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Hello! As well as those already mentioned, I like listening to www.youtube.com/@kensanokaeri

I would suggest to start branching out to other forms of Japanese content. Don't just listen to Japanese language teaching centric podcasts, they are skewed towards a certain type of style, speed and content. Try to widen your variety to ALL forms of Japanese content - anime (it's okay with subtitles), drama, movies, news, documentaries, J-UA-camrs, variety/game/talk shows, non-language learning podcasts, music, playing visual novels, and so on. Another important form of input is reading, but don't start with content that is too difficult, just slightly higher than what you can comprehend (N+1). Look for graded readers or even use generative AI to build content that is suitable for your level.

I feel like you'd have to go to Japan and try and survive for it to instinctually kick in that fast. lol

Learning by listening is great, but learning by JUST listening feels like a strange idea to me. If you have the resources, the explanations, the lessons available while would you avoid using it? Studying grammar is a shortcut to comprehension 🫤

I have done something like this with Spanish, rather accidentally, over the last 8 months, I had studied portuguese before so it was probably around 30-40 percent comprehension starting out, but yes it is surprising how much of a language you can pick up entirely passively. Still haven't spoken spanish for more than a few minutes in my life, but listening to it no longer takes any unusual effort

Very interesting thank you!

Nukemarine did 2 years of passive listening like you did, didn't learn japanese and made a big post back in the day complaining input method doesn't work 😂

僕のチャンネルを紹介してくださって、ありがとうございます✨ 僕のPodcastが少しでも日本語学習のお役に立てますように！！

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Thank you for the great video and sharing your results! Really enjoying your Japanese language journey. I've been watching those videos about the listening method on youtube for the past few weeks as well, and have been curious how it works for the average learner. Looking forward to your next video! Cheers

Very good points. I also did pimsleur for a year and now I’ve switched to Duolingo which has been quite rewarding as I was able to skip ahead to level 3 from all the knowledge i learned from pimsleur. It’s to be seen how far this app will take me but I’ve started more listening practice like Tokyo modern love on Amazon prime is a cute series and I’m thinking of going back to Preply app to work with a tutor once a week and see how that helps. ありがとうございます。 がんばりましょう！

12 min video. At least speak 6 min in Japanese

Is this MIRAA thing any better than the automatic transcripts UA-cam itself generates?

Can I suggest you repeat the process but with video? (And I don't mean video podcast) Watching video gives you context clues which makes the input more comprehensible. Great video, enjoyed it!

My attention span is low, but I’m gonna try this. I work by myself in a warehouse so I basically have 8 hours a day I can listen lol

I’m super curious to know if, while doing this test, you studied vocabulary at the same time or just started recognizing words by listening to them.

The problem is that you seem to think that only 2 HOURS a day with PASSIVE listening (you seem to state that most of that was passive listening and very little active listening) and no other thing like ANKI is enough in only TWEO WEEKS. That's NOT how it works! For a language like Japanese? That WORKS, I did that. But I used to do 3 to 8 hours a day, every single freaking day, at a certain point I'd do 2 hours or more just of ANKI, and it took me FIVE YEARS (as a Brazilian ) doing that every single day (when I was sick, near the hospital bed of my parents and so on) to be FUNCTIONAL (not fluent) in Japanese. You'll need around 20,000 to 30,000 words;. To start playing you'll need at least 10,000 words. And before someone tells that means the method is slow, that's FAST. That's WAY faster than anything else.

i like your video, but i had to raise the volume quite a lot to hear you propery, besides that all cool, tanks for sharing your experience in this method

On one hand I don’t think I could maintain a routine for eight weeks just to see if it works but on the other hand eight weeks is a drop in the bucket when it comes to language learning 😂. It’s so not fair. I’m impressed you completed Pimsleur. I get way too bored after a few lessons to make real progress. But it’s also a listening based course so it would make sense this method would work well for you if you made it through Pimsleur. I just listen to Korean UA-cam when I’m in the mood (it’s more often than you might think but not a routine like Anki for me). I’m not afraid of native speakers but I’ve also been fumbling along at this language for way more than your Japanese journey I suspect. (5 years now… 5 years 😂).

Thank you for this down to Earth video. I feel we're at around the same point in our learning journey. I don't feel great when I only can understand half of what is being said. Keep doing listening practice helps ofcourse, but I do keep combining it with more vocab study. But kudos for not making these typical false expectations Japanese learning videos 😅

I wonder if rather than your output skills regressing, you've just become more attuned to the mistakes in speech that were always there! So you notice more mistakes and it feels like you are worse than before! Nonetheless, thank you for sharing your reaults! I've been doing quite consistent listening practice with many of the materials you mentioned and ive certainly noticed similar results, although I've never done it as intensely as you did.

