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For people who want to learn grammar but hate reading and are more visual learners like me, I highly recommend the "Game Gengo" and "Kaname Naito" CZcams channels. They make learning Japanese grammar fun and really easy to comprehend.

The line at 3:47 hit me harder than it should have xD Thanks for that lil bit of inspiration!

For now on, I am only using English subtitles if that is the only way I will know the characters are saying, speaking in another language. I did not enjoy reading subtitles and watching what's going on much anyway.

I needed this video thank you lol, I'm same exact as your friend. I've been learning for a month and using the anki 2k/6k optimized deck 10-25 new words a day for 3 weeks now with 9 mature words and 288 young. I also was using language reactor and looking up a bunch of words. This video got recommended at the perfect time My question is, how often should I be immersing at this stage? I was thinking of rewatching 1 episode a day of my favorite one piece episodes with japanese subtitles since I don't really watch slice of life

its pretty interesting because if you understand the actions and the story, the words dont really matter all that much to be honest. you see a video game or anime for what it is when you don't understand the words

I do think though its possible to think in japanese if you do the monolingual transition because all your definitions will be in japanese so if your doing that with constant immersion I definitely think you can transfer your thoughts. Although outputting is a skill so you will definitely be lacking if you dont work at it. Gotta train those speech muscles 💪.

Lol dude this is facts. My cousins wife wanted to speak to me in japanese I was like nahh I cant output yet 😂. Shit was so cringe looking back on it.

I just found it really impractical to not output after studying Chinese for 4 years on and off. My interactions with people are what makes the experience so fun and worth it. Also from an ego perspective it was really frustrating to input for so long and have nothing to show initially when people would ask me to say things or ask me to respond to what they were saying. Still trying to do a lot of input though and been trying to follow some form of refold almost my entire journey!

Amazing video thanks for the info as usual ❤

What do you think about supplementing WaniKani with KameSame? It lets you do recall of the same material you study on WaniKani. I'm something like 250 kanji deep, do you think it's better to switch to Hesig's deck at this point? One thing I don't understand about the video is you said it's easy to forget with WaniKani, but they argue that you remember easier because you associate the meanings with powerful imagery as opposed to rote repetition. What do you think about that?

Nice video man, you explained things correctly and smooth! Also I wanted to ask, what is / how did you put a novel like that at 2:39 (I suppose is a novel idk first time seeing something like that)

I am 79 and moved from Torrance California to Japan last year because my (Japanese) wife wanted to take care of her mom. Many people here seem to be focusing mainly on conversation and listening when it comes to studying Japanese, but you will not waste time studying the kanji either. You can do that wherever you are living now, and it actually has a lot of practical value when you come to Japan. Then you can read the signs and follow the summary of the news on Japanese TV. I don't think there are any shortcuts. Just study how you feel like and don't get stressed wondering if you are doing the most efficient thing. Life is longer than you think. Marrying a Japanese woman is one approach, and I am happy with mine, but never forget that women all over the world are still women and have much in common despite whatever cultural differences there may be. PS to the ladies: no insult intended. I think you are fabulous.

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What anime subtitles site was that??

Wooooo

Alright. Bout a year or so ago the refold 2k deck defeated me and so entire deck is due today and everyday minus leeches (which also scared me) I've thought of starting over, but seeing this source I think today is the day

Makes sense as a learner who hardly can see iv been trying to listen more. I picked out a few words while watching slam dunk not really sure if that counts though.

"comprehensible japanese is a great channel to start before getting inmerse. I would recommend it

hey, thank you for the video! i'm curious as to which website/app you used for the anime subtitles where you could hover for context? i've really been struggling to even find japanese subs at all overall

Thanks for this video! I need to start to lock in now since ive been learning for a whioe but am still on a beginner level. How long would u recommend to immerse per day, the nire you immerse the sooner you may get it but how much time woukd you reccommned, and also what woukd u reccommned to do. Any help is appropriated

is there a way to use sudoto on android or an alternative website/app? or is it only possible on computer.

