Thanks for uploading this, I just did my first iTalki lesson and I was struggling to speak and find the words. I have seen so many other videos of iTalki lessons and the students all seem so fluent or at least comfortable/confident enough with their level of speech that it kinda made me feel a little incompetent. Your video made me feel a little better (don't mean this in a bad way), its really good to know that its normal to struggle at this stage.
I'm glad to hear, honestly, me too. There are so many videos of 3-6 month progress or something like that and they're all so very good already that I almost feel like I'm behind at times. I've taken a step back at times and realized that everyone is learns at different paces and have just become happy at what level I'm at. Struggling is a day to day, but I think the challenge is what makes it fun!
This was very helpful. I have been studying for about 7 months and keep wanting to try speaking, but feel like I don't know enough yet. Keep up the great work.
That's how I always feel, but you just gotta jump into it. When you start speaking, what you don't know will become apparent and you can use those areas to study more in or focus in on. Goodluck!
You're all doing a good job guys! I'm Brazil we can't even afford italki classes. We mostly have to do it by ourselves and get by. Don't let all those poliglots and fluent students make you feel bad or incompetent. You should only compare yourself to yourself. Everyone is fighting a war no one knows of. Keep up the good work friends!!!!!!
Congratulations! It takes a fair bit of courage to jump into something like this! I've been taking online lessons through JapaTalk for about a year and I still get nervous, but my tutors are so supportive. Keep up your great efforts!
I'm really impressed, It's easy to forget how much progress that is. I mean, honestly, in a traditional course, it'd take up to 1.5 years for someone to be able to UNDERSTAND what you're understanding in this session, let alone speaking.
Thank you! My motto, celebrate with each and every improvement , working day by day 😁. In my experience, even longer tbh. I was in a 3rd semester japanese course and many students were still struggling with the kana, reading the dialogues, and just general comprehension (including me) last year. I was just starting my japanese journey as i just decided to skip a bunch of courses and sign up, but what got me to a basic level of comprhension wasn't the classes, but the self study that I was doing. It was great for grammar and structure, but not for learning how to understand and that's what most people want when they sign up.
Nice work. You are on the right track. I have been studying for longer but I still struggled a lot just trying to think of even simple things to say in my first italki conversation. But, it helped so much, and I kept at it. I realized this is the best way to make progress, by just going for it, and learning from mistakes. That has been my biggest learning, to not worry about mistakes. With repetition, you start getting the hang of it.
@@luc19c... I'll give a quick synopsis on how I've gone about it. At the core of my learning, I receive a lot of input, like, a LOT. Both comprehensible and incomprehensible, but preferably comprehensible. With all of this input, I have my Anki studies which work to help me comprehend and understand the input I'm getting. Then I do sessions of what is called active immersion (where I'm actively paying attention and trying to decipher what content I'm consuming, creating flashcards, etc) and then when I'm not, I'm passively listening (to japanese content). Tips though, I would advise finding content that YOU love, and then working on ways towards understanding it. If it's too high of a level, if you love it enough, you can always make incomprehensible input into comprehensible input with enough time and effort. That how I started with the content I've been consuming. IT's not the fastest but it's what I enjoy and what keeps my motivation up. And lastly, believe in the process. Language learning takes time and oftentime, we get caught into judging our levels based on where others are and not our enjoyment of it. For methodology, if you want a really well thought out and comprehensible roadmap, go check out refold and their methodology. It's what I've been closely following and has been very useful for me. tldr; Use content you love and celebrate any little wins and progress you make. Methodly is refold.la/
It's amazing to be able to talk this long after 9 months! Nice job! I'm happy that you recorded and uploaded this. For one thing, you will be able to have a record of your progress over time. For another thing, most people only really upload stuff like this when they're already pretty fluent...which is fine, but this allows people who don't have that much experience to be able to follow along. I will say that if this was a conversation, the other guy is fine, but if it's a lesson (like he's supposed to be a tutor), then he's not the best, as there are many corrections that can be made, or new words given, but he pretty much doesn't correct you or give you new words. There are ways to correct while still keeping a conversation going. Anyway, best of luck continuing with this!
