@18meter Google says there are 500,000 words in the Japanese dictionary. Liva can go on till he's in his 70s. Maybe learn another language along the way too. Maybe Chinese?
@@Seacle14 sounds like a good way to defocus yourself. Don't know about android but on iOS you can just open youtube in safari and then you'll have background play for free 👍
This is the stuff I love to see! You have some of the best, if not the best, language motivation content on the platform. I'm committed to finishing the core 2k/6k this year (I'm about 1,500 words in) and knowing you'll be grinding words gives me a bunch of hope. Good luck!
im doing 10,000 in one year. I've done 4k so far, going to 150 new anki a day. I fully support you. Reddit is crashing out at both of us but I support you.
HOLY! I can't believe it's been almost 2 years since you hit 20k... feels like I watched that livestream yesterday. Epic goals tho, very inspiring as always.
This is really inspiring for me. I'm close to 15k in German. I can read simply books but man I really need help when reading long Philosophical works. Gonna go to 30k with you too.
The unending grind! What I feel is also a fun way to find a ton of new vocabulary is to challenge yourself to engage with content you usually don't, like news, books about psychology or similar. I started reading books, articles and watching content about linguistics and the history of Japanese as a language in the last while, and there are so many words I don't know, its great.
The one way to definitely find new words is to pick a specific field and try to survive with all the field specific words being constantly thrown around haha
@@Livakivi True Or learning about a new field you are not familiar with in your native language. Its always a funny feeling when you then want to talk about that field to someone in your native language and you can't talk about it, because all the necessary vocab in your head is in your target language.
Livakivi in 2026: "Well now that I've reached 30000, I realize that this is still not enough, so I will be going for 40000. It has been hard finding new vocab, but I realized there is a whole new audio/visual medium which I have not yet utilized to do sentence mining: japanese variety shows."
Hey Livakivi. I found your channel 2 months back after having taken Japanese in school for two years. I was hardly learning anything and you inspired me to self study and I have been seeing incredible progress with the core 2k/6k deck (1000 words in). You have become my favorite channel on the platform and I hope you know how influential you are for so many people. Also, really enjoyed the renovation series. Keep it up!
@@alexjustalexyt1144 This is not true by any means. Native speakers of any language rarely have a passive vocabulary of more than 50000 words The average passive vocabulary size for a highly educated native speaker is between 40-50k words
Thank you. Thank you for this. I was feeling demotivated for forgetting my N5 knowledge due to 2 month of not visiting grammar and just doing my Anki reviews with little to no new cards just to not break my streak. But now I know the GOAT is grinding too. Let's do this! We got it!
You're a source of inspiration. 2 weeks into learning and your videos come with some great advice and keep me from worrying I might be wasting my time.
I'm just about to take a lil anki break for the first time in a while after finally hitting 10K, lol. Need to start seeing the daily review time go down a bit for my sanity. Interested to see how going from 20K to 30K will go for you. I imagine a lot of idioms and specialized words/jargon
Yayy livakivi upload!!! I actually just hit 6k words today so the coincidence is crazy. Ive been doing 35 new cards a day and was thinking of trying to go for 30k words too but ill have to see what sentence mining is like. Thank you for making videos, i genuinely don’t think id ever be where i am now without you as inspiration. Thank you !!!! 頑張ってね！リバキビ先生！ P.S (i love your renovation and draw a box videos, i hope you make more.. okkk byee..!))
Damn 35 is a lot, I do 15 and I already find it to take a lot of concentration and time (approx 45mn a day) Do you do it in one go? How much time does it take?
I really recommend migaku, It really helps with sentence mining. It's free up to 100 words but if you don't want to pay you could use Yomitan which is free
@ yea i do it in one go each day if i can. Sometimes i break it up a bit but usually during any downtime i will do Anki. On average it takes me close to 1.5-2 hours. Concentrating is hard sometimes but i usually take a small break if i’m struggling. :p
@@litare4328 I usually take over an hour in total but if I eliminate all distractions and just bang it out in one go I can actually get through the cards very fast. Yesterday I managed to review 230 cards + learn 20 new cards all within 20 minutes. For me it helps to do them straight after waking up or after a run/exercise in general, much easier to concentrate and actually recall cards (these things probably vary by person but you should experiment to find out what works for you)
go to deck options Display Order -> New/review order -> Show after reviews. This way you will do all your due cards before it gives you new cards, meaning you don't build up infini-piles if you get behind a few days. From now on your goal is to get the Stats page to show you 20 minutes per day. You do this by setting a timer and studying while the timer goes. Consistency will give you much better results than anything - so whatever gets you consistent is correct. After doing the 20 minutes you are done for the day, even if there are more due reviews. You may find yourself bored after finishing your 20 minutes, and doing the rest out of boredom, because it no longer feels like a "must do" but rather "why not also"
Since you’re literate and have a large vocabulary, you can work through technical material and kanji combinations relatively quickly. Mine Wikipedia history and science pages for example.
