but yeah I remember watching your first video and ones after that when they came out and my points in life and my japanese at that time. Unfortunately life stuff caused me to put my japanese aside until recently but your videos have always motivated me and while I'm just an internet stranger I can't help but feel proud of this kid online that grew up and really put in that effort
most people probably won't realize how much of a feat this really is, great job man. i've stopped being a part of this community for a while now, but as soon as i saw you posted a video i just had to click. excited for the things that are coming your way. congrats, you've earned it!
Hey man, I'm 15 years older then you and I started Japanese 2 years ago. I've watched all your updates and the part that resonated with me as it should with everyone is to be proud of where you are compared to where you've been. It's so huge. Also I am starting to feel what you mean about just starting to do things in Japanese and it not feel like a grind/study. At this stage while I can't watch an adult show without subtitles, I can certainly follow it (this varies quite a bit of course) and its just great to get to this stage. Similarly while reading Manga or books, its now becoming less and less about learning and more about engagement. I will say the biggest thing that has helped is getting grammar out of the way as you say, though my approach was definitely to study grammar every day (or try to, no one is perfect) and then immerse. I feel like knowing grammar has really helped get past the slog of what is a word and what is just...grammar. Both in reading and listening. Anyway, loved the updates. I'll never live in Japan myself, though I plan to visit for vacation in the 3 years (my 5 year mark) mainly because I want to wait for my daughter to be at an age where she can appreciate the trip. :) I hope you make video updates of your journeys in Japan. Even small ones, it would be great to see!
Yeah, from what I've read online it's always super competitive and it's basically just up to luck whether you get selected for an interview or not. I don't think they really care too much about language ability either. But I wouldn't be surprised if they want people who are less-skilled in Japanese because then it's easier to keep them in the JET system longer 😂
I use the monolingual dictionary a bit more these days but overall I think it's still not needed and is just a nice extra benefit. Definitely not something to stress about!
Man this is so cool! Thanks for inspiring me to take my Chinese studies more seriously. Wishing you all the best for your move to Japan, I'm sure you'll have the best time!!
As always you make very good update videos Tiger. Literary stole like half of the things I was going to say when I would upload one, but I mean it is even playing field out here. I really enjoyed how you got a bit emotional at the end because you really did work your way up with Japanese and I get that too. Overall, really good man you were definitely an inspiration for me to start learning and also upload my own videos, so thank you for that. I will be waiting for your next upload and I hope you enjoy you 3 month internship in Japan man. Have fun
It's a nice feeling :) I had one of these moments in French, having learnt it in a few years, to a level where I did a masters in it, and now work in it daily. Looking back you think of how happy your past self would be with you ; it's an amazing thing. The challenge keeps going every day haha
Congratulations on your internship man! I appreciate all of your candid outlooks on your video. Japanese is one of those things Ive had a hard time being consistent with because I'm a father of 2, but seeing stories like yours is really inspiring to get going again. I am going to Japan next year and I want to be in a much better spot than I am now.
I did Tango N5-N2 and the RRTK I think it was called. They are great for learning Kanji, gramma, reading and has good audio. Now I mine from manga and games mostly.
@@HypotheticalTiger I'm almost at the 3 year mark in June. Average 3h per day without missing a day, even Anki :-). I'm reading manga, playing games etc just spending time in the language. Output is hard did 60h of iTalki but I still suck.
@@アンドレ-l6q Hell yeah, you’re kicking ass 😎 Yeah, outputting is a weird one. I found that building up my confidence in messaging and then moving to speaking was helpful but there’s definitely a large amount of time before you feel like you don’t suck anymore. I still feel like I suck tbh but I’m able to have semi-decent conversations so I guess it’s not the worst 😂 As I’m sure you know, just gotta keep doing it and eventually you’ll get to the point where you want to be!
Congratulations on the Job! I have started learning Japanese again myself. Started ion May 24. I hope to take the JLPT this year. Not sure what level. I have been playing this kanji game and doing using tengo deck for now starting at n4 going to make my way to n1. I think I will add reading manga back to the list next month. Still watching anime here an there but I am looking to move towards Japanese YTbers. Have any recommendations? I would enjoy seeing videos about your time in Japan and what you have moving forward!!