Thank you! Everyday is progress for me and so I love recording it (kinda like a journal!). In terms of lesson, I specify to my tutors to not correct my speech. I have read enough articles to suggest that in SLA, it doesn't benefit the learner to be corrected during speech (and it's also my preference!) In terms of tutoring, Yoshito-san did a nice job to keep track of certain things that I could say better and he always does provide a document after so I can look at it :D, very thankful for the notes from him!
@@Jarods_Journey I see. I didn't know that... I do think that he actually did a pretty natural yet useful thing after your question at 4:37, when he simply said back (to confirm), (4:51) "Hai, hoka no kuni ni itta koto ga arimasu." It was instructive in that it uses "VERB-past koto ga arimasu" which means, "I have VERBed before". If you use it as a question, you can say, "Hoka no kuni ni itta koto ga arimasu ka?" ("Have you ever been to another country before?") I feel those types of things are helpful. By the way, I studied Japanese for 4 years and lived in Japan for one of those years as well as doing some English teaching after that, and I'm only now trying to get back into it after a hiatus from active learning. (Edit: I'm definitely below Germaine's level at Japanese.) It takes both time and persistence, and you're certainly on your way!
I first started learning Japanese about 15 years ago; and my biggest regret was probably not using most of my previous available time to study the language more seriously, although I do get exposed to the language almost on a daily basis It's thanks to videos like yours and others who make iTalki conversation videos that actually made me try iTalki recently, and feeling motivated to study again (since my 日本語conversational skills are still lacking!)
I'm glad that I could contribute to some of your motivation! Honestly, sometimes life just moves and priorities change, but since you can't rewind the clock, looking forward and moving towards your language goal is all you can do! I think that the power of speaking often gets overlooked in terms of how motivating it is. Once you can start to conversate, it becomes almost addictive! I wish you the best in your studies! Feel free to always stop on by my discord!
Thank you! Unfortunately, I was going to edit another one but found out that the hour long recording didn't record because of a software error so I'll be a bit behind on my uploads of these :/
9 months?! Man, you did amazingly well! The way you could handle the conversation and express yourself is really impressive. I've been toying with Japanese for years (learning it on and off), and I still have a super hard time stringing words together in a sentence:) I guess practice is the only way to fluency:)
Thank you! Consistency has been key and I did spend quite a bit of time during those 9 months! 100% though, showing up everyday to do some type of Japanese study has attributed a lot to it. But! Learning still takes a long time. Goodluck in your studies :D
@@Jarods_Journey Thank you:) I'm also using italki, and I love it. So convenient! Btw, if you ever need a speaking partner to practice Japanese for free, I'm all for it:) (I'm just a learner like yourself, but I know a lot of kanji))) I could also brush up on my English teaching you a few Russian words in return if you want:)
Ayyy :D I’m a native English speaker whose been learning French for the better part of 6 months now and seeing other people in that intermediate stage of learning a language is very motivating :) I see tons of videos titled « Then vs Now » where the person can barely say a word in this new language, but then the camera cuts and all of the sudden they’re speaking like a native. They tend not to show how they struggled in that middle part (where I am right now). Sometimes it makes me feel like I’m not improving fast enough or sm. I really appreciate your videos! Plus you’re already sounding really good in Japanese, I’m just glad you’re not talking quantum physically and paradoxically in perfect past tense without so much as a stutter or a pause for breath yet haha learning French is a thousand leagues easier than Japanese lol but damn I think I can speak for all of us when I say that learning a new lingo is bloody torture sometimes. Keep it up mate, you’re doing amazingly!
Ahh thank you very much! I believe showing that process is very important because everyone goes through the same stages. It's not going to be easy in the beginning, but overtime, it definitely gets easier! I can't say I'm even intermediate level right now but thank you! I'll endeavor into french maybe sometime in the future 😁. Goodluck to both of us!
I started italki this year. I'm going to try and say basic sentences like you in 9 months. I understand a lot of the first 6 mins. thanks I enjoyed the video.
