How I Learned Fluent Japanese In One Year
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2022
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In this video I breakdown how I acquired fluent Japanese and passed the JLPT N1 in one year.
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Hey there! I have a question, did you watch anime without subtitles or how did you do it?
I watched with Japanese subtitles
@@KoreKaraPodcastBro you studied at Tokyo International University(TIU)!? I’m a new student there! that’s super cool!
@@MUHTASIMTAHMIDHOSSAIN dude you are going to have an amazing time
It’s amazing that you did this under a year, I might just start learning Japanese, I also wanted to learn it
To anyone out there studying Japanese, just remember that passing the JLPT should be secondary to actually learning Japanese.
I have lived in Japan a long time and work in a Japanese company where I use only Japanese all day every day and also deal with interviewing and hiring people.
I have met SOO MANY applicants that have JLPT N1 on their resume but when it comes to the interview, it turns out they can't speak Japanese very well at all.
The JLPT only tests listening and reading, it does not fluency or speaking at all.
Very true, people don't really recognize this. Speaking is the most important part
What are your tips for the first year or so of learning, to build a foundation?
Yo I have a question , when I learn hiragana and katakana what should I do ?
While I agree with the statement, when I read N1 learner's journey, they have gone alot of immersion, LN reading, a lot of vocabularies etc I believe they gain a lot from taking the test, while regarding brushing up their speaki skills also should be done after that
While I agree with what you said but for ppl who can’t travel to Japan like me or can’t afford much money on apps, JLPT is useful to teach the language as well as the basic grammar points which will help u in speaking later
if someone is interested, I would make a video about how I went from beginner to advanced beginner in 11 years
I'm highly interested
same@@KoreKaraPodcast
I started studying Japanese in lockdown and had a very strong start and I was actively learning for a bout a year then I just started learning less and less until I completely stopped.
I'm currently in my last month of highscool and I already told myself that I'll be going back to Japanese since, and your video truly inspired me, I've watched A LOT of videos on "how to study in Japanese", "how I became fluent in Japanese in 6 months" etc but your video right here is probably the best I've ever seen, thank you so very much for sharing this. I hope that you continue to grow your Japanese and continue learning, have a blessed day❤️
Yeah, same I study japanese for about 6 months then suddenly I stop because student works. But planning to study again because I love Japanese culture and language is part of it.
Yeaa I studied also but on and off for the past years since covid I'm in my last year of highschool this year but my japanese is still bad 😅
Please, keep learning it. I met lots of foreigners in Japan who speak stunning Japanese and this is mainly because they’d started learning it at a very young age like you and because they were constant and stubborn students ;) good luck!
@@Ragna743how'd you manage your studies as well as language learning
after 11 months hows it going?
Really cool story I didn't realize when you started your podcast you were still studying for the N1! Also your editing was super slick!
thanks so much! Spent so long on this video haha
Congratulations! I took a Japanese class in college and have pretty much kept it on the backburner since then. You've motivated me to make a serious attempt at it again. Great editing too, btw!
bro, maaaaad respect... I'm from germany, studying the language for 1 year aka 2 semesters in 副専攻 and only managed to get through the 1st genki more or less remembering everything in it but still struggling with some stuff in it that I forget... and you just rushed through that text book in like a month and that's suuuper amazing and makes me wanna study harder as well...
I guess a Taiwanese has a HUGE advantage over an English speaker or let's say an Italian (like myself): just the fact to know the original kanji is should be immensely useful when it comes to reading.
what advantage would there be in listening and speaking?
@@KoreKaraPodcast knowing a language also means read and write I guess
This is really motivating! I've been learning on and off JP due to uni, work,etc, so I understand the feeling of demotivation or procrastination.
If you use Anki to memorize vocab, check out this video to avoid my biggest mistake! ua-cam.com/video/eCxDsehRlyQ/v-deo.html
Thanks for watching!
