“How did they learn Japanese 20 years ago?” I moved to Japan in 1998. Any kanji that you ever looked up you made a flash card for, end of story. Because it was such a pain in the ass to use a paper dictionary. And you memorized it. Studying was a group activity most of the time for new material, so different people could tackle/look up different words. Very few dictionaries had pitch accent in them…
oh man learning new languages is orders of magnitude easier in 2022 lol this actually sounds impossible. i'm always blown away by people who managed to do this before electronic dictionaries and such took off.
and if im talking to someone and i dont understand a word it's extremely trivial to just pull out a dictionary on my phone. kids these days is like kind of a meme but for learning languages it's actually a world apart lol
@@WeebJail rather than think of it as impossible… think of it this way. You had to work so hard to get every word. So each word was worth so much more. More in time, so the higher value was more incentive to remember and memorize. This is also why studying was often a group affair. New words could be divided between us, along with grammar that we might not yet understand. Also I know that today many learners of Japanese do not learn how to write every kanji that they can read. Well we could not write 100% but it was a lot closer. I would say about 90%. The other change to Japanese learning is use of katakana. At that time there were very few loan words in comparison to now. In modern spoken Japanese this is the part that I have the most trouble with now.
oh god you're right, fewer katakana words, that might even be worth the trade off. i keep saying katakana should be illegal every time i come across an egregious wall of katakana
Haha, just found out about this video. You're 100% on point with your criticisms of Migaku. We're working on completely rebuilding everything rn. Literally everything you're pointing out will be fixed/added in the new version. We invite you to shit on it when it's out. We're going to be the best in this space baby! 😅
Its been 6 months. Has it been reworked? Not a criticism or anything- I am genuinely curious as I'm new to Migaku but interested in checking it out after my trial for Language Reactor expires :)
Thanks! Now I know I'm not the only one who stopped using Migaku because it didn't support Wanikani. At the time I found it very frustrating to not being able to import my vocab list. I will probably give it another try eventually when they will implement it, but for now...
the thing is they gave me a free account to review it and yet im still using yomichan instead even though i like theirs better because it literally just doesnt work lol
Thank you for sharing those free (Japanese) language learning apps. I personally installed Language Learning with Netflix before I even watched Steins; Gate for the very first time. Speaking of criticism of the apps that you've mentioned, I used Rikaikun for Furigana and definitions for free long before I installed Language Learning, but now I can only read the Furigana with the same app because they removed the definitions without any warning.
10ten is the newer version of rikaikun i think, i was gonna talk about it in the video but yomichan basically does that but also does all the cool anki stuff so i left it out
Lmao! Preach on, dude! I've spent 2 days trying to setup Migaku. 5 more days of my trial left and I made 5 cards! All of them with just the sentence on the front lol! I been trying to figure out how this shit works! Not tryna' go left and right to find the definitions & all that jazz man.. They have instructions on their site and I've read them all and follow directions great. But theres so much unanswered questions of mine that I just wont even bother asking the creators of Migaku. Wasted 48 hours of my busy life haha. The layout is lovely but man i'm not trying to pay further on to keep fiddling with it because.. LONG STORY SHORT MY BRAIN HURTS. THIS SITE NEEDS GUIDANCE! LMAO. I type this feeling defeated man.
@@WeebJail oh yeah that's the one! It's legit but i remember when I last used it, they were running into issues with the anime they were using and took some down. It's probably better than those Netflix plugins tho.
wait i remember seeing this before, it had a bunch of older anime that probably wouldnt run into copyright issues. i cant imagine it being better than what i talked about here with yomichan and stuff, which is literally just a watch to study direct link that integrates right into anki, because the library is naturally super limited, but i will give it another look : D
I use migaku and it works fine for me. Although sometime it is tedious when the word is shorter than it is supposed to be and you have to add it by hand. I wish they develop a feature to make this faster. Everything else works Excelent and is many times faster than any other method that i have used
ty friend : D they said they are addressing every one of these problems so maybe once it becomes actually usable i will make a new video because its pretty sick, just literally unusable lmao
Thanks a bunch, dude. I was literally about to pay for a year of Migaku after watching Livakivi and weeks of dwelling on it, and then I thought I should watch another creator's opinion on it just in case. I'm glad I did.
ayyy ty friend : D they said they're fixing everything i mentioned, so theoretically it'll be the best just... not now. i genuinely like it more and they gave me a lifetime subscription to test it out but i literally cant use it even though they gave it to me for free, seriously baffling
Thank you. I really appreciate your informative video. Are you going to make a new video reviewing yomitan and the new migaku? It will be great if you can.
