I first started lessons at NACOS October 14th.  Today is my 13th lesson.  From beginning till now I have improved immensely.  When I started, I could not read Katakana and Kanji but now I can read Katakana, and some Kanji.  My speaking is more fluent sounding more like Japanese than a person, speaking English sounding Japanese. With every lesson I’ve learned key phases to comunicate in Japanese when casually talking about every day activities to someone else.  It’s much fun finally to be able to say things I wanted to but couldn’t.  This has been the best experience thus far!