Because they force you to be creative and see things from a fresh perspective.

So when someone recently approached me, saying Excuse me, but I need to become fluent in speaking Japanese six months, What should I do?

My initial responsible.

And after this exchange, I couldn't help but think, What if that person had actually said, Excuse me?

I need to become fluent in speaking Japanese and six months and you've got 10 minutes to tell me what I need.

Thio problem And the more I thought about the whole speaking Japanese fluently in six months, think more, I realized, is actually technically possible with a good strategy with a good plan.

Now granted, it took me longer than six months.

But this is because, like most letters, I have no idea where to begin or what to do now.

I've been fortunate to come a long way since then, culminating last year taking part in a regional Japanese speech contest, somehow winning on ending up in the local newspaper, looking like some kind of slightly overweight, disappointing villains.

So if you have half a year to spare all your learning Japanese from a beginning to an intermediate level.

Here is six important points for making fluency in six months of reality or, if you do, like the time, the very least in under a year.

So in the name of not being shot in this bizarre, poorly conceived, hypothetical situation, here is a six steps strategy for success speaking Japanese fluently in six months.

What I love alliteration.

So the first thing you need to become fluent in speaking Japanese is the core vocabulary and grammar.

But how much is this?

Well, probably not as much as you think.

I discovered this when I came to Japan and befriended someone who is very much fluid in conversation.

But you, surprisingly little Japanese, I won't reveal his name or face.

Suffice to say, his greatest quality is that he's from Canada, and so, for the rest of this audio visual experience will be referring to him as Canadian gun Canadian.

Guy came to Japan, having learned his Japanese from the popular textbooks Genki World and Yankee two on.

Then he just couldn't be bothered to learn anything more because admittedly, he found speeded need to.

He already had enough Japanese to be ableto have good conversations with people.

And after I'd finished using both books, I also found I knew enough to be ableto have goods everyday conversation.

But how much Japanese is that exactly and cannot be learned in six months.

The books take you up to jail PT for four level, which is around 1000 words I want.

The books do contain big, scary kanji characters.

They also contain here again on Kartika, meaning you can progress through them without being held back by kanji.

And as there were 22 chapters and 24 weeks in which to learn, the rate of one chapter a week is more than manageable with two weeks left over to learn here.

Gonna encounter Connor if you need to.

Now, at this point, I expect everyone in their cat is shouting 1000 words.

Six months.

It simply can't be done to which I say, Let's be ruthless and say we have 1500 words to that in five months because you want to use the six month to review the things we've learned and enjoy muffins.

Basic math tells us that comes to a staggering 10 words a day.

But if like me, you have trouble remembering vocabulary.

Use of memorization website like memorize where you could learn the vocabulary daily on.

You'll find that it makes this six month target disgusting.

They achieve fluency was just 1000 words.

It's important to remember that the 1000 most commonly used Japanese words represents 70% off the everyday spoken language because the words he used that frequently, of course, simply just by knowing them won't make you fluid.

That's what the other five tips before.

But you can't get anywhere without the essential, so make sure you learn them and learn them well, now what was put to conversation?

Pillars of the words we use when we hesitate mid sentence.

Ultimately, they have no meaning, but they still play a vital role during conversation.

And then there's back channeling, which words that we use to show you that we're listening.

Enduring conversation.

All right, yeah, on your benefit massively from using them when you speak Japanese, because not only will you sound more like a native speaker, but early on, when you find it difficult to recall a word mid sentence, you'll be able to use the filler to buy yourself time until you can remember the word example.

Um, um, yeah, yeah, right.

I saw.

Oh, yeah, I see.

I see.

Yeah, not a little.

No, no, no.

Mmm.

What is it?

Um, No elected.

And if you listen to a Japanese speaker, you'll especially here the first begin to the habit of using them early on.

Not only will you sound more like a native speaker, but you'll feel more comfortable and natural when speaking Japanese.

It's a small thing, but it does make a huge difference.

Fairly obvious.

Once you started learning Japanese, naturally, you want to start practicing and using it with native speakers of Japanese in conversation.

And if you plan to be fluent in six months, you would need to speak to someone for about one hour every week.

Do that on six months is completely achievable.

So find a conversation partner or a Japanese teacher on.

You'll be fluent in no time.

Yeah, I'll wait.

There's literally no native speakers of Japanese outside of Japan.

Okay, I exaggerate.

But it's true if you live outside Japan, there is a noticeable absence of Japanese people to actually speak with.

In fact, in the past two years, I've had more messages from people about this problem than anything else, and I can empathize.

In the 22 years that I lived in rural London, I met to Japanese people that was in London, one of the biggest cities in the entire fucking solar system.