I would LOVE to go to a 2 year extra intense JP community. It would be like this: you can be from anywhere in the world and speak whatever mother language you have, but once you are admited in, is JP only! All the security, all the cleaners and food services employers only speak JP and you have to mimic your way throught there 😂

4:50 wha- FOR REAL??? I would so appreciate that!! I find that asking questions to someone that actually knows helps me a lot to learn (I don't want to be a bother either n,n" but I would soooo appreciete it~)

I don't think it's nearly as bad as you're making it out to be honestly, I feel that having watched a lot of subtitled anime did give me a large boost when I started taking Japanese lessons. I transitioned to Japanese subtitles eventually but I believe English subbed anime can be useful for beginner-intermediate learners. And every time I try to use Anki I end up quitting not long after because I get burnt out on it quickly. So I guess I committed both sins you mention in the video - eng subbed anime and not using anki Still got N1 tho

The biggest issue for me, as someone with experience with this method, is that I constantly heard "Input is key, input is key!" throughout all of the AJATT community. I've immersed myself in the language heavily throughout the last 4 years. Thousands of hours of experience have been built up, I understand a large majority of what is said, and have a vocab of around 15k words worth of self-made Anki cards made through my experiences. Reading is comfortable and I can play games fine and enjoy them without a slog. However, unlike how AJATTers such as Matt Vs Japan have stated happened with them, I have never had a "magical moment" where I can SPEAK Japanese. I've heard some state "Speaking just came naturally" for them with all of their immersion. No matter the amount of immersion, no lightbulb has ever clicked. After 4 years of immersion, this year I studied abroad in Japan from Jan-June and felt nearly as bad as an absolute tourist only using survival phrases when it came to speaking ability. The salt to the wound was, despite 4 years of AJATT, I was one of the worst in my class at only a Japanese IV level due to just how highly-graded output was. It was certainly depressing with all of the experience under my belt not being able to strike a genuine conversation within the language with anyone there in that time. From my experience, AJATT + Anki will teach you a LOT with understanding and getting to a level where you can comfortably play Video Games, read manga, and watch anime. Although I failed the class, I could comprehend more and certainly read more kanji than many even at the highest levels at 関西外国語大学. However, those alone will never teach you how to speak. A lightbulb will not suddenly click where you are striking conversations with natives.

What do you use to read manga and OCR to convert it? Could you make a video explaining more?

Only point I disagree on is forcing yourself to use a Japanese dictionary early. When you feel ready to use a Japanese dictionary you should switch. Eventually you get to a point where the Japanese definition is more clear and useful.

LMAO bro just called out everyone watching the video. "core 2k, and first anime". Good video. I think it's important for people to know that they won't understand almost everything off of core 2k. It's all about little steps each day, and taking T1 sentences. And it will add up like fking magic. The steps are just so small you never realize how big your progress is.

The biggest problems with English or any western language subtitles on Japanese are that they don’t follow the Japanese sequence of words, the way sentences are constructed and expressions are generally too much adapted. When learning other languages that have a similar type of sentences construction, subtitles in your own language can be more helpful because it’s easier to spot unknown vocabulary. With Japanese, it’s too difficult to identify those when words that appear written first in your language, like verbs, are only heard at the end of a Japanese sentence. What works best for me in general is to use the native language subtitles, though I highly recommend choosing the closed captions for hearing impaired rather than the normal subtitles, because sometimes normal subtitles are not always the faithful transcript of the spoken track (in some cases, you can even have native language subtitles that are translation of foreign subtitles). The problem with native Japanese subtitles is that new vocabulary may often use kanjis for which you can’t really decipher the pronunciation, that there are no spaces between words and that not many meanings of new words of vocabulary can be guessed from the way they are written (many western languages share common root words which you can identify even if the spelling is different and so extrapolate their meaning). I have yet to identify the best way to watch Japanese movies, dramas or animes to really progress. One way is to find fan subs that focus on making subtitles that are made for people who try to learn the language by writing the Japanese text with spaces between words and adding hiraganas and katakanas for kanjis, plus eventually the same line translated in your language. Another way is to watch a scene first dubbed in your language, then when the overall meaning of what is said is still fresh in your mind, watch it again in Japanese, with or without Japanese subtitles, concentrating on how the phrase is constructed in Japanese. I haven’t tried it, but it may even be a good exercise to try first to translate in Japanese the dubbed version, then listen to the correct original Japanese version of the sentence. As of now, for Japanese I feel like the character of Antonio Banderas in the movie « the 13th warrior ». For those who don’t know this movie from the 90s, Banderas character is an Arab poet more or less abducted by vikings who, after consulting an oracle, need a foreigner to be the 13th warrior in a quest to save their country from an evil menace. The Arab cannot understand at all the northern language, but the journey to the homeland of those Vikings is long and he listens to them speaking to each other, starts to identify little by little from context some words, and then day after day more and more words, until he is able to fully understand and talk to them at the end of their trip. The director of this movie, John McTiernan (the same that did the first two Die Hard movies), edited this passage of the movie in a very clever way : the Vikings speak in the beginning full Northern without even subtitles, then each word that the hero learns is spoken in English while the rest remains incomprehensible to the audience. As scenes go on, more and more words are spoken in English in the middle of Northern discussions until finally, at the end of the journey to their homeland, every character speak in English, showing that the main character has finally been able to acquire completely the northern language just by listening and watching the Vikings all this time. czcams.com/video/aVVURiaVgG8/video.htmlsi=8b4-xb3zSjnscRpO

