How to Learn Japanese (The ULTIMATE Guide)
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
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In this video, I'll be covering how to learn Japanese, as well as be sharing many absolutely crucial tips for mindset, realistic expectations, motivation, consistency, and so on. Its a multi-part series, so stay tuned for the upcoming episodes!
This video is a part of my guide on how to learn Japanese (or any language):
EPISODES
- PART 1 (General Guide): • How to Learn Japanese ... (This video)
- PART 2 (Anki): • How to Use Anki for Le...
- PART 3 (Sentence Mining): • The ULTIMATE Guide to ...
- PART 4 (Immersion): • How To Learn Languages...
RESOURCES:
- Anki: apps.ankiweb.net/
- Core 2k/6k deck: djtguide.neocities.org/anki.html
- Alternative Core 2k/6k that includes pitch accent graphs + stroke order: github.com/amaank404/Core2k6k...
- Tae Kim's Textbook: guidetojapanese.org/learn/
- 10 Motivation Tips for Language Learning: • 10 Motivation Tips for...
- Dogen's 10min Pitch Accent Introduction: • Japanese Pitch-Accent ...
- Very long article on は and が particle with cute dinosaurs: www.tofugu.com/japanese/wa-an...
- Migaku: www.migaku.io/
- For learning Hiragana/Katakana, just use something like Lingodeer, Duolingo, or any Kana app/flashcards/rote learn them, etc.
- I also recommend checking out my other videos, where I document my own journey with similar methods, etc.
MUSIC:
Pocket Rurubu OST - Map
Pocket Rurubu OST - Plan
Koji Seto - Hakutaka In The City ( • Koji Seto - Hakutaka I... o)
Animal Crossing (GameCube) OST - 5PM
Animal Crossing (New Horizons) OST - Interior Designing
Bubble Bath - The Green Orbs
Koji Seto - 米桜 / 88th Sakura ( • Koji Seto - 米桜 / 88th ... )
SENTIVE - One day
Huge thanks to Seto Koji for allowing me to use his music!
Seto Koji Main Channel: / eguri89
Seto Koji SoundCloud: / tracks
CHAPTERS:
00:00 How to Learn Japanese
1:10 The Reality of Learning Japanese
1:35 What do I Mean by "Fluency"?
2:25 Expect Motivational Issues
3:20 The Hardest Part of Learning Japanese
4:05 Getting Started
4:25 Daily Habit, Hiragana, Katakana
5:05 Grammar
6:30 Immersion
7:30 Endgoal of Immersion
7:45 Improving Comprehension
8:00 Learning Vocabulary with Anki
10:30 Step-by-Step Guide
11:27 Current Routine
12:10 Immersion Over Language Learning Apps
12:20 How to Immerse TL;DR
12:37 Regular Immersion
12:55 Assisted Immersion
13:30 How to Approach Regular Immersion
14:05 Make Sure You Don't Skip Anki!
14:15 Sentence Mining
15:10 Migaku
16:50 Outputting
18:28 Two Ways to Improve Recall
18:38 The Issue With Early Output Practice
19:52 Regardless, How to Do Early Output Practice
20:07 Final Suggestions
20:50 Good Luck!
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Anyway, hopefully this video helps with learning Japanese! If you have any questions, leave them down below and I'll try to answer as much as I can!
Stay tuned for the follow-ups to this video, where I go more in depth about Anki, sentence mining, immersion, and so on!
@Livakivi Love your Videos Man. I started learning Japanese in 2020 because I watched alot of Anime, but it was hard for me reading the Subtitles and stuff, so I was like, "Well, if I learn Japanese, then I won't need the Subtitles, and I can understand what they're saying on my own." So I started on Duolingo. Since then, I've quit learning Japanese for multiple Months, about 10 times, due to lack of motivation. But this time, I'm determined to learn Japanese everyday. Rn, I've been good for about 4-5 Weeks. But anyway, the point is that I'm poor. I cannot afford Netflix, for the Japanese Subtitles to be able to immerse. And at the level I'm at now, I tried to turn my Games to Japanese Dub, and Sub, but I cannot understand ANYTHING. Is there a better way for me to immerse for free?