This takes balls man! I kept my Japanese to myself for years because finally mustering up the courage to do something like you're doing here XD Awesome
@@Jarods_Journey , You didn't just get your foot in the water here. You did it on video, live, and posted the thing publicly. That's jumping in headfirst from a god damn bridge XD Respect.
@@FollowViktor Ahhh my many thanks my dude! I said to myself, "Why not document the journey, we all suck in the beginning," it's just a fact so y'all can see my struggle 😂
@@FollowViktor Do it! It's one of the more exhilarating things I've had lately. Ive got one in an hour so that conversation I'll be recording and getting up hopefully soon!
I enjoyed this video! I struggle every lesson with my Korean italki teacher and so I understand how it feels. Half the time I will start a sentence and have no idea how to end it.. or I know what I want to say but stringing it in a grammatically correct sentence is just out of my reach. Sometimes, at the end of the lesson, I look and all I see a big, tall, humongous mountain to climb and sometimes I question myself why I'm doing this to myself.. Anyway, it's definitely refreshing to see someone who is also at the beginning of their journey. I found frustrating/annoying that majority of the people who uploaded their italki classes spoke fluently haha keep up the good work!
Thank you! I really feel you on that, sometimes I have what I want to say, but trying to string it together into a coherent sentence is often the hardest part of things! Of course, it improves over time but it's a pretty steep slope to climb! I wish you the best on your Korean!
It's crazy. I'm pretty sure you were Yoshito's first ever student - and now the guy's got close to 700 students and over 3,500 lessons on iTalki! lol. Thanks for introducing him to us. I learned about Yoshito from your channel bro.
Is this your first language after your native and L2? If so, I applaud you for learning Japanese. Third language is really the hardest to learn (if your second is just something that you acquired).
Thank you! However, it's my first time ever trying to learn a second language (SLA) as I only know English. It's definitely a huge paradigm shift from English to Japanese and I think that's what gives me the most trouble. When I get to that third language, I'm really interested in how that'll go.
this kinda gave me an ego boost, been only studying for 3 months but i have a large understanding of it already. still stutter at speaking but i can speak kinda fast already (i just rephrase what im saying if i say it wrong because i was speaking fast) but hey man you still did good! i know you can still do better and improvr because you are trying! 頑張れよ!
Hehe, well thats really good! How much time have you dedicated towards learning over the past 3 months? If you can already understand and speak, that's quite the accomplishment! The main thing I keep in mind is to always be happy with the little successes I have. Improving everyday, small or large, consistently 😁
@@Jarods_Journey Mostly i just dont look at it as an obligation that im studying but rather that something i just do because i like doing it and not forcing it into myself everyday and it kinda helps. you know you also take a break sometime fron studying and return a week later then youre suddenly better. piece of advice tho is dont focus on kanji yet. 発音とか文法とか単語とか一番ですよ。just grind on those three and i guarantee you success. any source is good bro, even anime. as long as its japanese, and something that japanese people understand then use it as an immersion tool. good luck with it bro!
@@lawrenceantoyne6294 I am on the train that I study for fun :), but my goal is a bit different so I've been studying kanji from the very beginning. I think it's something that should be done in the beginning but if the goal is to speak as soon as possible, it's not needed. Time, fun, and day by day progress and you'll be there is how I see it! Goodluck on your journey as well!
Hi ! First I want to say thanks for the vid it helped me practice along the way, I also want to know where you have been studying Japanese? Is it on several different apps or are you using textbooks, classes??
So I took a Japanese 101 class way back in my freshman year of college, where the only thing I retained was some hiragana and katakana skills. After about 3 years, I started it back up July 2020 and hit it hard with self-study, literally just using Anki and watching anime with japanese subs. There are many other things that I did but it's all been self-study. I might make a video on it, maybe it'll be a good insight for others!
That's awesome ! But i advice you to choose a professor who will correct you when you say something wrong! This professor is maybe more for avanced level for practice conversation. 頑張ってね！
ありがとうございます! That is on me as I specify to my tutors to actively not correct me when I say something wrong unless it either looks like I need help or ask for it. Yoshito-san is nice enough to provide me a doc of things I struggled with in our conversations and I believe he's perfect for beginners wanting to learn in Japanese!