Hey bro, just wanted to say found the channel recently and you are an inspiration your videos are well formatted you give great tips and you show the results of your practice in a real way by showing you speaking for a while and so on thanks for the honest content I just subbed
I guess this goes to show that you have to diversify your immersion content, or that you could always be better. Supposedly in English the avg. native speakers knows like 20k-35k words. We all know that vocab ROI drops off hard, yet ironically you can't quit it because there could always be some rare thing you just gotta know or else you won't fully understand what you're reading/watching. Language learning is interesting...
I remember your video on reading a Japanese book for the first time and I wasn't sure what to expect. I was thinking you would have stronger reading skills than me since your vocabulary was larger. But that wasn't the case or it didn't seem that way. I would guess that I've read about 100 books in Japanese and it was super frustrating but maybe it wasn't all for nothing. I think you should incorporate reading books of some kind into your routine if you want your Japanese to become the best it can be. I love anime though. And just like you I can learn lots of new words from most anime. It's scripted and the writing is very clever. But reading books is just a different experience. I would suggest listening to an audio book while reading the text at the same time - or just doing it on your Kindle using the text to speech option. This works surprisingly well and the Siri voice at least for iOS is good enough I enjoy listening to it (not true of a lot of older Japanese TTS voices).
Another good option is if you can get the book on your phone and use google lens to copy the text, then parse it through migaku reader to making mining easier!
It's simple, vocabulary is not equal to fluency. You are way more fluent than him simply cause you have more experience (im just guessing here, but I bet you could speak more fluently.)
Do you have any occupation other than learning Japanese? A lot of us wish we could dedicate five hours a day to study languages, but how can we find the time (and, let's be honest - motivation)?
Now that you're watching anime again, have you watched legend of the galactic heroes? If you want to mine new vocab, its perfect for you. It's crazy difficult - the vocabulary is just so vast. I'd also recommend reading (it's a lot harder than the anime) bakemonogatari, which also has intricate descriptions and dialogue with lots of rare words
I used my Christmas bonus to buy the lifetime membership to migaku while it was on sale. Their intermediate course has been my first taste of using sentence cards instead of cards with isolated vocabulary and it feels like a game changer.
Big fan of this channel. My TL is a European language, so Japanese isn't even on the radar--just like seeing that others are learning their TLs the same way I am!
you uploaded this just as i was rewatching your video about finishing c6k.. i'm 1.3k words deep in it myself, can't wait for immersion to become less tedious and more fun
@@dyschromatopsia Read tae kim's grammar guide and an anki deck to memorize concepts. I have a self made deck but there is a popular one on the anki website too
@@dyschromatopsiaNot the person you asked, but I've had success with going through a basic grammar guide (Sakubi [the one I used and liked the most], Tae Kim's, Cure Dolly, whichever is the most appealing) by going through it a couple grammar points a day. No need to memorize it by heart, just to get a feeling of what kind of basic grammar exists
I can confirm that anime/manga can help learning a wide array of vocabulary. Personally, I've been reading manga since last year (mainly because I have 4 hours per week to kill in the train, so might as well get some work done), and I've been watching anime in japanese recently. I was surprised you were struggling to keep up to 20 words a day when reaching 20,000 cards, as I am currently at 14,103 in my deck and have been on an average of 29 new cards a day for the past three months (52 today by playing Hades). My progress doesn't seem to slow down, actually, I think getting more comfortable with the language helped me to speed up my learning
Your dedication is endless 😅 I've had a hard time sticking to Anki - highlighted by two sick spells, which gave me a good excuse to not do my reviews. I wish I could stay consistent, but it really is harder than it sounds... perhaps I should rewatch your videos on it, eh?
Mans just discovered anime 😭 Haha good decision! I feel justified in my choice to also learn mainly from anime, I actually installed Migaku over a year ago thanks to your videos. I'm now at 5800 words and my goal is to be at 10,000 by the end of the year.
Have you considered going for the Kanji Kentei pre 1 or level 1, I think you'd gain a lot more Kanji knowledge and with the exception of Yojijukugo your baseline understanding of anything new would increase exponentially?