That's awesome! I hope it's going well for you :> Awesome to see you back into it, definitely recommend some manga! For Japanese TH-camrs, I watch SANNINSHOW, フブキCh。白上フブキ, 癒しのあいろん雑学ゲーム実況, ばんばんざい, たつろう, then just a bunch of v-tubers and whatever gets recommended to me lol
Fully agree with the monolingual transition. I did it back in the day, and all it did is make me end up not looking up words during immersion because I just couldnt be bothered. And that slowed me down dramatically since, well, I’d run across tons of words that I didn’t know, and just… skip them. Now I look up in english, and I’m looking up words so much more. And when making anki cards, on yomichan I have both the english definition and a few japanese ones, so I can pick whatever makes me understand better. Also agreed with the whole point on nuance. Yeah the JP dictionary tells you more about the nuance, but you’re gonna get that through immersion anyways when you’ve immerse a lot. When learning english I always looked up translations of the words in french, it’s only when I was fluent that I naturally ended up looking up actual english definitions of words. And my english understanding turned out totally fine in the long run!
🙏when I originally started trying the monolingual transition I did the same thing and just stopped looking things up because it would be a shitty process and would just be no fun at the time
I agree so much about pre-made decks and the monolingual transition. I have sentenced mined and used a monolingual dictionary before, a lot. But neither are necessary. Repping in Anki becomes so convoluted when you’re trying to recall Japanese definitions (especially with vocab cards) and look ups while immersing take so long. It’s not worth it imo. Also, you can learn words with pre-made decks. I’ve made 1000s of my own cards but you don’t need to. Do 6k-10k pre-made then stop new cards and quit Anki after the reviews drop really low.
Definitely agree with you! People put too much value on the monolingual transition and anki in general, should be a quick "get the meaning and go" type of thing imo
Using an English dictionary while your immersing to just get a general idea of the meaning of a word really quick is fine, but I think monolingual definitions are worth it for your anki cards so you don't reinforce the english ones over and over again while reviewing your cards.
I can agree with that maybe, but if you're learning those words and really reinforcing the meaning basically from Anki, that's a bad thing imo. Whether my cards are in Japanese or English, I would always be learning the true meaning and usage of the words from immersing and seeing it in various contexts. If you spend a lot of time on Anki, Japanese is probably better to have as the definition language but that's completely opposite of how I want to learn Japanese and how I have been doing it. Anki is amazing but I think a majority of people overvalue it in a way that causes them to spend a lot more time on Anki than they should. But obviously it's all up to how that person wants to learn! Just from my experience going fully monolingual doesn't seem to be a necessity and can probably slow down a lot of people if they focus on it too much and make it something they HAVE to do at a certain point.
It's really hard to say just because there were days where I would play a game for 17 hours straight lmao and then there were days where I didn't really do anything besides maybe seeing some Japanese on twitter. If I had to give a number I'd say it averages out to at least 3 hours a day. It's fine to take days off and to not do so much but I think 2 hours a day is a good goal to shoot for and should be enough to get good over an okay length of time. But by no means should it be something like "if I don't get my 2 hours of Japanese today then I fucked up." Even now I do a lot of things in English but there's things I only do in Japanese. I still talk to my friends in English and watch English movies and TH-cam. But if I watch any anime, read manga, or play video games, it's always in Japanese. And then of course I talk to Japanese friends, watch Japanese movies and TH-cam here and there. I feel like my life has a pretty nice balance of English and Japanese stuff which makes me pretty happy! Hope this is a good answer lmao
I learned basic kana years and years ago mostly out of curiosity, but I never started actually learning anything past that until 2 months ago, and I started doing immersion based learning just over a month ago. Cool to see someone I know who is on the same journey as me but quite a bit deeper in, sick to hear about your progress! I saw your video in my feed and didn't think much of it cause I get a bunch of immersion learning updates and stuff cause I've been watching a ton of stuff about it, but then I realized I knew your name lmao
