To add to my method (The Dragonite Case Lol), You may sound a bit textbook or 'unnatural' in some cases, but if you are like me and you really don't care, that could be good for you. This is the best approach for people with multiple interests outside of speaking languages though, As you may not physically have the time to take the other approaches. Anyways Happy Practicing!
I am trying to get into learning Japanese, would you recommend Anki, to get to know the words and up my vocabulary on Japanse? After this use chatgtp to get sentences and watch shows/anime? As I am trying to get into it, I am noticing I am a bit lost
4 months ago ı started learning japanese rigth after watching your video and ı have seen a great improvement ı just wana say thank you keep up the great work
you knows what crazy. i was here in your comment section few months back (0 words down and just hiragana katakana), and now I can understand the almost the whole japanese segment at the start! took your advice, finishing core 6,000 anki deck day after tomorrow. In 147 days. N1 in july, ill keep you updated.
音楽聴きながら、日本語勉強のアドバイスを聞いて、とっても幸せな感じが与えられた。これは本当に、音楽のスキルを正い使い方ね、自分のTH-cam動画に使う、copyrightの悩みが全然ない！俺が自分で音楽もう作りたい、それ見たら、本当に、いっぱいやり気がある。w music bro fr, sorry japanese grammar not all there yet
@ i am american born chinese so i have half the Chinese buff. also I am doing study abroad in japan, so Im committing 13-15 hours a day learning Japanese xD
I always appreciate hearing your mindset Vaughn. It’s very motivating. Also when you told the viewers not to activate their Domain Expansion in the middle of a restaurant, I just could not stop laughing for some reason.
You were so good at verbalising why we shouldn't avoid discomfort in language learning. I would also compare choosing the difficult path when learning a language to shounen protagonists in anime seeking out opponents stronger than themselves. (Goku vs Vegeta, Gon vs Hisoka, Sung Jin Woo vs Igris, Tanjiro vs Gyutaro etc) Even if they lose, they gain insights into their weaknesses and are forced to break out of habits that might be hindering their growth. Facing tougher challenges exposes them to new techniques and perspectives, serving as both motivation (a milestone to reach) and a catalyst for self-improvement. Similarly, when we push ourselves with harder language methods, we grow in ways we wouldn't if we stayed in our comfort zone of familiar material. It’s tough, but 99.9% of the time, it works.
Really good point! I didn’t even think about that. I think the most freeing thing is when you aren’t afraid to make mistakes and grow from them. much like those characters. So that makes a lot of sense 👌
Heading back to Japan in a few weeks and I’ve been trying my best to improve my spoken Japanese so I can better connect with friends I made last year. I always understand them but I couldn’t put my own words together unless it was really simple lol. Been doing a lot of the things you mentioned in previous vids and I’ve been seeing very noticeable improvements. Thanks for all your hard work!
Awesome, and yeah that’s totally normal. I think the gap between understanding more than you can speak is always there tbh Lol. But Just practicing putting those ideas together is all you need. One day it will be a simple thought process.
I spent the beginning 6 months or year or so of Japanese study just looking up and breaking down all of the language in content I liked, and spending some time just straight up listening a lot. I literally would spend time each day pausing on every sentence of something I was watching and working until I understood it, and making anki cards out of every unknown word along the way. The first 3 months were the most painful part. Speaking started to come to me naturally after that consumption of the language period, albeit with all the struggles you mentioned, but now since I understand most things aside from specific or very challenging higher level topics, even if not on first listen, the more and more I listen and read the more I find I'm able to produce later. What's really fun is when there's something you don't know how to say and you finally hear someone express it. It's super satisfying and then you can practice it and use it right away. I agree with what you said about Anki too. The important thing is that it just makes those words stand out to you in the wild; not to get them right every time. Let them automatically turn into suspended leeches when they do and don't worry about them. When you next see the card in real life you can un-suspend it then if you want to. Also one thing that's very important is to just pass the card if you already saw it once that day even if you couldn't remember it again. Also if you keep forgetting a card after seeing it a million times, it's probably better to just pass it unless the next review would be over a month later. If a card is familiar to me but I can't remember it during review, I just pass it anyway. Often times you remember it in actual context anyway and anki is just there to get you to that point, not to be where you learn the words. In my opinion the more time you spend in anki per day over maybe half an hour starts to hurt more than it helps. I use the auto advance feature nowadays so I'm not spending more than a handful of seconds trying to struggle through a card. It takes time to realize that it works. Trust it. I'm kinda in that realm right now where I can usually find some way to communicate what I want to, but I'm working on noting the more natural ways of saying them as I come across them. That was usually my struggle when I tried to speak earlier on is I just didn't have the words yet, and often times they aren't things you can just look up and find out easily. In my experience you just have to consume as much of the language as possible until those things just come to you. I've taken a liking to reading lately because it's where I encounter more challenging language, and simply just more of the language at a faster pace, and it helps me become more eloquent, and at this level reading doesn't give me an actual headache anymore since it's a lot easier now. I also like to try to speak and summarize what I read later. I also naturally write a lot cause I'm online a lot, and I spend most of my time in Japanese spaces. I wrote Japanese for an hour today just because I had things I wanted to say to a Japanese person, and after some point I felt like this is how I just started improving without doing as much active effort. The language became part of my life so now the progress is steady. I haven't really put strict time into sounding native at all, I just took note of the concepts of accent and pitch early on and keep them in mind as I go and shadow people sometimes too, as you said you did with the smash bros creator. I also find, in general, it helps both my listening and speaking if I try to just repeat what I just heard people say in my head as I'm listening at full speed. I just love that when I settle into using the language I don't find myself having to think of English when I need or want to use Japanese and that the language feels familiar all around now even if there's still a lot I don't know. The more time goes on the less often I have those times where I feel completely lost in what I want to say, or if I do have them, they're shorter because I can say words around it to get the point across and learn a more natural way afterwards. All of that is more fun and more important than trying to get rid of accent I'm naturally going to have to some degree no matter what anyway. I'm somewhat comfortable calling myself fluent at this point, because I don't think about the fact I'm speaking another language when I do it now and I don't think in English when I use it, even if there are lots of things I still don't know how to say properly. But hey, I don't know everything in English either. I especially didn't when I was a kid, but I was still "fluent". My teacher with whom I only have lessons in Japanese called my Japanese ペラペラ far before I felt comfortable thinking that too so, it is what it is I guess. I love video games too. I credit a lot of what I know in life and the fact I even know some Japanese to them too. But yeah, now there are so many other things I love doing and want to do so they come before video games and I don't get to play them as much as I want to lately.
Your first part is actually a prelude of my 'Understanding Japanese at Native Speed' video, the detailed pausing rewinding and understanding process. Almost exactly that Lol. And really good insight overall. I think a lot of people (if they read it) can get some good ideas into a less robotic approach like mine, but also a demanding and useful approach. Especially actively consuming a lot while being aware of it. I tend to find THAT, deliberate practice, and letting go of perfection, is what makes all the difference.
@@vaughngene That's funny, and pretty cool. I remember you talking about making the video for understanding at native speed. I completely agree on those last points of deliberate practice and letting go of perfection as well. Good talk, as always. Thank you for reading it, too. It's really good that we have so many resources that make looking things up easier nowadays, too. That definitely helped me a ton. The people who did it a long time ago had a much naturally slower and more grueling time for sure. Speaking of, about to go back to listening and reading practice after just getting done with a food break.
Nice video man! The "review hill" you talked about is definitely something I have to apply to my day to day learning. Being kind of a perfectionist myself, I always find it hard to move on from something i feel I haven't mastered yet. Even though I acknowledge it, it takes concious effort for me to actually move on from something I'm partially good at. And just to give my 2 cents about trying difficult methods: On some days I like the challenge, and on trying hard stuff is where I think i really get better at a certain skill. But I think it's important to have "chill" days where I take a step back and do something easier, partially to reassure myself and to allow me some rest. Bringing it to my field (which right now is training for my first marathon), I like to have some days of just going out and just enjoy running without any pressure about my rythm/km goal.
Yeah it's a constant battle for sure. Especially in Language (mainly Japanese) where a lot of people push the obsession of sounding very natural. It's not that deep, however you will have to fight that battle a lot. And yeah I agree! I'm definitely all about rest and such. I just don't want people to get caught up in the ideas that get pushed on TH-cam these days (probably out of fear that people will unsub), but I agree for sure. Rest is key. Probably should have said that myself but I tend to forget simple things Lol
Hey brother I just want to say thank you so much for the good content you upload. I currently serve in the US Army and just came back from being in Korea for a year and have absolutely loved the country, I did not learn the language when I was there and definitely regret it. now I am learning it and hopes to live there after serving. It has been about two weeks doing some deep work studying and yeah it gets frustrating at times because I usually get stuck on the amount of words to study, proper grammar rules and what not. I know you mentioned something about option paralysis in one of your videos and I only stick to channels like you and hailey your korean friend to help me learn. So I just want to say thanks for the helpful content, my goal is to attain the fluency levels like you did in Japanese, and shit maybe learn Japanese too while I am at it. Look forward to more stuff
Nice! Good to see you’re making progress. And yeah some people mistakes useable fluency for “perfect”, but fail to realize just how many mistakes we make in our own Native Langauge. Picking up Japanese after Korean won’t be too strange at all since it follows the same format sort of. Many of the words overlap too.
@@vaughngene oh snap man thanks for the reply! and while you're here i guess i can finally ask lol, im assuming you used anki decks to hammer in the vocabulary in your mind?