I'vee been doing this listening test for almost 3 months, at the first month i couldn't understand a single word but now I would say 40% is understandable, I'll keep doing this maybe in 6 or 7 months I can understand 70%

What level would you say you were with your Japanese before the experiment? Because I've done something similar and it didn't help me, but I'm only like advanced N5 level.

Well you can obviously learn to comprehend spoken Japanese by listening. If you wanna be able to speak it, you'll have to speak 😂

Sorry if I missed it, but you said you've been learning for around one year (with pimsleur) is that all you ajve done?

Really interesting experiment! Great video! I use adapted video and audio from the Comprehensible Japanese site and it's really nice and low stress, I don't know how far this will get me but at least I pick up a lot of the Beginner content so far. I guess it's not a method for fast learning, but it sure is enjoyable.

Great video! I appreciate hearing a first hand experience of the process. I’m still memorizing hiragana but I’ve tried to listen to some podcasts and have picked up on a few things but I need to put a lot more hours in. Also, not sure if it’s just me but I had to turn my audio really high to hear to you.

As someone that has done this for nearly 10 months on basically the same schedule but i do 30min of anki vocabulary everyday and 1.5hr of listening/watching. I understand breaking the barier of being ok with not understanding. It goes in waves though. Some days i understand heaps, some days less then 30% 😅 now im in japan i still cant have normal conversations but it definitly helps with the basics, i wish i spent another hour each day though i feel like it would of been all the difference. Im at about 1800 words in the core 2k deck for context

Cool video, Yuki! Well done! From Russia- with love(from: Far East, Khabarovsk)!

How hard did you have to listen? Was it just background noise or did you have to carefully sit and listen? How did you absorb new words and their meaning? Did you have to write the words and then find them online? What level was your Japanese already at? I find I get so bored as the amount of words that I'd understand it's not like I could follow the story. Thanks!

Found it inspiring ❤❤❤

very interesting

Your clear explanation as to why listening to native speech is often avoided is so true in my case but you have inspired me to try your experiment. どうもありがとう.

I love your videos! Keep it up! ❤️

Hey, Loved the video and recommendation, thank you! I wanted to ask you a few questions, can I have your email please or any other contact info please?

Nice video! Glad I stumbled on it in 2025

Have you tried jidoujisho? it's similar and can make great Anki cards.

Was really excited to check your other videos only to find AI thumbnails What a bummmer

I would highly recommend looking into LingQ as well. It is amazing for reading practice, and can be used for audio with subtitles also. You can also import books among other things to create more content for learning. It has a built in flashcard system, where the more correct answers you get, it gradually removes the Furigana (small kana above Kanji) as it thinks you're learning the words. The build-in flashcards aren't as good as Anki imo, so I use Yomitan to send sentences to Anki also for extra vocab learning. One of my favourite things about it though is how it tracks your progress such as words read, words leaned/known, hours listened. I find it so helpful when you can see your progress. Edit: not a sponsor haha

The best tool for this on desktop IMO, is a combination of 2 extensions, Yomitan(1000% recommended) for having a pop up dictionary, and AsbPlayer, to show you subtitles on youtube, anime etc any video that you can hover over and select with Yomitan to understand the context. It has replay functions skip functions etc, and its 100% reliable because its not AI based. For anime check Kitsunekko to get correct subtitles.

This app stole the voice of yuyu a Japanese podcaster on UA-cam

If it’s so good, why didn’t you explain this in Japanese

Hi Yuki, wondering if can start over again, would you suggest go for plimsler or Mirra first? Haven't tried either of it yet. ありがとう

Found your channel when I tried search out Jap resources. Really like when you said set up ...Yacht stick for oneself. Keep up the good work. Yuki頑張ってね

Hey, I want to connect with you do you have an Insta or could you please share your email?

I've been watching リング on this app. I just imported the video, put on ai subs in japanese and started watching the movie while examining the subs. It's THE best app because of its various uses. Plus the ai subs aren't crap, they ACTUALLY WORK and work GOOD! Rn I'm gonna listen to tanaka san's podcast "embarrassing memories" and study the text until I can understand it entirely. That's my goal rn. Then, I'm gonna have motivation to do more (more tanaka podcasts) because they're only 14mins or shorter. Such a great app. THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME ABOUT THIS.

as an active listening learner this is a dream, thank you!

Omg this is so cool. Thank you for sharing!! I've seen so many language learning vids recently and no one is mentioning this app.

On android you can double tap the left side of the video to rewind 10 seconds. I guess it's the same on the iphone. If you are on a computer you can rewind 5 seconds on youtube with pressing the left arrow.

Sucks it only takes Apple links...