Hi! I've been learning English through immersion + anki and i'm creating 15-20 cards every day, the problem is that i take approximately 5 minutes to create a single card, that's roughly 1.5h just creating cards every day which I think is a lot. i think the main reason for this is because I'm a perfectionist and i really take my time when looking up words comparing between different dictionaries and trying to choose the best definition and sentence for me. So i kinda "study" the word making sure I understand it before adding it to Anki. (maybe that's the reason why my true retention rate is 99%). Do you think i should give mingaku a try? the only reason i'm thinking twice is because the 5 usd subscription is not that cheap for me
From your comment I can tell you're not a beginner so it wouldn't take that much time tbh . I'm learning English as well and with Migaku it literally takes seconds to make a card, except for some weird idioms that I have to look up multiple times on different websites but remember that your goal shouldn't master words through the SRS but through immersion.
@@nfrankiksa4596 I've been using migaku for about 1 month now and, indeed, it speeded up my cards creation time a lot. Btw, I've got some en-en dictionaries converted to the migaku's format and since I know the one that comes with migaku is not that good I thought you might want them, let me know if you need and I'll be happy to share!
@@BoobaMilkTea here's a tip, play everything completely seriously, then no matter what you say people have to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're joking
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“How did they learn Japanese 20 years ago?” I moved to Japan in 1998. Any kanji that you ever looked up you made a flash card for, end of story. Because it was such a pain in the ass to use a paper dictionary. And you memorized it. Studying was a group activity most of the time for new material, so different people could tackle/look up different words. Very few dictionaries had pitch accent in them…
oh man learning new languages is orders of magnitude easier in 2022 lol this actually sounds impossible. i'm always blown away by people who managed to do this before electronic dictionaries and such took off.
and if im talking to someone and i dont understand a word it's extremely trivial to just pull out a dictionary on my phone. kids these days is like kind of a meme but for learning languages it's actually a world apart lol
@@WeebJail rather than think of it as impossible… think of it this way. You had to work so hard to get every word. So each word was worth so much more. More in time, so the higher value was more incentive to remember and memorize. This is also why studying was often a group affair. New words could be divided between us, along with grammar that we might not yet understand. Also I know that today many learners of Japanese do not learn how to write every kanji that they can read. Well we could not write 100% but it was a lot closer. I would say about 90%. The other change to Japanese learning is use of katakana. At that time there were very few loan words in comparison to now. In modern spoken Japanese this is the part that I have the most trouble with now.
oh god you're right, fewer katakana words, that might even be worth the trade off. i keep saying katakana should be illegal every time i come across an egregious wall of katakana
@@coytheboy Great points.
Haha, just found out about this video. You're 100% on point with your criticisms of Migaku. We're working on completely rebuilding everything rn. Literally everything you're pointing out will be fixed/added in the new version. We invite you to shit on it when it's out. We're going to be the best in this space baby! 😅
i look forward to seeing it : D
Its been 6 months. Has it been reworked? Not a criticism or anything- I am genuinely curious as I'm new to Migaku but interested in checking it out after my trial for Language Reactor expires :)
@@zacharyshort384 Many of the issues have already been addressed in new feature releases but the rebuilt version is not out yet.
@@lucasmigaku Ahh, I see. That's good to hear. So the rebuild is primarily related to UI/UX redesign?
@@zacharyshort384 Mostly, but things will also run a lot better too
Thanks! Now I know I'm not the only one who stopped using Migaku because it didn't support Wanikani. At the time I found it very frustrating to not being able to import my vocab list. I will probably give it another try eventually when they will implement it, but for now...
the thing is they gave me a free account to review it and yet im still using yomichan instead even though i like theirs better because it literally just doesnt work lol
Thank you for sharing those free (Japanese) language learning apps. I personally installed Language Learning with Netflix before I even watched Steins; Gate for the very first time.
Speaking of criticism of the apps that you've mentioned, I used Rikaikun for Furigana and definitions for free long before I installed Language Learning, but now I can only read the Furigana with the same app because they removed the definitions without any warning.