@ yep, I actually have an Anki Deck linked in the previous Japanese video where I talk about the toxic language community in Japanese. I’ll probably link it here too though for easy access now that you brought it up.
as of last week I came to the conclusion that I'll be moving to Japan in about a year, and was a little nervous that I wouldn't know anything useful other than basic phrases; cause duolingo aint doing it for me🤣. but this gives me hope! I will do my best and grind it out for a year so I don't need to worry about the language barrier in a foreign country as much. ima stay tapped in for any additional advice you might post. godspeed brotha
Yeah I’m not a big fan of Duolingo in the slightest Lol, But that’s cool to hear! As long as you focus on practical things you won’t have much of a problem adjusting there. You can get a LOT done in a year too.
I used many methods with textbooks too but I saw your video where you said first grammar then memorize the words that's the best as far I've seen to understand and speak fast 100% effective , thanks !
Glad it helps! I place high value on practicality so my methods seem a bit odd, but they are the fastest from all the things I've ever tried. Good to see it's helping others.
As someone who learned to be at a conversational level outside Japan without Anki, I can't agree with the premise of learning words in isolation. But aside from that, mad props to you for actually using Japanese to express such full ideas. I've mostly focused on input slowly over the last 10 years, but coming across videos of people practicing their output inspires me to do the same.
Nice!, And yeah I don't think my way is 'more superior' , it's just fast and practical to get you to the next step. My experience with doing both in different languages is that at least. But more important than the method is actually doing something, so well done!
Thanks for the answer on the intermediate level hump! Its the simple truth despite that road not being so simple to traverse. But, you gotta do it. Thanks again!
Yeah that’s really it tbh Lol. I try to emphasize how tough it is so everyone knows what they are getting into. Making Japanese work subconsciously is a LOT of work, but it’s 100% doable.
Back in junior high school, I ended up reading a book that was much more mature and difficult than I was used to. After going through that book, I was reading the assigned readings at twice or thrice the speed I was reading before, because it did become easier. It's true, achieve hard stuff first and then it's easier to achieve the more basic level stuff. Another example for me is latch hooking. My first completed project was one on the roughest levels (colors be looking alike), but I chose it because I loved it. I'm still very proud of that rug and it'll probably follow me everywhere until I die or give it to someone. Unless something disastrous happens XD.
Nice Lol, it’s a tough task to do those things, but like you said, you really do realize how much easier the normal stuff is after that. And like your case, Sometimes the thing you REALLY want to tackle is the thing that is also difficult, So no use in trying to escape Lol.
Fluency comes in different forms, IMO if you’re able to convey meaning in a variety of situations smoothly in said language then you’ve hit a degree of fluency. If you use CEFR as a scale, your fluency is less about how “correct” you are and more about the amount of complex ideas you can convey while having others understand you (and while you understand others). So yeah maybe his Japanese isn’t perfect but it seems to me he can convey his ideas well. Maybe in between B1 and B2
@@kimchi2093 the guy you are replying to is hidden now , but yeah people take these terms way out of context . I dislike the word “fluent” but I use it in its dictionary sense in terms of conveying ideas. It bothers people for whatever reason that I’m not perfect or very natural. But oh well. (Edit: He was comment spamming all over the place, rather than just voicing an opinion, so I gotta block those guys sadly. Don't want to but I have to.)
I've been staying consistent with my Japanese learning for 2 months now, and I was able to pick up some of the words you used. I've only started reading and listening in my TL, but I've been learning words in context and memorizing some of the kanji used (I learned to read hiragana and katakana at the beginning). I would consider myself a Charizard, since I've been practicing my pitch and accent (my native language sounds vowels similarly to japanese so it's not difficult for me) as well as the kanji. I'd recommend learning it with the vocab if your goal is to read japanese as well, but I'm not stressed out about it too much.
Nice! Good to see you have some progress going. I think that approach is a solid one for sure, where my approach may be a bit more on the extreme end Lol. Keep it up!
I would be curious about your journey to Japan. It doesn't need to be in depth but it is always cool/insightful to see how someone or why someone came to be who they are.
Thank you for your inspiring content. Your previous videos already motivated me a lot. Unfortunately, the Japanese parts are not accessible for blind people since even though we have screenreaders with TTS and Braille displays which convert screen text for us, they can't capture subtitles which you might have added. If anyone here knows a solution for that case that could make this content accessible, feel free to reach out. But as for your English parts, I enjoy and appreciate listening to you a lot.
I didn’t think about that, thanks for bringing it up!, I can figure something out quite soon. If anything I can put the whole transcript in the description box maybe? Or record the voice part in English and attach it somewhere? Or make a PDF link?🤔 I’m gonna do some research.
I'm back, Still figuring that out. However here is the entire Japanese part in English incase you are able to TTS This. - Part 1, Inconsistency Comes From Not Seeing Results. Firstly, one of the most important reasons to choose a more difficult path when learning something, is because you will see results a LOT faster that way. I notice, we often quit on things because there is no feedback soon enough. For example, you start learning a language, but after a few weeks or months of studying, you still can’t use the language in any way. This is discouraging, and I think it’s the reason that many of us quit on things. It doesn’t help that TH-cam has become a place where almost everything is clickbait and promises ‘fast and easy’. So as a result of not seeing results, many of us tend to believe that we are lazy. We aren’t lazy, we are often just misled by false promises. You may find that when you do things the difficult way, you will be able to stick to them better because you will have very fast feedback. Just something to think about. - Part 2, Difficult paths make normal things feel easier. Doing things in a difficult way has another advantage: other things will start to feel quite easy. For example, right now, I’m speaking in front of the camera in a foreign language. This is difficult even in my native language. However, thanks to being able to do this in Japanese, it feels easy to have regular conversations with native speakers. Even when topics become complex, I feel that I can understand just as I would in English. This way of thinking can be applied to many things. For example, if you can learn to play difficult songs on guitar or piano, everything else feels much easier. - Part 3, You Save Time. Doing things the difficult way saves you a lot of time. You know, when I tell people that I learned to speak and understand most Japanese in about six months, they often dismiss it by saying, "That can't be true because it took me years." This is an example of the ‘Anecdotal Fallacy’, where they use their own personal experience to reject mine, without considering the differences in learning methods or effort. I bring this up to say, be open to difficult methods regardless of your past experiences. You’ll be shocked at how much time you can save by doing this. - Part 4, The Discomfort Timeline. There’s also a concept I call the ‘Discomfort Timeline’. This basically means that to reach a certain level, you have to go through a certain amount of discomfort. You can either stretch that out over the course of several years or pack it all into a short amount of time. The first option leads many people to quit. The second option, though harder, makes you maximize the time you have so you can do other things. If you only have 1 hour to study a language every day, you might as well make the most of that hour. - English Start from this point on.
Yo Vaughn, ever since finding your channel I've found myself being a lot more conscious about trying to manage my 'interests' as I am someone who has always struggled with that 'too many interests' issue. I don't know if this is something you could give me advice on and apologies this is a long ass comment. I generally struggle with consistency, for the longest time my no. 1 priority has been to workout consistently in order to achieve my dream physique, I've been generally on and off for a long time and I would say I'm still in the 'beginner' phase as I've never been consistent long enough to actually get all those newbie gains. In this regard, I'm currently working on fixing my sleep schedule because I feel that is the main impediment to my consistency. I'm going for a 3-day full body split, and this is where I think 'okay, on the days when I don't have a workout, I could be pursuing one of my other interests.' There's three other interests that 'pull' at me, and those are language (I have studied Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin, to varying degrees lol, Japanese because I'm a weeb, the other two because of my job), music, and starting a TH-cam channel. (Honestly, I can say TH-cam channel is my second highest priority after gym, my channel idea generally hovers around covering RPGs & fantasy/sci fi content.) My job is gonna have me getting posted to another country in the near future, which is why I feel like holding off on committing myself to language learning fully until that happens. (Because, I could study Japanese but then they send me to Italy or something lol). As for music, always been a huge music nerd, especially over OSTs from video games, anime, series, etc. My favorite 'classical' instrument is hands down the cello, but I also have a thing for a bunch of more obscure instruments, my favorite is the duduk, an Armenian flute-like instrument. As for TH-cam, this one I feel is interesting because it's not exactly like the other ones where it's a 'skill' that you sit down and practice but more like a hobby/side gig. I suppose in this case the 'sitting down and doing the thing' would be working on my video idea docs. Aside from my gaming/RPG focused channel idea, I can imagine myself absolutely loving having a music cover channel were I to learn one of those instruments I mentioned. (No reason I can't do both down the line imo.) I know this is a crazy ramble, but I hope this shows how myself (and I'm sure many of your viewers) deal with this same issue of being passionate about doing multiple unrelated things. If you read this, thanks a lot, love your content, and even if you don't have much to say in response that's totally okay, but I'd value any kind of feedback from you. :D
I don't think it's a huge issue, but it sounds like you are thinking way too far ahead throughout the day. One of the most important aspects to not drive yourself crazy is to FORCE yourself to take things one day at a time. You can have an idea of the future and plans and all, but you literally have zero control over that. What you do have control over is the moment/day, maybe even the next 2 days. but that's about it. As long as you use your energy to remove unnecessary things from your life, let the other stuff fall into place. this is going to be more difficult if you are a logic based person by the way (Like myself), but that's my two cents in a nutshell. One (or maybe two) days at a time.