Update: Yo, this Core2k/6k Deck is HARD. I went from the JLPT N5 Tango Deck with learning to say, 1 person, 2 peopele, I have a Dog, I have a Brother, stuff like that to, Core2k/6k with, "She has 3 Children" or "I have Four Wristwatches" I literally almost deleted it on the First Card because it was so hard. But Imma try to push through, and finish it. I don't see how you do it bro. You do this for HOURS on end, and I can barely do it for 5 Minutes.
Possibly not the right place to ask but, Have you seen the videogame Project Zomboid? I watched ur runescape video and have been on the look out for games that kind of have that feel and surplace of a bunch of words and I think it'd be interesting to hear ur thoughts on it and its Japanese translation (and if itd be good to learn some Japanese with)
@@dededededeha6935 Haven't heard of it, but if you can learn a few words from it and play it in Japanese instead of English, go for it!
@@seventytew Are you using the core 2k/6k deck in some sentence card format? Its generally a vocabulary deck where the words are i+1, but the sentences are not i+1 because they're meant to serve as an example, not the target of the card.
Today is my 40th day of learning Japanese, and you're one of the main reason why I decided to take the plunge. Keep up the great work Livakivi!!!
I also started around that time
I wonder how much progress you made
Especially with the hiragana table, supposedly it takes about a week to learn
the kana is the easy part, grammar is the true enemy
@@Salchichas38 I saw your other comment, it's your 2nd month right now right?
Yeah basically, I can now comfortably read both hiragana and katakana. It took me a month to "memorize" hiragana. By memorizing I mean I literally just got used to it. I used hate memorizing, for the first three weeks I refused to use Anki. So I just forced my way into knowing it, just like immersion but on a smaller scale. Weirdly, for katakana it only took me 4 days. I started katakana when I memorized like 90% of hiragana.
@@Salchichas38 Don't be discouraged though, I got my slow start too! Keep grinding those xp and you'll memorize it in no time.
I really struggled in the first month, but I found my own methods, something clicked in my brain and now I really enjoy spending my time learning Japanese.
@@Salchichas38 if u use tofugu's method to learning hiragana and katakana you can learn both with ease in 4 days (as well as their combination kana), thats how I did it and after those 4 days you don't really need to study it further unless you feel like you still have trouble with it because you will be seeing it everyday anyways.
I think one of the dangers regarding the routine of new cards to review, is that one can get overcoonfident after a period of time, which leads to one increasing the amount of new cards per day too drastically. This in turn can develop into too many reviews piling up overtime, and losing control of the previosly developed routine, because one is still accustomed to the previous rate of new cards. Hence, increasing new cards by small amounts and getting accustomed to that routine, can help to avoid getting too overwhelmed and procrastinating.
What happened to me was i bumped it up very quickly was miserable but then I got used to it 😀
That's exactly why I warned that even 8 to 10 cards may start taking an hour in a few weeks. Definitely worth noting! Start small rather than big, and see from there!
@@Livakivi a good rule of thumb is that it takes about 2 weeks to reach the time its from then on going to take consistently. So if I start with 20 words a day, the time it takes me to complete my anki session will increase day by day until it takes me around 1.5h on day 14. From then on the time usually stays consistent and I can expect most sessions to take a similar amount of time after that. Another good rule of thumb is, that around 50% more cards will take about double the time, so if 10 cards a day take me half an hour, 15 cards a day might take me an hour eventually (because cards compound its not linear).
That’s the only reason why I didn’t increase my new cards count. I have lots of time right now but I’m so afraid of the reviews that I’m keeping it down to 20 - 25 😅 I’ll find something else to spend my summer break on
A good rule of thumb is how many new cards you do a day x10 is how many reviews you will have to do in a month.
I started in June 2023, it's been around 7 months of daily learning. I can proudly say that the progress made is massive. I am able to understand nearly 60% of anime content and phrases easily.
I practice reading Japanese almost daily and practice atleast 15 Anki Cards.
How many hours would you say you studied Japanese every day on average?
@@kingdoge69 earlier 3-4 hours daily. Nowadays only an hour using Anki decks.
can u pls tell me where to start from basics and y dafaq ppl hate kanji i think its difficult there r 3 lang in japan is kanji imp in daily life pal? ^_^
@@fedrickksogyi4813 i tried to reply to you. But it got deleted somehow. Maybe because I had mentioned a link in it 🤔
@@fedrickksogyi4813 I will answer again.
Learn Hiragana and Katakana first. They are like ABCD of Japanese ( hardly takes 2-3 weeks and are easy)
Try to learn 40-50 few N5 level basic Kanjis.