I popped off when I saw this comment pop up on my phone lmao. If you want to talk about immersion stuff, Japanese stuff or anything just let me know I'm sure you've been making some sick gains already, for some reason the speedrunners I know who do immersion for Japanese always get good fast lmao
I think i started immersing a bit after when you made your 6 month video, and back then, seeing that video was definitely a big inspiration to me, and likely helped to solidify my motivation for starting to immerse initially. I really relate to what you said in this video though, about how taking a big challenge like this in learning Japanese helped make you feel more capable of being able to do anything else challenging if you had the interest in it. Japanese has been the first big thing for me (outside of more structured things like school/etc) that i've really committed myself to pursuing. I've never gone at something challenging like this on my own and really stuck with it this far. It really does make me feel confident about doing anything else in the future. Also, I've personally been slacking a bit recently, and i started getting down on myself about it until i remembered you talking about there being spans of time in your journey where you weren't as productive with immersing (maybe this was in your 2 year video?) and it made me feel better about this just being something I need right now, and that it doesn't mean I can't still achieve my goals with the language eventually. for that and more, and everything, thanks so much! I'm excited for you and hope your time living in Japan goes great!! and even if they're sparse from here on, I'll always look forward to a video of yours. take care
I'm super glad that my videos have been able to help you out and provide some guidance on how to deal with the whole journey. Absolutely take time off, as long as you come back and continue you'll still get to where you want to be eventually. Right now I'm in a period where immersions super easy because it's literally all I want to do, so when moments like this happen I think it's best to take hold and really just do as much as you want and can do. Best thing is to try and touch a little Japanese every day in some way, even on days where I didn't want to hear or read any Japanese, I would always see a little on TH-cam titles or in tweets so no matter what I always got some input which I think helped a lot. Thank you so much!! :D
This video is very inspiring I've been learning Japanese for 2 years now finshed reading jojo part 3 earlier this week , watching part 1 without subs and playing persona 5 in japanese (the only two series i came across that used 汝 😂)passed the n3 and getting ready for the n2 my goal is to also go to japan with the mext scholarship undergraduate program after i finish highschool if i get accepted I'll update this comment みんな頑張ってね edit 22/01/2024: Passed N2 with a 125/180. 4 months left till application for MEXT Scholarship Edit 10/07/2024: I have unfortunately been rejected but that doesn't mean that I'll give up just yet. I'll try to work on my grades and my skills and aim for N1
我は汝、汝は我 will forever be in my head until the day I die lmaoooo. Congrats on passing N3, that's awesome! Hope N2 goes just as well for you, I think if you can understand Persona 5 you're more than ready to pass N2 :D That would be awesome if you get to go through the MEXT scholarship, I wish you luck!
Aye man, watched the whole thing! Fantastic seeing you reflect on your journey, how far you've come and seeing you getting an amazing opportunity to put it all to good use! I'd love random life updates in Japan, documenting thoughts, feelings or other madman ramblings anytime dude 😁🤝🏻 Applied for Jet this Nov and playing the waiting game to hear about an interview. Hopefully Christmas comes early😂. Excited to follow along with whatever direction life takes you, and greatly enjoyed reflecting alongside you in this vid 🙏🏻
Thanks so much for watching! I really appreciate it and I'm glad you enjoyed the video :> I'm planning on making a video talking about my time in Japan, future with Japan, Japanese gains, etc. as well as a speaking video soon! Hope those videos provide value as well! Good luck with JET! It's annoying with their damn interview schedule and application process being super long, the waiting sucks!
Planning on making a video talking about my time in Japan, future with Japan, etc. as well as a speaking video soon! Just need to get some stuff done and then they'll be getting made and uploaded :D
This video was super inspiring! I’m doing immersion for Spanish right now but Japanese is next up. Don’t really have any plans to learn any languages after that unless my brother decides to pick up German like he’s been saying or my future partner speaks a foreign language. A speaking update video would be really cool to see at this point.