Dropped anki over a month ago. As an older dude with other stuff going on and limited free-time, I found it was just eating up too much time. Feel like learning words through immersion has to happen anyway for true acquisition, so I just decided to cut out the middle man. I think it's useful in the beginning, but after 11,500+ mature cards I was seeing diminishing returns. Was supposed to take N1 this year, but seats were immediately sold out near me, so will be shooting for it next year. Might restart my mining deck at the start of the next year. Whatever happens with anki, hoping I can pass, even though 30 years to N1 is not as impressive as 1. :D
this was really well made. It was so well made that it shocked me
appreciate you watching! 🙇🏻♂️
Honestly mad jealous. I keep seeing these videos of people who learn at an amazing rate and partly its because of the amount of time they have to study.
I struggle to get such amount of time in as a full time worker but anyone who is a student should heed this and study your ass off while you have the opportunity. It may be hard to find the time later down the road.
You’re definitely a determined man, bravo
After seeing people fully immersed in a language for years (decades) and not being able to reach anything more than a beginner level, it shows me how much focus, persistence and drive you had.
If it's decades, likely they aren't going out of their way to interact with speakers of that language like he did, or consume as much media in their target language. That's something I'm trying to get past too, I just end up watching mostly English stuff all day instead of Japanese
@@deddrz2549 it definitely makes sense
You got me all pumped! Very impressive, congrats on your achievement!
Great accomplishment either way, but certainly helps immensely that you already understood the meanings of most of the kanji when starting :)
Great video. Been watching your vids for 6 months but I didn't know anything about your Japanese journey. Even with Immersion, I didn't think that was possible in one year. Maybe 18 months, but not one year. Very cool.
4:15 I understand this, I don’t speak Japanese very well, but when I was shopping in my area I over heard some people speaking Japanese and I understood what they said exactly without having to translate it in my head, safe to say I was soooo proud
how did you do this? what was your learning process
AMAZING amazing production!!! looking forward for all the future videos :)
thank you :)
wow, that's incredible! really encouraging stuff.
Congrats, but why are you holding your small banana the entire video
Properly the mic
in case I get hungry
😂😂😂
it is micrafone I know it
THATS WHAT SHE SAID
You really should make more videos about methods, or story of yourself like this. Looking forward for all the future videos, thanks.
I just recently moved to Japan 12 days ago and am currently enrolled in a Japanese language school. I arrived to the country only knowing hiragana and some katakana. I’ll be here for 1 year and 3 months minimum however would rather extend my stay if possible as I want to attend university here but need to pass the N2 exam to even get close.
This video has been a huge motivation for me as I feel the clock ticking down on me and being in the country has kept me motivated every day as I want to be able to hear and speak the language around me fluently. I already knew a year in language school alone wouldn’t be enough to get that far and know that immersion is the way to go but I’m struggling to figure out the best way to combine my studies with what I could do to improve outside of classes.
I think you can try to join local clubs/communities/meetups so you can immerse outside of class! I’ve definitely heard stories of people going to language school for a whole year and not getting anywhere since they mostly hung out with other foreigners. I think getting a part-time job at a restaurant for example would help too
@@KoreKaraPodcast thank you for the advice! I do have permission to work part time but the school recommends beginner class students to refrain from doing so as we need the most time to focus on learning.
I did think about meetups but hadn’t considered the idea of joining a club though. Don’t know where even to begin with that 😅 Guess I’ll look into it
Which school is this?
@@NationXupdate🙂🙂
@@TakeAguess323 oh wow lol this comment.
Yeah I’m conversational now and can manage to do daily tasks with ease and a little more now. Still not fluent by any means but from what I’ve been told numerous times my pronunciation seems to be on point.
Reading and writing are my strong points. I struggle with listening comprehension but good enough to get by. Usually depends on the speed at which someone is speaking. Plus still building up vocabulary.
Speaking I’d say I’m just getting better everyday at as the more I speak the easier it becomes to say something the next time around without thinking about it.