Hey man, I appreciate your insights. I've been inputting for way too long without outputting, but have found the drive to keep learning. By isolation what do you mean in anki? What do you consider a card worth suspending, like knowing the Kunyomi and meaning only? In terms of difficult input and finding a person to emulate, my favorite podcast is Coten Radio, with the voice and style I like the most being Higuchi Kiyonori. Their content is beyond my level, but I listen to them and other for hours a day. How do you feel about relatively incomprehensible input? Perhaps it's best to dissect some of their transcript and speaking? Lots of questions, would appreciate your insight. Keep jamming! ありがとう。
I would say once you can hear the word and somewhat recognize it (maybe it takes you a few seconds or so, that’s okay), By isolation I mean JUST that word, not hearing it in a sentence. I considering being able to hear it out loud and recognize it as okay, however this is based on listening and speaking being a main priority. Not reading and writing. And yeah that will be the next video. Incomprehensible input is an AMAZING tool imo, it just involves looking up everything you don’t now in order to make it comprehensible. But I’ll go over exactly how I do it in the next one!
Thank you for the amazing tips and inspiration!! So I'm assuming you get lots of templates of Japanese sentences from the input (reading and listening) and the sentence mining. But, do I need to learn and practice the most conjugation rules simultaneously to speed up the process? Or Just doing retrieval practice and sentence mining as you mentioned is enough for learning the conjugation rules. I've watched your previous video and remembered you suggested learning the basic conjugation rules, but I'm still confusing this part😢
Yeah exactly that, sentences and retrieval. If grammar confuses you, just look it up when you need it while studying a sentence. And then get back to sentence practice. (Chat GPT is actually really good at breaking down grammar), The grammar will stick in a natural way overtime as you practice.
I agree with you completely on the first point and on stressing over prosody in a target language. Ive found that if you spend so much time studying stuff you mostly understand already will get you nowhere fast, and that something like perfect pitch in Japanese is exactly like learning how to write kanji; you ought to learn generally good or solid pronunciation, just like how you need to learn to at least read the characters, but the perfect accent/learning how to write characters is something you can do later on if you want to, but its completely unnecessary overall
Yeah for sure. I am definitely bit more on the extreme side of practicality (which definitely comes with backlash from the Japanese language learning community Lol) But as long as people can be aware of 'false' progress then I think anyone can make significant progress like you mentioned.
30 hiragana down. I plan on finishing the rest tomorrow. Then onto katakana Edit: 40 down, gonna do the rest tomorrow. dont wanna overstimulate my brain and forget it tomorrow
Another tip for Anki that’s been working for me is to move the retention rate setting down from .90 to .85. It nearly doubles the time interval before you see a card again, so your reviews will significantly decrease and the cards will mature at a more manageable pace.
Nice! 👌 just be aware that N Levels don’t directly translate to usability in speech and understanding. But as long as you are aware, you can pursue both just fine!
Hey Vaughn Gene. I will start learning Japanese soon and I was inspired by your video called “Fluent In Japanese FAST. How I Did it. 100% Self Taught”. For your first suggestion, about learning 2000-4000 most common vocabulary words, I was wondering what you used to do it. Was there a specific SRS that you used? Would you recommend the Core 2k/6k Anki deck? And would you recommend 20 new words a day (I think you mentioned that amount per day in your video)? I was also wondering, when you were working on your listening comprehension (actively trying to improve it specifically), how long was each audio and how long did you work with a particular audio for? Was there a certain amount of audios that you worked with at a given time (I assume you didn’t listen to only one at one time) and a certain amount of reps for each?
I believe that’s the same I linked in the second video I made so yeah! Definitely go for that one! As far as how many per day… I say just max out and treat each day as its own. (I would reference my Goal Setting Video actually for 3 different approaches on that). And same answer for the input actually. I tend to treat each day as its own depending on my life at the time. But the Goal Setting Video will clear up a lot of that for you. But in a nutshell as long as you as practicing, you will improve. Just try not to overthink it.
What is your opinion on a silence period? Practice and repetition will allow you to speak Japanese coherently, but do you think there is a benefit of taking a couple months or so to immerse in Japanese speech (via all forms of media) to get a grasp on the rhythm and cadence of Japanese before speaking the langue? I was recommended this approach from another TH-camr, but they also suggested if you really want to speak right away, it is best you make sure you are saying words and sentences correctly. I have a lot of time to practice speech, but Im not sure if it will be beneficial to take a silent period and listen or just to practice speech right away. Thank you for the video, it is extremely motivating 🔥
I think both are fine! But it depends on your goals and how soon you want them. If you don’t care much about speed, then you probably would benefit from a bit more input, or that “silent period”, so you can say things more naturally and whatnot. However don’t confuse early speech with poor speech. I’m not a good example Lol, but there are a lot of people I know in Japan who spoke from day one, and they sound amazing with excellent accent and all. But if you aren’t on the super practical side like I am. I’d say a silent period would be pretty good!
Software Engineering! The only reason I did it was for time and money. Got both. Highly recommend it for any multi-passionate person. Or some sort of digital skill in general if it's not that.
Im jealous Lol, It was (and still is) such an odd order to me, but I enjoy it! As an aside, Turkish sounds so cool. I know some basic vocab but that’s about it.
I've been doing Japanese for just shy of two months and I feel frustrated for sure. I've got all my Hiragana and Katakana and am just about done level 4 in WaniKani. I'm just starting to go through CureDolly's videos and starting to do immersion... but my comprehension is almost zero. 🤣 I get it's a long term process and not to focus so much on explicit goals, but I sure want to have some level of comprehension for even level 0 graded readers!
Reference my first Japanese video. Vocab and Input is going to be useful for building confidence in the language fast. Writing can come later. Though Kana is perfect, Kanji isn’t really needed much until you can understand and speak imo.
Hey vaughn, ive dedided to keep fit , but not sure how . If you dont mind making a video about your routine bcos i cant find anything as such on your channel 😅thanks.
Ah yeah I don’t have much fitness content yet but I’ll talk about it someday for sure! much like anything else, I have a strong emphasis on fundamentals 👌
Thanks! It’s gonna vary for everyone, But I did extended speaking practice about 4-5 times a week for about an hour or so and I noticed I could flow with conversations within 2-3 months I think (kinda hard to remember Lol). My method was basically learning how to say everything I typically talk about in English, just in Japanese. Then after that it was free reign. But initially I was VERY hyper-focused on relevant topics. That built my confidence quite fast.
I feel they would be more impressed that you have a large vocabulary more than sounding great. They could look at me and know I'm not a native speaker. No need for me to try to sound native.
That was my received reaction often times. But It’s certainly goal dependent, For me, I don’t like thinking hard to convey complex ideas, so at the cost of grammar mistakes, endings, and so on, I prefer just smoothly getting my ideas out without any delay from someone understanding me. Which was the case in Japan. Plus yeah the visual is clearly not showing “Native” Lol.
Recording is also a great way to correct yourself. So for example if you record yourself shadowing a video you'll be able to hear the difference between your source material and how you're pronouncing the same words.
Personally no, There’s a myth that once you learn something wrong you are ‘doomed’ but that’s not true at all. Even many of the things I said in the video, I used to say totally incorrect. The only the wrong is hesitating to speak because you want to speak perfectly. Adults are actually BETTER at correcting mistakes so leverage that and get the hours in 👌
@@vaughngene This is so important! The myth that "early output" will damage your ability permanently is a dangerous one for someone trying to find their language learning path. All it takes is self-awareness and willingness to constantly deconstruct and refine your habits as you learn. The only reason I'm becoming able to express some things in real time is because I've practiced talking (to myself) about random topics a lot, as well as making contextually relevant comments. Making mistakes is inevitable, so don't hesitate to engage with your interest. We get good at what we practice.
I’m gonna have to hard disagree with learning words in isolation. I can’t imagine any benefit to it. worst case scenario you get to solidify understanding of surroundings words (if you follow the idea of learning only 1 new word per sentence), and best case scenario, you get a more sticky memory of the word, more clearer meaning and get to see real examples of how people in your target speak. It doesn’t take that much extra work or time so I just can’t understand why anyone would. Incase anyone is wondering I have made a reviewed 1000s of cards in both isolation and the sentence that I found them.
That’s fair! I know I go against the grain on that, But the benefit is pure speed though. I speak a few languages just conversationally and some from the military, And this was the fastest method for us. (My first Japanese video goes more into that process). But as always, people should definitely do what works for them!
I just want to know that when you say kanji in regards to the first cup, do you mean the exact meanings of each character in isolation or even in words? I've simply learnt kanji as i learnt the vocabulary itself, not the exact meaning of each. It obviously feels bad being called out as the bad example so i really hope it's not what you meant. But writing this comment made me realise that now probably a few months in, i think i know almost a thousand words, but having done only a few days of grammar learning and practise means i still struggle with understanding stuff a lot, even if i know the meaning of everything said. Im not too far into the video, but before seeing what else you have to say, ive already been convinced to focus more on what im struggling at most and im sure it's going to help a lot so thanks Vaughn
I don't think Kanji is bad, I do think people over fixate on it and end up lacking the ability to understand or speak at all. That's all I mean. But the way you just mention you learned it is actually useful since you at least know the vocab. (Which is key). As long as people are aware that Kanji really doesn't help with listening and speaking much then I think everyone can find their own balance in adding it in. That being said, Vocab grinding feels like "slow" progress but once you start actively doing input and such, the results will come a lot faster than you think. Almost like a bow and arrow, slow pull back, and fast launch. Hope that makes sense!
hey there , I've been watching your videos lately. I have many hobbies too but I give more focus on learning japanese. It's been a year and I don't see any improvement lately ( I only know how to write hiragana, katakana and some kanji ) , do you have any materials / resource that you recommend to me? Thank you
Vocab and Input will build your confidence fast. Forget writing overall for now (or mostly at least). But the first two videos I did on this topic kind of cover it all.
