>>11003269it's certainly not as if i wouldn't practice those things given the opportunity, it just seems like getting to know a whole ass person for japanese practice seems excessive while i'm at a stage where i could exercise my whole vocabulary at a sushi place.
learning is fastest when it's applied and all that anyway, so i would think it'd be defeating the purpose making a friend exclusively to talk about my limited japanese to since that essentially becomes more practice. in my mind the greatest value comes when you can have genuine if simple conversations as a base to expand from