Thanks so much, I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I hope the Spanish learning is going well and Japanese goes well too when you get to it! I have plans to upload about two more Japanese related videos soon. with one of them being a speaking video. Have to stop being lazy and clean my room so I can record lmao I'm the worst
Experience is so similar to mine I bought a lifetime wanikani membership too and made it to level 60 (did not need to I'm just a completionist. When you said 何してんの, wtf does してん mean? Audibly laughed out loud I can relate to this so much
Absolutely wild how different normal Japanese is compared to like textbook shit and the "correct way." I'm glad I'm not the only one with that experience. I remember that happened and I was like "I'm fucked" lmaooo
I think that it's something that's pretty important if you want to sound as close to a Japanese person as you can. I haven't really spent much time on it because I'm lazy as fuck and that's really the only reason lol. I've been able to have plenty of conversations and people understand me fine, it's very rare that I'm misunderstood because of pronunciation if people don't understand what I say. Plus, I've gotten compliments on my pronunciation from time to time so I guess it's not terrible even though I'm sure it's far from perfect. I think it's probably good thing to put a decent amount of time into if you really care about sounding as good as you can, I wish that I could force myself to put some time into it but I'm just focusing on a lot of other things instead. I have some of Dogen's videos saved somewhere that are apparently pretty good to watch even if you don't do a deep dive into pitch accent, hope I can just sit down and watch those sometime just to get a little better with it and understand it more. Long answer which pretty much means, I'm dumb and shouldn't be lazy because it's probably something that's good to put time into but if you don't you can still be okay if that's something that you're okay with lmao
I wish I'd known you were around in May, I'd have reached out! Strongly recommend getting permission to record a conversation with a friend or something it'll make speaking easier lol
Damn! Yeah I kinda kept it secret from online people until I got there lmao That's what I was planning! Or just stop being a bitch and talk to a camera, really want to get it filmed before I leave for Japan in a couple days. Also I tried to respond to your Twitter DM but for some reason kept getting an error when hitting send. I read all my manga from nyaa even if the scan is bad I can usually push through depending on the series but most things I download have been pretty decent quality.
I think I tried to do RTK for like a couple days then gave up lol, because of the wanikani I didn't really need any extra help with recognizing kanji/getting used to them
Today I found your TH-cam channel and I have already watched this and your 18 month progress video and it is great to feel the personal enthusiasm and the human side of a very similar story to what I am doing. Keep up the great and inspiring work :)
Its great to see you back for another Japanese Update and I enjoy seeing you talk about your journey and progress! I myself have been slacking off for a while, but I'll hope and make sure to get back into it asap! Its always motivating to see your updates and I hope you get back with another update sometime soon! I hope you enjoy your stay in japan as well as your internship! Have fun!
Hey man, you still in Japan by any chance? I’m living here in Tokyo for a year would be great to meet up. Been watching your videos and it’s super relatable because I’m at 2.5 years of ajatt atm
I'm gone at this point but if everything works out like I expect it to, I'll be back in Japan and in the Tokyo area very soon ;) Add me on discord/twitter and send me a DM and we'll work something out!
Don't you feel like you're doing an excessive amount of reading, more than you are doing listening? Matt and Refold always preached that you need to do more listening than reading but if your goals is to just understand written content more then I guess that's fine.
I have no problem with my ratio of reading to listening. I don't have exact hours for anything at this point but I've gotten hundreds of hours of listening within the last year. I still definitely have more reading experience altogether but I'm getting a good amount of listening in as well, and that will only go up once I'm in Japan and interacting with people every day.
My major was an HCI degree, the internship didn't really have anything to do with the work. Was basically just a chance to spend time in Japan, wasn't really for the "work experience" I guess lol besides it involving Japanese communication, translations, etc.
"I don't fucking care about the japanese dictionary, I'm here to read my manga"
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but yeah I remember watching your first video and ones after that when they came out and my points in life and my japanese at that time. Unfortunately life stuff caused me to put my japanese aside until recently but your videos have always motivated me and while I'm just an internet stranger I can't help but feel proud of this kid online that grew up and really put in that effort
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damn, you even got handsome, impressive progress.
most people probably won't realize how much of a feat this really is, great job man. i've stopped being a part of this community for a while now, but as soon as i saw you posted a video i just had to click. excited for the things that are coming your way. congrats, you've earned it!
You're a fucking legend pal, hope everything is going well for you
Hey man, I'm 15 years older then you and I started Japanese 2 years ago. I've watched all your updates and the part that resonated with me as it should with everyone is to be proud of where you are compared to where you've been. It's so huge. Also I am starting to feel what you mean about just starting to do things in Japanese and it not feel like a grind/study. At this stage while I can't watch an adult show without subtitles, I can certainly follow it (this varies quite a bit of course) and its just great to get to this stage. Similarly while reading Manga or books, its now becoming less and less about learning and more about engagement.
