Japanese class

At the Kyoto International Community Center I am taking a second level Japanese class twice a week for 2 hours at a time.  The other students are from China (2), Korea (2), France, and Canada.  The teacher is doing a good job -- Japanese only.  We have to stand in front of the class with a classmate and present dialogues, write answers on the board in hiragana (one of the phonetic alphabets), and complete written homework.  What is amazing is that it is working!  Each of us is getting better with our Japanese.