@@tunlinaung2403 I believe we all learn languages the same, but there are certain optimizations that each of us can take to learn it at faster or slower speeds. #1 thing though, is time... We all have different schedules and if time allows, learning a language is quicker for some than others. I wish you the best of luck on your learning!
Thank you! I agree, but in time I think I will get better as I go. I don't remember, but I mainly use their name-san instead of Anata because I've heard it can be offensive if you use it too much. I think watashi is too ingrained in my usage as in English, I use "I" a lot... I just gotta get used to that lol
I’ve been studying Japanese for a long time, but i still don’t have the courage to do an italki session yet. Great job, props!
Thank you! I encourage you to just take the plunge and get a foot in the door, it only gets easier the more you get going 😁! Goodluck on it out there!
Thanks for uploading this, I just did my first iTalki lesson and I was struggling to speak and find the words. I have seen so many other videos of iTalki lessons and the students all seem so fluent or at least comfortable/confident enough with their level of speech that it kinda made me feel a little incompetent. Your video made me feel a little better (don't mean this in a bad way), its really good to know that its normal to struggle at this stage.
I'm glad to hear, honestly, me too. There are so many videos of 3-6 month progress or something like that and they're all so very good already that I almost feel like I'm behind at times. I've taken a step back at times and realized that everyone is learns at different paces and have just become happy at what level I'm at. Struggling is a day to day, but I think the challenge is what makes it fun!
This was very helpful. I have been studying for about 7 months and keep wanting to try speaking, but feel like I don't know enough yet. Keep up the great work.
That's how I always feel, but you just gotta jump into it. When you start speaking, what you don't know will become apparent and you can use those areas to study more in or focus in on. Goodluck!
You're all doing a good job guys! I'm Brazil we can't even afford italki classes. We mostly have to do it by ourselves and get by. Don't let all those poliglots and fluent students make you feel bad or incompetent. You should only compare yourself to yourself. Everyone is fighting a war no one knows of. Keep up the good work friends!!!!!!
Thank you, it's all about battling the internal was with yourself :)!
This is interesting great job!!. I''ve been learning japanese for over 4 months now and I'm looking forward to it!!
Thank you! Goodluck when you get there, it's been such a cool journey for me!
This video motivates me a lot for japanese studying so thanks for making this video! ありがとうございます!!
嬉しかったです！未来の勉強することを頑張ってる！
I loved this video and I see your effort!
I also practice with this video, I answer the questions you ask and it's funny! Please never give upª
Thank you!!
Congratulations! It takes a fair bit of courage to jump into something like this! I've been taking online lessons through JapaTalk for about a year and I still get nervous, but my tutors are so supportive. Keep up your great efforts!
Thank you! I've never heard of japatalk, but that sounds awesome! I wish you the best!
I'm really impressed, It's easy to forget how much progress that is. I mean, honestly, in a traditional course, it'd take up to 1.5 years for someone to be able to UNDERSTAND what you're understanding in this session, let alone speaking.
Thank you! My motto, celebrate with each and every improvement , working day by day 😁. In my experience, even longer tbh. I was in a 3rd semester japanese course and many students were still struggling with the kana, reading the dialogues, and just general comprehension (including me) last year. I was just starting my japanese journey as i just decided to skip a bunch of courses and sign up, but what got me to a basic level of comprhension wasn't the classes, but the self study that I was doing. It was great for grammar and structure, but not for learning how to understand and that's what most people want when they sign up.
Nice work. You are on the right track. I have been studying for longer but I still struggled a lot just trying to think of even simple things to say in my first italki conversation. But, it helped so much, and I kept at it. I realized this is the best way to make progress, by just going for it, and learning from mistakes. That has been my biggest learning, to not worry about mistakes. With repetition, you start getting the hang of it.
100% agree, focusing on not making mistakes in the beginning will prevent anything from getting done, I'm just continually improving, day by day 😁
I feel your pain man! I started last October and doing iTalki lessons as well
It's coming along though! I personally am happy with my progress and to me, that's 100% what matters. Good luck on your studies! 頑張って！
@@Jarods_Journey Absolutely! Having a conversation in Japanese with a native speaker is a huge win. Congrats!
