This is my first audio sample. I spent a lot of time practicing and made several recordings before I decided on which was best. I feel that speaking is still my weakest area in Japanese and I feel that doing the audio samples helped me gain more confidence in my speaking ability as well as to better understand the way I am supposed to sound while speaking. I still have a little trouble with intonation with some words and maintaining the proper flow of conversation is difficult as well but I think I am really improving in this area even if it is slow progress. I think this shows my Interpretive listening skills as well as Interpersonal speaking skills to some extent.