Today I talked japanese to a native through the phone, gosh it was too hard, my vocabulary is too poor to express myself. And when talking you need to know the word right away
The problem of self studying is that I don't know if my japanese is good enough for the 10 months i'm studying or if it should be better by now
@FelipeOliveira: I think the most useful practice for me, moving into something I would still call "intermediate Japanese", was learning to tell stories. Practice relating things like movie plots, your day at school/work, "a funny thing that happened" in Japanese.