Could you give to me some tips about your methods you use to learn?
@@luc19c...
I'll give a quick synopsis on how I've gone about it. At the core of my learning, I receive a lot of input, like, a LOT. Both comprehensible and incomprehensible, but preferably comprehensible. With all of this input, I have my Anki studies which work to help me comprehend and understand the input I'm getting. Then I do sessions of what is called active immersion (where I'm actively paying attention and trying to decipher what content I'm consuming, creating flashcards, etc) and then when I'm not, I'm passively listening (to japanese content).
Tips though, I would advise finding content that YOU love, and then working on ways towards understanding it. If it's too high of a level, if you love it enough, you can always make incomprehensible input into comprehensible input with enough time and effort. That how I started with the content I've been consuming. IT's not the fastest but it's what I enjoy and what keeps my motivation up. And lastly, believe in the process. Language learning takes time and oftentime, we get caught into judging our levels based on where others are and not our enjoyment of it.
For methodology, if you want a really well thought out and comprehensible roadmap, go check out refold and their methodology. It's what I've been closely following and has been very useful for me.
tldr; Use content you love and celebrate any little wins and progress you make. Methodly is refold.la/
It's amazing to be able to talk this long after 9 months! Nice job! I'm happy that you recorded and uploaded this. For one thing, you will be able to have a record of your progress over time. For another thing, most people only really upload stuff like this when they're already pretty fluent...which is fine, but this allows people who don't have that much experience to be able to follow along. I will say that if this was a conversation, the other guy is fine, but if it's a lesson (like he's supposed to be a tutor), then he's not the best, as there are many corrections that can be made, or new words given, but he pretty much doesn't correct you or give you new words. There are ways to correct while still keeping a conversation going. Anyway, best of luck continuing with this!
Thank you! Everyday is progress for me and so I love recording it (kinda like a journal!).
In terms of lesson, I specify to my tutors to not correct my speech. I have read enough articles to suggest that in SLA, it doesn't benefit the learner to be corrected during speech (and it's also my preference!)
In terms of tutoring, Yoshito-san did a nice job to keep track of certain things that I could say better and he always does provide a document after so I can look at it :D, very thankful for the notes from him!
@@Jarods_Journey I see. I didn't know that... I do think that he actually did a pretty natural yet useful thing after your question at 4:37, when he simply said back (to confirm), (4:51) "Hai, hoka no kuni ni itta koto ga arimasu." It was instructive in that it uses "VERB-past koto ga arimasu" which means, "I have VERBed before". If you use it as a question, you can say, "Hoka no kuni ni itta koto ga arimasu ka?" ("Have you ever been to another country before?") I feel those types of things are helpful.
By the way, I studied Japanese for 4 years and lived in Japan for one of those years as well as doing some English teaching after that, and I'm only now trying to get back into it after a hiatus from active learning. (Edit: I'm definitely below Germaine's level at Japanese.) It takes both time and persistence, and you're certainly on your way!
Fantastic conversation i really enjoyed watching this. you have the gut to talk in that level you'll get fluent in no time "がなばれ💪"
Thank you very much!
頑張って
@@karifurai8479 ありがとうございます！頑張ります！
I first started learning Japanese about 15 years ago; and my biggest regret was probably not using most of my previous available time to study the language more seriously, although I do get exposed to the language almost on a daily basis
It's thanks to videos like yours and others who make iTalki conversation videos that actually made me try iTalki recently, and feeling motivated to study again (since my 日本語conversational skills are still lacking!)
I'm glad that I could contribute to some of your motivation! Honestly, sometimes life just moves and priorities change, but since you can't rewind the clock, looking forward and moving towards your language goal is all you can do! I think that the power of speaking often gets overlooked in terms of how motivating it is. Once you can start to conversate, it becomes almost addictive! I wish you the best in your studies!
Feel free to always stop on by my discord!
This is very helpful. There’s a lot of viewers that would be drawn to more of these I bet.
