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How hard would you say it was to watch boku no kokoro yabai yatsu? I absolutely love the anime and want to give it a go at one point without subtitles, but I've just started learning japanese (very basic grammar + 500 words on the core2.3k deck), and I don't want to watch something that is far out of my reach.

For listening immersion, I'd definitely recommend choosing content that is easier/more comprehensable, such as beginner/intermediate japanese podcasts. Immersion is much easier to enjoy when you understand more than 5% of what is being said, and will likely help you achieve your goals faster!

I have been doing the exact opposite. I listen for about 5-6hr a day and really struggle to keep up on Anki and reading. I would like to start reading Manga, but I am not sure where to find it in Japanese.

to anyone who is at the starting line of learning Japanese like me, it seems the first 1-2 months of learning for most people isn't really immersing by listening or reading. most of the immersion in this early timeframe will be spent doing anki cards and passive listening. it probably does not hurt to jump right into sentence mining, but it seems much more painful without having a few hundred anki cards banked away. I've seen some videos where they say they jumped straight into watching raws or JP subbed content, but i find this hard to believe as they wont have any foundation to really comprehend anything. i think most of these claims are more rooted in passive listening where they probably just didnt understand anything at all. at best you will get a good feel for how japanese sounds at least. I guess i was feeling discouraged trying to immerse in content with raws or JP subs, but I noticed that even learning just like a new 50 words makes the immersion process more bearable. the ambiguity of immersion does and will fade very slowly as long as you keep building the vocab with anki. I'm in my first month of real immersion (not doing duolingo or genki anymore). perhaps ill come back and update this comment in a bit. anyway if you are like me, don't feel discouraged. having the listening or reading make zero sense is normal at the early stages. just focus on building the vocab and eventually it will get easier.

Really enjoyable and motivating to watch, keep it up!

Gread vid! I just came across your 3-month japanese progress update videos yesterday and binge-watched the whole series. They help me keep motivated to learn Chinese as I have been feeling exhausted keeping up the language journey these days. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing!

Oh it’s best for you to stop all that nonsense, quit anki and don’t look up words. Just watch/read 98% comprehensible content. Studies show it’s the most efficient method and provides the best results.

i don't know if i feel good for you, or bad when comparing myself

I'm trully just built different. I've been studying for more than 3 years now and my reading speed averages at 5k/h. I'm a slow reader in general and I don't even try to read faster, but still surprises me how easily people pass through 5k/h. It doesn't feel slow to me. The fastest I've ever been reading was during one of the chapters in my "The house in Fata Morgana" playthrough. The speed peaked at 8.5k/h, and I felt like I was zooming through the dialogue :).

could you recommend a first novel for someone who's studying japanese for 5-6 months but reads only manga?

Great video! I’m really fond these sort of videos inspiring and a great way in the future for you to track your journey! You’re video is show clear and professional. It’s a really calm, easy watch and has a lot of good info for beginners and also people who have been learning. Just one thing I found quite odd, why did you say you’ve been learning Japanese for 9 months when you had a 3 month video 16 months ago? It could be quite misleading to absolute beginners to think they could start Japanese from absolute 0 beginner and progress this much! Sorry if it sounds nit picking I just don’t understand the point of misleading how much time has been spent studying? Or is there another reason why you word it like this? Maybe it’s been 9 months of continuous good studying? Sorry if you mentioned this before in a previous video

I would really like a smaller video in a month about the experience increasing your daily hours if you think it's worth making. I'm in a similar position to you right now doing 5hrs a day but the reverse in the fact I am making myself read after doing a lot of listening last year xD Good luck on your adventure :p

What is refold is it free?

Love these randomly popping on my fyp, the most inspiring thing to kick learning into gear lol Also a question, since you're sentence mining while also immersing a lot. Do you just have a large backlog of new cards in Anki from sentence mining? I imagine you're finding more new than you're going through with that many hours of immersion daily

Hi hullo. I have a question. On average, how many new words per chapter you came across when reading sousou no frieren?

Just came across your channel, this is so cool!

What about Output, Have you started doing that like speaking to yourself, or are you waiting to do it further down the learning path. I don´t really know how to train output, except for talking to myself and others. If you have any tips I would appreciate it.

