This is perhaps the greatest method you can have in your arsenal when it comes to language learning. The ability to recall and say things in real time is ultimately the goal of learning a language in the end.
I do something similar except I go on websites like Fiverr and get natives to do the translations to a natural equivalent of the sentences. Google Translate is not going to give you accurate enough answers in this automated way. At best it will give you clumsy, direct translations that are likely not what the natives of a particular country would say. It may be a bit more accurate for Romance and GGermaic languages, but I doubt it does a very good job with a language like Japanese.
I'm a native English speaker a proficient speaker of Japanese having learned it over several years. I think this method has benefits for those just starting because you can get familiar with vocabulary and sentence structure using expressions you actually want to be able to say. In the beginning, I think some amount of simple repetition and memorisation helps. However, I am highly sceptical about this method for many reasons. One is that it is clearly not helpful for pronunciation unless you somehow have native voice recordings for each sentence. There's no point copying google translate's computer voice. Chat GPT is better but actually frequently misreads kanji and currently uses a voice with an unusual north American accent. My point is that AI is still not accurate or natural at reading kanji enough to merit copying it. That said, it's better than nothing. Also, from what is shown in this video, if you actually memorize sentences and expect to regurgitate them in natural conversation, you may be able to get your point across but don't expect to sound natural. Examples in this video are any sentence starting with 私は... because you should omit it when it's known to be about yourself. TLDR I think this is ok for absolute beginners but don't expect to get even to conversational fluency using this
What I really struggle to understand is where the step "learn words with mnemonics first" comes in? Do you FIRST do e.g. 1000 words using exclusively mnemonics - without any sentences, just "word + mnemonic" ? Or do you just start out with these language islands (1000s of phrases without mnemonics) right away? Thanks !
Language Islands vs memorizing vocabulary using mnemonics, which should I do ?If I have to pick one ( or at least the first thing). Thank you for your videos !
@@Ablofluido SO skip the vocabulary part and focus on sentences alone? my initial plan was to memorize a bunch of words and then go to islands once i had a couple of thousand words under my belt. do you think it is less efficient ?
@@abdulrahimanpalakkal5377 For me personally it's much easier to learn lots of vocabulary and then do the language islands. I think it depends on your goals. Do you want basic conversation or to reach a high level? If you want to get to a high level, you'll have to do both eventually.
@@TheFiestyhick I agree to some extent, but as someone who learned over 8k Polish words in 3 months in just a couple hours a day a few years ago, I definitely believe one could get very very decent in pretty much any language even in 3 months with enough dedication. Maybe I should try with Chinese or Japanese and put it on YT. The only problem I have with Mikel is that he's too scatterbrained and doesn't follow up on the challenges he takes on (he's dropped the Swedish & Japanese ones among others), which doesn't help his credibility. He has the right techniques but seems to constantly change his mind about his exact methodology. He also doesn't use Anki properly or consistently, which defeats the purpose. So in the end it almost looks like he stumbled upon the right techniques by chance and doesn't know how to package them lol. I don't know if you see what I mean.
Did he actually drop the Japanese challenge? Has he posted that somewhere, or did he simply stop making updates every few days? I hope he's still doing it in the background and plans on making the final 3 month update at the end of December.
This is perhaps the greatest method you can have in your arsenal when it comes to language learning. The ability to recall and say things in real time is ultimately the goal of learning a language in the end.
I do something similar except I go on websites like Fiverr and get natives to do the translations to a natural equivalent of the sentences. Google Translate is not going to give you accurate enough answers in this automated way. At best it will give you clumsy, direct translations that are likely not what the natives of a particular country would say. It may be a bit more accurate for Romance and GGermaic languages, but I doubt it does a very good job with a language like Japanese.
I'm a native English speaker a proficient speaker of Japanese having learned it over several years. I think this method has benefits for those just starting because you can get familiar with vocabulary and sentence structure using expressions you actually want to be able to say. In the beginning, I think some amount of simple repetition and memorisation helps.
However, I am highly sceptical about this method for many reasons. One is that it is clearly not helpful for pronunciation unless you somehow have native voice recordings for each sentence. There's no point copying google translate's computer voice. Chat GPT is better but actually frequently misreads kanji and currently uses a voice with an unusual north American accent. My point is that AI is still not accurate or natural at reading kanji enough to merit copying it. That said, it's better than nothing.
Also, from what is shown in this video, if you actually memorize sentences and expect to regurgitate them in natural conversation, you may be able to get your point across but don't expect to sound natural. Examples in this video are any sentence starting with 私は... because you should omit it when it's known to be about yourself.
TLDR I think this is ok for absolute beginners but don't expect to get even to conversational fluency using this
How do I divorce him? My level is B1/A2 in French and I understand well(CO), but when I speak I make mistakes strange . What is the solution?
What I really struggle to understand is where the step "learn words with mnemonics first" comes in?
Do you FIRST do e.g. 1000 words using exclusively mnemonics - without any sentences, just "word + mnemonic" ?
Or do you just start out with these language islands (1000s of phrases without mnemonics) right away?
Thanks !
Your pronunciation has improved a lot since your last update.
Language Islands vs memorizing vocabulary using mnemonics, which should I do ?If I have to pick one ( or at least the first thing). Thank you for your videos !
It's both, create the language islands and use mnemonics to memorise them.
@@Ablofluido SO skip the vocabulary part and focus on sentences alone? my initial plan was to memorize a bunch of words and then go to islands once i had a couple of thousand words under my belt. do you think it is less efficient ?
@@abdulrahimanpalakkal5377 For me personally it's much easier to learn lots of vocabulary and then do the language islands. I think it depends on your goals. Do you want basic conversation or to reach a high level?
If you want to get to a high level, you'll have to do both eventually.
What is a good txt-to-speech software?
Natural reader is what I use on Android.
The only thing I would do differently is not use the romanji with Japanese. I just learned to read the kanji directly.
Mikel is 5 the optimal number in your experience for shadowing?
How do you like Japanese on glossika?
You should reply to the Elvidea guy who made a video about you, I think it would make great content
@@TheFiestyhick I agree to some extent, but as someone who learned over 8k Polish words in 3 months in just a couple hours a day a few years ago, I definitely believe one could get very very decent in pretty much any language even in 3 months with enough dedication. Maybe I should try with Chinese or Japanese and put it on YT. The only problem I have with Mikel is that he's too scatterbrained and doesn't follow up on the challenges he takes on (he's dropped the Swedish & Japanese ones among others), which doesn't help his credibility. He has the right techniques but seems to constantly change his mind about his exact methodology. He also doesn't use Anki properly or consistently, which defeats the purpose.
So in the end it almost looks like he stumbled upon the right techniques by chance and doesn't know how to package them lol. I don't know if you see what I mean.
Did he actually drop the Japanese challenge? Has he posted that somewhere, or did he simply stop making updates every few days?
I hope he's still doing it in the background and plans on making the final 3 month update at the end of December.
@BERRUEZA it's possible he stopped updates only and he'll still display fluency for us in Japanese soon.
Hope he will do so
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