I will say the biggest thing that has helped is getting grammar out of the way as you say, though my approach was definitely to study grammar every day (or try to, no one is perfect) and then immerse. I feel like knowing grammar has really helped get past the slog of what is a word and what is just...grammar. Both in reading and listening.
Anyway, loved the updates. I'll never live in Japan myself, though I plan to visit for vacation in the 3 years (my 5 year mark) mainly because I want to wait for my daughter to be at an age where she can appreciate the trip. :)
I hope you make video updates of your journeys in Japan. Even small ones, it would be great to see!
How old were you when you started? Can you watch anime without subtitles?
are you the guy from that smash melee meme image?
44:00 even Khatzumoto said that you shouldn't let anyone tell you what to do (not even him) to learn japanese
Damn you got denied from the JET program even though you speak and understand the language? I didn’t know it was that competitive..
Yeah, from what I've read online it's always super competitive and it's basically just up to luck whether you get selected for an interview or not. I don't think they really care too much about language ability either. But I wouldn't be surprised if they want people who are less-skilled in Japanese because then it's easier to keep them in the JET system longer 😂
0 people in the comments saying I need a monolingual transition 🫨🫨🫨
I use the monolingual dictionary a bit more these days but overall I think it's still not needed and is just a nice extra benefit. Definitely not something to stress about!
Man this is so cool! Thanks for inspiring me to take my Chinese studies more seriously. Wishing you all the best for your move to Japan, I'm sure you'll have the best time!!
Thank you so much, I hope learning Chinese goes well! I hope my videos are able to help even though they're about a different language haha
As always you make very good update videos Tiger. Literary stole like half of the things I was going to say when I would upload one, but I mean it is even playing field out here. I really enjoyed how you got a bit emotional at the end because you really did work your way up with Japanese and I get that too. Overall, really good man you were definitely an inspiration for me to start learning and also upload my own videos, so thank you for that. I will be waiting for your next upload and I hope you enjoy you 3 month internship in Japan man. Have fun
It's a nice feeling :) I had one of these moments in French, having learnt it in a few years, to a level where I did a masters in it, and now work in it daily. Looking back you think of how happy your past self would be with you ; it's an amazing thing. The challenge keeps going every day haha
I’ve been on and off for years now, I’m age 29, life’s been very busy for me, but I started making more free time for immersion lately!
Congratulations on your internship man! I appreciate all of your candid outlooks on your video. Japanese is one of those things Ive had a hard time being consistent with because I'm a father of 2, but seeing stories like yours is really inspiring to get going again. I am going to Japan next year and I want to be in a much better spot than I am now.
Just finished the video. Always such a fantastic experience. Great stuff.
I did Tango N5-N2 and the RRTK I think it was called. They are great for learning Kanji, gramma, reading and has good audio. Now I mine from manga and games mostly.
Nice! Just keep up the mining/immersion and then looking up new words and grammar as you go and you'll just keep getting better and better!
@@HypotheticalTiger I'm almost at the 3 year mark in June. Average 3h per day without missing a day, even Anki :-). I'm reading manga, playing games etc just spending time in the language. Output is hard did 60h of iTalki but I still suck.
@@アンドレ-l6q Hell yeah, you’re kicking ass 😎 Yeah, outputting is a weird one. I found that building up my confidence in messaging and then moving to speaking was helpful but there’s definitely a large amount of time before you feel like you don’t suck anymore.
I still feel like I suck tbh but I’m able to have semi-decent conversations so I guess it’s not the worst 😂 As I’m sure you know, just gotta keep doing it and eventually you’ll get to the point where you want to be!
Congratulations on the Job! I have started learning Japanese again myself. Started ion May 24. I hope to take the JLPT this year. Not sure what level. I have been playing this kanji game and doing using tengo deck for now starting at n4 going to make my way to n1. I think I will add reading manga back to the list next month. Still watching anime here an there but I am looking to move towards Japanese YTbers. Have any recommendations? I would enjoy seeing videos about your time in Japan and what you have moving forward!!
That's awesome! I hope it's going well for you :> Awesome to see you back into it, definitely recommend some manga!
