PART 2 IS OUT: ua-cam.com/video/edA8bGXooTo/v-deo.html Learn 150+ languages with quality native-speaking teachers on italki🎉. Buy $10 get $5 off for your first lesson using my code LIVAKIVI2023: Web: go.italki.com/livakivi2023 App: italki.app.link/livakivi2023 Teachers from this video: 1. SoSo: italki.app.link/teachersoso 2. Anri: italki.app.link/teacheranri 3. Show: italki.app.link/teachershow Hopefully you enjoyed the video! I was surprised at how much I was able to output, but it definitely also made me motivated to actually eventually start practicing outputting as well as I definitely feel that I have the baseline already built for it. I'll still go for 20k cards first, which should happen at the beginning of summer, and after that its going to be exiting to see what an impact outputting will have over time!
@Livakivi that first teacher on italki at around 1:07 in the video is actually a Japanese youtuber who is also a teacher on italki hes UA-cam named is Japanese with shun he's video are very comprehensible
@@jammies9890people wouldn't use it if it didn't have meaning. It can vary depending on context that's it. It's like people saying "litteraly" all the time, they just want to express something that is more intense.
He's my favorite UA-cam language learner. It's just so amazing to see someone start from scratch and then come this far. You don't see that with other channels ever. Either they got good before they started the channel or they start a new language on the channel but eventually fall off before making real progress.
awesome stuff! when I first watched your "I Learned Japanese 1 Hour a Day for 600 Days Straight" video, I thought a number like that seemed near impossible. It seemed even more impossible when I started studying and everything felt so difficult and incomprehensible. However, now I'm on day 567 and just recently came in first place for the highest level of my state's Japanese Olympiad competition! I honestly owe it all to you for planting that initial seed that made me want to learn Japanese in the first place. Can't wait to see how the next 600 days of my learning goes!
It's always difficult to take a choice on whether to watch your vids just after they drop or to save them for later. I mean, they are sooo good and I instantly want to watch them whenever they come out, but still I want to watch them on "the perfect moment" 🤣
You're one of the only UA-camrs I've watched that has actually pushed me into finding an actionable plan of action in terms of language learning. And for that, you have my utmost gratitude. For a while, I thought that the language learning goals I had were way out of my reach. But after having seen your entire series on learning Japanese, it really helped me to accurately assess my goals and come up with a strategy to overcome the hurdles that have been holding me back all this time. All the best, man!
As a Japanese learner, previous italki user, and fan of your channel - this was probably my favorite video of yours. SO informative not only about the language but also about the culture and learning process behind it. 本当にどうも有難うございます。
I do have to say, I think it's awesome you picked a diverse set of teachers for your lessons. It's not often you see a nonbinary Japanese teacher, and I never really had much chance to discuss LGBT topics while in Japan. They seem like a cool teacher.
I've seen ads for Italki plenty of time before but this is the most in depth video I've seen about italki before and how it can actually be used instead of just "practice your language with a native speaker cause you cant find someone to talk too". I think its really cool and I loved seeing the variety of teachers + their lessons and seeing a little bit of the lesson itself is really intresting. Next year is when ill be starting Japanese (this year I'm putting all my focus on Spanish) but I can actually see myself using Italki as a source in the future. Great video as always :)
iTalki really shines as a way to practice speaking with native speakers though. Those other videos aren't lying. Finding tutors that really do more is finding a gem in the rough. I could really benefit from a tutor who could really teach as well as a college class but I've yet to find anyone yet. The tutors are really about what you would expect if you went to your school's "free" tutor or extra help area.
I really recommend to start reading books (specially novels) after you reach 20000 cards. The amount of exposure is quite incredible. I believe Stephen Krashen did a lecture about the power of reading if you're interested. In my case, my english and french improved drastically after just a few months of reading daily and, curiously, had a huge effect on my oral expression without even talking that much. Have a nice day.
