Indiana

I work from home.

I could talk to myself about what I'm doing today, what my plans are, just speak out loud in German or Japanese.

And some people do this and it's very helpful for them.

Like I have this hesitation about doing that.

I don't know why, but...

So I try to, let's say, okay, I watch a YouTube video.

I think that's somehow I have less hesitation about this.

I watch something or I read an article and I try to out loud summarize it to myself.

And I'm probably going to stumble and say a lot of wrong things and have to do it a bunch of times.

But I find that summarizing something or trying to explain something is one of the more challenging, but

really essential things in language learning.

So I think you can do that by yourself and just try to force yourself to speak.

Because like I said, yeah, there's very few German or Japanese speakers in my area.

But then of course, get a tutor, right?

Find an online tutor, a local tutor, it's worth it to shell out a tiny bit of money each week for that one on one time that totally focused speaking time with feedback.

That is really important.

So I also definitely try to

make time for one-on-one tutoring sessions in my target language.

But good tip.

Yeah, I'll try that.