Good luck and I’m excited to see your journey from here! I’ve been following you since I really started being serious about learning ~2 years ago. Your videos always seem to give me a burst of motivation that makes me want to do even more. I actually really enjoy interesting idioms or expressions so I enjoyed you bringing up some you came across. At 16000 words I have come across 10 of the idioms you showed in separate media. Here are some other fun idioms/expressions I’ve come across off the top of my head: 三十六計逃げるに如かず - the smartest thing in a tight situation is to beat a retreat (based on the 36 ancient Chinese stratagems) 腐っても鯛 - a superior product still retains its value even when deteriorated (lit. Even if it’s rotten it’s still Sea Bream) (*I went to Japan and tried sea bream. Can confirm it’s delicious) 指をくわえる - to look on enviously while doing nothing (lit. to hold a finger in one's mouth) 花より団子 - function of aesthetic (lit. Dango over flowers) 来年のことを言うと鬼が笑う - how can we know what will happen next year when we don’t know what will happen tomorrow. There’s no use trying to predict the future (lit. Talk about next year and Oni will laugh) 元の木阿弥 - end right back where you started (lit. Story from the Warring States period when a general died of illness, to hide his death until his son was of age to take over he had a man named 木阿弥, who had a similar voice, sleep in his bed to deceive others)
The problem I have with mining classical literature is that some of the words are really old so nobody uses them anymore or the way they are written is outdated so I save the modern version instead of the old one.
Its legitimately terrifying to me that despite knowing 20k+ words you still encounter that many unknown words in something like YYH. I know an estimated 10k words, around 5k in Anki and 5k outside of it, with a plan on quitting Anki after 10k cards. But when I see this it makes me think I'm still going to consistently encounter new words even after that. Though I guess that depends on the content. I can watch certain anime or UA-cam content and go multiple episodes/videos with next to no new words. In better news, I at the very least knew 四面楚歌 from the list of terms you got from YYH, one of my favorite 四字熟語.
Anime is very very good for mining, especially the harder ones. For example when I watch 遊戯王 I can go 5 to 10 episodes without encountering any new word, but when I watch Psycho-Pass I see between 15 and 25 new words/expressions that I can mine (also 1 to 3 new kanji within these new words). There are definitely a lot of anime where you could keep getting enough words from for a very long time. Spy Family was another anime where I felt like the new word density was quite good. Legend of the galactic heroes (銀河英雄伝説) I would expect to be S tier in terms of vocab though I haven't watched that one yet. 薬屋のひとりごと (both manga and anime) have A LOT of vocab, I was actually kinda blown away that a manga with furigana can be this hard. It's a lot of archaic vocab like 朝餉 for example mixed with this old chinese setting, but actually this vocab came in really useful in a lot of other stuff I watched with simmilar settings (like 時代劇) so it's not like it's useless (also all the emperial stuff vocab definitely shows up in other contexts too). Maybe these recommendations can help you out a bit^^
I feel u on that one. I started learning Korean in early December and I would say that I am at rougly 600-700 words. His Videos are really inspiring, but as a beginner it's also frightening when u realize how much effort and time it takes to get to a high level in another language.
You are INSANE. To think you've been doing this for around 7 years and are still going is insanely motivating for a fellow estonian trying to learn Japanese. Most people say 30 - 50k is the usual amount of words a native Japanese person can speak, so..
I'm at 4118 words and have been doing approximately 30 new cards a day, I'm bound to hit the 10k mark before the end of 2025 but my real goal is to hit it before the 1 year mark of studying. Although realistically I might only manage 8k before that point, because after every milestone I take 1 to 2 weeks off from learning new words (first at 2k and next one at 5k, it helps me with maturing cards). Something about the 10k mark just feels to appealing to have that it makes me very impatient, hence why I have been speedrunning vocab for the past 5 months.
I'm going hard with 16 words and 20 kanji a day to finish core2k6k on 22nd of mar which is my birthday. Even consistently immersing 40mins a day all the words are still starting to feel like a blur, will let you know if it helps. Holding you to the congrats message too hehe
Hey Livakivi I had a question regarding your method of using Anki. Right now I'm going through a premade deck (Kaishi 1.5k) and the way I'm going about learning the new words is whenever I see a new word, I like to write it down on paper with its meaning. Then whenever I am reviewing the words, if I remember it I pass it and if I forget it I will most of the time rewrite the word out on paper and pick the again option to reset the card. Doing it this way usually takes me anywhere from 45 minutes to 1 hour a day with around 10-15 new cards per day. I noticed in your videos you go through your anki reviews and cards really quickly, much quicker than I am currently going. Basically my question is this: Should I stop writing down the words and instead just trust the srs process and repeat the card until it sticks, or is there a better way for me to optimize my current method? I feel it works, but some days I don't like spending so much time in Anki. Thanks!
Woah it's been nearly 4 years since I watched your Duolingo video already. Funnily I now have almost 900 days on Duolingo and it's been the only consistent Japanese learning I've been doing all this time. Due to external reasons, I cold never properly study for more than 60 days straight. However, now that I've finished high school, I'm having a lot more of free time and I'll use a lot of it to fully commit myself to finally learn this stupid language.
Lol, I started the same goal this year, and I'm already at 500 new cards starting from Jan 7th. Although I aim for a bit shorter amount of time which is Dec, 7th (JLPT day) doing 35 cards from Mon to Sat, and leaving Sun just for revision.
