I did exactly this. Starting from zero I studied for 3 months before going on my first holiday to Japan. It paid off as I could speak at the level of a very young child and communicate with people who spoke no English for extended periods of time. I didn't use this method though. I just used anki on the first 1000 words, read Tae Kim's grammar guide, and binged a bunch of beginner podcasts.
@@NaturalLanguageLearning You're right probably. But there is no 1-1 transferability, e.g. depending on the context one must use different words for "you", it's not just "du/sie/вы/ты/tu/vous/voce" type of thing, depending on age + relation to the adressant it's a different word. Ok, maybe I should just remove perfectionism and start. Which first 5 word islands should I start with ? Thx
Yeah perfectionism will slow you down. Focus on learning lots of words and sentences first, even if it's not perfect. Together with pronunciation, it'll allow you to understand and speak relatively early and continuing to learn will become much easier. You can correct your mistakes later.
👍your approach to exploring new methods is very inspiring. Sometimes, I get stuck in old ways while expecting a different outcome. It's really hard to overcome old habits and let go of outdated beliefs. This serves as a good reminder for me to stay alert and self-aware. Your pronunciation is surprisingly good for a beginner. It's a bit mechanical but understandable, likely due to mimicry from TTS. A small hint: geminate consonants and long vowels are important in Japanese. Words with and without them can have different meanings, so it's worth paying extra attention to those. One question: I notice you often use basic singular sentences as examples to showcase your method. While this may not pose much of a problem at the beginning, in Japanese, 90% of the grammar revolves around verb conjugations in compound sentences, such as "and," "if," "as soon as," "before," "after," etc. At what stage do you plan to move into these areas?
Pronunciation is surprisingly good because of focusing on listening and trying to mimic instead of reading. Do it with +1,000 sentences a day and you learn pronunciation fast. I use mostly short and simple sentences because I just started. Months 2 and 3 it'll be a different story.
@@NaturalLanguageLearning Awesome🤓. For the moment😅, I kinda feel nervous for you. It's gonna be an intelectual challenge ahead to figure things out when culture plays a part in language usage. I'll try to be patient😌.
@@NaturalLanguageLearning I can speak English, Japanese, Spanish, French, and German. I am currently learning Russian. Chinese is my native tongue, and I’m currently in China. TBH, I feel like I can only effectively communicate in English, as I think in it and consume content in it 24/7.
I use Google Translate. Maybe not super accurate but good enough as reference, it's not super important because I focus on listening more than reading, but it helps. I can show how I do it in the next video.
I did exactly this. Starting from zero I studied for 3 months before going on my first holiday to Japan. It paid off as I could speak at the level of a very young child and communicate with people who spoke no English for extended periods of time. I didn't use this method though. I just used anki on the first 1000 words, read Tae Kim's grammar guide, and binged a bunch of beginner podcasts.
This is is amazing what you’re doing!! Keep it up brother ✊🏽🔥
Nice video. I was just writing down my own vocab and sentences into an excel sheet as well.
Let's go!
Niiice... I'm trying to get doing the same for Thai now. But looks like I need to learn reading / writing first + proper tones
Why reading and writing first? Why not just do it phonetically with text-to-speech?
@@NaturalLanguageLearning You're right probably. But there is no 1-1 transferability, e.g. depending on the context one must use different words for "you", it's not just "du/sie/вы/ты/tu/vous/voce" type of thing, depending on age + relation to the adressant it's a different word. Ok, maybe I should just remove perfectionism and start. Which first 5 word islands should I start with ? Thx
I have this tendency of perfectionism, too. It's like addiction.😂🤝
Yeah perfectionism will slow you down. Focus on learning lots of words and sentences first, even if it's not perfect. Together with pronunciation, it'll allow you to understand and speak relatively early and continuing to learn will become much easier. You can correct your mistakes later.
@@NaturalLanguageLearning Thanks
👍your approach to exploring new methods is very inspiring. Sometimes, I get stuck in old ways while expecting a different outcome. It's really hard to overcome old habits and let go of outdated beliefs. This serves as a good reminder for me to stay alert and self-aware.
Your pronunciation is surprisingly good for a beginner. It's a bit mechanical but understandable, likely due to mimicry from TTS. A small hint: geminate consonants and long vowels are important in Japanese. Words with and without them can have different meanings, so it's worth paying extra attention to those.
One question: I notice you often use basic singular sentences as examples to showcase your method. While this may not pose much of a problem at the beginning, in Japanese, 90% of the grammar revolves around verb conjugations in compound sentences, such as "and," "if," "as soon as," "before," "after," etc. At what stage do you plan to move into these areas?
Pronunciation is surprisingly good because of focusing on listening and trying to mimic instead of reading. Do it with +1,000 sentences a day and you learn pronunciation fast. I use mostly short and simple sentences because I just started. Months 2 and 3 it'll be a different story.
@@NaturalLanguageLearning Awesome🤓. For the moment😅, I kinda feel nervous for you. It's gonna be an intelectual challenge ahead to figure things out when culture plays a part in language usage. I'll try to be patient😌.
Where are you from and which languages do you speak?
@@NaturalLanguageLearning I can speak English, Japanese, Spanish, French, and German. I am currently learning Russian. Chinese is my native tongue, and I’m currently in China. TBH, I feel like I can only effectively communicate in English, as I think in it and consume content in it 24/7.
Mikel The Hyperpolyglot VS. Matt vs Japan.... Let us watch the results
VS? In a ring? Octagon? Rap battle? Debate..?
@@NaturalLanguageLearning Any of these would be cool! >D
Where are you finding the Japanese written out in Roman letters?
I think he makes them himself.
Look up Japanese to Romaji converter or just ask ChatGPT to convert your sentences to Romaji
There are many converters online such as RomajiDesu or NihongoDera that will do the conversion to Japanese to Romanji.
I use Google Translate. Maybe not super accurate but good enough as reference, it's not super important because I focus on listening more than reading, but it helps.
I can show how I do it in the next video.
At this stage, are you already doing active recall from English into Japanese (target language) or only from Japanese to English?
Not yet, only memorisation of vocab and shadowing.
How will you learn the output itself? Will you do separate exercises specifically for the output? if so, using same sentences? or simpler ones?
In one of the videos u said u where going to give the study material away for free while u are doing this challenge. How do I get the material?
There should be alink in the description.
What do you use to put the text into audio?
TTSMaker or similar text to speech software