Initial 100 kanjis are not that difficult, in fact easy.
Kanjis are essential if you really wanna learn Japanese, but they take forever to learn and start to make less sense after some amount. But still they are like building blocks of words and you need them if you want to read Japanese and learn vocabulary.
After you have learned the initial 40-50 kanji, you should start applying your gathered japanese knowledge right away.
What I did was, I read Children's books in Japanese. They are not too long nor too complex. And they help in practice and boost your confidence.
I will tell you the website in the next comment.
After that, you should continue your Japanese learning, by learning new kanji and vocab everyday.
Japanese is a tiresome job but it is fun when you really go past the initial hardships.
I can assure you the days I spent learning Japanese were full of hardships, but I only regret those days where I skipped studying nothing else.
All the best.
Livakivi, you are one of the best UA-camrs out there. Never stop making videos, please.
@@gardariker what the fuck.
My books litterally just came in I can't express how perfect the timing is.
I'm in exactly the same situation. They just came in 30 minutes ago
I started learning Japanese a month ago after I found myself wondering what the characters in Naruto are really saying (not just what the English subtitles tell me). I was catching on to a few words and phrases that kept coming up and decided that I should look into it. To my surprise, I found that the sentence structure in Japanese is almost the same as that in my native language Bengali. Encouraged by this coincidence and having been enamored by Japanese culture for so long, I decided to start running this ultramarathon in earnest. So here's what I did:
1. I started learning hiragana and katakana on Duolingo. I took it slow and finished maxing out the characters list today.
2. I started using Anki to learn kanji with the NihongoShark deck (based on the Heisig and koohii mnemonics method) 10 days ago. I have already studied (but not memorized completely) 200 kanji.
3. Yesterday, I added the optimized Core 2k 6k deck and started learning 10 vocab words (with 10 sentences each paired with one word) per day.
4. I plan to start studying basic grammar from Tae Kim over the next couple of days and start reading and listening to more beginner-friendly native content (which are kinda hard to come by).
For anybody who is here and planning to start learning this wonderful language, remember that it's not a sprint but an ultramarathon. This is how I have made all my good habits stick in life. Let's make this one stick too!
you’ve saved me a bunch of time mate, thanks :)
@@aquasiox4033 and without even knowing lol
A fellow Bengali learning Japanese!!
@@lazy_biscuits08 I'm already 4 months into my journey now. Great to know you're on that same road too!
How are things so far to you, bruh?
I took Japanese for 2 years in high school and have since unfortunately forgotten much of what I've learned. Japanese is a beautiful language and this video got me hyped to start studying it again!
My high school only has Spanish :(
Good thing I’m learning now!
I highly recommend studying Spanish too! It's a lot easier to grasp as an English speaker and it's really practical. I've been living in South America for the last 6 months and prior to my trip I tried to cram in as much Spanish as I could and I was able to get to basic communication in a few months. On one hand it would have been nice if I had taken it in high school, but I also don't regret studying Japanese at all. At the moment I find time to do a little of both. The methods of studying a language are mostly the same in every language, so the skills you learn by studying one transfers to any language you learn. And if Spanish is the only language your school offers, you should take it, and study Japanese on your own time. The two are distinct enough that you will be able to make progress in both. Best of luck either way :)@@YamoYamo.
@@oishiine6781 okay! Thanks for the recommendations
The last part about the effectiveness of input vs. output practice in terms of recalling information is exactly the message immersion learners need to understand when they get to that stage. Reading and listening will help but you have to eventually start outputting for it to feel natural and automatic. Unfortunately so many people who have otherwise massive passive vocabularies are scared to output because they think they don’t have enough input. But it’s really simple: input is a type of recognition exercise and output is a recall exercise. As you explain in the video, you can improve your recall through more recognition exercises, but it’s less effective. If you want to get good at recall, practice recall.
Seriously great video on learning Japanese.
As a two year learner, this guide summarized all of the stuff that I should've and would've done. To any new Japanese learner, follow this.
You awesome! Keep making videos, I enjoy them a lot!
Im always hyped when u post a vid bro. I love your videos. Looking forward to the other three parts.
I am so looking forward to the following videos. Keep up the good work.
Fantastic Video man. Love your content keep it up!