For Japanese TH-camrs, I watch SANNINSHOW, フブキCh。白上フブキ, 癒しのあいろん雑学ゲーム実況, ばんばんざい, たつろう, then just a bunch of v-tubers and whatever gets recommended to me lol
Fully agree with the monolingual transition. I did it back in the day, and all it did is make me end up not looking up words during immersion because I just couldnt be bothered. And that slowed me down dramatically since, well, I’d run across tons of words that I didn’t know, and just… skip them.
Now I look up in english, and I’m looking up words so much more. And when making anki cards, on yomichan I have both the english definition and a few japanese ones, so I can pick whatever makes me understand better.
Also agreed with the whole point on nuance. Yeah the JP dictionary tells you more about the nuance, but you’re gonna get that through immersion anyways when you’ve immerse a lot.
When learning english I always looked up translations of the words in french, it’s only when I was fluent that I naturally ended up looking up actual english definitions of words. And my english understanding turned out totally fine in the long run!
🙏when I originally started trying the monolingual transition I did the same thing and just stopped looking things up because it would be a shitty process and would just be no fun at the time
I agree so much about pre-made decks and the monolingual transition. I have sentenced mined and used a monolingual dictionary before, a lot. But neither are necessary. Repping in Anki becomes so convoluted when you’re trying to recall Japanese definitions (especially with vocab cards) and look ups while immersing take so long. It’s not worth it imo. Also, you can learn words with pre-made decks. I’ve made 1000s of my own cards but you don’t need to. Do 6k-10k pre-made then stop new cards and quit Anki after the reviews drop really low.
Definitely agree with you! People put too much value on the monolingual transition and anki in general, should be a quick "get the meaning and go" type of thing imo
Using an English dictionary while your immersing to just get a general idea of the meaning of a word really quick is fine, but I think monolingual definitions are worth it for your anki cards so you don't reinforce the english ones over and over again while reviewing your cards.
I can agree with that maybe, but if you're learning those words and really reinforcing the meaning basically from Anki, that's a bad thing imo. Whether my cards are in Japanese or English, I would always be learning the true meaning and usage of the words from immersing and seeing it in various contexts. If you spend a lot of time on Anki, Japanese is probably better to have as the definition language but that's completely opposite of how I want to learn Japanese and how I have been doing it. Anki is amazing but I think a majority of people overvalue it in a way that causes them to spend a lot more time on Anki than they should.
But obviously it's all up to how that person wants to learn! Just from my experience going fully monolingual doesn't seem to be a necessity and can probably slow down a lot of people if they focus on it too much and make it something they HAVE to do at a certain point.
How many hours a day on average do you immerse/ study?
It's really hard to say just because there were days where I would play a game for 17 hours straight lmao and then there were days where I didn't really do anything besides maybe seeing some Japanese on twitter. If I had to give a number I'd say it averages out to at least 3 hours a day.
It's fine to take days off and to not do so much but I think 2 hours a day is a good goal to shoot for and should be enough to get good over an okay length of time. But by no means should it be something like "if I don't get my 2 hours of Japanese today then I fucked up."
Even now I do a lot of things in English but there's things I only do in Japanese. I still talk to my friends in English and watch English movies and TH-cam. But if I watch any anime, read manga, or play video games, it's always in Japanese. And then of course I talk to Japanese friends, watch Japanese movies and TH-cam here and there. I feel like my life has a pretty nice balance of English and Japanese stuff which makes me pretty happy!
Hope this is a good answer lmao
Thank you! It does!
I learned basic kana years and years ago mostly out of curiosity, but I never started actually learning anything past that until 2 months ago, and I started doing immersion based learning just over a month ago.
Cool to see someone I know who is on the same journey as me but quite a bit deeper in, sick to hear about your progress!
I saw your video in my feed and didn't think much of it cause I get a bunch of immersion learning updates and stuff cause I've been watching a ton of stuff about it, but then I realized I knew your name lmao
I popped off when I saw this comment pop up on my phone lmao. If you want to talk about immersion stuff, Japanese stuff or anything just let me know
I'm sure you've been making some sick gains already, for some reason the speedrunners I know who do immersion for Japanese always get good fast lmao
I think i started immersing a bit after when you made your 6 month video, and back then, seeing that video was definitely a big inspiration to me, and likely helped to solidify my motivation for starting to immerse initially. I really relate to what you said in this video though, about how taking a big challenge like this in learning Japanese helped make you feel more capable of being able to do anything else challenging if you had the interest in it. Japanese has been the first big thing for me (outside of more structured things like school/etc) that i've really committed myself to pursuing. I've never gone at something challenging like this on my own and really stuck with it this far. It really does make me feel confident about doing anything else in the future.