Maybe give Mahoutsukai no yoru visual novel a try (from the creator of fate) They really love putting in these crazy words that you rarely see. Also it's not that long (around 24 hours if you don't stop reading to check words)
Simply put, the more I learn Japanese, the more valuable and important I feel it becomes for me! There are still many things that I'm looking forward to doing with my Japanese, and the better it gets, the more confident I will feel when it comes to actually doing said things. While I'd definitely want to know other Asian languages as well, considering the time it took me to learn Japanese to a "good enough" level, I don't know if I want to repeat that entire process again haha.
@@Livakivi but u did tons of mistakes / unnecessary time consumers. exapt of chinese u don t have to deal with chinese characters (and even if u were about to learn chinese, it s still easier. Because... 1word = 1character and the other way around) so you already did the hardest one. but id prefer to see even more along ur jp journey
How you will manage almost 30 cards a day? I have tried this before, and the result was not good, i cant remeber most of the cards, and the review will take 2-3 hours long. It burned me out. Now i have found sweet spot at 10 new cards daily which will only takes me like 30mins-1hour long review every single day, so i can focus more on immersion rather than anki.
Personally for me when I started with 30 cards a day my retention was horrible and I couldn't retain anything (for like 2 months), but stubbornly I kept persisting and after those 2 months it was like my brain had grown accustomed to the pace. Also the more words you know the easier it is to acquire new words, because a lot of the words aren't totally "new", like the word 外国 containing the word for country and the suffix: "がい"/the word "outside". Basically it progressively gets easier.
Some people are capable of it and some people are not. I did 35 a day for 18 months. I can manage it. I have a friend who is like you. If he tries anything close to that his retention drops, reviews take forever and depression kicks in. The trick is you have to be able to do reviews at about 4 seconds per card.
Ah shit, here we go again.
The grind never ends 🥳💀
That's what I was thinking!! 😂 Ahhh sheit here we go agane.
dammit I was going to say that
Why do u use anki? Why not just stick with migaku memory as both are an srs?
@@dondesuI’m curious to hear what he says because I enjoy his input
My goat is addicted to Anki😭😭
The goat must be already fluent in Japanese, it can probably talk about quantum physics while eating grass...
@@noisetide or your shoes
Liva when he reaches 30,000 words in 2026: "I Will Learn 40,000 Japanese Words in 2027"
but this time getting him to 70k
Japanese language will probably run out of words by then.
@18meter Google says there are 500,000 words in the Japanese dictionary. Liva can go on till he's in his 70s. Maybe learn another language along the way too. Maybe Chinese?
THE GOAT WILL NOT STOP 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Man, Japan's gonna run out of words first before this guy finally stops.
You are what motivated me to keep up with my learning ❤
Thank you very much!
gotta finish my anki first before watching the vid
UA-cam Premium background playback comes in clutch here.
@@Seacle14 sounds like a good way to defocus yourself. Don't know about android but on iOS you can just open youtube in safari and then you'll have background play for free 👍
@@Seacle14 newpipe
The grind calls unceasingly
Youre a big inspiration for me to start learning japanese. Im doing it for abt 5 months now and got abt 1000 words on anki. Thank you
W achievement
And W profile Pic
nice, but you could do 20 words a day. thats 3600 words in 6 months.
頑張り続けて！
@@thisthereal im doing 6 rn and it already takes half an hour but i think i could maybe do 8
@ thats good. you mean half an hour for new words only or new words plus rewiews?
good luck liva!!! ive seen you on this journey from when i was at 0 words and now at 10.5k words, seeing you go for 30k is insanely motivating
Every single video on your channel is a huge motivation boost. Keep up the good work Liva! ❤
Learning カエルの面に小便 from this video is inspirational and life changing. Good luck this year Liva
カエルの面に水 is another proverb with a totally different meaning
I like 井の中の蛙, another frog expression
This is the stuff I love to see! You have some of the best, if not the best, language motivation content on the platform. I'm committed to finishing the core 2k/6k this year (I'm about 1,500 words in) and knowing you'll be grinding words gives me a bunch of hope. Good luck!
im doing 10,000 in one year. I've done 4k so far, going to 150 new anki a day. I fully support you. Reddit is crashing out at both of us but I support you.
HOLY! I can't believe it's been almost 2 years since you hit 20k... feels like I watched that livestream yesterday. Epic goals tho, very inspiring as always.
Thank you for inspiring me to learn japanese and sharing your methods!
Boyy that's too much I am just happy with 4k
Good luck
😊
This is really inspiring for me. I'm close to 15k in German. I can read simply books but man I really need help when reading long Philosophical works. Gonna go to 30k with you too.
The unending grind!
