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あなたなりにはパーフェクト！🌟 完璧な人間なんていないし、日本人でも常に完璧な日本語を使ってるとは限らないよ！(完璧とは？哲学) 言語はただコミュニケーションを取るための手段に過ぎないね。 十分ペラペラだと思います。 でも一生喋り続けて欲しい！ 僕も15年前にペラペラになったけどコミュ障のせいで話せなくなったw 理解できてもあんま話そうとしない、独り言以外はね。(チャットは平気) だからこの動画をアップできる時点ですごく尊敬する！ 僕は絶対にできないから。 言語能力が評価されることに辟易したからw

I was listening to you in the background and when you starte speaking English again, I got scared. The 日本人 are going to have a blast with this one

AWESOME

I'm super impressed you got "hora!" into that. I know this video is dated now, you're living in Japan, and your Japanese has since leveled up. It's crazy to me that you got this good before going to Japan just doing self study. I was no where near this level when I got on the plane to Japan. I could talk some but I definitely didn't use filler words yet and they demonstrate that you've absorbed the language more I think.

How old were you when you started learning Japanese? Your story sounds inspiring but also a bit more rosy than most people will experience.. certainly more than me but I started studying at age 34. I'm thinking if you start in your teens then things go a lot smoother. I had to open an account at a Bank and I guess you could say it was easy. I walked into the bank wanting to make an account and walked out with a proper bank account. But it pushed my Japanese to its limit more than I had ever had to use it before. They used keigo and a lot of words I probably studied but hadn't sunk in yet and I had to make it work based on the words I did know. I didn't use Google Translate because at the time AI translation sucked (as far as I knew.. this was 2015 or 2016). While I did read some manga as a beginner (hikaru no go in particular) but I didn't make it a focus. I had studied European languages when I was younger and my impression of a French comic book was that it was no better than the dialogues you get from a beginner textbook. Maybe slightly better. But Japanese is a whole different animal and I probably should have read lots of manga instead. It's weird I finally started reading lots of manga after I was able to read light fiction in Japanese. Backwards right? Also, your video also makes me want to go play video games in Japanese. I'm not sure if that's the intended goal... I think you're hoping to inspire people to study Japanese more not play video games per se.

I'm pretty sure my Japanese vocabulary stagnated the day I stopped doing Anki (for Japanese). I still watch anime and read manga once in a while but without daily reviews from Anki there's just no way it's going to get better. And I just don't care enough to do Japanese Anki on top of the Korean vocabulary I'm working on now. I keep hearing how terrible flash cards are and how you should be getting your vocabulary from immersion you would need to be doing some intense immersion to really increase your vocabulary is my subjective impression comparing myself to studying Korean with and without flash cards.

You're only 4 years in...wait until you're 10 years in. Your endurance gets even better. I'm referring to reading Japanese whether you want to or not. I think with latin script languages this isn't really a thing though. Once you get used to them.. it's like reading English. I'm learning Korean and it has the Hangul script and honestly I'm still better at reading Japanese with all the horrible kanji because I spent so many years with it. I specifically chose to study Korean because it had an alphabet. What they don't tell you is that yeah it has an alphabet and there's only 24 letters in it but actually they're used to make syllable blocks not unlike the syllabry used to Japanese/Chinese and of course they cram several letters into each block so that you have to get used to the shapes of not just 24 letters but all the syllable blocks they form. You're not studying Korean. But just in case you were thinking about it this information will be of use to you I'm sure.

The stuff people complain about may just be obsolete. Most of those were commonly discussed 10 years ago already. Also, when I watch videos by people who migrated to my country they're always full of misunderstandings. Depending on the specifics of each individual's situation, some things may br harder and that could lead to overgeneralization.

After 5 years of immersing in English everuday, including being able to understand audio at 2x comfortably, when I got in an environment where I needed to use English all day I did experience the fatigue you refer to, which caught me by surprise. This is an underdiscussed phenomenon.

Get it bro

Really interesting stuff. I think I started ajatt more or less at the same time as you. Although I've "ajatted" to learn Spanish, I find some parts of your journey relatable. Damn, ajatt is such a crazy journey. It has definitely changed my life in a myriad of aspects not just related to language learning. Anyway, It's really great seeing your achievements. Wish you luck with anything you try in the future ;)

This guy FUCKS!

rewatching ur videos and i love the Twice shirt!!!

i love update videos too. helps me keep going.

僕も日本語を勉強してる！この動画は本当にそげー！僕のリスニングとスピーキングは下手で、だから、この動画は嬉しかった。ほとんど全部が分かった。ありがとう！HypotheticalTigerの日本語が嬉しかった！もっと勉強したい！

In regards to difficulty of hearing Pitch Accent, I'm going to dip my toes into Mandarin. Also fun to see my Kanji pals trying new things again. The Core 5000 literally fit onto 2 pages!

Fascinating how you will still get tired after being in Japanese all day. From all the progress updates I’ve seen in the Japanese community and other languages, seems like some people are prone to getting fatigued in a foreign languages while others are not. Hope I’m the ladder once I’m fluent!

If you love thePersona series I think you are really going to love the Trails serirs. I started my playthrough in 2020 staring with Coldsteel 1 and fell in love instantly with the world's charm. I have slowly been working my way to playing one im Japanese haha. Definetly a lot of new words there for me😂 Thanks for this update man! I really like thr boost of motivation I get to continue on. I am visiting Japan in November so I am really excited to hear you enjoy living there.

wow only three people in the world other than me have seen this

This aged well

Go birds

It's great watching this after watching your most recent update!