Also, I've personally been slacking a bit recently, and i started getting down on myself about it until i remembered you talking about there being spans of time in your journey where you weren't as productive with immersing (maybe this was in your 2 year video?) and it made me feel better about this just being something I need right now, and that it doesn't mean I can't still achieve my goals with the language eventually.
for that and more, and everything, thanks so much! I'm excited for you and hope your time living in Japan goes great!! and even if they're sparse from here on, I'll always look forward to a video of yours.
take care
I'm super glad that my videos have been able to help you out and provide some guidance on how to deal with the whole journey. Absolutely take time off, as long as you come back and continue you'll still get to where you want to be eventually. Right now I'm in a period where immersions super easy because it's literally all I want to do, so when moments like this happen I think it's best to take hold and really just do as much as you want and can do. Best thing is to try and touch a little Japanese every day in some way, even on days where I didn't want to hear or read any Japanese, I would always see a little on TH-cam titles or in tweets so no matter what I always got some input which I think helped a lot.
Thank you so much!! :D
you are a real inspiration. good luck with your move to japan!
This video is very inspiring I've been learning Japanese for 2 years now finshed reading jojo part 3 earlier this week , watching part 1 without subs and playing persona 5 in japanese (the only two series i came across that used 汝 😂)passed the n3 and getting ready for the n2 my goal is to also go to japan with the mext scholarship undergraduate program after i finish highschool if i get accepted I'll update this comment みんな頑張ってね
edit 22/01/2024: Passed N2 with a 125/180. 4 months left till application for MEXT Scholarship
Edit 10/07/2024: I have unfortunately been rejected but that doesn't mean that I'll give up just yet. I'll try to work on my grades and my skills and aim for N1
我は汝、汝は我 will forever be in my head until the day I die lmaoooo. Congrats on passing N3, that's awesome! Hope N2 goes just as well for you, I think if you can understand Persona 5 you're more than ready to pass N2 :D
That would be awesome if you get to go through the MEXT scholarship, I wish you luck!
@@HypotheticalTiger thank you so much for the heart and encouragement
How on earth have i just found you?"😮
I hope Japan goes well for you!!
Thank you!
Aye man, watched the whole thing! Fantastic seeing you reflect on your journey, how far you've come and seeing you getting an amazing opportunity to put it all to good use!
I'd love random life updates in Japan, documenting thoughts, feelings or other madman ramblings anytime dude 😁🤝🏻
Applied for Jet this Nov and playing the waiting game to hear about an interview. Hopefully Christmas comes early😂.
Excited to follow along with whatever direction life takes you, and greatly enjoyed reflecting alongside you in this vid 🙏🏻
Thanks so much for watching! I really appreciate it and I'm glad you enjoyed the video :>
I'm planning on making a video talking about my time in Japan, future with Japan, Japanese gains, etc. as well as a speaking video soon! Hope those videos provide value as well!
Good luck with JET! It's annoying with their damn interview schedule and application process being super long, the waiting sucks!
Great video! If you would make a video abt ur experience of Japan, I will watch it :)
Planning on making a video talking about my time in Japan, future with Japan, etc. as well as a speaking video soon! Just need to get some stuff done and then they'll be getting made and uploaded :D
This video was super inspiring! I’m doing immersion for Spanish right now but Japanese is next up. Don’t really have any plans to learn any languages after that unless my brother decides to pick up German like he’s been saying or my future partner speaks a foreign language. A speaking update video would be really cool to see at this point.
Thanks so much, I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I hope the Spanish learning is going well and Japanese goes well too when you get to it!