What I feel is also a fun way to find a ton of new vocabulary is to challenge yourself to engage with content you usually don't, like news, books about psychology or similar. I started reading books, articles and watching content about linguistics and the history of Japanese as a language in the last while, and there are so many words I don't know, its great.
The one way to definitely find new words is to pick a specific field and try to survive with all the field specific words being constantly thrown around haha
@@Livakivi True
Or learning about a new field you are not familiar with in your native language. Its always a funny feeling when you then want to talk about that field to someone in your native language and you can't talk about it, because all the necessary vocab in your head is in your target language.
Livakivi in 2026: "Well now that I've reached 30000, I realize that this is still not enough, so I will be going for 40000. It has been hard finding new vocab, but I realized there is a whole new audio/visual medium which I have not yet utilized to do sentence mining: japanese variety shows."
Legend. You're a huge inspiration!
liva yearns for the mines
Hey Livakivi. I found your channel 2 months back after having taken Japanese in school for two years. I was hardly learning anything and you inspired me to self study and I have been seeing incredible progress with the core 2k/6k deck (1000 words in). You have become my favorite channel on the platform and I hope you know how influential you are for so many people. Also, really enjoyed the renovation series. Keep it up!
Your journey is very inspiring! Keep going man
My brother is aiming to be the global authority on the Japanese language
Most natives have a passive vocabulary of 100k+ so his journey barely started
@@alexjustalexyt1144 source?
@@alexjustalexyt1144
This is not true by any means. Native speakers of any language rarely have a passive vocabulary of more than 50000 words
The average passive vocabulary size for a highly educated native speaker is between 40-50k words
@ after a google search, yea you're right. I have no idea where I heard that
3:17 Turns out Japanese is like every language ever.
Thank you. Thank you for this. I was feeling demotivated for forgetting my N5 knowledge due to 2 month of not visiting grammar and just doing my Anki reviews with little to no new cards just to not break my streak. But now I know the GOAT is grinding too. Let's do this! We got it!
You're a source of inspiration. 2 weeks into learning and your videos come with some great advice and keep me from worrying I might be wasting my time.
i started studying around 3 years ago and saw your content at the time, and seeing you continue to progress is very inspiring to me. thank you
It’s impressive how you stay so motivated! Very inspirational
I'm just about to take a lil anki break for the first time in a while after finally hitting 10K, lol. Need to start seeing the daily review time go down a bit for my sanity.
Interested to see how going from 20K to 30K will go for you. I imagine a lot of idioms and specialized words/jargon
thank you for the upload liva. good luck on your road to 30k cards!
I don’t understand why he doesn’t move to a new language
Probably because getting very good at one language is a reward in of itself rather than meh at a couple
YuYu Haksho OST - Romantic + Anki graph was really quite ethereal
Yayy livakivi upload!!! I actually just hit 6k words today so the coincidence is crazy. Ive been doing 35 new cards a day and was thinking of trying to go for 30k words too but ill have to see what sentence mining is like. Thank you for making videos, i genuinely don’t think id ever be where i am now without you as inspiration. Thank you !!!! 頑張ってね！リバキビ先生！
P.S (i love your renovation and draw a box videos, i hope you make more.. okkk byee..!))
Damn 35 is a lot, I do 15 and I already find it to take a lot of concentration and time (approx 45mn a day)
Do you do it in one go?
How much time does it take?
@@litare4328 I do 16 a day taking about 45mins to an hour, I think 35 could end up reaching 1.5hrs a day
I really recommend migaku, It really helps with sentence mining. It's free up to 100 words but if you don't want to pay you could use Yomitan which is free
@ yea i do it in one go each day if i can. Sometimes i break it up a bit but usually during any downtime i will do Anki. On average it takes me close to 1.5-2 hours. Concentrating is hard sometimes but i usually take a small break if i’m struggling. :p
@@litare4328 I usually take over an hour in total but if I eliminate all distractions and just bang it out in one go I can actually get through the cards very fast. Yesterday I managed to review 230 cards + learn 20 new cards all within 20 minutes. For me it helps to do them straight after waking up or after a run/exercise in general, much easier to concentrate and actually recall cards (these things probably vary by person but you should experiment to find out what works for you)
I find anki really difficult, its always inspiring to watch you man, keep up the good work, I'll try and get by on my 5 new cards a day 😭
I've been doing 20 new cards a day but it takes me an hour total 😂
But the most important thing is to just keep at it every day. Good luck!
go to deck options
Display Order -> New/review order -> Show after reviews.
This way you will do all your due cards before it gives you new cards, meaning you don't build up infini-piles if you get behind a few days.
From now on your goal is to get the Stats page to show you 20 minutes per day.
You do this by setting a timer and studying while the timer goes.
Consistency will give you much better results than anything - so whatever gets you consistent is correct.
After doing the 20 minutes you are done for the day, even if there are more due reviews.