If you like Frieren, you should check out Dungeon Meshi and Witch Hat Atelier. When you read manga and light novels, do you listen to anything?

My 1.5 year journey has been super chill, very irregular and i am basing it based on my personal observation that i know in the ball park of 2500-3000 words and 300+ kanji. I assume its low tho i have gotten a bit better at it, my main goal atm is understanding music, games and be able to speak and read at an intermediate level.

Honestly thank you so much for this! It's very interesting to follow your journey :)

What are you using to integrate Yomitan with the program you're using to read books?

So you have been reading on average 5 hours per day for the last 3 months?

good luck with your journey!

i have been waiting for this video good for finally watch it

Thanks for sharing! I found your first immersion update video when I started in May of this year. It has been very helpful in keeping me motivated, your expriences are fairly similar to mine in terms of Anki and grammar. Although I really need to work on my reading, currently I have double the number of hours spent listening and would like to do a 50/50 split between the two. Current goal is 1600hrs of active by the start of the new year! Excited to see your progress at the end of the year!

Nicely put together video! Stuff like this makes me wish I tracked my own studying more to throw out a progress update too! 3:27 relatable, maybe next year i'll be able to go through steins;gate at a reasonable pace... checked my anki and surprisingly my own 6 month mark has already passed a couple weeks ago, the time just flying by. Any plans to tackle the jlpt this year? Or any interest in it at all? Good luck in your studies fellow learner!

Please post more 😭 I love your videos and am really happy that you uploaded, since I thought you’d close the channel.

Both the longer and shorter videos are interesting. Feel free to base the video length on whatever you like, it’s your video after all. Thanks for sharing

New videooo! ❤️

Bro XD... 8:24

Good video! Hope things are still going well :D

I ve been studying jp for 3 year and I can assure that if you continue like this you will reach super sayan level. Good job!

I think Detective Conan is the best cartoon for japanese immersion. Over 1100 episodes, such a wide range of topics covered, contemporary real world environment, Conan is very smart talking to professionals, but also talks to children making his vocabulary probably varied. Stories include lots of mystery and thriller elements making it relatively easy to stick with it.

Hey guys... sometimes its hard for me to find japanese RUclips channels (native), mostly because most of them are over the top or very slow/boring. If you guys have recommendations for interesting yt channels, I would appreciate it. 🫡

You mention a lot of good resources. What’s personally worked best for me as a language learner is Immersive Translate. It’s a free browser extension that supports over 100+ languages. I use it to watch my shows and movies on Netflix, which has been a great way for me to improve my language skills. I use the plugin every day, and am quite pleased with the progress I’m making.

Podcasts maybe help you with listening a bit, because you can do simple chores or walks during listening while still being concentrated

I'm at 8 months mark, but I'm a heavy listener: about 900 hours of listening and less than 100 hours of reading. Hmm, maybe less than 50 hours of reading. I am trying to get more reading, but it really feels harder than listening. Your vocab increases so quickly and your anki time is so low, it's amazing! I guess it's all because of reading. Best of luck!

Could someone tell me how tf a beginner can use the core 2k/6k deck with all the new vocab and kanji

the volume is a bit low but apart from that cool video

to state the obvious: your listening hours are very low. what are your thoughts on passive listening in the background? Khatzumoto says every moment you should be listening to Japanese

Good video, but I suggest you to delete a link for epub collection, this is piracy, RUclips can block you. Just link to moe way guide us enough, and people who knows how to find things will find them anyway.

goal is to reread punpun in japanese haha

If you live in the US, you could visit some Japanese dense places like Seattle's Japan town

Thank you so much! Some of these resources will come in handy :) By the way, how’d you find the clips you used in the video? Some of them were quite fitting and finding them manually would take a lot of time.

Thank you! I love these kinds of videos- so motivating!

Weren't the reviews too overwhelming while doing 100 cards of anki ?😭😭 how much reviews did u have to do everyday

what kind of manga did you read? i cant seem to find any manga i can really understand without having to look a new word every 3 minutes

bro 100 new cards A DAY IN ANKI???

i wish you best man

Does someone know where to see ”僕の心のやばいやつ“?このアニメは本当に見たいんだでも字幕付けだけで