Damn, well done man. I´m going through my japanese learning right now and have been for over 300 days now. I´m ddoing just like you menshioned, I expose myself to as much japanese conent everyday as possible such as anime, manga and J-dramas. Using Anki definetly helps me to. I often watch everything with no translation and am always choked of how much you can understand and learn through context alone. I´m definetly gonna be fluent as fast as you with only about 50 days left until the 1 year mark. I have not tested myself but I would guess that I am around N4-N3 right now and I hope to be N1 level on my 2 year mark. It´s kind of funny that this video was uploaded around the time I started learning Japanese. In the future 2 years from now when I´m 18 and in collage, I want to do an exchange year then, and am so looking forward to it, even for how scarry it can be. Thanks for for the inspiration, setting an example that it is possible and showing me that I´m on the right path.
Great video brother. Congrats on passing :D Also the video was put together very well. Thanks for sharing your story.
thank you so much for watching!
I tried learning Japanese before and I agree if you study for months by yourself and than hear a convo or watch and anime and you feel like you’ve learned nothing it’s a huge gut punch. I just bought my first trip to Japan next month, I hope once I return it lights a fire in me again to try and re try it. Great video
Best video from you guys yet, blown away by the quality!
thank you so much 🙏
I'm learning English, and it literally inspired me more than any other success video. Thank you so much.
I'm currently living in Australia as working holiday, I swear that I will do my best here!
Anyway, thank you so much for creating such a nice video.
your english sounds great, pretty understandable, I'm sure you will polish it even further! My native language also is not english but you can see that I have a pretty good fluency level, so that's definitely possible. As he said, immersion is the key.
@@felipemurta9160 thanks for the nice comment! I’m now trying to immerse myself into English by watching japanese anime with english dub haha
@@namako- good idea haha that's a nice way of mixing your culture with english. Good luck!
woooww what a wonderful story, thank you so much for sharing!!💙💙🌿 you did such a great job
Thanks for sharing! I also like the shock ending when you started to advertise your course. 😄
Half the vid goes to - nothing, man....
This was a really great and well done video man!
The video and editing is great 👍 this channel is very underrated :)
Congrats dude! High-quality vid too. Very inspiring for me with learning my target language!
thanks for watching! what language are you studying?
@@KoreKaraPodcast I’m learning Korean! ~6.5 months in so I still have a ways to go 👍
Duuude that is the coolest thing ever. Congratulations. This is going on the bucket list.
Wow bro! You did the impossible! Super inspiring, thanks for sharing your journey
I haven't had any fun lately, 😭 so it was fun. You bring me joy!❤🙂I love the kind and generous heartwarming atmosphere that you create, your kind, easygoing, warm vibe. ❤I like the essence how you live on. I need to be true to myself and find a job I am passionate about. I want to find a way to live as who I really am.
Subscribed! Starting today, I will be more serious in learning Japanese language. Thanks bro.
amazing video man, I'll watch you other videos, I'm very curious about your kanjis learning method :) ありがとう
Wow, Thank you! I get inspired, I will try.
Man! you are awesome at story telling and thanks for sharing your experience.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is amazingly made for a channel this small.
This is the best perspective on learning Japanese and cramming a new language.
Hey this is great, very interesting, fantastic editing.
thanks for the comment!!
thaaank you so much! Ill do my very best to learn how to speak jp, I've been looking forward to it in the last years
thank you for watching!
Please never stop making content. This was inspiring and motivating. Like button smashed. :)
thank you so much!!
I’m late to watching this video but really enjoyed it! I have been studying Korean on my own since February and followed the same path as you - breezed through books, immersion in content, and then (not study abroad since college was a little while ago) things really clicked for me by going to Korea even if the trip was really short. I love your idea of working towards a test. Now I’m off to Google if one exists for Korean! My next goal is to be conversational/proficient by my next trip in fall 2023. I am kdrama/tourist effective right now 😂 (public transit, ordering food, where’s the bathroom, kdrama catchphrases, etc)
Bro im suprised youre not bigger on youtube. The style, editing, pacing, topic etc is top notch
ありがとうございます！！
Now I'm way more motivated to continue my journey learning Japanese 🇯🇵❤
I’m Japanese. If you wanna practice talking with Japanese, reach out! I speak English too.
Good video. I feel like this is the one that’s going to blow you guys up.
appreciate the comment and the continued support! (I remember you commenting on our video from back when we did the 1k livestream over a year ago)
man im at the beginning of studying Japanese, this video ia awesome thank you!
