in this lesson - short conversation about drinking and hangover, buying a house - 楽しかった！:D In the textbook we practice expressing opinions, which is probably about the most useful thing we need to learn. :) Practicing talking about simple topics helps to prevent me from freezing every three seconds when I'm trying to say something. I can really feel that lately I've improved so much so that we can have an actual easy conversation with Maki-san. :)　

Wow, today we had a great conversation practice in the beginning - my comprehensive input practice is finally paying off :D Then we started on casual speech in affirmative and negative. Had time to do a lot of practice sentences. :) Let's continue next week. Thank you so much Maki-san :)

Wow, Maki-san! 1 hour free talk and I didn't even break much sweat haha! :D Yay, I'm so happy! <3 Thank you so much and see you next week :)

Today we did a lot of speaking and it was so fun! I really feel like with Maki-san's help, I've made a big improvement over the last year. :) Thank you so much and see you next week <3

Back to Japanese after summer vacation - we started with verb forms and continued to text comprehension/questions and some new family vocab. It was a nice warm up and we'll continue weekly from now on again. :) It's good to be back.