I hope this was a typo :D I will start with very simple books once I reach 1000. Being able to read is the whole point why I study Japanese, I don't wanna wait 10 years
@@perryschnabel yeah u can start "reading" (basically trying to make sense out of words at that point) at 1k words and i would say that around the 2k/3k words u are much better at understanding words, after that u should just sentence mine and fill the gaps with for example core2k/6k
@poplix2704 Thanks for your input. I already use the core 2k/6k, but I think I will stop using it after 1k. I looked through it, and it has simply too much vocabulary I am not interested in because it is based on frequency lists from newspapers. I want to read manga and novels, so the overlap (especially with easy manga) is quite small. Sadly, I don't know where else to turn to yet.
It's very amazing to see the progress you have made and I hope that one day I can reach that level. Today is my one year anniversary of starting anki because of your videos. Seeing that I can read and understand most of the words on the subtitles makes me kinda proud. I cannot thank you enough for making these videos, you have definetly inspired me to change how I learn Japanese and how I view my life now in general, so thank you.
How did you go about being less reliant on Furigana? I'm pretty happy with my vocabularly but I lose like 80% of it if it's just written with no furigana
@@SirProdigleare you studying Kanji as well separately to just vocabulary? If you're using Anki i suggest using "MigakuGod" and creating another deck where you can just focus on kanji
@Edmund Ironside it really depends, I haven't been studying as much as I have been, but I would do an hour of Anki and an hour or two immersing and maybe an hour of sentence mining, again I don't study like I used to, I only really do Anki first and then sometimes do some sentence mining. Don't be like me, keep immersing.
@SirProdigle I just use the Anki 2k/6k deck. The word in the front of the deck and the reading and an example sentence in the back. Also, some people focus on learning the kanji and every single reading but in my opinion you shouldn't do that. You should learn the readings through vocabulary rather than memorize them. The reason is because I notice that there are some "unspoken" rules of kanji readings. For example, if a kanji has a つ at the end of the reading then it most likely has a reading that ends with っ (small tsu), so if a kanji had the reading ふつ then it most likely has a reading ふっ as well. Anyways, other than that, it's just studying the reading of words and practice by reading the words. I mostly read manga so I have definitely gotten used to not needing furigana as much.
Wow man I love watching your Japanese journey and I’m happy for the progress you’ve made. I started watching you mid 2021 (the same time I started learning Japanese). I always enjoy your videos and u inspire me to keep learning Japanese and to keep making yt content. I really love the channel bro, please keeping making great content even if it doesn’t have anything to do with Japanese!!!
I've been interested in Japanese language for over 3 years, but, unfortunately, I'm too undisciplined to study it consistently, so it goes like 1 month of intensive learning and then 7 months of doing nothing. I wish, I could really become such a persistent person as you! BTW thank you for your videos, they always motivate me to study at least for some time
And here Iam Wasting my time on this video Translating words and applying random grammar for like 10 minutes on each sentence spoken by looking at subtitles I don't know if this would help or not
I can't commit to learning a language every day either, but I've found if I keep sort-of loose goals, then I will work a reasonable amount of hours per week naturally. Maybe don't try so hard to learn the language, just try learning some part of it and don't worry about how committed you'll be (it's been working for me)
Reading and listening along with your Japanese conversations is something from which I can learn a lot! Would love if an extended version was uploaded to your second channel!
