Just wondering how people’s experiences have been with a language tutor. I have a solid *beginner’s* foundation of kanji, grammar and vocab. Unfortunately you can only learn so much from genki, however. I have had basically no experience with listening or speaking comprehension so I decided to try online tutoring to improve this. It was mainly just an assessment of where my current level is to schedule the curriculum around future lessons. I am just a bit concerned because although I have a decent foundation, I am not sure how I will be able to build upon it if I am unable to fully grasp sentences due to more “native” vocabulary that isn’t taught in textbooks. I could understand maybe 3/4 of certain sentences to piece together what my tutor was asking but the missing piece made it so a lot of questions I couldn’t fully understand. I had to rely on English a fair amount which I feel like defeats the purpose of lessons since I really want to build my listening and speaking comprehension. After sessions I plan to add into anki some concepts/vocab I didn’t understand to study but I am just curious as to if anyone else had this issue and felt a bit discouraged by it? Also i found myself having forgetting grammar points and simple vocab or taking long to remember them probably due to inexperience with speaking. This was more of an skill assessment rather than a lesson so I will give it another try but if anyone else has had similar experience i’d love for you to share how you made the most out of your lessons.
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I love having a tutor. I felt similar to you where I had to use English and felt bad, but speaking and listening are skills you need to practice. The more you do it the better, and your teacher isn’t there to shame you so it’s actually great if you make mistakes so they can correct you!