Patrick T. from San Diego, CA

I am a native Californian who is fluent in Japanese. I became fluent in Japanese while I was a Mormon missionary in Japan for two years (1986-1988). I received two months of intensive language training before I went to live in Japan as a missionary.As a missionary I spoke Japanese for approximately 10 hours per day with native Japanese. While the language training process is not as formal as college classroom environment, I believe it is actually much more effective to learn a language by