Recently I sought out to find a Japanese friend to talk to, guess what? I found one! Apart from him being a really nice guy and fun to talk to, he has cleared up all of the questions I had about Japanese (and Japan) so far, I really recommend finding a friend from the country of the language you are learning as it can really accelerate your language learning progress!

For example he helped me understand counters, in Japanese when you want to say 2 dogs you have to put what I can only describe as an extension on the end of the number depending on what the thing the number is representing, so for two dogs it would be ni-hiki no ino.

To find Japanese people to talk to you can go here: http://www.japan-guide.com