What a great channel bro, I just watch almost the whole content that you've done and It gives a lot of motivation for my english learning journey, even though you are learning japanese it's still delightful for me . Thanks man :D
im a swedish native but japanese is such a beautiful language not to mention the people who natively speak it are the nicest people ive ever met! greetings from sweden
About exactly 2 years ago, I came across your "I learned Japanese 1 hr/day for 600 days" video on the YT algorithm, and it was the sudden spark of inspiration that led me to believe that learning Japanese could actually be an achievable feat for me. I spammed duolingo for 2 weeks, then dropped it for a core Anki vocab deck, and then eventually transitioned into a more immersion-based / sentence-mining approach, and ever since studying Japanese has become a huge (mostly) daily passion for me. I still have a long road ahead of me (hard to say exactly but I'm maybe N2-ish level right now?), but I've only been enjoying the ride, and it has had an immensely positive effect on my day-to-day life. I just happened to search up your video & channel again on a random whim, and it's once again inspiring to see your continued efforts as well as the milestones you've achieved. I just want to say thank you so much for giving me that first spark of inspiration that's now developed into a core & indispensable part of my life! The idea of learning Japanese prior to then had always interested me, but the thought of it had previously always seemed too daunting and in my mind an impossible task. Somehow, that video of yours 2 years ago gave me the message I needed to just start and actually give it a proper try. So yeah, I can't say thanks enough for that, and all the best to both our journeys with the language going forward! 本当にありがとうございました！
That's awesome to hear, thanks for sharing! I'm glad that its been a positive experience thus far, its pretty much been the same for me as well, and its cool to think that the first video gave you some influence, and when revisiting my channel years later, you discovered that I'm still learning as well, as that's something I'd like to see in a scenario like that as well! Thank you and good luck on the rest of your learning! :)
I love your Japanese update videos. I would happily listen to an uncut 3 hour video of your iTalki lessons (I don't need subtitles for Japanese either). I've used iTalki on and off for over 10 years and I've found it to be great for Japanese speaking practice once I was able to talk. Simply amazing really. My 75 year old dad is brushing up his German after countless years of neglect and he found an iTalki tutor he likes a lot too. But I'm not so happy with my experience using the tutors to learn grammar at a beginner to low intermediate level for Korean. I've heard good things from other people however so different strokes for different folks. I think for me when I can't express myself well the iTalki one on one format with no tests just doesn't work so well. And switching to English makes the whole thing useless. I keep trying however. Grammar is so hard. I noticed right away that you said you wanted to speak casual Japanese and then SoSo-san proceeded to use keigo (even just the simple textbook -mas form is considered keigo by Japanese speakers). Most Japanese people, even teachers when you sign up for a lesson to practice a certain style of speech, will end up speaking in whatever way feels more natural/comfortable to them. If your main goal is just to enjoy yourself speaking Japanese for an hour and maybe as a plus focus on a specific style of speech then this is not a big deal at all. It's way more important if the tutor is listening and responding to the content of what you're saying. But sometimes you do want to focus on that style of speech and then.. well I guess you can be rude about it and keep reminding them or just try several teachers until you find someone who doesn't need constant reminding. And I'm not going to lie. I sometimes pick teachers because they look look nice. Like your 2nd tutor - no way in real life am I going to get to talk to a pretty girl like that for a whole hour. Overall I really like iTalki so I'm glad you had a good experience. I look forward to your future videos on your Japanese journey.
You are the reason I started learning Japanese 5 month ago. In the first 3 month I only studied 30 min per day, but later I realized it will forever to even reach upper intermediate. So I am currently studying 2 hours per day. Thanks for uploading videos of your progress that always motivated me.🥰
It's interesting to me how language works. after all the time you put in you'll be totally fine without studying anymore but if you decided to continue there is an incredible amount of knowledge still available
just found your channel throught the macbook video and I actually like you lingual content & I might also start learning Japanese after I finish with Spanish
Crap, I totally thought I was subscribed and you were on a hiatus or the next video was taking a long time. Thanks for continuing to make these great videos. I've got a good backlog now xp
Subscribing, your channel is so full of interesting tips, content and your journey is amazing. I'm learning for a few months now, each day, and looking forward!
Watched one video from you a couple weeks ago and you instantly became one of my favorite content creators on the platform. Saw this in my feed and dropped everything. Love what you do man keep the bangers coming!!
I also just started outputting (I'm learning german) and luckily I have german relatives so I don't have to book no lessons lol. i feel like when I make a mistake I notice it immediately and when I can't formulate a sentence correctly I just say it in the best way i can and i get feedback so as next time i well remember that formula (not sure if that the correct word to use here). I really adore your videos man, my current Anki deck now has almost 4k cards and I feel like I'm making really good progress. thanks for the motivation, I mean every video you produce is like inciting me to learn more and challenge myself (especially the renovating videos, really loved those)
As usual I enjoyed your video very much. This was very interesting bc of the language teachers you've chosen. Thank you very much! Good luck with the output! 🍀
Another banger video! Your stuff is always so motivating! Loved how varied the topics were based on the teacher and I even learned some new things such as the thing with Estonia's civil partnership system. Keep up the good work!
