So hard!

Do you know the method to learn a language fast and effective? Total immersion training. It means that you immerse yourself in the life of the language you want to learn. For example, you can't really learn English if you live in say, Egypt. They may have the best English language teacher in the world, but it all means squat if you do not use it, which is highly unlikely in Egypt. However, if you're in England for example, learning English will be more effective and faster because you are forced to utilize it or perish.

Thus is the case for me. I am currently learning Japanese. And I can't learn it properly unless I immerse myself in Japanese life. Ergo, I need to go to Japan and live there for at least a few months. Since I can't just leave my home here in Singapore now, I must do the next best thing; getting Japanese friends. There will be one chance when my language school has an exchange program with its counterpart in Japan. Several Japanese students will be here on tour, and there are in need of tour guides. Could this be my chance to polish my rusty beginner's Japanese?

Another strategy I'm adopting, or rather try to adopt is listening to native Japanese speakers speak...24 hours a day. How? Listening to their radio broadcast. Sadly I have yet to find online any radio station from Japan that does live Internet broadcast or streaming. At most I've found a few with prerecorded talk shows, and the rest are all music broadcast based. I want...no, I need for them to be talk radio. Talk show radios where people talk and talk and talk. Sigh...a little help?