You may find yourself bored after finishing your 20 minutes, and doing the rest out of boredom, because it no longer feels like a "must do" but rather "why not also"
also use FSRS, really helpful
I feel like you could do most of what you want to do in life with 20k words. I lived and worked in France with what I’d guess was less than 10k.
Learning Japanese is a never ending journey. Glad to be part of yours since your duolingo video ⭐. Good luck with your new goal 🧭
I love you liva you are the goat
Since you’re literate and have a large vocabulary, you can work through technical material and kanji combinations relatively quickly. Mine Wikipedia history and science pages for example.
lets gooo bro, the grind never stops
Hey bro, just wanted to say found the channel recently and you are an inspiration your videos are well formatted you give great tips and you show the results of your practice in a real way by showing you speaking for a while and so on thanks for the honest content I just subbed
I guess this goes to show that you have to diversify your immersion content, or that you could always be better. Supposedly in English the avg. native speakers knows like 20k-35k words. We all know that vocab ROI drops off hard, yet ironically you can't quit it because there could always be some rare thing you just gotta know or else you won't fully understand what you're reading/watching. Language learning is interesting...
I remember your video on reading a Japanese book for the first time and I wasn't sure what to expect. I was thinking you would have stronger reading skills than me since your vocabulary was larger. But that wasn't the case or it didn't seem that way. I would guess that I've read about 100 books in Japanese and it was super frustrating but maybe it wasn't all for nothing. I think you should incorporate reading books of some kind into your routine if you want your Japanese to become the best it can be. I love anime though. And just like you I can learn lots of new words from most anime. It's scripted and the writing is very clever. But reading books is just a different experience. I would suggest listening to an audio book while reading the text at the same time - or just doing it on your Kindle using the text to speech option. This works surprisingly well and the Siri voice at least for iOS is good enough I enjoy listening to it (not true of a lot of older Japanese TTS voices).
Another good option is if you can get the book on your phone and use google lens to copy the text, then parse it through migaku reader to making mining easier!
It's simple, vocabulary is not equal to fluency. You are way more fluent than him simply cause you have more experience (im just guessing here, but I bet you could speak more fluently.)
Do you have any occupation other than learning Japanese? A lot of us wish we could dedicate five hours a day to study languages, but how can we find the time (and, let's be honest - motivation)?
well you need to watch japanese stuff for enjoymwnt and enterntament
like if you like sports and watch japanese sport blog
Now that you're watching anime again, have you watched legend of the galactic heroes? If you want to mine new vocab, its perfect for you. It's crazy difficult - the vocabulary is just so vast.
I'd also recommend reading (it's a lot harder than the anime) bakemonogatari, which also has intricate descriptions and dialogue with lots of rare words
I used my Christmas bonus to buy the lifetime membership to migaku while it was on sale. Their intermediate course has been my first taste of using sentence cards instead of cards with isolated vocabulary and it feels like a game changer.
Are you using the FSRS algorithm?
Big fan of this channel. My TL is a European language, so Japanese isn't even on the radar--just like seeing that others are learning their TLs the same way I am!
GL man.. and here im struggling to do 1.5k words lmao (i do 12 a day but i keep skipping a day or 2 and im like 35% of the way there now)
The Grind never ends 🗣🗣🗣
WE MAKIN' IT OUT DUOLINGO WIT' THIS ONE! 💯
you uploaded this just as i was rewatching your video about finishing c6k.. i'm 1.3k words deep in it myself, can't wait for immersion to become less tedious and more fun
I noticed a big boost around 2k and then 4k again provided you are learning grammar at the same time
@@Alex43198 that's interesting to hear, i'm definitely noticing massive progress even at 1k words! also, what was your approach to grammar?
努力家ですね
@@dyschromatopsia Read tae kim's grammar guide and an anki deck to memorize concepts. I have a self made deck but there is a popular one on the anki website too
@@dyschromatopsiaNot the person you asked, but I've had success with going through a basic grammar guide (Sakubi [the one I used and liked the most], Tae Kim's, Cure Dolly, whichever is the most appealing) by going through it a couple grammar points a day. No need to memorize it by heart, just to get a feeling of what kind of basic grammar exists
i personally dont think 10k words in i a year is impossible but at your lvl it will be challenging
Look at him with this graph, I wonder how long he spent on th--
"I spent two hours on this."
Hell. Yeah. Man. I’m going for 20K by the end of the year. Good luck to you. Thanks for the updates.
I can confirm that anime/manga can help learning a wide array of vocabulary. Personally, I've been reading manga since last year (mainly because I have 4 hours per week to kill in the train, so might as well get some work done), and I've been watching anime in japanese recently. I was surprised you were struggling to keep up to 20 words a day when reaching 20,000 cards, as I am currently at 14,103 in my deck and have been on an average of 29 new cards a day for the past three months (52 today by playing Hades). My progress doesn't seem to slow down, actually, I think getting more comfortable with the language helped me to speed up my learning
Your dedication is endless 😅
I've had a hard time sticking to Anki - highlighted by two sick spells, which gave me a good excuse to not do my reviews. I wish I could stay consistent, but it really is harder than it sounds... perhaps I should rewatch your videos on it, eh?
