AJATT 12 Month Update Progress Report | 12 Months Learning Japanese With Immersion
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- This video is another update and big milestone, hitting the 12 month mark for AJATT and my Japanese immersion using input approach and Anki.
As I've been doing videos every month since the 6th month mark, nothing much has happened in terms of progress, but nonetheless this is quick update highlighting my level, routine, future plans, and more.
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Ayyy congrats, man! I saw your 11 month update and it’s inspired me to start my own journey. I’m currently 13 days in so we’ll see how it goes lol.
You got this!
Awesome update, 1 year is great! Keep it up!
Nice update, hope it continues to keep going well!
Congratulations on your year man! I really like following your content as it has helped keep me motivated to stay dug in to learning. Im headed to Japan this November and hoping I am not totally clueless 😂
Best of luck!
you should try Short Stories in Japanese by Olly Richards.
Hi man, really nice update video. I'm also on my own japanese learning journey so it's inspiring to see you plodding along every month, good on you, and I hope you continue and succeed!
I saw on one of your replies that you said you're lucky that you have the time to do all this anki. Based on everything you've said it sounds like you're getting about 3-5 hours of immersion with podcasts and anime and then you're studying for about 1.5 hours or longer on anki. That's basically something like 6 hours a day just with japanese. My question is what does your day look like that allows you to have a lot of time to dedicate to learning japanese? From time to time I get a lot of free time but even when I sit down to do some japanese I find I only get a good 2 hours or so of japanese when I could potentially do 4 or 5 hours. Part of it is time management, but the other part is that I have other things as well.
I'm just curious how you've organised your life and your days. Maybe it will give me some insight in how to organise my days as I'm also self-employed.
I made a video on time management a week or so ago that goes into it. Basically, though, I work from home. So I can listen a lot while working. I also listen at the gym, and then in the afternoon ill just hit my reps in one session with breaks in between. Like 100 reps, with 5 minute breaks kinda like you'd treat reps and sets at the gym, so 3-4 sets of 100 reps with 5 minute break in between.
Congratulations!
Thank you!
nice update!
I wanted to ask about your stats on mature cards because I feel like I'm seeing a decline throughout the months, and I was wondering if it was the same for other people (I'm around 82%)
Im at 64.7%. But i don’t think this stat tells the full story, especially when using just again and good buttons, meaning cards stay young for longer.
It implies none of the young cards are or will be easily remembered.
For example my average retrievability stat is 88% and from daily reviews I tend to observe about 85% mature cards recalled and relearned/repeated cards around 15-20% (meaning 80+% retrievability) on a day to day basis.
The entire picture tells me I probably know at the very least 75% of my deck still.
Im very curious to compair my 12 months when I get there. It seems you have taken the more exponential path with 20+ cards per day which will result in that moment eventually where you just feel like you understand.
Im on a more linear path of truely understanding less words (8per day). I will be at around 1700 words by my 12 month point but i already feel like i understand a good amount of what i listen to.
I did more cards early. 12 cards each day till 1000 words after that i dropped it. Since i felt like i was better of listening more and taking fewer words per day since they get exponentially less common as i learn more.
Just some things to pick your brain, i wouldn't recommend changing anything if it doesn't aline with your goals and what you consider fun.
You mentioned you used to get 70 words an episode now its about 20 or so, that sounds to me like your are not using a frequency list and you are possibly not aiming for i+1 sentences. If you are not using a frequency list and are mining words that are way to infrequent for your current vocab count, then you are making things a lot harder for yourself, because 1. You wont see them as often, so remembering them will be harder(more anki pain) 2. You are increasing your general comprehension by much less compared to a frequent word. You compared yourself to brit vs japan but lets say the 7k words he has in anki are the 7k most frequent ones, then his comprehension will be much higher since those words just come up more often. Even if you also match his 7k.
Another point i would like make is, that you mentioned you feel the need to go harder on listening because you couldn't catch everything in a RL conversation. In my experience if you have a baselevel of listening, that you can pick out the sounds and like you mentioned pick out a word you don't know. Then doing more reading/watching with subs is a way faster way to build comprehension than just doing pure listening, because you can go at your own pace, look everything up and really focus on comprehending. And this will boost your listening way more than just doing pure listening practice, at least that is my experience with it.
I do both. I do podcast listening and more targeted, slower sub-title + listening sessions. Especially when mining and also at night with easier CZcams content.
I used frequency lists in the beginning. I used the MoeWay N5 and N4 decks, then switched to mining from native material.
I believe BritVsJapan did something similar. For example, he mined all of Sword Art Online it seems very early on. Migaku also give you frequency information on words, so I do tend to focus on the 4-5 star words when watching, too so nothing is that obscure really so far as I'm still mostly watching slice of life stuff.
@@akainikki Yeah you said you do both, i just wanted to illustrate that you dont NEED to do pure listening to get better at listening at your stage. And it might even be faster if you were to focus more on reading.
The Stars from migaku are a good indicator, i havent used migaku in a while but i would recommend you install the JPDB frequency list and be a bit stricter with what you mine, the words always come back around and mining the frequent ones first is a huge boost to comprehensibility. I personally never had a backlog of more than around 50-100 cards if it got too high i would get stricter with freq, if it got too low i got looser
Makes sense. I started going a bit infrequent with certain shows, like Hajime No Ippo with too much boxing vocab, and that usually prompts me to stop watching. I may start mining only high frequency for a bit though 👍
Looking at your anki stats, you do seem to have a very high ratio of young to mature cards, which tells me you might not actually be retaining the information well enough for anki to be productive. I would highly recommend trying to let go of the mindset that you need to hit 10k cards by X date, and drop the number of daily new cards to 10, as 22 per day is pretty intensive even if you're someone with very good memory. As you get further along in your studies, you get better at memorizing words without the need of anki, and the some of time you spend on anki would be better spent on more immersion. Well done on maintaining consistency for a whole year. Oh also, there's an anki add-on I believe that will pause your reps, some people use it when going on vacation so they don't get swarmed with reviews when they come back.
I like the intensity and im lucky enough to have the time to do it.
I find those young/mature stats to be misleading on their own. It implies that the young cards arent going to be remembered for a while, when many will be remembered easily up until they are mature.
My daily reps are generally -20% re-learned and 80%+ on mature reps. My card retrievability graph is also 89% average retrieval.
I'm interested. Why isn't the video in Japanese if it's AJATT? Forgive my crudeness
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