Love your videos, as always. For some reason my deadass thought you were Finnish but I was close, at least. Could you make a video about immersion content? Especially UA-cam stuff. It's a real problem for me, there's an ocean of content and I just usually watch stuff in my recommendations, but they are not in Japanese.
I am a native Japanese and I think your Japanese is already perfectly fine for life in Japan. I think you encouraged Japanese learners to be able to have a conversation without having to practice speaking. Furthermore, I would like to note a mistake I noticed in your quest for perfection. 2:29 そうですね、友達の話し方がいいかもしれません。 6:46 魚もいますけど。I was very hesitant to make a correction. Fish are not people, but with this sentence it is more natural to say います. 7:16 エストニアでは日本のように魚を寿司にするような文化がないと思います。 7:35 一つ例を挙げると 7:51 全てが普通です。 ← めっちゃ is very casual, and since you are speaking in honorifics, Japanese are surprised when you suddenly become casual. 8:57 僕は4年間（よねんかん） 12:40 なるほど、そうなんですね。← なるほどですね is a phase that could have been said by a Japanese . Maybe it is said in a anime. 13:38 はい ← おう is It's a phase used by men, but not very polite. However, when it is extended like おおー, it becomes an exclamation, which changes it into a good-feeling affable malediction. 13:57 とても役に立ちそうです。 17:49 人も冷たい ←The expression "サムイ" is more likely to mean someone who is boring. 冷たいis more appropriate, but the expression 人も寒いis funny, so Show laughed. 20:32 とても役に立ちます。 All three teachers are great, especially the second, Anri sensei, who is charming and has great ideas about accents. She also speaks in a typical Tokyo woman's way, so if you can understand her, you can understand most Japanese women. あるといるの使い分け www.nihongo-c.jp/blog/blog-entry-42.html#:~:text=%E3%80%8C%E3%81%82%E3%82%8A%E3%81%BE%E3%81%99%E3%80%8D%E3%81%A8%E3%80%8C%E3%81%84%E3%81%BE%E3%81%99,%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%E3%82%82%E3%81%AE%E3%80%8D%E3%81%AB%E4%BD%BF%E3%81%84%E3%81%BE%E3%81%99%E3%80%82
I really enjoyed the vid, it's entertaining and helpful. Altough I'm wondering if you could post longer videos with similar length as for example the learning japanese yearly ones. Anyway, keep up the good work. :D
A year ago your videos really gave me motivation to keep at it with Japanese but I have been really inconsistent. Despite this I have been able to understand most of what has been said in the first half of this video, yeah I should finish it before commenting but I don't want to, and I'm somewhat impressed with myself but at the same time I think I can do better. I have tried to read visual novels but that has been a pain, reading epubs in firefox with yomichan seems like my best option to try and pick up and incorporate into my routine, since the only thing I have been doing is inconsistently watch anime and only half of it without subtitles, but even so I've focused on not looking at them when they were present. The one thing I have been consistent until a month ago was anki. I have done it religiously every night before going to bed like a prayer of some sort, but then exams and projects pilled up really badly last month so I gave up on doing it daily and now I've only done it twice in the last month. But this video is giving me hope again tho. I might restart doing the 6k deck, I have finished it at the start of the year or around then but I'll restart it from the beginning because I frankly messed it up this past month. And moving forward I think I'll force myself to watch more anime without subtitles, watch some youtube as well, and get around to finally reading light novels. I seem to understand basic conversations so I hope to improve further. Thank you again for your awesome content.
Question for you (or anyone else who self-studies): How did you get so good at output without practicing speaking? I'm at approx N4 level. I can understand and comprehend written Japanese reasonably well for my level, and can say a few phrases and short sentences. But my overall output is terrible given the 1000+ hours of study I have put in. So yeah, I'm curious about how other self-studiers improved their speaking and output skills to a level where they can have a reasonably fluid basic conversation like this without actually practicing speaking much.