I have plans to upload about two more Japanese related videos soon. with one of them being a speaking video. Have to stop being lazy and clean my room so I can record lmao I'm the worst
i stared at your pfp the whole time and imagined it was you
I'm sorry but I'm not a furry
Experience is so similar to mine I bought a lifetime wanikani membership too and made it to level 60 (did not need to I'm just a completionist. When you said 何してんの, wtf does してん mean? Audibly laughed out loud I can relate to this so much
Absolutely wild how different normal Japanese is compared to like textbook shit and the "correct way." I'm glad I'm not the only one with that experience. I remember that happened and I was like "I'm fucked" lmaooo
Hey congratulations on your internship!! Just a quick question, what's your take on pitch accent?
I think that it's something that's pretty important if you want to sound as close to a Japanese person as you can. I haven't really spent much time on it because I'm lazy as fuck and that's really the only reason lol. I've been able to have plenty of conversations and people understand me fine, it's very rare that I'm misunderstood because of pronunciation if people don't understand what I say. Plus, I've gotten compliments on my pronunciation from time to time so I guess it's not terrible even though I'm sure it's far from perfect. I think it's probably good thing to put a decent amount of time into if you really care about sounding as good as you can, I wish that I could force myself to put some time into it but I'm just focusing on a lot of other things instead. I have some of Dogen's videos saved somewhere that are apparently pretty good to watch even if you don't do a deep dive into pitch accent, hope I can just sit down and watch those sometime just to get a little better with it and understand it more.
Long answer which pretty much means, I'm dumb and shouldn't be lazy because it's probably something that's good to put time into but if you don't you can still be okay if that's something that you're okay with lmao
I wish I'd known you were around in May, I'd have reached out!
Strongly recommend getting permission to record a conversation with a friend or something it'll make speaking easier lol
Damn! Yeah I kinda kept it secret from online people until I got there lmao
That's what I was planning! Or just stop being a bitch and talk to a camera, really want to get it filmed before I leave for Japan in a couple days. Also I tried to respond to your Twitter DM but for some reason kept getting an error when hitting send. I read all my manga from nyaa even if the scan is bad I can usually push through depending on the series but most things I download have been pretty decent quality.
Nice to see you back! Good luck in Japan.
Thank you so much!
Nice work! You seem like a very genuine person. Maybe I missed it, but did you end up doing RTK?
I think I tried to do RTK for like a couple days then gave up lol, because of the wanikani I didn't really need any extra help with recognizing kanji/getting used to them
damn dude, your name is my favorite
Today I found your TH-cam channel and I have already watched this and your 18 month progress video and it is great to feel the personal enthusiasm and the human side of a very similar story to what I am doing. Keep up the great and inspiring work :)
Thank you so much, really appreciate it! I hope that your journey goes well too :>
Congrats on N2 and internship
Thanks! Excited to see how it goes and then eventually take the N1 :D
Its great to see you back for another Japanese Update and I enjoy seeing you talk about your journey and progress!
I myself have been slacking off for a while, but I'll hope and make sure to get back into it asap! Its always motivating to see your updates and I hope you get back with another update sometime soon! I hope you enjoy your stay in japan as well as your internship! Have fun!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! I hope that your learning goes well :D
congrats man
Are those anti reflective glasses?
Dude I wish, fucking eye doctor lied to me
@@HypotheticalTiger that damn bastard
Hey man, you still in Japan by any chance? I’m living here in Tokyo for a year would be great to meet up. Been watching your videos and it’s super relatable because I’m at 2.5 years of ajatt atm
I'm gone at this point but if everything works out like I expect it to, I'll be back in Japan and in the Tokyo area very soon ;) Add me on discord/twitter and send me a DM and we'll work something out!
Don't you feel like you're doing an excessive amount of reading, more than you are doing listening? Matt and Refold always preached that you need to do more listening than reading but if your goals is to just understand written content more then I guess that's fine.
I have no problem with my ratio of reading to listening. I don't have exact hours for anything at this point but I've gotten hundreds of hours of listening within the last year. I still definitely have more reading experience altogether but I'm getting a good amount of listening in as well, and that will only go up once I'm in Japan and interacting with people every day.
Learn Chinese now 😳
Nah, zero interest into any other language lmao
Great video, good luck in Japan!
Thank you!
Upload a video of yourself speaking japanese
Planning on it bucko
what was your major for going to work in japan for 3 months?
My major was an HCI degree, the internship didn't really have anything to do with the work. Was basically just a chance to spend time in Japan, wasn't really for the "work experience" I guess lol besides it involving Japanese communication, translations, etc.