Every new video from Livaki makes me happy :)
This honestly needs a few hundred thousand more views. Really good video! Highly informal, entertaining, and quite well edited!
Just what I needed thank you!
Great video as always
Really looking forward to parts 3 and 4!
Can't wait for this!
using this playlist to help learn korean and so far your sentence mining video has been very useful to me. love this !
This channel is a godsend. Thanks 🙏
Thank you, your videos are amazing!
We need videos likes this for every language. Clear start to a language and good resources beginners can pick up. Great video thank you.
Great video as always, you can really tell how much work you put into making them! Must watch for anyone new (or somewhat experienced) to learning japanese!
This is like my third week learning japanese and this video was really helpful as i was confused on what to do next, than you so much Livakivi and keep up the great work!! :)
This is the video that made me finally get serious about learning Japanese. Can't thank you enough.
I used to think apps like Duolingo and Lingodeer would be enough, and that with enough time, I'd get to a good enough level, but wow, that Anki deck, along with Kim Tae's textbook, just absolutely accelerated my learning to an explosive level.
Below is my "progress report" after 100+ days.
As of the time of writing this, I have done the 6k deck in Anki for 103 straight days. I started with 10 words per day just to get a feel for it, but after a week, it just seemed like it would take forever to get through the whole thing, so I bumped it up to 20 words per day. I felt comfortable with that amount, and have kept doing that since. I have only just gotten past the 2k card milestone yesterday.
It takes an average of 30-35 minutes to do the daily review, with an average of 130 cards per day, along with the 20 new cards. I like to keep the Again count percentage below 15-20%. If it ever goes over 30%, that's a sign I should do some extra reviewing, but that's only happened twice, because sometimes you just have bad days.
As for Kim Tae's textbook, that was a god-send. My knowledge of grammar was vastly improved in a very short time, and I didn't have to spend a single cent, or have to pirate anything. I've been kinda slacking on it for the last few weeks and just using Anki, but I am working on getting through more of it. At this point, my vocabulary level is too ahead of my grammar level.
As for immersion, I've been doing some. Mostly just manga at this point. I've been prioritizing my reading skills over my listening skills, but I plan on getting them on equal levels soon. I recommend the manga Asobi Asobase, which is not only super entertaining, but has a lot of diversity in speaking styles. No furigana for every kanji, though, but I prefer it that way, personally.
So, after 103 days of learning, what do I have to show for it? Well, I can ace the N5 sample questions in the JLPT website, so that's good. That means I'm comfortably on the N5 level. As for N4, I tried it just now and got 80% of the questions right, but I also didn't fully understand everything, even when I got the questions right, especially in the listening part. I guess I have a foot in N4 then. But in my defense, they use hiragana on words I already know the kanji for, so it kinda throws me off.
My weakest point by far is the listening skills. But I think I'm at a good point to start doing some comprehensible audio immersion now, so I'll be working on that.
Can anyone please help me? After following the link provided to download anki core 2 djtguide I follow the download link there and takes me to an empty page and nothing get downloaded :(
How are things going now man? Also how can you do 20 cards a day? I feel like death doing 10 even after knowing a good 150~ words from previous attempts. It just doesn't stick. Not even same day.
Update:
It is day 302.
I have never missed a day, and today I have uncovered the last 20 cards of the deck.
The last word was... 便箋. Great...
Still have 887 cards listed as Young, so it's gonna take like 4-5 more weeks to get the deck to 100% Mature.
The path so far had been clear-cut. Just do the Anki deck, and discover 20 new words each day.
But now that path has ended. There's no "Post-6k" deck available that has thousands more words.
Guess I gotta create a new deck and start adding my own cards. From my experience during immersion, there's no shortage of words that aren't found in the 6k deck.
I also did the JLPT N3 sample questions just now. Got 11/17.
Well, I guess I'm kinda in N3.
My Japanese has yet to become self-sufficient. By that, I mean I won't require an "external language" to learn it. I could just look up words in a proper Japanese dictionary instead of relying on translations.
Hopefully I get there sometime this year.
@@_P2M_thanks for the update. I just started learning. Diving in headfirst and it’s nice to see someone else’s progress report and what they did and where they’re at now so I can have an idea
@@_P2M_ so just do the anki deck? No duolingo?