Thank you! Unfortunately, I was going to edit another one but found out that the hour long recording didn't record because of a software error so I'll be a bit behind on my uploads of these :/
great job for a first time. keep it up
That’s so awesome
9 months?! Man, you did amazingly well! The way you could handle the conversation and express yourself is really impressive. I've been toying with Japanese for years (learning it on and off), and I still have a super hard time stringing words together in a sentence:) I guess practice is the only way to fluency:)
Thank you! Consistency has been key and I did spend quite a bit of time during those 9 months! 100% though, showing up everyday to do some type of Japanese study has attributed a lot to it. But! Learning still takes a long time. Goodluck in your studies :D
@@Jarods_Journey Thank you:) I'm also using italki, and I love it. So convenient! Btw, if you ever need a speaking partner to practice Japanese for free, I'm all for it:) (I'm just a learner like yourself, but I know a lot of kanji))) I could also brush up on my English teaching you a few Russian words in return if you want:)
@@amourfout If I ever need it, I'll let you know :)!
Ayyy :D
I’m a native English speaker whose been learning French for the better part of 6 months now and seeing other people in that intermediate stage of learning a language is very motivating :)
I see tons of videos titled « Then vs Now » where the person can barely say a word in this new language, but then the camera cuts and all of the sudden they’re speaking like a native. They tend not to show how they struggled in that middle part (where I am right now). Sometimes it makes me feel like I’m not improving fast enough or sm. I really appreciate your videos!
Plus you’re already sounding really good in Japanese, I’m just glad you’re not talking quantum physically and paradoxically in perfect past tense without so much as a stutter or a pause for breath yet haha
learning French is a thousand leagues easier than Japanese lol but damn I think I can speak for all of us when I say that learning a new lingo is bloody torture sometimes. Keep it up mate, you’re doing amazingly!
Ahh thank you very much! I believe showing that process is very important because everyone goes through the same stages. It's not going to be easy in the beginning, but overtime, it definitely gets easier!
I can't say I'm even intermediate level right now but thank you! I'll endeavor into french maybe sometime in the future 😁.
Goodluck to both of us!
I started italki this year. I'm going to try and say basic sentences like you in 9 months. I understand a lot of the first 6 mins. thanks I enjoyed the video.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, goodluck on the iTalki!
This takes balls man! I kept my Japanese to myself for years because finally mustering up the courage to do something like you're doing here XD
Awesome
Is very nerve wracking! The first time definetely but now that I've got my foot in the water, it's coming much easier! Still not correct 😅
@@Jarods_Journey , You didn't just get your foot in the water here. You did it on video, live, and posted the thing publicly. That's jumping in headfirst from a god damn bridge XD Respect.
@@FollowViktor Ahhh my many thanks my dude! I said to myself, "Why not document the journey, we all suck in the beginning," it's just a fact so y'all can see my struggle 😂
@@Jarods_Journey I like when people do that. It's motivational. I feel a bit like setting up an Italki session now. I might just do that ;)
@@FollowViktor Do it! It's one of the more exhilarating things I've had lately. Ive got one in an hour so that conversation I'll be recording and getting up hopefully soon!
I enjoyed this video! I struggle every lesson with my Korean italki teacher and so I understand how it feels. Half the time I will start a sentence and have no idea how to end it.. or I know what I want to say but stringing it in a grammatically correct sentence is just out of my reach. Sometimes, at the end of the lesson, I look and all I see a big, tall, humongous mountain to climb and sometimes I question myself why I'm doing this to myself.. Anyway, it's definitely refreshing to see someone who is also at the beginning of their journey. I found frustrating/annoying that majority of the people who uploaded their italki classes spoke fluently haha keep up the good work!
Thank you! I really feel you on that, sometimes I have what I want to say, but trying to string it together into a coherent sentence is often the hardest part of things! Of course, it improves over time but it's a pretty steep slope to climb! I wish you the best on your Korean!
You did great!
Ahh thank you! I really struggled through it not gonna lie but did my best!
It's crazy. I'm pretty sure you were Yoshito's first ever student - and now the guy's got close to 700 students and over 3,500 lessons on iTalki! lol. Thanks for introducing him to us. I learned about Yoshito from your channel bro.