It's not the same voice range as Sakurai, but I'm sensitive to voice differences, but I guess I understood what you meant. But, hey, I like yours better. :D Thank you for your videos; I was precisely feeling lazy about studying Japanese, primarily because of those factors you've mentioned, and Duolingo and other apps :)
@vaughngene I think is the cadence, is very similar. At least on the videos of his channels. (btw I thought he was done with that but I think it was just on his international, translated one because he's still very active on the japanese one 😅)
I would say when a person plays video games, they could change the language to their target language. What I do is listen to audio in my target language while the game is on mute. Get your brain more comfortable with listening to that language.
Hey Vaughn, been studying Japanese fairly intensely for the last year and my recognition abilities while immersing are getting up there. I know my retrieval (listening and speaking) are severely lacking and I'm going to Japan for the first time next month. I think I'm going to switch mostly to pure listening and drilling sentences to help me be more at a conversational level, but I'm wondering your approach for these? When you ask ChatGPT for a list of sentences/conversations on things, do you start at the top and just read each sentence over and over again then come back every couple days? Or do you go through the list a few times and maybe throw them all into Anki so you see them frequently enough? Also gonna need to see that video on becoming accustomed to native Japanese speed really soon..
I would say focus on street interviews and more chill podcasts if you are looking for relevant material. In my experience, this was the Japanese that I heard daily living there. Movies and Shows are close but the other is more practical. Anime helps, but if you are in a time crunch forget it for now Lol. As far as sentences, I would suggest having Chat GPT create conversations for you between two people about various things, and various variations of those things. And then practice it from both side until you can say it somewhat okay. (do NOT look for perfection). As far as time, I'd say Native input is more important than output practice for now. I didn't use much Anki as a results of what I just said. But Anki is amazing for pure vocab imo. And if you can find some with native spoken sentences then that is a plus too. And yeah I'll work on that soon enough. It's very hard, and 99% of people probably wont do it Lol but it works VERY well.
Brute Force and removing whatever you are taking action on. (edit: by this I mean distractions) Even if it's watching TH-cam. My goal setting video goes into that a bit more (locking things behind your meaningful tasks for the day). But in a nutshell that is the answer. We all have/had that issue though so it's normal. You'll get through it.
lol the accidental code switching. I’ve heard that’s fairly normal for multilingual speakers. I’ve heard of it going the other way too: speakers slipping into their new language without realizing.
It does happen Lol, I notice I accidentally switch depending on the topic too. As some subjects I talk about more in one language than the other. But the worst is when you stutter in one language, switch, and then stutter again. At that point you just have to stop and take a deep breath.
@@Window4503 this happened to me in Koreas when when an American friend was here and hanging out with my Koreans friends. We were all speaking Korean and I had to translate for her. Once I said something to here, then realized that I think I said it in Korean, lol and I had to ask her, “Did I speak to you in Korean?” And she said yes and I had to repeat myself in English, but I didn’t realize it 😂😂
for practicing input and listening for japanese, would a show like one piece be good? Or should I stick to more slice of life kind of shows that use more "normal-ish" vocab? I dont particularly have a preference since id enjoy either so im more so just asking since i dont mind doing either and if i could knock out 1k one piece eps and still be doing something productive thatd be cool
One Piece is fine! anything with large vocabulary is good, For practicality I would say mix it with podcasts and street interviews for best results. But you'll no doubt still learn a LOT from something like One Piece. And that's gonna transfer over to other things too.
Reference my Goal Setting video. I kind of go over what I mean there. And my ‘Teach Yourself’ video. But other than that, it’s just for that (literally). Nothing has to be specific so just make it how you feel.
bro how did you go about learning dakuten? im 6 away from having the 46 hiragana memorized but im just now realizing im gonna have to learn it all over again for the dakuten. any advice?
Just lots of exposure really, Ask ChatGPT to give you a list of things to read to help you differentiate it and practice it over and over again (generating more lists if needed).
I’ll discuss it, but basically, I would watch the SAME piece of content over and over and look up anything I didn’t know, Until I could understand 100% of the video. (Even if it took weeks). Then I find another video and do the same thing. You will notice a lot of things start to internalize and find similarities in your ear. But I’ll talk about it in detail soon.
I need to do the retrieval process for my Korean, my son is 2 years old and can speak Korean better than myself, and I have been "studying" for years. I can still read/write better than him at least... ;)
@@vaughngene My wife has like 600 Children's Korean books from others that sold them cheap, I will be reading those soon. While I was stationed in Korea, I bought like 50 for $15 from a family there and would use a stopwatch to time myself reading them and record the times in a spreadsheet, only like 5 of the books that were lower level, just to increase my reading speed. I always felt that reading slowly bogged down my vocab learning. Now, I am really fast and can do more words per sitting. I didn't know what I was reading, just reading for the familiarization/speed.
@@vaughngene I like doing that as well, It made me laugh to see the same kind of jokes in someone else's notes. The video was great, thanks for what you do!
I wanted to learn from this, I really did, but I've read that a language learner should only listen to native speakers in their target language. Sorry, this just isn't an efficient use of my limited time.
Take the concepts, don’t mimic me. (You learned that from my video btw Lol, I remember your name from my first Japanese video 👌, ) Glad to see you’re still practicing!
I generally like your videos. I can listen while I do things. But I don't speak Japanese, so I can't be accomplishing anything else but reading the vid. So I didn't. Bye.
@ I just mean reading the subtitles Lol. However a blind person in the comments, mentioned that they can’t read them (literally), so I will be making some sort of transcripts for people, Maybe those will help you. But I’ll most likely repeat the concepts in future videos, so you won’t miss it. 👌
@@vaughngene Your are above most yt'ers in content, maturity, compassion, and achievements. I really look for your next vids in Engliash so that I can watch them without reading the content. Very happy for your success here.
To add to my method (The Dragonite Case Lol), You may sound a bit textbook or 'unnatural' in some cases, but if you are like me and you really don't care,
that could be good for you.
This is the best approach for people with multiple interests outside of speaking languages though, As you may not physically have the time to take the other approaches.
Anyways Happy Practicing!
I am trying to get into learning Japanese, would you recommend Anki, to get to know the words and up my vocabulary on Japanse? After this use chatgtp to get sentences and watch shows/anime? As I am trying to get into it, I am noticing I am a bit lost
4 months ago ı started learning japanese rigth after watching your video and ı have seen a great improvement ı just wana say thank you keep up the great work
Aye That’s Awesome! As always, glad to help 💪
you knows what crazy. i was here in your comment section few months back (0 words down and just hiragana katakana), and now I can understand the almost the whole japanese segment at the start! took your advice, finishing core 6,000 anki deck day after tomorrow. In 147 days. N1 in july, ill keep you updated.
音楽聴きながら、日本語勉強のアドバイスを聞いて、とっても幸せな感じが与えられた。これは本当に、音楽のスキルを正い使い方ね、自分のTH-cam動画に使う、copyrightの悩みが全然ない！俺が自分で音楽もう作りたい、それ見たら、本当に、いっぱいやり気がある。w music bro fr, sorry japanese grammar not all there yet
How?
@ i am american born chinese so i have half the Chinese buff. also I am doing study abroad in japan, so Im committing 13-15 hours a day learning Japanese xD
Oh nice! You really are on a speedrun Lol.
These are some strange and/or ‘TED Talk’ words too that I use so that’s awesome! 👏
Keep it up!
I always appreciate hearing your mindset Vaughn. It’s very motivating.
Also when you told the viewers not to activate their Domain Expansion in the middle of a restaurant, I just could not stop laughing for some reason.
You’d be surprised at some of the stuff I heard living in Japan Lol.
But as always, glad it helps!
You were so good at verbalising why we shouldn't avoid discomfort in language learning. I would also compare choosing the difficult path when learning a language to shounen protagonists in anime seeking out opponents stronger than themselves. (Goku vs Vegeta, Gon vs Hisoka, Sung Jin Woo vs Igris, Tanjiro vs Gyutaro etc) Even if they lose, they gain insights into their weaknesses and are forced to break out of habits that might be hindering their growth. Facing tougher challenges exposes them to new techniques and perspectives, serving as both motivation (a milestone to reach) and a catalyst for self-improvement. Similarly, when we push ourselves with harder language methods, we grow in ways we wouldn't if we stayed in our comfort zone of familiar material. It’s tough, but 99.9% of the time, it works.
Really good point! I didn’t even think about that.
I think the most freeing thing is when you aren’t afraid to make mistakes and grow from them.
much like those characters.
So that makes a lot of sense 👌
Heading back to Japan in a few weeks and I’ve been trying my best to improve my spoken Japanese so I can better connect with friends I made last year. I always understand them but I couldn’t put my own words together unless it was really simple lol. Been doing a lot of the things you mentioned in previous vids and I’ve been seeing very noticeable improvements. Thanks for all your hard work!
Awesome, and yeah that’s totally normal. I think the gap between understanding more than you can speak is always there tbh Lol.
But Just practicing putting those ideas together is all you need.
One day it will be a simple thought process.
Every time i watch your videos. I say "roger that!". Then get back to work. Thanks dude.