To anyone watching: You can NOT get fluent within 1 year, and this clickbait title gives off SUCH a false impression.
I’m not sure about that bro. I know two people who became fluent in English within a year. The rest was just adding on vocabulary. In both cases, there was the element of immersion and the impossibility of surviving otherwise
@@afanaobeba7876english is a different story ... its easy that's why it is worldwide language
One question I have though, since you said you grew up in Taiwan, did you know how to read the Chinese characters before learning Japanese? Because I feel like this is the most time consuming part of learning Japanese for me
nothing that 4 months of heisig can't fix :D
Thank you for this. I actually started learning with a tutor and felt like I was getting no where. Think I’ll try this way
Thanks a lot bro u helped me a lot
This was a very cool video man, keep up, very motivating for me. I'm learning english as a second language
thank you for the comment!
Sent this to my sensai who is teaching me Japanese. Her response to the title "he didn't" 🤣 I have a feeling she is correct
I learned ALL hiragana and katakana in 2014 within 4 months. Then I quit altogether when I learned I had to learn Kanji. All my life I was a quitter. Thin-skinned. Well...Recently I dedicated myself to become fluent in Japanese within 1 year (like you did) and after studying for the first time in 8 years I re-learned the Hiragana within 1 week and am learning words for the first time. When I say learned I mean- I actually can see the foreign language as MY language. When you can read and write Japanese quickly (in a natural flow) THAT is when you have assimilated and know you are on the right path!
I would say I am having fun studying/learning now (which is of key importance) whereas when I first started studying in 2014 I was doing it more as a duty/necessity but my heart wasn't all in it because I was afraid! I was immature! You must relax and have fun and have faith in yourself. In 2014 I believed I was stupid/average but now I think of myself as a superior student and smart and this shift in consciousness changed how I approach study because now I jump with both feet in. 100% committed. This is key!
Bro how did you learn hiragana and katakana that slow
@@Chuugokujin it took me several months to learn hiragana too. It does not have any meaning, so it's kinda mechanical/visual memorization. At the same time, learning Kanji is easier because you can attach mnemonic to a meaning. 4 months for 1000 kanji and 2 months for hiragana and 1 month for katakana. Maybe I could have succeeded if i wrote those horrible writing drills for kana, but I would probably killed someone in the process.
Congratulations! Your story actually reminds me of how I improved my English - I started consuming spoken and written media in English and it just somehow clicked in place. I have been studying Japanese for a while, but I have problem immersing. There is no possibility for me to go to Japan - I was supposed to go for a scholarship last year, but it fell through because of covid.
Can I just ask, what media did you consume? Not really movies or anime (I don’t really have time for that as a full time student), but which youtubers did you listen to? Do you have any interesting podcasts to recommend? I usually consume videos that give me some new information, like looking at a topic through certain lense or just tallking about interesting things. I’m really not into silly humour or gaming. Thank you 😊
thanks for watching! On UA-cam I watched a lot of hiryouki, nakata, this plastic surgeon in Japan who would answer viewer's questions, and some random fitness vloggers like kanekin. I haven't found any mind blowing podcasts but I think kaiwa coaching had a good podcast recommendation in this interview we did: ua-cam.com/video/Cie86I8a4uM/v-deo.html
This is by far the most realistic approach I've seen in a UA-cam video. N1おめでとうございます！
Ur japanese language journey is aweaome ! but your cinematography skills are really good 👍 I'm inspired I also want to make high quality videos like this one day !
I see your cinematography skills are high you jumped into a guitar class your obviously in shape and your room is so damn neat I'm curious about your daily habits and how you have such productivity !
thank you so much for the kind words!
日本語を勉強してくれてありがとう！私は逆に英語を勉強しています。元気をもらいました！お互い頑張りましょう！
Thanks for studying Japanese. I'm Japanese and studying English. I got much of energy studying language from you!
thank you!
Immersion in the other language and culture is the number one thing I recommend for learning a language. Getting to JLPT N1 is impressive. I did a year in high school in Japan, host family and all, it really helped. I passed easily the N5, talking wise I was much further tho. In the end it is just one of many measurements tools.