Great job 👌.
Very nice video
Thank you!
Is this your first language after your native and L2? If so, I applaud you for learning Japanese. Third language is really the hardest to learn (if your second is just something that you acquired).
Thank you! However, it's my first time ever trying to learn a second language (SLA) as I only know English. It's definitely a huge paradigm shift from English to Japanese and I think that's what gives me the most trouble. When I get to that third language, I'm really interested in how that'll go.
You did really good for only 9 months. 頑張れよ💥👊😃
Thank you! I did my best :D
5:04 The country is Israel You're very brave to start speaking Japanese after a couple of months of study. Nice.
Thank you! Gotta start somewhere and this was my first step :D!
this kinda gave me an ego boost, been only studying for 3 months but i have a large understanding of it already. still stutter at speaking but i can speak kinda fast already (i just rephrase what im saying if i say it wrong because i was speaking fast) but hey man you still did good! i know you can still do better and improvr because you are trying! 頑張れよ!
Hehe, well thats really good! How much time have you dedicated towards learning over the past 3 months? If you can already understand and speak, that's quite the accomplishment!
The main thing I keep in mind is to always be happy with the little successes I have. Improving everyday, small or large, consistently 😁
@@Jarods_Journey Mostly i just dont look at it as an obligation that im studying but rather that something i just do because i like doing it and not forcing it into myself everyday and it kinda helps. you know you also take a break sometime fron studying and return a week later then youre suddenly better. piece of advice tho is dont focus on kanji yet. 発音とか文法とか単語とか一番ですよ。just grind on those three and i guarantee you success. any source is good bro, even anime. as long as its japanese, and something that japanese people understand then use it as an immersion tool. good luck with it bro!
@@lawrenceantoyne6294 I am on the train that I study for fun :), but my goal is a bit different so I've been studying kanji from the very beginning. I think it's something that should be done in the beginning but if the goal is to speak as soon as possible, it's not needed. Time, fun, and day by day progress and you'll be there is how I see it! Goodluck on your journey as well!
Video of you speaking?
Hi ! First I want to say thanks for the vid it helped me practice along the way, I also want to know where you have been studying Japanese? Is it on several different apps or are you using textbooks, classes??
So I took a Japanese 101 class way back in my freshman year of college, where the only thing I retained was some hiragana and katakana skills. After about 3 years, I started it back up July 2020 and hit it hard with self-study, literally just using Anki and watching anime with japanese subs. There are many other things that I did but it's all been self-study. I might make a video on it, maybe it'll be a good insight for others!
頑張って! I know your pain lol 😭
Nice video bro
Thank you!
That's awesome ! But i advice you to choose a professor who will correct you when you say something wrong! This professor is maybe more for avanced level for practice conversation.
頑張ってね！
ありがとうございます! That is on me as I specify to my tutors to actively not correct me when I say something wrong unless it either looks like I need help or ask for it. Yoshito-san is nice enough to provide me a doc of things I struggled with in our conversations and I believe he's perfect for beginners wanting to learn in Japanese!
U r so cute ,Ja
Im also japanese new learner😍
Welcome to the language, goodluck on your journey!
@@Jarods_Journey but Im not good like u😐 just slow learner
@@tunlinaung2403 I believe we all learn languages the same, but there are certain optimizations that each of us can take to learn it at faster or slower speeds. #1 thing though, is time... We all have different schedules and if time allows, learning a language is quicker for some than others.
I wish you the best of luck on your learning!
Jarod-さんの 日本ごは すごいですね. 👍
ありがとうございます!
Cool video but try not to always say watashi wa anata wa because in actual japanese they dont use it its only in anime
Thank you! I agree, but in time I think I will get better as I go. I don't remember, but I mainly use their name-san instead of Anata because I've heard it can be offensive if you use it too much. I think watashi is too ingrained in my usage as in English, I use "I" a lot... I just gotta get used to that lol
@@Jarods_Journey yeah watch something other than anime maybe
@@W_out I do plenty of podcasts and youtube so I've got more than just anime lol.