If you inmerse with anime... I have bad news for you.

most animes are horrible source of japanese hearing material... specially shonen, if you watch the entire naruto series. you have hundred of words that no one uses in real life. cities, powers,towns, fake countries etc animes that worked for me where the ones based in "real life". of course it can have some fantasy elements. a good anime is parasyte for example. because its based mostly in tokyo. naruto, one piece etc are horrible in my opinion.

I actually learned English from watching dubbed anime back in the day (and there weren't any subs available in my language) and now people I meet online sometimes mistakes me for an American.

The worst thing you can do is to watch anime without subtitles when you're not fluent in Japanese. Because you'll get impression that you understand but in fact you'll learn wrong meanings and as they become a habit, you'll end up in the worst situation: you'll think you know while you don't really know or know wrong. This will hurt you much much more in the next steps of learning journey.

dude all imma say is big ups to you for providing all these information out of passion. really good pointers for EVERYONE learning japanese. deserve more subs!

I needed this, I’m 3 weeks in and it’s so hard when you can “get by” but can’t engage

hey i am learning french can you give advice for that

Awesome video man! For the experienced group, when u say to redo RTK and to suspend cards you know, how do you define "know"? I can recognize a lot of kanji and their readings now but I can't draw nearly anything. Would I start from scratch then in RTK?

I used to do regular RTK but I didn't do immersion at the time so I ended up with a useless bank of a couple hundred kanji I could produce with meaning and reading but not knowing any vocab that actually uses them.. That was years ago(dropped japanese because of kanji burnout) and I forgot all of them and now idk if I wanna do it again or just continue with learning them just by reading and forgo producing kanji.. Also I must say going 15 kanji a day is breakneck pace I would definitely recommend against that, I even used the king of mnemonic techniques (memory palace) back then and it still ended up being an hour of anki a day with maybe 10-20 new cards

To be honest, I don't really agree with watching anime you haven't seen without subs. Priority should be to enjoy it, which is hard if you don't understand. Once you've enjoyed an anime you can go back and rewatch it, or rewatch less recent ones, preferably with Japanese subs. Familiarity with the lines can also make it easier to recognize the meaning of words

For anyone looking for beginner level comprehensible input, I can't recommend the channel Comprehensible Japanese enough. They have a long playlist of complete beginner videos: czcams.com/video/SRSmd2sXpVQ/video.html

What is the thing at 0:33 ? I've been trying to find japanese subtitles for my anime on and off for awhile and haven't found anything, and that thing (program?) seems really good, with hover on kanjis you dont know.

This is so true i watched simple anime without subs (The polar bear caffee). My brain kinda just absorbed what was said, while i didn't fully understood everything. I could from the context itself.

Do you have a server? If you do please link and if not then please make one geared specifically toward input/native comprehension (instead of the conversation-based servers)

Also if I reading the subtitles, I can't enjoy the animation. This is why i just turning them off for slice of life animes.

I hate crunchyroll for shutting down vrv because Adblock worked on VrV so you could play anime while playing games and just listen to the anime

FINALLY someone else giving love to ゆうすけさん!! I absolutely love his videos. As someone who has only been learning for a little over a year and went to Japan earlier this summer, his videos are extremely helpful. One of the best resources for new learners to get listening practice. He is a hidden gem. Also, great anime for learning is teasing master takagi San. Targeted at a younger audience, but humorous enough to keep you engaged, and just advanced enough to always keep you learning.

Great video.

Just watch comprehensible input. Don’t watch incomprehensible anime.

So is watching Anime or any other japanese visual show with english subtitles bad?

I can watch anime with English subs and tell you exactly what they're saying in Japanese. Sounds like a skill issue.