This guide is very good. I very much agree with this. I made a guide in your server once and it was similar to yours. Mine was simpler and missed some points though. It's awesome you address the motivation/base for the process
Congrats on the sponsor man. This video is literally what I've felt I needed for a while now. Thanks
Great video as always and just when I started losing motivation
thanks for being a reason as to why i got into learning my native language and for all the quality videos you put out
This is really good, thanks
Really looking forward for your tips for mining, keep it up, you're doing god's work my dude.
I am fluent in 5 languages and started learning Japanese on Duolingo last summer. I fell into the gamification trap and ended up focusing more on the game than on learning. I came across your channel today and binge-watched many of your videos, even some not Japanese-related, because I find them that interesting. I am really thankful for this discovery, the guidance, and the instruments. I will finally stop running around like a headless chicken.
This was such a well-made video. Even though I know about all these concepts from Matt, I really enjoyed your way of presenting them. Nice editing, really.
Very good video, thank you for your advices
Thanks a lot for this, I've been studying for 2 years now and never clicked with Anki nor textbooks, eventually got demotivated, but this video gave me motivation to try again and use the tools properly
Yo, didn't expect to see you here! :D We're in it together, mate.
Your content is incredibly underrated, you deserve so much more subscribers.
Just started my multi year journey! I am not quitting till I can understand anime without subtitles lol
Looking forward to the future videos. Got started learning about a week ago, am have memorized the kana (almost completely). Have a dual goal of learning enough to make do on a vacation this summer (or at least enough so I can learn a bit from being there) but the end goal being able to read manga and light novels in japanese.
I really wish I had your Videos as a resource to structure my learning plan when I started learning japanese 2,5 years ago. It's so hard to figure out what you need to do to archieve fluency and everyone seems to have a different opinion on what works and what doesn't work which adds even more to the confusion. I'm glad you report fairly on your experience with learning resources. Thank you!
Definitely my biggest inspiration (along with Ikenna) for learning Japanese. Keep it up man! 👍
Great video, right now I'm about to start learning Russian on my own (I study Russian philology but it's hard to learn everything at the uni), and THEN maybe in 2 years time I'm starting Japanese. The model which you've presented seems to be working, so I'll follow!
I've watched this guide several times, it has definitely helped me seriously improve my Japanese study
great video
been studying since 2018 but stuff like this always gives me motivation thorugh seeingn how much I've actually already done
it'ss easy to forget that
It really explains the whole system.
This is what I missed on Matt vs Japan's channel.
Actually i'm not even going to learn japanese, but your videos are perfect knowledge bank. Can't wait to see next parts! Keep up good work man!
I love migaku!!!! It's what I do every day for learning French!!! Super helpful. Glad them sponsor this video.
Love your content man, I feel cheesy just typing this but you're a source of inspiration. Also being able to read 1:01 felt great.
I just want to thank you for being such an inspiration for me, while the language I am currently learning isn't Japanese your videos have still played a major part in inspiring me to start learning my target language, while I am still in the very early stages of learning the language I am already very thankful that I started learning, you're awesome!
Another great video!
No idea why you don't have more subscribers or atleast views. Something tells me your channel is going to absolutely explode, because I can definitely see the step up in quality in your videos. You're on the road to success!
ive been learning for 2 years and i think its time to go hardcore, cheers for the help g
I watched this video a year ago and it motivated me to start studying Japonese. Today, I´m watching it again to try to study it again (I failed last time). Hope this time I achieve what I want to. Thx for the vids, really love them! :D
Great video! I'm in my 3rd year of learning Japanese now and basically followed this same path, though a little less intense overall. I do make time to at least do my anki reviews each day and have gotten better about studying grammar and increasing immersion. I've already beaten one game in Japanese (Shenmue) and am currently playing Shenmue II, Ni No Kuni, and Star Ocean 2 and having a blast. I really enjoy your content and have been following you almost as long as I've been learning the language :)
I appreciate your content
I needed this video, thx a lot!
I've been learning Japanese for a little over a year, and honestly subbing to you and Tokini Andy was some of the best choices I've made.
this is super helpful tysm !
March 1st marks my 2nd year of learning Japanese. After an unfortunate fail for my N4 exam this definitely helped motivate me to get back on the wagon and start clearing out the loooooong backlog of anki cards that have built up!
thank you for the help
Another amazing video!