Nice, that’s my goal for any viewers too 💪
I spent the beginning 6 months or year or so of Japanese study just looking up and breaking down all of the language in content I liked, and spending some time just straight up listening a lot. I literally would spend time each day pausing on every sentence of something I was watching and working until I understood it, and making anki cards out of every unknown word along the way. The first 3 months were the most painful part. Speaking started to come to me naturally after that consumption of the language period, albeit with all the struggles you mentioned, but now since I understand most things aside from specific or very challenging higher level topics, even if not on first listen, the more and more I listen and read the more I find I'm able to produce later. What's really fun is when there's something you don't know how to say and you finally hear someone express it. It's super satisfying and then you can practice it and use it right away.
I agree with what you said about Anki too. The important thing is that it just makes those words stand out to you in the wild; not to get them right every time. Let them automatically turn into suspended leeches when they do and don't worry about them. When you next see the card in real life you can un-suspend it then if you want to. Also one thing that's very important is to just pass the card if you already saw it once that day even if you couldn't remember it again. Also if you keep forgetting a card after seeing it a million times, it's probably better to just pass it unless the next review would be over a month later. If a card is familiar to me but I can't remember it during review, I just pass it anyway. Often times you remember it in actual context anyway and anki is just there to get you to that point, not to be where you learn the words. In my opinion the more time you spend in anki per day over maybe half an hour starts to hurt more than it helps. I use the auto advance feature nowadays so I'm not spending more than a handful of seconds trying to struggle through a card. It takes time to realize that it works. Trust it.
I'm kinda in that realm right now where I can usually find some way to communicate what I want to, but I'm working on noting the more natural ways of saying them as I come across them. That was usually my struggle when I tried to speak earlier on is I just didn't have the words yet, and often times they aren't things you can just look up and find out easily. In my experience you just have to consume as much of the language as possible until those things just come to you. I've taken a liking to reading lately because it's where I encounter more challenging language, and simply just more of the language at a faster pace, and it helps me become more eloquent, and at this level reading doesn't give me an actual headache anymore since it's a lot easier now. I also like to try to speak and summarize what I read later. I also naturally write a lot cause I'm online a lot, and I spend most of my time in Japanese spaces. I wrote Japanese for an hour today just because I had things I wanted to say to a Japanese person, and after some point I felt like this is how I just started improving without doing as much active effort. The language became part of my life so now the progress is steady.
I haven't really put strict time into sounding native at all, I just took note of the concepts of accent and pitch early on and keep them in mind as I go and shadow people sometimes too, as you said you did with the smash bros creator. I also find, in general, it helps both my listening and speaking if I try to just repeat what I just heard people say in my head as I'm listening at full speed.
I just love that when I settle into using the language I don't find myself having to think of English when I need or want to use Japanese and that the language feels familiar all around now even if there's still a lot I don't know. The more time goes on the less often I have those times where I feel completely lost in what I want to say, or if I do have them, they're shorter because I can say words around it to get the point across and learn a more natural way afterwards. All of that is more fun and more important than trying to get rid of accent I'm naturally going to have to some degree no matter what anyway. I'm somewhat comfortable calling myself fluent at this point, because I don't think about the fact I'm speaking another language when I do it now and I don't think in English when I use it, even if there are lots of things I still don't know how to say properly. But hey, I don't know everything in English either. I especially didn't when I was a kid, but I was still "fluent". My teacher with whom I only have lessons in Japanese called my Japanese ペラペラ far before I felt comfortable thinking that too so, it is what it is I guess.
I love video games too. I credit a lot of what I know in life and the fact I even know some Japanese to them too. But yeah, now there are so many other things I love doing and want to do so they come before video games and I don't get to play them as much as I want to lately.
Your first part is actually a prelude of my 'Understanding Japanese at Native Speed' video, the detailed pausing rewinding and understanding process. Almost exactly that Lol.
And really good insight overall. I think a lot of people (if they read it) can get some good ideas into a less robotic approach like mine, but also a demanding and useful approach.
Especially actively consuming a lot while being aware of it.
I tend to find THAT, deliberate practice, and letting go of perfection, is what makes all the difference.
@@vaughngene That's funny, and pretty cool. I remember you talking about making the video for understanding at native speed. I completely agree on those last points of deliberate practice and letting go of perfection as well. Good talk, as always. Thank you for reading it, too.
It's really good that we have so many resources that make looking things up easier nowadays, too. That definitely helped me a ton. The people who did it a long time ago had a much naturally slower and more grueling time for sure.
Speaking of, about to go back to listening and reading practice after just getting done with a food break.
Yes, please, speaking advice in the next video ❤
Thanks!
Glad it helps! Thank you 🙏
daaaang with the Whitney's miltank reference..Great vid. Liked and subscribed.
Miltank PTSD ✊
Nice video man! The "review hill" you talked about is definitely something I have to apply to my day to day learning. Being kind of a perfectionist myself, I always find it hard to move on from something i feel I haven't mastered yet. Even though I acknowledge it, it takes concious effort for me to actually move on from something I'm partially good at.
And just to give my 2 cents about trying difficult methods: On some days I like the challenge, and on trying hard stuff is where I think i really get better at a certain skill. But I think it's important to have "chill" days where I take a step back and do something easier, partially to reassure myself and to allow me some rest. Bringing it to my field (which right now is training for my first marathon), I like to have some days of just going out and just enjoy running without any pressure about my rythm/km goal.
Yeah it's a constant battle for sure. Especially in Language (mainly Japanese) where a lot of people push the obsession of sounding very natural.
It's not that deep, however you will have to fight that battle a lot.
And yeah I agree! I'm definitely all about rest and such. I just don't want people to get caught up in the ideas that get pushed on TH-cam these days (probably out of fear that people will unsub), but I agree for sure. Rest is key.
Probably should have said that myself but I tend to forget simple things Lol
Hey brother I just want to say thank you so much for the good content you upload. I currently serve in the US Army and just came back from being in Korea for a year and have absolutely loved the country, I did not learn the language when I was there and definitely regret it. now I am learning it and hopes to live there after serving. It has been about two weeks doing some deep work studying and yeah it gets frustrating at times because I usually get stuck on the amount of words to study, proper grammar rules and what not. I know you mentioned something about option paralysis in one of your videos and I only stick to channels like you and hailey your korean friend to help me learn. So I just want to say thanks for the helpful content, my goal is to attain the fluency levels like you did in Japanese, and shit maybe learn Japanese too while I am at it. Look forward to more stuff
Nice! Good to see you’re making progress.
And yeah some people mistakes useable fluency for “perfect”, but fail to realize just how many mistakes we make in our own Native Langauge.
Picking up Japanese after Korean won’t be too strange at all since it follows the same format sort of.
Many of the words overlap too.
@@vaughngene oh snap man thanks for the reply! and while you're here i guess i can finally ask lol, im assuming you used anki decks to hammer in the vocabulary in your mind?
@ yep, I actually have an Anki Deck linked in the previous Japanese video where I talk about the toxic language community in Japanese.
I’ll probably link it here too though for easy access now that you brought it up.
Thank you Vaughn Goat, your videos are super helpful.
🙏 glad to help!
We’re gonna heal TH-cam one video at a time 👌
as of last week I came to the conclusion that I'll be moving to Japan in about a year, and was a little nervous that I wouldn't know anything useful other than basic phrases; cause duolingo aint doing it for me🤣. but this gives me hope! I will do my best and grind it out for a year so I don't need to worry about the language barrier in a foreign country as much. ima stay tapped in for any additional advice you might post. godspeed brotha
Yeah I’m not a big fan of Duolingo in the slightest Lol,
But that’s cool to hear!
As long as you focus on practical things you won’t have much of a problem adjusting there.
You can get a LOT done in a year too.
@ i found out that the hiragana i’ve been learning on duolingo has incorrect symbols so beware of that anyone
really enjoyed this video! I've been watching your other video on make hard work seem easier today! thank you for advice as always
No problem 👌, & Really glad it helps,
It’s a topic I’ll probably ramble on about more since it’s so important.
I used many methods with textbooks too but I saw your video where you said first grammar then memorize the words that's the best as far I've seen to understand and speak fast 100% effective , thanks !
Glad it helps! I place high value on practicality so my methods seem a bit odd, but they are the fastest from all the things I've ever tried.
Good to see it's helping others.
As someone who learned to be at a conversational level outside Japan without Anki, I can't agree with the premise of learning words in isolation.
But aside from that, mad props to you for actually using Japanese to express such full ideas. I've mostly focused on input slowly over the last 10 years, but coming across videos of people practicing their output inspires me to do the same.
Nice!, And yeah I don't think my way is 'more superior' , it's just fast and practical to get you to the next step.
My experience with doing both in different languages is that at least.
But more important than the method is actually doing something, so well done!
Awesome! Thank for another great video!
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Reasonable ✅
Thanks for sharing 🙏🏿
Great stuff as always. Your Japanese is really good, it makes me want to study more.
Thanks! just keep it focused on your goals (even if they are completely different from mine), and you'll see speedy improvements
I love love love your videos! Thank you so so much- you’re so awesome
Glad it helps! & Thank you!
Another banger video. Thank you for passing on your learnings, it's always appreciated 🙌🏾
Anytime! Glad these help!
Thanks for the answer on the intermediate level hump! Its the simple truth despite that road not being so simple to traverse. But, you gotta do it. Thanks again!
Yeah that’s really it tbh Lol.
I try to emphasize how tough it is so everyone knows what they are getting into.
Making Japanese work subconsciously is a LOT of work, but it’s 100% doable.