But you and I are very lucky because we have something that I like to call the Internet.

We don't need to let silly things like time and space get in our way because they're already tells of awesome Japanese people in life who will have conversation with the or tea to Japanese.

For me, the best place to be them is I talk your website where you can really find Japanese conversation partners freely, but also find native speakers who could become your personal tutor over the Internet.

And in fact, despite living in Japan, even I use online cheaters as it's more convenient than driving for half an hour to the local community center.

Sitting in a group waiting for my term.

Well, people practice the phrase quarter.

I could have my class anywhere I want sitting there eating the chocolate, talking one on one to a personal tutor over Skype.

I don't like having a regular tutor, which costs literally billions of dollars.

Having a long line teacher is actually affordable enough to use weekly now because I live in Japan on comm practice conversation with friends.

But honestly, it's still no substitute for having an experienced teacher who could check your pronunciation.

Correct your mistakes on explain sentence structures that literally make no sense.

So not only is the future already here, but it turns out it's more convenient, more flexible, on actually affordable.

Unlike the chocolate, which feels like the posh kids standing in the corner of the room boastfully claiming it comes from being Tobar, bto look about being too.

But unlike normal chocolate, which merely goes from being thio disillusionment, you burst.

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My speaking Japanese in particular.

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This next tip genuinely changed my Japanese speaking life.

When you start learning Japanese and indeed, long after you started learning Japanese, you often find yourself not knowing a word or how to say something ridiculous.

Amount of time and nothing kills the conversation at demotivated border when this happened.

But the solution is simple.

You need to learn 10,000 words on 2200 cartoon characters on.

You should finish just in time to be dead.

Or you could learn how to overcome mental blocks on Explain Things you don't know, using the basic grammar you've already learned because the keys of fluency is to think in Japanese and toe work around these problems like he would in your native language.

But you could do the exact same thing in Japanese at a fairly early stage, having learned something called nominal ization on using concept words like model for your time.

I first learned this from Canadian Girl because he always appeared fluent in conversation despite his limited knowledge, and it turned out he was just confident in using explanatory phrases to get around difficult situations.

But let's have some examples say I'm having a really bad day.

Nice, too, though.

Hail caustically, aristo.

So that's the way it's on.

What is on me.

I need for communion.

Ate a trashy No kidding looking house.

Tommy sees us.

Eso hace me or go on a She's a controversial the bank.

Your stuff?

Oh, no, no, because she doesn't wanna know a little.

Okay, Killing energy.

Okaka kowtow.

I should go, Carrie.

Sure.

Yeah.

Calligraphy.

For the record, don't worry or conversations aren't usually that shit.

Change your thinking in this way and become fluent problem solving, and you'll find a way to explain anything.

Even with limited vocabulary, you'll find it makes a big difference to your overall confidence and speaking Japanese, particularly after you've been able to describe concepts like communism having any used words like everyone on dhe salad down.

I've got about a minute before I get sure and I need a watch.

Another tip for getting around those frequent mental blocks his synonyms Early on, one of my biggest problems was if I couldn't recall word, I would spend ages trying to recall it rather than move around it and find a different way of saying this.

Just let her frustration on breaking things.

But the trick is to get into the habit of quickly switching and thinking up a different way of saying, For example, if you want to say he's too, but can't remember the phrase, say, got switched to an alternative and say he's big or he's not sure it takes a few weeks of practice to become good at this.

But when you get into the habit of doing it, you'll save yourself a lot of time and stress fairly.

Number six The most important tip, but probably the most difficult.

Early on, it becomes so easy to switch back to your native language if you can't think of the world or what to say.

And I would do this even if I knew full well that the other person couldn't even speaking.

But this problem has continuously played me that I switched back to English rather than stick out and use the Japanese.

I know I think one of the biggest reasons for this is that it feels like you have to let Parker personality go because you don't know how to say colloquial phrases that you would say in your own native language, and it could be really difficult, especially if you're an egotistical, terrible person like I am.

But if you don't get rid of this problem early on, it will always hold you back and stand in your way rather than thinking in Japanese will just give up a river back to your old language.

Forget your native language.

If you can't say in Japanese, don't say it, it'll just move on.

And conversely, the more you speak and use the Japanese, you'll know the more you'll realize that you know a lot more than you think, and that's it.

Six tips.

Six months If you do all of these things that you can be fluent in six months of being able to read, write or listen to Japanese is awesome.

Being able to speak it with native speakers is where the real rewards like And if you do plan to do that to send a message over the Facebook pages on King to hear how you get on the thanks for watching and good luck, please finish.

Good job.

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The fried chicken.