How to Keep Conversations Going in Japanese

These are six habits that actually kept my Japanese conversations going — and me testing every one of them live in VRChat with native speakers. Personalized 1-on-1 language lessons with native teachers on italki. Buy $10, get $5 off your first lesson with code JARED9 (first 50 users only). Web: https://go.italki.com/jared2609 App: https://go.italki.com/jared2609app 📧 Website: jareddesu.com 💬 Join the community:   / discord   Whether you're grinding through the JLPT, deep in AJATT immersion, or you just want your Japanese conversations to stop dying at hello — these are the six specific habits that made the biggest difference for me over thousands of hours of talking with natives. ⏱ Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:39 Sponsor — italki 03:19 Habit 1 — Aizuchi 04:33 Habit 2 — Filler & fluff 07:15 Habit 3 — Parroting 08:52 Habit 4 — Bridging 10:59 Habit 5 — Elevated vocab 13:05 Habit 6 — Jester-maxxing 16:52 VRChat: Putting it all together 18:57 Closing thoughts #italki #LearnJapanese #JapaneseImmersion