Really enjoyed the info and how you incorporated pokemon in your videos lol. Looking forward to your video on the speaking!
Gotta catch’em all!
Back in junior high school, I ended up reading a book that was much more mature and difficult than I was used to. After going through that book, I was reading the assigned readings at twice or thrice the speed I was reading before, because it did become easier.
It's true, achieve hard stuff first and then it's easier to achieve the more basic level stuff.
Another example for me is latch hooking. My first completed project was one on the roughest levels (colors be looking alike), but I chose it because I loved it. I'm still very proud of that rug and it'll probably follow me everywhere until I die or give it to someone. Unless something disastrous happens XD.
Nice Lol, it’s a tough task to do those things, but like you said, you really do realize how much easier the normal stuff is after that.
And like your case, Sometimes the thing you REALLY want to tackle is the thing that is also difficult,
So no use in trying to escape Lol.
You’ve got very good Japanese there man. I can’t speak on the accent but you’re clearly talking fluently. Keep it up!
Thank you! I'm a bit of a 'computer' when I speak Lol, but I love the idea that I can get whatever I'm thinking out of my head at that expense.
Fluency comes in different forms, IMO if you’re able to convey meaning in a variety of situations smoothly in said language then you’ve hit a degree of fluency. If you use CEFR as a scale, your fluency is less about how “correct” you are and more about the amount of complex ideas you can convey while having others understand you (and while you understand others).
So yeah maybe his Japanese isn’t perfect but it seems to me he can convey his ideas well. Maybe in between B1 and B2
@@kimchi2093 the guy you are replying to is hidden now , but yeah people take these terms way out of context .
I dislike the word “fluent” but I use it in its dictionary sense in terms of conveying ideas.
It bothers people for whatever reason that I’m not perfect or very natural.
But oh well.
(Edit: He was comment spamming all over the place, rather than just voicing an opinion, so I gotta block those guys sadly.
Don't want to but I have to.)
Great ❤
U have. A very methodical way of thinking, anyways very interesting stuff
My brain tends to work in black & white so I leverage it Lol. Thank you!
I've been staying consistent with my Japanese learning for 2 months now, and I was able to pick up some of the words you used. I've only started reading and listening in my TL, but I've been learning words in context and memorizing some of the kanji used (I learned to read hiragana and katakana at the beginning). I would consider myself a Charizard, since I've been practicing my pitch and accent (my native language sounds vowels similarly to japanese so it's not difficult for me) as well as the kanji. I'd recommend learning it with the vocab if your goal is to read japanese as well, but I'm not stressed out about it too much.
Nice! Good to see you have some progress going.
I think that approach is a solid one for sure, where my approach may be a bit more on the extreme end Lol.
Keep it up!
good video man
Thank you 🙏
I would be curious about your journey to Japan. It doesn't need to be in depth but it is always cool/insightful to see how someone or why someone came to be who they are.
Noted! Thanks
I’m a simple man. I see a new Vaughn language learning video, I click
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Thank you for your inspiring content. Your previous videos already motivated me a lot. Unfortunately, the Japanese parts are not accessible for blind people since even though we have screenreaders with TTS and Braille displays which convert screen text for us, they can't capture subtitles which you might have added. If anyone here knows a solution for that case that could make this content accessible, feel free to reach out. But as for your English parts, I enjoy and appreciate listening to you a lot.
I didn’t think about that, thanks for bringing it up!,
I can figure something out quite soon.
If anything I can put the whole transcript in the description box maybe?
Or record the voice part in English and attach it somewhere?
Or make a PDF link?🤔
I’m gonna do some research.
I'm back, Still figuring that out. However here is the entire Japanese part in English incase you are able to TTS This.
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Part 1, Inconsistency Comes From Not Seeing Results.
Firstly, one of the most important reasons to choose a more difficult path when learning something, is because you will see results a LOT faster that way.
I notice, we often quit on things because there is no feedback soon enough.
For example, you start learning a language, but after a few weeks or months of studying, you still can’t use the language in any way.
This is discouraging, and I think it’s the reason that many of us quit on things.
It doesn’t help that TH-cam has become a place where almost everything is clickbait and promises ‘fast and easy’.
So as a result of not seeing results, many of us tend to believe that we are lazy.
We aren’t lazy, we are often just misled by false promises.
You may find that when you do things the difficult way, you will be able to stick to them better because you will have very fast feedback.
Just something to think about.
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Part 2, Difficult paths make normal things feel easier.
Doing things in a difficult way has another advantage: other things will start to feel quite easy.
For example, right now, I’m speaking in front of the camera in a foreign language.
This is difficult even in my native language.
However, thanks to being able to do this in Japanese, it feels easy to have regular conversations with native speakers.
Even when topics become complex, I feel that I can understand just as I would in English.
This way of thinking can be applied to many things.
For example, if you can learn to play difficult songs on guitar or piano, everything else feels much easier.
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Part 3, You Save Time.
Doing things the difficult way saves you a lot of time.
You know, when I tell people that I learned to speak and understand most Japanese in about six months, they often dismiss it by saying, "That can't be true because it took me years."
This is an example of the ‘Anecdotal Fallacy’, where they use their own personal experience to reject mine, without considering the differences in learning methods or effort.
I bring this up to say, be open to difficult methods regardless of your past experiences.
You’ll be shocked at how much time you can save by doing this.
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Part 4, The Discomfort Timeline.
There’s also a concept I call the ‘Discomfort Timeline’.
This basically means that to reach a certain level, you have to go through a certain amount of discomfort.
You can either stretch that out over the course of several years or pack it all into a short amount of time.
The first option leads many people to quit.
The second option, though harder, makes you maximize the time you have so you can do other things.
If you only have 1 hour to study a language every day, you might as well make the most of that hour.
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English Start from this point on.
Yo Vaughn, ever since finding your channel I've found myself being a lot more conscious about trying to manage my 'interests' as I am someone who has always struggled with that 'too many interests' issue. I don't know if this is something you could give me advice on and apologies this is a long ass comment.
I generally struggle with consistency, for the longest time my no. 1 priority has been to workout consistently in order to achieve my dream physique, I've been generally on and off for a long time and I would say I'm still in the 'beginner' phase as I've never been consistent long enough to actually get all those newbie gains. In this regard, I'm currently working on fixing my sleep schedule because I feel that is the main impediment to my consistency. I'm going for a 3-day full body split, and this is where I think 'okay, on the days when I don't have a workout, I could be pursuing one of my other interests.'
There's three other interests that 'pull' at me, and those are language (I have studied Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin, to varying degrees lol, Japanese because I'm a weeb, the other two because of my job), music, and starting a TH-cam channel. (Honestly, I can say TH-cam channel is my second highest priority after gym, my channel idea generally hovers around covering RPGs & fantasy/sci fi content.)
My job is gonna have me getting posted to another country in the near future, which is why I feel like holding off on committing myself to language learning fully until that happens. (Because, I could study Japanese but then they send me to Italy or something lol).
As for music, always been a huge music nerd, especially over OSTs from video games, anime, series, etc. My favorite 'classical' instrument is hands down the cello, but I also have a thing for a bunch of more obscure instruments, my favorite is the duduk, an Armenian flute-like instrument.
As for TH-cam, this one I feel is interesting because it's not exactly like the other ones where it's a 'skill' that you sit down and practice but more like a hobby/side gig. I suppose in this case the 'sitting down and doing the thing' would be working on my video idea docs. Aside from my gaming/RPG focused channel idea, I can imagine myself absolutely loving having a music cover channel were I to learn one of those instruments I mentioned. (No reason I can't do both down the line imo.)
I know this is a crazy ramble, but I hope this shows how myself (and I'm sure many of your viewers) deal with this same issue of being passionate about doing multiple unrelated things. If you read this, thanks a lot, love your content, and even if you don't have much to say in response that's totally okay, but I'd value any kind of feedback from you. :D
I don't think it's a huge issue, but it sounds like you are thinking way too far ahead throughout the day.
One of the most important aspects to not drive yourself crazy is to FORCE yourself to take things one day at a time.
You can have an idea of the future and plans and all, but you literally have zero control over that.
What you do have control over is the moment/day, maybe even the next 2 days.
but that's about it.
As long as you use your energy to remove unnecessary things from your life, let the other stuff fall into place.
this is going to be more difficult if you are a logic based person by the way (Like myself), but that's my two cents in a nutshell. One (or maybe two) days at a time.
Hey man, I appreciate your insights. I've been inputting for way too long without outputting, but have found the drive to keep learning. By isolation what do you mean in anki? What do you consider a card worth suspending, like knowing the Kunyomi and meaning only?
In terms of difficult input and finding a person to emulate, my favorite podcast is Coten Radio, with the voice and style I like the most being Higuchi Kiyonori. Their content is beyond my level, but I listen to them and other for hours a day. How do you feel about relatively incomprehensible input? Perhaps it's best to dissect some of their transcript and speaking? Lots of questions, would appreciate your insight. Keep jamming! ありがとう。
I would say once you can hear the word and somewhat recognize it (maybe it takes you a few seconds or so, that’s okay),
By isolation I mean JUST that word, not hearing it in a sentence.
I considering being able to hear it out loud and recognize it as okay, however this is based on listening and speaking being a main priority. Not reading and writing.
And yeah that will be the next video.
Incomprehensible input is an AMAZING tool imo, it just involves looking up everything you don’t now in order to make it comprehensible.
But I’ll go over exactly how I do it in the next one!
Thank you for the amazing tips and inspiration!!