10ten is the newer version of rikaikun i think, i was gonna talk about it in the video but yomichan basically does that but also does all the cool anki stuff so i left it out
Lmao! Preach on, dude! I've spent 2 days trying to setup Migaku. 5 more days of my trial left and I made 5 cards! All of them with just the sentence on the front lol! I been trying to figure out how this shit works! Not tryna' go left and right to find the definitions & all that jazz man.. They have instructions on their site and I've read them all and follow directions great. But theres so much unanswered questions of mine that I just wont even bother asking the creators of Migaku. Wasted 48 hours of my busy life haha. The layout is lovely but man i'm not trying to pay further on to keep fiddling with it because.. LONG STORY SHORT MY BRAIN HURTS. THIS SITE NEEDS GUIDANCE! LMAO. I type this feeling defeated man.
it's sad because i like their app so much, itll eventually get really good, probably, but rn there's too many issues with it
I remember a site that had anime with good subtitle controls and then after you could test your knowledge with quizzes and stuff... Forgot the name
wait that sounds cool af
@@WeebJail Animelon.
oh sick thank you friend ill look that up : D
@@WeebJail oh yeah that's the one! It's legit but i remember when I last used it, they were running into issues with the anime they were using and took some down. It's probably better than those Netflix plugins tho.
wait i remember seeing this before, it had a bunch of older anime that probably wouldnt run into copyright issues. i cant imagine it being better than what i talked about here with yomichan and stuff, which is literally just a watch to study direct link that integrates right into anki, because the library is naturally super limited, but i will give it another look : D
I use migaku and it works fine for me. Although sometime it is tedious when the word is shorter than it is supposed to be and you have to add it by hand. I wish they develop a feature to make this faster. Everything else works Excelent and is many times faster than any other method that i have used
I've recently tried to use Migaku, but it's completely unintuitive. I just gave up and went back to my anki decks + Yomichan.
Great video, thanks!!!
ty friend : D they said they are addressing every one of these problems so maybe once it becomes actually usable i will make a new video because its pretty sick, just literally unusable lmao
Thanks a bunch, dude. I was literally about to pay for a year of Migaku after watching Livakivi and weeks of dwelling on it, and then I thought I should watch another creator's opinion on it just in case. I'm glad I did.
ayyy ty friend : D
they said they're fixing everything i mentioned, so theoretically it'll be the best just... not now. i genuinely like it more and they gave me a lifetime subscription to test it out but i literally cant use it even though they gave it to me for free, seriously baffling
Thank you. I really appreciate your informative video. Are you going to make a new video reviewing yomitan and the new migaku? It will be great if you can.
oh maybe, i still haven't looked into it and if they fixed all these issues lol
I like the comedic styling of this video because the sheer amount of unfunny and outdated humor becomes funny somehow by sheer volume
They fixed migakus word problem! If you do know the word you can click it to be "known" without it being in anki
you could mark words when i made this lol, the problem is im not marking 10000+ words by hand
@@WeebJail fair 😭
This video changed my life.
ayyyyyyyy thats my job as king of weeaboos : D
Hi! I've been learning English through immersion + anki and i'm creating 15-20 cards every day, the problem is that i take approximately 5 minutes to create a single card, that's roughly 1.5h just creating cards every day which I think is a lot. i think the main reason for this is because I'm a perfectionist and i really take my time when looking up words comparing between different dictionaries and trying to choose the best definition and sentence for me. So i kinda "study" the word making sure I understand it before adding it to Anki. (maybe that's the reason why my true retention rate is 99%). Do you think i should give mingaku a try? the only reason i'm thinking twice is because the 5 usd subscription is not that cheap for me
i mean id try yomichan first but they do have a 1 week trial
From your comment I can tell you're not a beginner so it wouldn't take that much time tbh . I'm learning English as well and with Migaku it literally takes seconds to make a card, except for some weird idioms that I have to look up multiple times on different websites but remember that your goal shouldn't master words through the SRS but through immersion.
@@nfrankiksa4596 I've been using migaku for about 1 month now and, indeed, it speeded up my cards creation time a lot. Btw, I've got some en-en dictionaries converted to the migaku's format and since I know the one that comes with migaku is not that good I thought you might want them, let me know if you need and I'll be happy to share!
Bro made this video showing his face gg 😭
i make no apologies for any undesired arousal you may experience watching my videos
@@WeebJail your power level is too strong, i would be too embarrassed to talk of these subjects with my face in front of a camera 🤣
@@BoobaMilkTea here's a tip, play everything completely seriously, then no matter what you say people have to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're joking
Great with an honest opinion, although a little over the top for 12 fucking minutes straight.
Ha, great video.
thank you friend :'D
Absorb the language?! Bad move tho!!!!
shit!!!! grass type strategy!!