So I'm basically around intermediate level in Japanese and I'm trying to look for possible ways to just get that small edge up in the language. So far my level allows me to hold basic conversations and communicate with a wide range of services in Tokyo. Any advice from those who have roamed the same path would be much appreciated! I'd like to reach a point where I can speak without an accent too since I'm also tired of people asking my nationality on the phone when I speak Japanese lol
I'm going to deduce from your username that you're one of those very pitiable, rudderless white dudes that shows up in Japan with fervent dreams of being a samurai or, at least, a genuine Japanese. The fact that you're actually IN Japan and asking this question speaks volumes, so allow me to offer you some pointers and a hard truth.
1) You will NEVER pass for Japanese. Not on the phone, and not anywhere else. You will NEVER remove all traces of the accent, no matter how hard you try. Period.
2) More importantly, why the fuck would you want to? You do understand that your only value in Japan is being a gaijin??? That's the only thing that makes you special, homeboy....because it's not your 4in dick or Magic The Gathering collection. Your goal should be to attain a level of command where you can get through most every life (and p4p) situation yet still be obviously a foreigner, which will elicit the ideal squeals and squawks that come with observing a white guy who can string together cohesive Japanese sentences and that, in turn, can lead to you getting laid.
One of my buddies was on a return flight to KIX and next to him was this fat white douchebag dressed up like a fucking Jedi, who declared to my buddy that he was relocating to Japan (NOVA teacher, go figure) to "become a samurai." Please, please, please...don't be that guy.