On another note some other good ways of getting early output would be to write a diary in Japanese going over what you learned that day, another good way that I've found extreamly helpful for me and is what allows me to speak pretty well even only after 5 months of immersion is simply speaking to myself in Japanese while I'm taking a shower or going to bed. I wouldn't recommend these to super beginners since forming a sentence when you first start off could take a few minutes but once you reach a certain level I'd recommend trying them out and seeing how much you can improve!
i’ve been struggling for about a year or so now to get past the early stages of learning japanese, but coming back to your videos always gives me a fresh mindset and makes me want to try again, even if i may fail. thank you for these videos
Absolutely amazing guide. Even though I'm leaning Korean and not Japanese I made sure to watch the whole thing I will definitely be applying these methods to my learning. THANK YOU...
i wish something like this was around when i was starting out, lots of years spent meandering lol. (good vid btw, might sent this to some of my friends when the time comes.)
Thanks to you a little more than half a year ago I started doing Anki every single day. Few days ago I hit 50% reviewed cards. It's not much and I'm planning to do more decks, finish Guide to Japanese, but still progress feels great. I'm starting to understand more and more. Looking forward to your next video!
I can't thank you enough for making your videos, they've been a huge motivation for me! Just to share a bit of my expirience I wanna say that Duolingo and Lingodeer (I tried both) might not suit you with all the game elements and awkward pacing. A big step in the right direction for me was starting to use Anki. It really filled me with a sense of freedom and my motivation became internal, not some streaks or xp points, so it was much easier to do and I found it to be a lot more helpful too. I now have more than 70 day streak and still going strong. After making one habit (like reviewing Anki in my case), you can build other habits on top of that as they will be easier to get into and maintain. The only thing I find difficult at that point is finding out what the best next step might be.
Thank you so much for your content, love from Russia!
Been learning about 3-ish months through Pimsleur and UA-cam. Learned a few words from context in 'The Boy and the Heron' in theaters. Such an amazing feeling. I can't wait til I become a more contextual input learner. It's slowly coming along.
I have something to say as an N2 passer with perfect listening score. Immersion is probably the biggest reason as to why I was able to pass the JLPT, but at the same time, immersion has messed me up because I am enjoying so much content in Japanese, that I am barely doing a dent on my kanji knowledge. My listening, and grammar is getting really good, but I am so bad at kanji, its kinda funny if I look at myself from another point of view.
TLDR : immersion is the best, but too much immersion might trap you from learning kanji.
You can also immerse with reading :^)
But I also barely do any reading, but I don't have much of an issue with kanji (my kanji knowledge is appropriate for my Japanese level I mean), but that's because of Anki.
EDIT: ....You answered this in the next video in your series! Thank you :). Looks like I will just do a bit of RRTK deck alongside. Fantastic vids.
@@Livakivi Did you learn all of your Kanji through Anki core 2k/6k? For example, did you look up the Kanji character the first time you saw a new Kanji in Anki - or simply learned the pronunciation/mentally made a note of how it looks on the Anki card and moved on?
If just using Anki that seems like a very highly efficient method of learning Kanji and much more interesting to me than say RTK which seems good but perhaps not the most efficient method - although I see some people use RTK and core 2k/6k combined..
Do you immerse with japanese subtitles?
@@XHiimcharlieX im very late but i and alot of people i know just do a vocab deck since u will naturally pick out the meaning of kanji, while also learning vocab so its 2 in 1.
It makes me remember how I learned English, I was mostly ok at input understanding but just bad at output when in the equivalent of secondary school, but as my in put was good, I just needed a good personal teacher to help me on the output part.
For once, I'm feeling a bit more hopeful about language learning with this video, even if I don't think I can for now for multiple reasons.
10th day of learning japanese. So far, i'm having so much fun with it.
Btw, great video! Keep up the good work.
Thanks bro for helping me started , I started Anki on August and now I just hits 1k words plus I am also reviewing on an outside source and pretty much I've already learn 1.2 k words Thanks for the encouragement and inspiration!!
That video is very helpful man, appreciate it, you are my saviour and a very big motivation point ;) Explanation was really understanding cuz I really didn't know what to do after learning kanas, but now I do. So yeah, thanks a lot!
Great video!
I just reached day 150 the other day!!! I felt so proud 😄☺️ Thank you Livakivi for motivating me to even start this journey, and I shall not give up and lose my streak!!! I have been on a motivational decline for the last month - waiting until 10pm to do my anki, but nevertheless I am doing it.