Ok liva you convinced me, I'll join the challenge as well, let's go.
2 video in a week lesgooo
Mans just discovered anime 😭
Haha good decision!
I feel justified in my choice to also learn mainly from anime, I actually installed Migaku over a year ago thanks to your videos. I'm now at 5800 words and my goal is to be at 10,000 by the end of the year.
Have you considered going for the Kanji Kentei pre 1 or level 1, I think you'd gain a lot more Kanji knowledge and with the exception of Yojijukugo your baseline understanding of anything new would increase exponentially?
This video has motivated me to finally take learning japanese seriously instead of doing it on and off, which has proven to be unproductive.
Good luck and I’m excited to see your journey from here!
I’ve been following you since I really started being serious about learning ~2 years ago. Your videos always seem to give me a burst of motivation that makes me want to do even more.
I actually really enjoy interesting idioms or expressions so I enjoyed you bringing up some you came across. At 16000 words I have come across 10 of the idioms you showed in separate media.
Here are some other fun idioms/expressions I’ve come across off the top of my head:
三十六計逃げるに如かず - the smartest thing in a tight situation is to beat a retreat (based on the 36 ancient Chinese stratagems)
腐っても鯛 - a superior product still retains its value even when deteriorated (lit. Even if it’s rotten it’s still Sea Bream) (*I went to Japan and tried sea bream. Can confirm it’s delicious)
指をくわえる - to look on enviously while doing nothing (lit. to hold a finger in one's mouth)
花より団子 - function of aesthetic (lit. Dango over flowers)
来年のことを言うと鬼が笑う - how can we know what will happen next year when we don’t know what will happen tomorrow. There’s no use trying to predict the future (lit. Talk about next year and Oni will laugh)
元の木阿弥 - end right back where you started (lit. Story from the Warring States period when a general died of illness, to hide his death until his son was of age to take over he had a man named 木阿弥, who had a similar voice, sleep in his bed to deceive others)
Oh shit, I thought you were aiming for 30k NEW words for this year
For the love of the grind
LET’S GO LIVA!!
Love ya vids! You inspired me to learn japanese and I've been doing it for the past 6-7 months now! :D
You got this bro!
The problem I have with mining classical literature is that some of the words are really old so nobody uses them anymore or the way they are written is outdated so I save the modern version instead of the old one.
Its legitimately terrifying to me that despite knowing 20k+ words you still encounter that many unknown words in something like YYH. I know an estimated 10k words, around 5k in Anki and 5k outside of it, with a plan on quitting Anki after 10k cards. But when I see this it makes me think I'm still going to consistently encounter new words even after that. Though I guess that depends on the content. I can watch certain anime or UA-cam content and go multiple episodes/videos with next to no new words. In better news, I at the very least knew 四面楚歌 from the list of terms you got from YYH, one of my favorite 四字熟語.
Anime is very very good for mining, especially the harder ones. For example when I watch 遊戯王 I can go 5 to 10 episodes without encountering any new word, but when I watch Psycho-Pass I see between 15 and 25 new words/expressions that I can mine (also 1 to 3 new kanji within these new words). There are definitely a lot of anime where you could keep getting enough words from for a very long time. Spy Family was another anime where I felt like the new word density was quite good. Legend of the galactic heroes (銀河英雄伝説) I would expect to be S tier in terms of vocab though I haven't watched that one yet. 薬屋のひとりごと (both manga and anime) have A LOT of vocab, I was actually kinda blown away that a manga with furigana can be this hard. It's a lot of archaic vocab like 朝餉 for example mixed with this old chinese setting, but actually this vocab came in really useful in a lot of other stuff I watched with simmilar settings (like 時代劇) so it's not like it's useless (also all the emperial stuff vocab definitely shows up in other contexts too). Maybe these recommendations can help you out a bit^^
the grind is unstoppable
I’m at ~300 words (started doing anki in mid December) and can’t imagine ever reaching 30k words. Good luck, king.
I feel u on that one. I started learning Korean in early December and I would say that I am at rougly 600-700 words. His Videos are really inspiring, but as a beginner it's also frightening when u realize how much effort and time it takes to get to a high level in another language.
I'm at roughly ~1300, started Japanese around mid September last year, it scares me that even at 20k this guy finds words he doesn't know
You're fucking insane and I love it.
You should try Visual Novels!!
You absolute madlad
You are INSANE. To think you've been doing this for around 7 years and are still going is insanely motivating for a fellow estonian trying to learn Japanese. Most people say 30 - 50k is the usual amount of words a native Japanese person can speak, so..