So I'm assuming you get lots of templates of Japanese sentences from the input (reading and listening) and the sentence mining. But, do I need to learn and practice the most conjugation rules simultaneously to speed up the process?
Or Just doing retrieval practice and sentence mining as you mentioned is enough for learning the conjugation rules.
I've watched your previous video and remembered you suggested learning the basic conjugation rules, but I'm still confusing this part😢
Yeah exactly that, sentences and retrieval.
If grammar confuses you, just look it up when you need it while studying a sentence.
And then get back to sentence practice.
(Chat GPT is actually really good at breaking down grammar),
The grammar will stick in a natural way overtime as you practice.
I agree with you completely on the first point and on stressing over prosody in a target language. Ive found that if you spend so much time studying stuff you mostly understand already will get you nowhere fast, and that something like perfect pitch in Japanese is exactly like learning how to write kanji; you ought to learn generally good or solid pronunciation, just like how you need to learn to at least read the characters, but the perfect accent/learning how to write characters is something you can do later on if you want to, but its completely unnecessary overall
Yeah for sure. I am definitely bit more on the extreme side of practicality (which definitely comes with backlash from the Japanese language learning community Lol)
But as long as people can be aware of 'false' progress then I think anyone can make significant progress like you mentioned.
30 hiragana down. I plan on finishing the rest tomorrow. Then onto katakana
Edit: 40 down, gonna do the rest tomorrow. dont wanna overstimulate my brain and forget it tomorrow
Believe me they're not down if you don't have a photographic memory. :)
@miguelferrazcosta I got em gang I jus do 10 a day. Did 20 today but I'm saying I'm worried bout the " marks that change the characters. Thats all
@@CloutUnlocked don't worry you'll be seeing them so often that you will learn them whether you want it or not!
@@mohammadalinejad728 got all 46 down now it's time to do dakuten
@@CloutUnlocked Let's goooo
Another tip for Anki that’s been working for me is to move the retention rate setting down from .90 to .85. It nearly doubles the time interval before you see a card again, so your reviews will significantly decrease and the cards will mature at a more manageable pace.
Ah nice, I never really messed with the settings like that but that's a good point.
started learning in august, striving for the n4 in july!
Nice! 👌 just be aware that N Levels don’t directly translate to usability in speech and understanding.
But as long as you are aware, you can pursue both just fine!
Thanks for the video.
Anytime! 🌞
Timbre - the word I think you were looking for to compare or describe different vocal characteristics as opposed to octave.
I think that's it! Thanks Lol
Hey Vaughn Gene. I will start learning Japanese soon and I was inspired by your video called “Fluent In Japanese FAST. How I Did it. 100% Self Taught”. For your first suggestion, about learning 2000-4000 most common vocabulary words, I was wondering what you used to do it. Was there a specific SRS that you used? Would you recommend the Core 2k/6k Anki deck? And would you recommend 20 new words a day (I think you mentioned that amount per day in your video)?
I was also wondering, when you were working on your listening comprehension (actively trying to improve it specifically), how long was each audio and how long did you work with a particular audio for? Was there a certain amount of audios that you worked with at a given time (I assume you didn’t listen to only one at one time) and a certain amount of reps for each?
I believe that’s the same I linked in the second video I made so yeah! Definitely go for that one!
As far as how many per day… I say just max out and treat each day as its own.
(I would reference my Goal Setting Video actually for 3 different approaches on that).
And same answer for the input actually.
I tend to treat each day as its own depending on my life at the time.
But the Goal Setting Video will clear up a lot of that for you.
But in a nutshell as long as you as practicing, you will improve. Just try not to overthink it.
What is your opinion on a silence period? Practice and repetition will allow you to speak Japanese coherently, but do you think there is a benefit of taking a couple months or so to immerse in Japanese speech (via all forms of media) to get a grasp on the rhythm and cadence of Japanese before speaking the langue?
I was recommended this approach from another TH-camr, but they also suggested if you really want to speak right away, it is best you make sure you are saying words and sentences correctly.
I have a lot of time to practice speech, but Im not sure if it will be beneficial to take a silent period and listen or just to practice speech right away.
Thank you for the video, it is extremely motivating 🔥
I think both are fine! But it depends on your goals and how soon you want them.
If you don’t care much about speed,
then you probably would benefit from a bit more input, or that “silent period”,
so you can say things more naturally and whatnot.
However don’t confuse early speech with poor speech.
I’m not a good example Lol, but there are a lot of people I know in Japan who spoke from day one, and they sound amazing with excellent accent and all.
But if you aren’t on the super practical side like I am. I’d say a silent period would be pretty good!
Hey Vaughn!
Could you please do a video on how you learned the keys, I’m trying to teach myself rn and would love to hear about how you did it.
I can, I started with Piano from Scratch, the TH-cam channel.
I’m still mid-level at best tbh.
But his channel is REALLY good for someone learning.
I‘d love to see a video about finding a career as someone with multiple interests. Struggling a lot with this
Software Engineering! The only reason I did it was for time and money.
Got both.
Highly recommend it for any multi-passionate person.
Or some sort of digital skill in general if it's not that.
This is true, I am a native Turkish speaker and the structure of the Japanese language was not strange to me to apply.
Im jealous Lol, It was (and still is) such an odd order to me, but I enjoy it!
As an aside, Turkish sounds so cool. I know some basic vocab but that’s about it.
@vaughngene Thank you for your kind words.
I've been doing Japanese for just shy of two months and I feel frustrated for sure.
I've got all my Hiragana and Katakana and am just about done level 4 in WaniKani. I'm just starting to go through CureDolly's videos and starting to do immersion... but my comprehension is almost zero. 🤣
I get it's a long term process and not to focus so much on explicit goals, but I sure want to have some level of comprehension for even level 0 graded readers!
Reference my first Japanese video.
Vocab and Input is going to be useful for building confidence in the language fast.
Writing can come later.
Though Kana is perfect, Kanji isn’t really needed much until you can understand and speak imo.
Hey vaughn, ive dedided to keep fit , but not sure how . If you dont mind making a video about your routine bcos i cant find anything as such on your channel 😅thanks.
Ah yeah I don’t have much fitness content yet but I’ll talk about it someday for sure!
much like anything else, I have a strong emphasis on fundamentals 👌
These videos are always refreshing and helpful. Do you have a video of your experience with MMA or learning it?
I don’t yet but, I can chat about that sometime,
I’m HEAVY on fundamentals and what works at the highest level though.
That’s 95% of my focus.
@ Interesting, I’ll look forward to it! Thank you for taking time out to reply!
Its crazy how I was thinking of Masahiro Sakurai too in the section of finding someone to model your voice after. 😮
His Game Design Channel has like 200+ Videos now, so there's a LOT of material to use.
How long did it take to get this anime about it? Sounds flawless bro
Thanks! It’s gonna vary for everyone,
But I did extended speaking practice about 4-5 times a week for about an hour or so and I noticed I could flow with conversations within 2-3 months I think (kinda hard to remember Lol).
My method was basically learning how to say everything I typically talk about in English, just in Japanese.
Then after that it was free reign.
But initially I was VERY hyper-focused on relevant topics.
That built my confidence quite fast.
@ thanks definitely inspired me to learn a language if it’s gonna come out like this.
I feel they would be more impressed that you have a large vocabulary more than sounding great. They could look at me and know I'm not a native speaker. No need for me to try to sound native.
That was my received reaction often times.
But It’s certainly goal dependent,
For me, I don’t like thinking hard to convey complex ideas,
so at the cost of grammar mistakes, endings, and so on, I prefer just smoothly getting my ideas out without any delay from someone understanding me.
Which was the case in Japan.
Plus yeah the visual is clearly not showing “Native” Lol.
When doing speaking practice is it a concern that you might be practicing an incorrect way of saying things? thanks great video
Recording is also a great way to correct yourself.
So for example if you record yourself shadowing a video you'll be able to hear the difference between your source material and how you're pronouncing the same words.
@@cassc7669 Thats true thanks
Personally no,
There’s a myth that once you learn something wrong you are ‘doomed’ but that’s not true at all.
Even many of the things I said in the video, I used to say totally incorrect.
The only the wrong is hesitating to speak because you want to speak perfectly.
Adults are actually BETTER at correcting mistakes so leverage that and get the hours in 👌
@@vaughngene This is so important! The myth that "early output" will damage your ability permanently is a dangerous one for someone trying to find their language learning path. All it takes is self-awareness and willingness to constantly deconstruct and refine your habits as you learn. The only reason I'm becoming able to express some things in real time is because I've practiced talking (to myself) about random topics a lot, as well as making contextually relevant comments. Making mistakes is inevitable, so don't hesitate to engage with your interest. We get good at what we practice.
@@ryo-kai8587 exactly 👌
I would like to hear the story.
I’m gonna have to hard disagree with learning words in isolation. I can’t imagine any benefit to it. worst case scenario you get to solidify understanding of surroundings words (if you follow the idea of learning only 1 new word per sentence), and best case scenario, you get a more sticky memory of the word, more clearer meaning and get to see real examples of how people in your target speak. It doesn’t take that much extra work or time so I just can’t understand why anyone would.
Incase anyone is wondering I have made a reviewed 1000s of cards in both isolation and the sentence that I found them.
That’s fair! I know I go against the grain on that,
But the benefit is pure speed though.
I speak a few languages just conversationally and some from the military,
And this was the fastest method for us.
(My first Japanese video goes more into that process).
But as always, people should definitely do what works for them!
