はじめまして。ビトーと言います！
今日初めて「とびら」で話す練習をしていた。つまり、読み物についての質問に答えを書く代わりに答えを口に出してみた。単語が思い出せなかったし、なかなか眠かったし、少し難しかった。でも、仕方がないね。書く練習だけでなく、話す練習の必要もあるよ。
Today for the first time I did speaking practice with Tobira. Meaning, instead of writing answers to questions about the reading materials, I tried saying the answers out loud. I couldn’t recall vocab and I was quite sleep so it was a bit hard. But, no helping it right? Not only writing practice is necessary, but also speaking practice.
はじめまして、ビトーさん！ファーストメートです。よろしくお願いします！ 
昨日複数な文を考えたが、出すことを忘れました。その一文はエアコンについてのでした。
そうか！社員と客様のロールプレイをしてもいい？
初めて。。。
すみません！その唐揚げはまずいよ！
Ah, is that so? How about we roleplay a worker and customer?
to start…
Excuse me! This karaage is crap!
If you are serious about the keigo, we could do more likely situations. I do actually need practice understanding shop keigo and the like. I could buy a fridge or get a phone plan.
みなさん、おはようございます！今日は、２週間の休むは終わってしまったんです。残念ですね。休み中、毎日７，８時目覚めたけど、今朝は５時でした。早すぎる！ベッドへ戻りたい。
読む能力に比べたら、話す能力は違うんですね？私にとって、脳の中で別の分を使うことの感じです。さらに、先生は私のことに質問を聞く瞬間、日本語がぜ～んぶ頭から飛び出します。
あの人は結婚していないでしょう。
That person is not married, right?
夜具お移すのが嫌いだ。
Comments, corrections, and additions always welcome. n_n
【N2: 以上（は）】
This one seems straightforward enough, although I’m yet to run into it in the wild.
1。日本に来た以上は真剣に就活して見たい！
2。会う約束をした以上、きちんと守るべきでしょう。
but… I wonder if I can also say this as
会う約束をした以上、ギリギリのキャンセルが失礼ですよ！
e.g. using a negative warning sentence after 以上. It still counts as a recommendation? ^^;
A safe bet would be to write …以上、ギリギリのキャンセルを避けるべきです。so it becomes a positive recommendation.
3。上司に信用されてる以上は期待に応えられるように頑張りたいです。
投票家族へようこそよ！ここで雁に信じることが厳禁だよ。
今日は, ぼくの文です。
Hello, this is my sentence.
One small note: while it’s not technically incorrect to write こんにちは as 今日は, it’s not often done that way (I don’t think I’ve ever seen it, honestly) - partially (or mostly, I guess, outside of simple convention) because it’s ambiguous with 今日は, where 今日 means “today”. Instead, it’s just written in kana alone.
At some point I read around on langcorrect.com, where you write entries, and natives of your chosen language can correct you.
There, Japanese natives always suggested using kana-only for こんにちは. I don’t think I ever saw them let it slide, and it was a common occurence.
I failed my burn for the WK kanji version of こんにちは by answering きょうは without a second’s pause, since I’d read it and seen it on subtitles a thousand times at that point. I’m glad WK took it out. A fine way to use the on’yomi of the composite kanji, but setting people up for review failure with how 今日は is used in practice.
Yeah, I was actually about to comment on the sentence as if it said きょうは for exactly that reason - whenever I see it in kanji, that’s just immediately how I read it. It took a while to click that it was the “hello” in the sentence below it 
I never had the “joy” of encountering that in WK, but that does indeed seem like a silly thing to include. It’s fine to include kanji versions for words you don’t usually encounter as kanji (丁度 comes to mind), but at least if you do encounter those in kanji they mean the same thing, it’s a bit strange to teach people a meaning for a construction that it’s never going to have, in practice.
社員または店員ですか。電気屋で買い物するロールプレーはどうですか。あなたは携帯や冷蔵庫などが買いたいと言っていたでしょうね。
えとえと、お客さん、いらっしゃいませ！申し訳ございませんが、ここでは唐揚げが売っていません。電気屋でございます。もしよろしければ、携帯電話をお買いになりましょうか。
実際は僕は敬語が得意ではありません。 
Company employee or shop clerk? How about role-playing doing shopping at an electronics store? You mentioned wanting to buy something like a phone or a fridge, right?
Umm umm, dear customer, welcome! I am terribly sorry, but karaage is not sold here. This is an electronics store. Perhaps you would like to buy a cellphone?
Actually I’m not very good at keigo.
きゃあ〜！先輩が来ました！
本当に5時に起きなければいけませんか。大変そうですね。(T.T)
そうですね。実は僕も。日本語で話すならたいてい何にも思い出せなくなります。しかし、話す能力は書く能力と同じようだと言えるんだろう。読み物のおかげで最近色々勉強になりました。
Right? Truth is me too. When talking in Japanese I usually can’t remember anything at all. However, speaking is similar to writing one could say. I learned a lot recently thanks to reading materials.
「〜なくなる」についての記事をたった今調べた：Japanese useful construct: ~なくなる (ex: しなくなる） – Self Taught Japanese
明日居酒屋に行ってもいいだろう。
It’s okay to go to the Izakaya tomorrow, right?
日本語を勉強するのはとっても楽しいだよ。
ドイツ語を勉強するのも楽しいだ。
でも、英語は楽しくないだ。スペルがたいへん悔しいだね。
Learning Japanese is really fun, y’know. Learning German is also fun. But not English. The spelling is terribly frustrating, right?
昨日、ミスしてしまいした！「別な分」
英語の翻訳も忘れてしまいました。
I made a mistake yesterday! It’s 「別な分」
I also forgot the English translation.
妻と一緒に朝ごはんを食べられるためですから。平日は妻が2時間以上通勤します。その長い通勤のせいで、朝早く起きることは必要です。
It’s so I can have breakfast with my wife. Every weekday, her commute is more than two hours. Because of that long commute, we have to get up early.
そうですね。一番の違いとは、書くならば文法や言葉を調べることができます。話しながら日本語を考えるのは難しい。時々、考えているから、10秒ぐらい先生にじーと見るだけです。
That’s true. The biggest difference is that I can look up grammar and words while writing. It’s hard to think about Japanese while speaking. Sometimes I just stare at my teacher for ten seconds because I’m thinking.
そういうの ウェブサイト は聞いたことがありません。面白そうです。
I hadn’t heard of that site before. It looks interesting.
I’m afraid you can’t use the informal copula with an い-adjective. ^^
楽しいです is fine, but you can’t add だ. い-adjectives are a grammatically correct sentence-ender, so you can omit the copula entirely when speaking informally.
11歳ぐらい、初めて英語の本を読みました。英語を話すことができたけど、「brought」とかの読み方は全然分かりませんでした。
I was around 11 when I read an English book for the first time. I could speak English, but I didn’t understand how to read things like “brought” at all.
I understand that with speaking, but desn’t written Japanese need that だ at the end? Or is that just for questions where you can’t rely on intonation?
I think the usual way of phrasing it is a bit misleading.
です isn’t so much the copula as it is a politeness marker that can replace the copula, it’s not just the polite version of だ.
い-adjectives have a copula “built in”. It’s not that you can leave off だ, it’s that だ is completely unnecessary and, because it would be a double copula, ungrammatical to add after an い-adjective.
です, on the other hand, is fine, because it does not function as the copula after an い-adjective, just as a politeness marker.