You will reach levels of nihongo jouzu incomprehensible to the mortal mind.
Hello Livakivi I believe you
Letsgo you are motivating me to push harder too.
So far all your videos were inspiring (as well as extremely useful).
This one is no longer inspiring, but rather fascinating.
You inspired me to learn a language.
thanks goat!
He's going even further beyond!
I'm at 4118 words and have been doing approximately 30 new cards a day, I'm bound to hit the 10k mark before the end of 2025 but my real goal is to hit it before the 1 year mark of studying. Although realistically I might only manage 8k before that point, because after every milestone I take 1 to 2 weeks off from learning new words (first at 2k and next one at 5k, it helps me with maturing cards). Something about the 10k mark just feels to appealing to have that it makes me very impatient, hence why I have been speedrunning vocab for the past 5 months.
I'm going hard with 16 words and 20 kanji a day to finish core2k6k on 22nd of mar which is my birthday. Even consistently immersing 40mins a day all the words are still starting to feel like a blur, will let you know if it helps. Holding you to the congrats message too hehe
Hey Livakivi I had a question regarding your method of using Anki. Right now I'm going through a premade deck (Kaishi 1.5k) and the way I'm going about learning the new words is whenever I see a new word, I like to write it down on paper with its meaning. Then whenever I am reviewing the words, if I remember it I pass it and if I forget it I will most of the time rewrite the word out on paper and pick the again option to reset the card. Doing it this way usually takes me anywhere from 45 minutes to 1 hour a day with around 10-15 new cards per day. I noticed in your videos you go through your anki reviews and cards really quickly, much quicker than I am currently going. Basically my question is this: Should I stop writing down the words and instead just trust the srs process and repeat the card until it sticks, or is there a better way for me to optimize my current method? I feel it works, but some days I don't like spending so much time in Anki. Thanks!
this video is giving me vibes of "gotta catch em all! POKEMON!"
Woah it's been nearly 4 years since I watched your Duolingo video already. Funnily I now have almost 900 days on Duolingo and it's been the only consistent Japanese learning I've been doing all this time. Due to external reasons, I cold never properly study for more than 60 days straight. However, now that I've finished high school, I'm having a lot more of free time and I'll use a lot of it to fully commit myself to finally learn this stupid language.
Lol, I started the same goal this year, and I'm already at 500 new cards starting from Jan 7th. Although I aim for a bit shorter amount of time which is Dec, 7th (JLPT day) doing 35 cards from Mon to Sat, and leaving Sun just for revision.
Maybe give Mahoutsukai no yoru visual novel a try (from the creator of fate) They really love putting in these crazy words that you rarely see. Also it's not that long (around 24 hours if you don't stop reading to check words)
How about taking on a new Asian language this year?
Simply put, the more I learn Japanese, the more valuable and important I feel it becomes for me! There are still many things that I'm looking forward to doing with my Japanese, and the better it gets, the more confident I will feel when it comes to actually doing said things.
While I'd definitely want to know other Asian languages as well, considering the time it took me to learn Japanese to a "good enough" level, I don't know if I want to repeat that entire process again haha.
@@Livakivi but u did tons of mistakes / unnecessary time consumers. exapt of chinese u don t have to deal with chinese characters (and even if u were about to learn chinese, it s still easier. Because... 1word = 1character and the other way around) so you already did the hardest one.
but id prefer to see even more along ur jp journey
How you will manage almost 30 cards a day? I have tried this before, and the result was not good, i cant remeber most of the cards, and the review will take 2-3 hours long. It burned me out. Now i have found sweet spot at 10 new cards daily which will only takes me like 30mins-1hour long review every single day, so i can focus more on immersion rather than anki.
depends on the person. It takes me 1 hour every day for 28 new cards a day. Maybe he can do it in 45 minutes or less.
Personally for me when I started with 30 cards a day my retention was horrible and I couldn't retain anything (for like 2 months), but stubbornly I kept persisting and after those 2 months it was like my brain had grown accustomed to the pace. Also the more words you know the easier it is to acquire new words, because a lot of the words aren't totally "new", like the word 外国 containing the word for country and the suffix: "がい"/the word "outside". Basically it progressively gets easier.
Some people are capable of it and some people are not. I did 35 a day for 18 months. I can manage it. I have a friend who is like you. If he tries anything close to that his retention drops, reviews take forever and depression kicks in.
The trick is you have to be able to do reviews at about 4 seconds per card.
can you give your 20k anki deck ?
oh i've never seen people who study Japanese by watching ゆるコンピューター科学ラジオ lol
He yearns for the grind…
next year chalenge: read a japanese book in a day
2030: WRITE A JAPANESE BOOK IN DAY
time to liva your kivi at the door. Its go time bby!
あなたを信じる私を信じてください。