I just want to know that when you say kanji in regards to the first cup, do you mean the exact meanings of each character in isolation or even in words? I've simply learnt kanji as i learnt the vocabulary itself, not the exact meaning of each. It obviously feels bad being called out as the bad example so i really hope it's not what you meant.
But writing this comment made me realise that now probably a few months in, i think i know almost a thousand words, but having done only a few days of grammar learning and practise means i still struggle with understanding stuff a lot, even if i know the meaning of everything said. Im not too far into the video, but before seeing what else you have to say, ive already been convinced to focus more on what im struggling at most and im sure it's going to help a lot so thanks Vaughn
I don't think Kanji is bad, I do think people over fixate on it and end up lacking the ability to understand or speak at all. That's all I mean.
But the way you just mention you learned it is actually useful since you at least know the vocab. (Which is key).
As long as people are aware that Kanji really doesn't help with listening and speaking much then I think everyone can find their own balance in adding it in.
That being said, Vocab grinding feels like "slow" progress but once you start actively doing input and such, the results will come a lot faster than you think.
Almost like a bow and arrow, slow pull back, and fast launch.
Hope that makes sense!
hey there , I've been watching your videos lately. I have many hobbies too but I give more focus on learning japanese. It's been a year and I don't see any improvement lately ( I only know how to write hiragana, katakana and some kanji ) , do you have any materials / resource that you recommend to me? Thank you
Vocab and Input will build your confidence fast. Forget writing overall for now (or mostly at least).
But the first two videos I did on this topic kind of cover it all.
Apart from that The Anki Deck I linked in the part 2 video is a good start since you can read Kana already.
It's not the same voice range as Sakurai, but I'm sensitive to voice differences, but I guess I understood what you meant. But, hey, I like yours better. :D
Thank you for your videos; I was precisely feeling lazy about studying Japanese, primarily because of those factors you've mentioned, and Duolingo and other apps :)
Thanks! And yeah I still don’t know how to explain it Lol,
But yes an active approach really is more beneficial for us in the long run 👌
@vaughngene I think is the cadence, is very similar. At least on the videos of his channels.
(btw I thought he was done with that but I think it was just on his international, translated one because he's still very active on the japanese one 😅)
I would say when a person plays video games, they could change the language to their target language. What I do is listen to audio in my target language while the game is on mute. Get your brain more comfortable with listening to that language.
Yeah good adjustment for sure.
Combining two things you like at once.
thanks for your videos man!
the other day you recommended channel of Mikel hyperpolyglot, it's very useful for learning language the harder way
Yeah his channel is one of the absolute best for langauge learning!
If not the best.
Hey Vaughn, been studying Japanese fairly intensely for the last year and my recognition abilities while immersing are getting up there. I know my retrieval (listening and speaking) are severely lacking and I'm going to Japan for the first time next month. I think I'm going to switch mostly to pure listening and drilling sentences to help me be more at a conversational level, but I'm wondering your approach for these? When you ask ChatGPT for a list of sentences/conversations on things, do you start at the top and just read each sentence over and over again then come back every couple days? Or do you go through the list a few times and maybe throw them all into Anki so you see them frequently enough?
Also gonna need to see that video on becoming accustomed to native Japanese speed really soon..
I would say focus on street interviews and more chill podcasts if you are looking for relevant material.
In my experience, this was the Japanese that I heard daily living there.
Movies and Shows are close but the other is more practical.
Anime helps, but if you are in a time crunch forget it for now Lol.
As far as sentences, I would suggest having Chat GPT create conversations for you between two people about various things, and various variations of those things.
And then practice it from both side until you can say it somewhat okay.
(do NOT look for perfection).
As far as time, I'd say Native input is more important than output practice for now.
I didn't use much Anki as a results of what I just said. But Anki is amazing for pure vocab imo. And if you can find some with native spoken sentences then that is a plus too.
And yeah I'll work on that soon enough. It's very hard, and 99% of people probably wont do it Lol but it works VERY well.
@@vaughngene Yeah mostly been grinding away on podcasts atm, street interviews are a good idea tho. Thank you for the detailed response!
Any tips on actually starting and sticking to learning?
I want to learn, but I’m crippled by the inability to take action.
Brute Force and removing whatever you are taking action on. (edit: by this I mean distractions)
Even if it's watching TH-cam.
My goal setting video goes into that a bit more (locking things behind your meaningful tasks for the day).
But in a nutshell that is the answer.
We all have/had that issue though so it's normal. You'll get through it.
lol the accidental code switching. I’ve heard that’s fairly normal for multilingual speakers. I’ve heard of it going the other way too: speakers slipping into their new language without realizing.
It does happen Lol,
I notice I accidentally switch depending on the topic too.
As some subjects I talk about more in one language than the other.
But the worst is when you stutter in one language, switch, and then stutter again.
At that point you just have to stop and take a deep breath.
@@Window4503 this happened to me in Koreas when when an American friend was here and hanging out with my Koreans friends. We were all speaking Korean and I had to translate for her. Once I said something to here, then realized that I think I said it in Korean, lol and I had to ask her, “Did I speak to you in Korean?” And she said yes and I had to repeat myself in English, but I didn’t realize it 😂😂
for practicing input and listening for japanese, would a show like one piece be good? Or should I stick to more slice of life kind of shows that use more "normal-ish" vocab? I dont particularly have a preference since id enjoy either so im more so just asking since i dont mind doing either and if i could knock out 1k one piece eps and still be doing something productive thatd be cool
One Piece is fine! anything with large vocabulary is good,
For practicality I would say mix it with podcasts and street interviews for best results.
But you'll no doubt still learn a LOT from something like One Piece.
And that's gonna transfer over to other things too.
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I'm really interested in a video about notion, I wanna try it out but didn't understand well rhe daily log and resources😭
Reference my Goal Setting video.
I kind of go over what I mean there.
And my ‘Teach Yourself’ video.
But other than that, it’s just for that (literally). Nothing has to be specific so just make it how you feel.
bro how did you go about learning dakuten? im 6 away from having the 46 hiragana memorized but im just now realizing im gonna have to learn it all over again for the dakuten. any advice?
Hard sound to soft sound, except for the h consonants in which case it’s soft to hard ha ba pa
Just lots of exposure really,
Ask ChatGPT to give you a list of things to read to help you differentiate it and practice it over and over again (generating more lists if needed).
I'm at 10% 10%, gotta balance schoolwork and working on my japanese lol, just aiming to be charizard.
I think Charizard will be the most popular one for most people Lol And the most logical at that.
Dragonite is a bit extreme but very practical.
We want the story :D
So in regards to listening comprehension or understanding natives with no effort what did you do?
I’ll discuss it, but basically, I would watch the SAME piece of content over and over and look up anything I didn’t know,
Until I could understand 100% of the video.
(Even if it took weeks).
Then I find another video and do the same thing.
You will notice a lot of things start to internalize and find similarities in your ear.
But I’ll talk about it in detail soon.
Thank you!
What did you do for work in japan?
Trainer 💪 🥋
Please add subtitles. Please
Do japanese people know english or we need to learn it if want to move?
Most Japanese don’t know English, so it’s worth learning if you’ll be there.
@@vaughngene yes i think so
But japanese people very genius of technology truly
I need to do the retrieval process for my Korean, my son is 2 years old and can speak Korean better than myself, and I have been "studying" for years. I can still read/write better than him at least... ;)
Lol well at least you have an ability to create some accurate material to practice! That’s a good start 👌
@@vaughngene My wife has like 600 Children's Korean books from others that sold them cheap, I will be reading those soon. While I was stationed in Korea, I bought like 50 for $15 from a family there and would use a stopwatch to time myself reading them and record the times in a spreadsheet, only like 5 of the books that were lower level, just to increase my reading speed. I always felt that reading slowly bogged down my vocab learning. Now, I am really fast and can do more words per sitting. I didn't know what I was reading, just reading for the familiarization/speed.
"Use mma or guitar example Lol" Lol
My notes for these videos are very unprofessional Lol, but it helps me keep it normal.
@@vaughngene I like doing that as well, It made me laugh to see the same kind of jokes in someone else's notes. The video was great, thanks for what you do!
noooooo dont send miltank!
I must 🫡, there’s no way around it.
You think english when speak japanese i know so japanese easy for me:)
You can think in whatever language you are learning with enough repetitions 👌,
Native Language will always be stronger though of course.
@vaughngene true practice is permanent
I wanted to learn from this, I really did, but I've read that a language learner should only listen to native speakers in their target language. Sorry, this just isn't an efficient use of my limited time.
Take the concepts, don’t mimic me.
(You learned that from my video btw Lol, I remember your name from my first Japanese video 👌, )
Glad to see you’re still practicing!
I generally like your videos. I can listen while I do things. But I don't speak Japanese, so I can't be accomplishing anything else but reading the vid. So I didn't. Bye.
Just come back when you’re ready to level up 👌
@@vaughngene Have no idea what you mean by that. I'll watch your vids in English, as I am deficient in the beautiful Japanese language. Good day.
@ I just mean reading the subtitles Lol.
However a blind person in the comments, mentioned that they can’t read them (literally), so I will be making some sort of transcripts for people,
Maybe those will help you.
But I’ll most likely repeat the concepts in future videos, so you won’t miss it. 👌
@@vaughngene Your are above most yt'ers in content, maturity, compassion, and achievements. I really look for your next vids in Engliash so that I can watch them without reading the content. Very happy for your success here.
Great advice! Continuing to use this advice for my Korean studies (and other hobbies tbh) 🫡
Nice! It’s hard but it really pays off 👌