You say things like "it just makes sense" about foreigners having a hard time getting a credit card, etc, and how you don't know why they "freak out" about it. Sure, it "makes sense" that it's easy for nationals to get credit cards etc., but just look at it from the perspective of someone who wants the credit card for what ever reason(s) they may want it. It's important to them and maybe frustrating. It's okay. Theory of mind.

For beginners, do you recommend learning your first 1k words with the kanji spelling or kana and study kanji separate?

Can you read Kangi… is Genki with an italki tutor a good start?

How do you learn the pronunciation?

Not very original because it's exactly what you said in the video but thanks for inspiring me to go harder at Japanese and start reading in Japanese. Last year I went pretty hard in immersion but solely movies, tv and anime; and from this summer i am starting the process with reading through a 5hr a day Japanese challenge inspired by the channel Livakivi, I would suggest you check them out if you are interested too. :)

君ってほんと頭いいよな。日本語話してる感じ、めっちゃ君らしい。君、言語をどうやって身につけるかっていう没入型のアプローチを実際に示して、それがどういう結果になるかをシェアしてくれたよね。ほんとに参考になったわ。ピッチアクセントちょっと違うところがあるんだけど、ほんと日本語上手く使ってると思うよ。日本人っぽい😄。完璧にするにはもうちょい努力が必要かもだけど、君が言ってたみたいに、外国人としてはそこまで必要ないのかもな。それが君のOKラインって感じか。とにかく、シェアしてくれて、弱み見せてくれてサンキュー。言語の勉強についてちょっと理解深まった。やっぱ🤔、自分の見方や考え方が、どうやって物事進めるか、そしてその結果にかなり影響するんだな。

The GOAT!! Hearing about your new life in Japan was exciting and inspiring. Great and insightful video as always, keep living it up dude.

i am really happy for you ❤

Thanks for the update and congrats on the move! Found you a year ago when I first started and found your progress videos very motivating and relatable (especially regarding taking a break from the language and starting up again), looking forward to your 5 year update :).

Im coming up on 1 year studying Japanese, but maybe only 6 months doing AJATT adjacent studying. I definitely already have the same feeling of getting both the "man my Japanese sucks" and "damn my Japanese is getting so good" on the same day. I just finished my first LN/Novel (the standard また、同じ夢を見ていた recommendation). I kinda wish I enjoyed reading manga in english before starting immersion... I enjoy reading it in Japanese but it's pretty hard to jam it in to my routine. 928 cards mined from anime. 177 day streak on anki, but my anki reviews are SO lazy, I pass most stuff... Thanks for the update as always! I always love watching these since you have a realistic perspective on immersion instead of the typical "IF YOU ENJOY ENGLISH CONTENT YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG" mantra.

How do you look up words on your ps4 if you can’t read the kanji?

Which sharehouse company did you go for (if you don’t mind sharing, obviously not curious of exact location). I’m looking at living in Japan for a year and can’t decide between a large company like oakhouse or go for a smaller company

Congratulations on hitting on the 4 year mark. Just a quick question though, Where there times were you got so burnt out with the Japanese language that you had to take a break and step away from the language? if yes then how long?

Charisma Man Rides Again!

Weeb 🤦‍♂️

Totally feel the whole “being at a point where if you dont feel like looking up words, you dont need to”, I got way too complacent when I got to this point haha, yeah there’s still plenty of words that I dont know, but most times theyre just details so I can just go “ehhhhh cant be bothered” haha

I found you when you put out your 1 year progress (I checked that I did leave a comment there and I was at my week-2 immersion journey!) and I didn't really check your other updates since then but I went on the immersion journey myself and now I am at year 3 myself! looking back, I did achieve a lot of things that I've been dreaming of back then, I passed N1 last year, I started working in Japan since 2 months ago, generally super comfortable with japanese now. and since you said that I might be in some way responsible to help you getting where you are, I also have to say that you also greatly contribute to me arriving to where I am today, so I am truly grateful! and the journey still continues!

Why Japanese? I think French would be a more interesting language to learn

So happy for you and glad to see the update. I posted on the last video about how you inspired me to hop back into things again and you responded which was super cool and really encouraging, just wanted to confirm I've been back at it. I just hit 500 anki cards in my deck, it's not great but it's my first exciting milestone. Started reading a volume of manga I've had sitting for years and the first few pages took 1-2 weeks. Now I'm zooming through 5-11 pages per sitting. It's really encouraging to feel the difference. Thanks for the inspiration and am really hoping for continued updates. Hoping for your continued success!

26:00 I just moved January this year and I can totally relate. Except i follow more music and idols rather than anime events. Everytime they tweeted some event going on i would always feel sad because i was in America. Now I live here and it feels so good to be able to join the events

where do you read the manga in japanese? Do you buy physical copies since you're in Japan, or is there somewhere you read them online?

いいね😊

New peak just dropped.

It would be interesting if you did an output video

Thanks man I really enjoy hearing your insights and your journey!

As always, love the video. From last year you mentioned you were big chilling playing games in Japanese and that's where I'm at (my own 3 year mark). it feels great, when there is a word I don't know I'm just like "Whatever" I don't worry about it. I can't believe its been another year! Your videos inspire me, I'll never live in Japan but I'm happy to call myself bilingual. No matter the gaps in my knowledge, as you say, other people would call me that so it's okay if I do it. I definitely agree with you. I'll be visiting Japan for the first time next year, so that will be fun. :)

out of the blue... inspiring content ;)