I recommend watching my 4 part series on how to learn Japanese (where I talk a bit about outputting) as well as my yearly update videos where I mention my experience with output (both have playlists on my channel). In reality, 1000 hours is very little for fluent output - output requires not only a large vocabulary to freely express a wide variety of thoughts you might have, but also good understanding of said vocabulary, as well as a strong recall ability that will come from having spent thousands of hours on input, with a bit of output practice on top of that. You're pretty much guaranteed to succeed in output as well, but its just going to take a very long time, and that's just natural, especially with Japanese. Even to this day, despite outputting a vast amount literally every day, I sometimes stumble when trying to find the correct words or figure out if what I just said was grammatically sound, but if I had another few years of this practice, that would most likely become much more of a rarity, and I'd have unlocked truly fluent Japanese for the rest of my life.
Shoutout to SoSo saying he's a furry in his description lol. I wouldn't have considered that to be something people would publicly mention but is def a good talking point for those who share that interest.
What did the teacher think about your speaking abilities: your accent, your speed, the amount of errors you made? It’s interesting to prove or disprove the idea that a silent period can be really big and still you will speak fluently.
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Hopefully you enjoyed the video! I was surprised at how much I was able to output, but it definitely also made me motivated to actually eventually start practicing outputting as well as I definitely feel that I have the baseline already built for it. I'll still go for 20k cards first, which should happen at the beginning of summer, and after that its going to be exiting to see what an impact outputting will have over time!
glad to see another video from my favorite shiba
@Livakivi that first teacher on italki at around 1:07 in the video is actually a Japanese youtuber who is also a teacher on italki hes UA-cam named is Japanese with shun he's video are very comprehensible
school can wait this is more important
translating すごい as epic is truly a gamer thing to do
Why?
@@inceptiqn only true gamers will understand
I mean apparently that word is just as meaningless as awesome, so why not translate it as awesome
@@jammies9890people wouldn't use it if it didn't have meaning. It can vary depending on context that's it. It's like people saying "litteraly" all the time, they just want to express something that is more intense.
so real
I really think that Livakivi is my all time favourite UA-camr. I especially like the language learning content.
@jasonlol preach
He's my favorite UA-cam language learner. It's just so amazing to see someone start from scratch and then come this far. You don't see that with other channels ever. Either they got good before they started the channel or they start a new language on the channel but eventually fall off before making real progress.
i love the house renovation series too!
awesome stuff! when I first watched your "I Learned Japanese 1 Hour a Day for 600 Days Straight" video, I thought a number like that seemed near impossible. It seemed even more impossible when I started studying and everything felt so difficult and incomprehensible. However, now I'm on day 567 and just recently came in first place for the highest level of my state's Japanese Olympiad competition! I honestly owe it all to you for planting that initial seed that made me want to learn Japanese in the first place. Can't wait to see how the next 600 days of my learning goes!
That is honestly really awesome! Huge congratulations!
It's always difficult to take a choice on whether to watch your vids just after they drop or to save them for later. I mean, they are sooo good and I instantly want to watch them whenever they come out, but still I want to watch them on "the perfect moment" 🤣
Yeah not between phone calls while I work from home. I saved it for after work.
You're one of the only UA-camrs I've watched that has actually pushed me into finding an actionable plan of action in terms of language learning. And for that, you have my utmost gratitude.
For a while, I thought that the language learning goals I had were way out of my reach. But after having seen your entire series on learning Japanese, it really helped me to accurately assess my goals and come up with a strategy to overcome the hurdles that have been holding me back all this time.
All the best, man!
