Hello, my name is Anthony. I’ve been learning Japanese for a little while now, but haven’t taken it too seriously. I would like to see how much I can improve my Japanese by just putting in more hours with the help of Comprehensive Input. I only have 7 hours of CI so far, I want to see how good I can get my Japanese in 6 months.
Also, any advice on talking to people? I’m really nervous trying to speak Japanese in person and when they respond I can’t understand any of it 
Welcome to CIJ!
Personally, when I was an absolute beginner, I found that it was really inefficient to have conversations with people because I was constantly asking them to repeat themselves and I had to look up almost everything they were saying.
I actually just watched a lot of CI videos until I was able to understand the intermediate videos before going back to chatting with people in Japanese. I find that it’s a lot more fun if you can actually understand what people are saying.
I still get nervous when I speak Japanese though so I’d love some advice from other people here. 