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Too bad Matt vs. Japan turned out to be a scammer. Him and Ken Cannon conned a bunch of people with their Project Uproot course.

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shorten your blog and video you talk too much!

Great suggestions! Any plans for a japanese update vid, things you wish you did differently etc. ?

Not all "primitives" (from RTK) are actual kanji radicals. Don't use those terms interchangeably.

Something about the banks I'm curious. The decks you put in the bank are decks you've "processed" (watched while deleting or suspending for the new cards deck) correct? So you're only left with those suspended ones right? Assuming the decks in the banks have been ran through, how are you you able to have a bank with which to pull ex. sentences from? Once done, Do you re-import that deck so you have back the one's you deleted? Does my inquiry make sense here haha. Like if i "watched" through many decks deleting most unknowns(which could've been used as example i+3,4 sentences later on in the bank), how could there be a bank to use. Also lets say you do re-import the same deck. You'd then have duplicates from the suspended new cards study deck no? Sorry for the ramble, just wondering about this. Thanks a ton, you're a pillar in this community!

Hey BritVSJapan thank you so much for useful advice and explanatory video and RTK and anki!

Hey, I am a little late to the party but Great Video! In addition one can also use the Migaku Kanji God to automatically create card decks in the classic RTK volume one order (the order found in edition 1 to 5), as well as in the 6th edition of RTK volume one. The Migaku Kanji God offers a lot of options and flexibility! Thank you for introducing and review the Kanji God Anki add-on!

👎👎👎 You present your stupidity with all that blablablabla … You tried to be smart and turned out to be benighted. I believe not one word of your rubbish. 👎👎👎

Ill be making the transition soon. Great video, thank you!!

Thanks to the internet, way more people know English. When (not if) you find a fluent non-native speaker and you ask them how they learned, 9/10 times they'll say they watched youtube or something. They didnt spend hours reading textbooks and practicing fake dialogues, they got massive amounts of input they enjoyed over a period of months or a couple years until they were fluent.

Migaku is amazing from getting CZcams snippets and sending them to Anki with sound and images. Such a game-changer.

When will Migaku have a Russian version? The only other option I know of is Language reactor. Which is good, but from what I've seen migaku looks a lot nicer then LR.

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I really dislike videos that are : "Hey guys, there is a much better way to do these things.. And by the way, they are the sponsors of this video..."

Brilliant, thanks. Looking forward to using it. Cheers. Lee

Receptive bilingual is another word for someone who doesn't actually know a language. Me and my brother are bilinguals. I speak our second language quite well, I was lucky to leave the mother country 3 years later in my life, and had picked up a reading habit I kept up for many years. He's younger though: he left when he was 5, and didn't really get into reading at all. I am now bilingual proper, and though the mother tongue is getting weak, I can just brush it up with a few weeks of practice. He though, is more of a "receptive bilingual". He struggles to speak the language at all... But he also has very poor understanding. Sure, he understands the basics, and can deduce a bunch of words he doesn't actually know if he hears them in context, but that doesn't mean he's fluent, or "asymmetric". Understanding is always stronger than speaking, ALWAYS. Usually 5 or 10 times as strong. So having a basic understanding will result in poor speaking. Add shame and usually disinterest in the mother tongue, and of course "receptive bilinguals" don't speak. Very poor argument.

3 months to write all this crap out. i rather just watch youtube videos w flash cards

Matt is a scammer

RTK is crap. Doesn't even teach you the readings. WaniKani is a much better alternative.

Hey a bit late to the party, I just finished the first book and it doesn't say anything about the pronunciationof the kanji (other than not to worry about them for now). So I was wondering how to go about that? Just follow N5 and so on to learn the pronunciation?

If he can’t spell kangaroo correctly, there could be a problem… right?😮

What these anti-grammar zealots never point out is that the ability to learn from input alone varies hugely between people. It may work for him, but that doesn't mean it will work for you. The fact is that the most effective programmes in the world such as the FSI, who have been studying efficient language learning for decades, use a balanced mix of intensive input and intensive work to automate useful patterns.

I don't think it's 100% necessary. It is a boost though, for sure.

I don't have any decks other then the Genki japanese deck. What's the most popular deck for N5-N1?

I can't believe that people are still talking about pitch accent when Krashen explained how it's pointless to even think about it.

I'm trying to get a txt or pdf of かがみの孤城 and I cannot for the life of me manage to do it. I have no idea where I'm supposed to look and everywhere I have looked has not had it (nyaa and tpb) can anybody help me out?

I don't think it's working properly. It's only adding them by frequency/other_metrics, not by the registered fields. You can literally spam Add_New_Cards till you reach 3000 kanji. I don't remember it being this way. Common sense would say add all the kanji from your deck, then add new ones if you desire. It doesn't do that.

Hi mate On the 'Registered Fields' step 11:45 onwards, I am not seeing the options that you are in the dropdowns. For example only 'Front' or 'Back' on Field dropdown, not 'Expression', 'Meaning' and 'Reading' - Any idea why this might be?

20:08 is it not both ways in this deck? And are this the core kanij?

Keep in mind the way a Japanese language CZcamsr learned is the way they learned, suggestions about alternative methods are usually sponsorships or guesswork on its usefulness There are multiple free tools which do what Migaku does for example

Hi Matt

If you are just recognising the kanji, there is no point in using RTK. RTK is for writing.

One of the reason Germany produced such an insanely high amount of philosophers and scientist, is the language. The German language can change your way of thinking on a level which other languages can't. Judging from the video, you may not be interested in profound literature, but trust me this will change if you start understanding concepts like Hegel's dialectics. Maybe this is a reason for you to start looking into Germany again in the future.

One day im gonna make videos about anki that doesnt take forever to get to the point

The stroke orders are not showing up even though I downloaded the fonts bruh

お久しぶり！

There's a really good guide for using mpv and mpvacious which automatically links subtitles and the audio click from a show to anki

Nice to see you back!

Recommending resources that actually work for us.. I use Migaku. Its paid but they also have their own SRS now so anki is optional with it.

Great video, especially liked the “generating readings” tip

Update video on your Japanese ability and if you’ve gotten back into studying!

This is a great video on a subject I've been thinking about a lot. As a worker in a creative industry, I worry about the ethics of AI and how it will be used to replace industries. I think there is a way that AI could be used instead to enhance the industry instead of immediately put thousands of workers out of a job. For example, ChatGPT being used to replace graded readers and native conversations, etc. The information that ChatGPT has access to is limited to what has been written about the language. Thereby, it's only derivative from professionals discussing the language, and it is limited to spoken conversation that has been transcribed. It's missing the culture and the lived experience to give information that is grounded in a true understanding of the language. At the same time, it would undermine professional work that is being done in this industry from people who have lived the language. Because ChatGPT can produce this material much quicker. Some of the instances you referenced make perfect sense for AI. For example, I think ChatGPT really shines in procedural work. Ask it to take a paragraph from a native speaker and rephrase it using the 1000 most common words. As someone who makes content related to language study. How do you see AI enhancing your work, instead of replacing it?

Are there any other AI Tools that you know of that are useful for learning languages? Reply below for others to check out!

Grammar is almost perfect.

my major takeaway from this is i need a japanese lover. jk

Thanks for this. I'm curious: How many hours on Anki over the three months to learn the 2,200 kanji? Thanks!

thanks for your efforts, but completely lost with these instructions. I'm trying to add BULK furigana to all cards from Nayr's Core 5000 revised deck. Can anyone point me to a step-by-step exact procedure for someone with zero coding experience?

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