Great video! And congrats! That is really incredable! Do you live in LA? If so, ave you been to any of the Japanese meetup groups? They use to be pretty active and awesome, not sure if they still are.
I found out in June that my partner and I are moving to Japan at the beginning of next year. I really need to grind my Japanese until then to hopefully be able to have a head start. My one class a week just isn't going to cut it
this is brilliant
Wow bravo man😊
Bro you are taiwanese. It is really easier if your base language is eastern asian language like korean, chinese (any chinese) even maybe vietnamese. Than if you have western language to begin with. Not saying it is impossible but it is way harder and takes more time. Just saying it kudos by the way.
The transition at 4:57 is SO CLEAN
glad you appreciated it :D
@@KoreKaraPodcast I thought the same thing great editing
This video inspired me to practice more Japanese thanks :D learning Japanese is hard but I still think it’s fun to practice since I’m learning a new language:D
This is exactly my plan, I'm going to study in Japan next year on an English program and speak zero Japanese, will do Genki beforehand and learn some vocabulary but once I arrive there I will talk to as many Japanese people as I can and make japanese friends. Gonna force myself to avoid spending too much time with international students. I know some japanese people and get along very well with them since I am asian myself. When you have similar parenting and cultures it's really easy to get along with them, I personally connect very fast with asian people. This is exactly what I did to learn English, by speaking to English speaking people all day. Typing a language and speaking it IRL are totally different things, since it takes much more time at the beginning to process and come up with sentences.
Man, I really see a lot of similarities between Taiwan and Japan. Gotta love those cultures.
I really admire the lengths you went too
Super cool story! Question, did you pretty much know all hiragana katakana and kanji before you started the immersion process? I’m working on memorizing those and can read and write most of it, but I’m having trouble with knowing how to balance it; do I split it half and half in terms of immersion and memorizing the characters? Focus solely on memorizing characters before switching to immersion? That would be super helpful to know!
You can start immersing with subtitles, no point in immersing without subtitles in the beginning. With Kanji, I learned them through the beginner's textbook Genki 1 and Genki 2. You don't want to study all the kanji beforehand, that would lead to overwhelm and burnout. After Genki 1 and 2, I just learned Kanji on an individual basis, and even then it was just to be able to read them, and not produce/write them
you are in the hhkb fam, subbed :)
Awesome story! Very inspiring. Do you have any videos online of you speaking Japanese??
This is interesting. I'm lookwto go to uni after working for a bit but also wanna do a year in Japan. But only way I see of that is by doing a Japanese degree which doesn't even seem that helpful. I'm not doing any Japanese classes and have been doing it myself for two years. I know immersion is the most important aspect but I don't do it much at all cos when I watch Japanese stuff I do a lot of eng subs cos I acc wanna follow the story etc. I've still got a long way to go, especially with not being lazy with adding stuff to anki
Congrats!
Thank you!!
What are you recording with if I may ask? Great video image quality!
I'm Japanese and learning English.
When I was seaching how I can learn it I found this video.
I was surprised by your Japanese how amazing it is.As you said,Japanese is known as one of the most difficult language.
Here's my personal question:
How did you watch videos?
Without subtitles or with subtitles?
Keep on learning your English is good 英語上手
bro stop lying
What a boss! That's very impressive!
thank you so much!
I did exactly this and I wish I could start over and experience it all for the first time again
What an inspiraring story. I'm currently looking for MEXT SCHOLORSHIP.
Also one out of topic question
What is your hair style name?😂
I like it brother
日本人です。大学受験の勉強をしています。
偶然この動画を見つけて、subscribeしました。
あなたの英語を聞くことを、私の英語学習として使っています！
応援しています！
You're lying, even if you passed the JLPT N1 (if it's not a lie), it certainly didn't take you 1 year. In a video that you published in 2021, you said that you had already been studying Japanese with anki for 3 years.