I’ll also be going on a high school exchange to Japan at the end of this year, so I hope to get out of this un-motivational time and go ham on study so I can understand as much as possible over there :DD
Thank you once again Livakivi!! ☺️☺️
Been learning Japanese for 8 years, I feel these tips are pretty solid, I've never been able to use anki consistently but I'm curious to try it with something like migaku for other languages I plan on learning
Thank you so much! I’ve been struggling to learn Japanese and was about to give up. This video gave me hope❤
Awesome video man!
Time for me to get the 2k 6k in anki and ditch old-school flashcards
Cool video! I have been one japanese for 7 months now and I just started reading one piece and it's going really smooth. I can pretty much undertsnad almost every sentence. but ig one piece is really simple manga at least in the beggining idk later. I pretend to start reading novels but I cant yet it is too many text and vocab that idk. Gotta pratice bit more! Good luck to everyone on this beautiful journey! As Livakivi said it is better to have consitency and reach further than being really eficient and then stoping, its great advice yeah, I had many friends who started japanese with me and they stopped, imo the main reason is they thought they would be fluent in little time but when reality stroke they quited. It takes long time, but most importantly is to enjoy what we are doing, this way we will never stop doing it.
Really glad you discovered Migaku
I was using their tools from the start and always loved it
I would place a bet that Migaku discovered him XD
ngl my motivations for learning japanese are so wishy-washy at the moment that I can’t even dedicate myself for more than a couple of days without feeling overwhelmed by everything else in my life as well as japanese itself. that said, you and your channel keep me wanting to go back and, in all truthfulness, this video came up in my feed at the perfect time as I’d been looking for something to put it all into perspective for me. so, thank you for that :)
1:02 i am suprised that i could understand it! I will still come back and watch this again since i found this video intresting.
1:01 finally... After almost 11 months of studying I could understand this message without any problem! Thank you for the tips
I'm 13 years old and I started learning japanese at the age of 12. Your videos help me to keep learning and to move on with japanese. You are amazing. どうもですよ！
What a video to come across on my 3rd day of learning japanese, i was feeling a little lost after learning the alphabets, so thank you for making such an easy to follow guide!
Japanese doesnt use Alphabets. It uses 2 syllabries (Hiragana and Katakana) and a logography (Kanji).
Damn 4 part videos on how to learn Japanese from you
That would be fantastic
This video is amazing, I recently wanted to properly learn Japanese after years of fumbling around words I think I understand on my anime watching years lol, and I feel immersion is perfect, that's how I learned English after knowing the basics and if I succeed Japanese will be my third language
Nice video as always! Good luck on your journey everyone!
Thanks Migaku san :)
Both of you deserve the promotion/sponsorship
Just started learning a few week ago and had a wish that you could explain it by yourself, ty
You're the one and the best estonian i've ever met :D
I really loved this video, and I’ve been thinking about Anki, but I’m concerned about lagging behind due to a busy school schedule. I do have to start soon though. But another tool of immersion that I love to use is music. All though pronunciations can change, I like having the lyrics (in Japanese) pulled up while I listen.
I am going to Japan for my senior trip next year. I’m going to learn as much Japanese as I can until then. You are kind of the reason I chose to go to Japan lol
I try to learn japanese last year for a month, but I quit, and today with your video I decide to try again, thanks and good luck for everyone.
The best content creator of the 21st century 💪🔥
Livakivi da goat bruv
awesome, almost on day 200 of daily japanese. (with previously hiragana/katakana knowledge and basic vocab/grammar from before)
with you as a major inspiration, I've progressed more in these last 200 days than i have ever since i started learning on and off 10 years ago :)
thanks a bunch!
also like to add- i’ve only taken around 900 ish cards from the 2k/6k deck, but sentence mining has still been super helpful, finding those 1T sentences EVERYWHERE in slice of life anime, up to like 60 new cards per episode …
Yooo Liva, I'm so happy you uploaded again
Thanks for the comment, glad to hear your journey is going well, and good luck with the rest of it!
I'm a big fan of the Migaku tools for Korean. Been using it since it was just a dictionary add on. It's come a long way and it's definitely worth it.
Lots of people seem to be happy with Migaku in the comments, which I'm very glad to hear myself as well. Personally happy too, does make sentence mining so much smoother!
Good tips
That's our boy!!