So do I get royalties on this sick video? Also congrats on passing JLPT N1 again! (Your goal for the longest time :) )
couldn't have done it without you sensei
I find a bit of comedy in the "nihongo jouzu!" Being said by the lady you spoke with. Its such a trope 😂😂
Gave me chills!
this is really inspiring me as im just starting to learn japanese right now. I want to live there one day and speak at least at a high school level after 20 years of my life
As a Japanese, I can help you to speak in Japanese online.!!
I use my from zero to hero books, plus JPOP, plus anime and just changing everything to Japanese. Forces your brain to adapt!
The intensity, I'm jealous
Your experience validated two important concepts in Second Language Acquisition:
1. Didactic language material (textbook stuff) vs Authentic Language material (from everyday life)
2. Speaking (output) also requires deliberate practice.
Do you have any advice, in particular, regarding assimilating and acquiring the language (as Krashen indicates) without translating into English, internally? Thanks much! ^_^
F**king insane! Well done!!!
glad you enjoyed it!!
Regarding the textbooks did you get workbooks that come with them or study the textbooks without that
What types of jobs did you apply to in Japan to “practice?” Did you have a lot of experience? Seems like here in the US, it’s so hard to even land a job interview after applying to tons of jobs.
If I were to just keep watching everything in Japanese would I just magically start to understand some words or what? Kind of confused on that part. Would help if you can clarify it. I'm also hoping I can learn Japanese to where I can understand and interact with Japanese people.
When i started to learn a new language the most satisfying thing is when you learn a new piece of the language it's unlocking the message. After that you will recognize this message in everywhere.
TLTR
This was my biggest problem with Sanskrit also. You cannot watch TV shows, read casual sanskrit cos they are not exists. And if you learn a new word, in a new context it is not recognizable because however there are spaces but if two sounds meet they will fusion togeather. And in the poetry you quality messured by your count of spaces. :D
This is one :
निरन्तरान्धकारिता-दिगन्तर-कन्दलदमन्द-सुधारस-बिन्दु-सान्द्रतर-घनाघन-वृन्द-सन्देहकर-स्यन्दमान-मकरन्द-बिन्दु-बन्धुरतर-माकन्द-तरु-कुल-तल्प-कल्प-मृदुल-सिकता-जाल-जटिल-मूल-तल-मरुवक-मिलदलघु-लघु-लय-कलित-रमणीय-पानीय-शालिका-बालिका-करार-विन्द-गलन्तिका-गलदेला-लवङ्ग-पाटल-घनसार-कस्तूरिकातिसौरभ-मेदुर-लघुतर-मधुर-शीतलतर-सलिलधारा-निराकरिष्णु-तदीय-विमल-विलोचन-मयूख-रेखापसारित-पिपासायास-पथिक-लोकान्
Translation:
In it, the distress, caused by thirst, to travellers was alleviated by clusters of rays of the bright eyes of the girls the rays that were shaming the currents of light, sweet and cold water charged with the strong fragrance of cardamom, clove, saffron , camphor and musk and flowing out of the pitchers the lotus-like hands of maidens the beautiful water-sheds, made of the thick roots of Andropogon muricatus mixed with marjoram, the foot, covered with heaps of couch-like soft sand, of the clusters of newly sprouting mango trees, which constantly darkened the intermediate space of the quarters, and which looked all the more charming on account of the trickling drops of the floral juice, which thus caused the delusion of a row of thick rainy clouds, densely filled with abundant nectar
So I've started to learn Japanese. I hope it is easyer :D
at 9:06 ---> Boss scene! This made me laugh out loud. Congrats on reaching your goal!
I feel like I'm currently at the point in my Japanese learning journey where I need to start immersing more, however I"m struggling. How much did you understand when you began immersing? I feel like I have to look up almost every other word at this point and it's a bit demoralizing.
Hello!
I’m Japanese and I wanna become able to speak English fluently.
If you don’t mind, why don’t we learn each language from each other?
you deserve more subs
i like your profile pic
You’re so damn right I had also a hard time to learn Japanese for my wife she is Japanese❤
I want to visit Japan within the next year or two in order to go see the Yunagoni Monument. Do you feel like I would need to be fluent in the language just for a week vacation??? Thanks.