Yeah you usually think that you have to study textbooks until your fluent but in reality it's more dynamic and your ready earlier than you think
Yes my favorite UA-camr!!!! My goat!! I'm still going strong day 55. Another banger video of course 🙏🙏🙏
Go for that 56 tomorrow 🙏
As a Japanese learner, previous italki user, and fan of your channel - this was probably my favorite video of yours. SO informative not only about the language but also about the culture and learning process behind it. 本当にどうも有難うございます。
日本語結構上手ですね。私は日本に住んでるフィンランド人なんですが、同じような状態でした。4年間で1人だけ練習したり、漢字を暗記したり、漫画読んだりなどです。留学行く前にちょっと日本語の授業に入ったんですが、日本来る前Livakiviさんより下手でした。
留学後はインターンシップを入ることできましたので、毎日仕事に日本語しか話しています。
仕事について、私は9時から18時働きます。ウェブアプリ開発をする小さい会社です。残業はないです。給料はそんなに高くないけど日本は家賃とかレストランめっちゃ安いのでそんなに気にしなくても良いだと思います。
Livakiviさんのアクセントは一年前の私とぴったりですね。フィンランド語とエストニア語はよく似てるですね。いつかエストニア語を学びたいなんですが、多分日本語より簡単だと思います。
N-テストはしたことないですが、七月にN2日本語能力テストをやります。
いつか日本来るなら是非新時代と言う居酒屋行って下さい。田舎の所でビールが150円ですよ。まあ税込みじゃないですけど結構安いでしょう。
Get yourself a nice cup of coffee/tea
Thank you so much!
My pleasure
I do have to say, I think it's awesome you picked a diverse set of teachers for your lessons. It's not often you see a nonbinary Japanese teacher, and I never really had much chance to discuss LGBT topics while in Japan. They seem like a cool teacher.
I've seen ads for Italki plenty of time before but this is the most in depth video I've seen about italki before and how it can actually be used instead of just "practice your language with a native speaker cause you cant find someone to talk too". I think its really cool and I loved seeing the variety of teachers + their lessons and seeing a little bit of the lesson itself is really intresting. Next year is when ill be starting Japanese (this year I'm putting all my focus on Spanish) but I can actually see myself using Italki as a source in the future. Great video as always :)
iTalki really shines as a way to practice speaking with native speakers though. Those other videos aren't lying. Finding tutors that really do more is finding a gem in the rough. I could really benefit from a tutor who could really teach as well as a college class but I've yet to find anyone yet. The tutors are really about what you would expect if you went to your school's "free" tutor or extra help area.
I really recommend to start reading books (specially novels) after you reach 20000 cards. The amount of exposure is quite incredible. I believe Stephen Krashen did a lecture about the power of reading if you're interested. In my case, my english and french improved drastically after just a few months of reading daily and, curiously, had a huge effect on my oral expression without even talking that much. Have a nice day.
I think you and LivaKivi are the only two people to reach 20k vocabulary words in a foreign language without extensive reading 😂.
I hope this was a typo :D I will start with very simple books once I reach 1000. Being able to read is the whole point why I study Japanese, I don't wanna wait 10 years
@@perryschnabel yeah u can start "reading" (basically trying to make sense out of words at that point) at 1k words and i would say that around the 2k/3k words u are much better at understanding words, after that u should just sentence mine and fill the gaps with for example core2k/6k
@poplix2704 Thanks for your input. I already use the core 2k/6k, but I think I will stop using it after 1k. I looked through it, and it has simply too much vocabulary I am not interested in because it is based on frequency lists from newspapers. I want to read manga and novels, so the overlap (especially with easy manga) is quite small. Sadly, I don't know where else to turn to yet.
I think you add extra 0. You mean 2k right? Waiting until to reach 20k vocab will take forever.
It's very amazing to see the progress you have made and I hope that one day I can reach that level. Today is my one year anniversary of starting anki because of your videos. Seeing that I can read and understand most of the words on the subtitles makes me kinda proud. I cannot thank you enough for making these videos, you have definetly inspired me to change how I learn Japanese and how I view my life now in general, so thank you.
You can understand most words? That's really impressive, how many hours a day are you studying?
How did you go about being less reliant on Furigana? I'm pretty happy with my vocabularly but I lose like 80% of it if it's just written with no furigana
@@SirProdigleare you studying Kanji as well separately to just vocabulary? If you're using Anki i suggest using "MigakuGod" and creating another deck where you can just focus on kanji
@Edmund Ironside it really depends, I haven't been studying as much as I have been, but I would do an hour of Anki and an hour or two immersing and maybe an hour of sentence mining, again I don't study like I used to, I only really do Anki first and then sometimes do some sentence mining. Don't be like me, keep immersing.
@SirProdigle I just use the Anki 2k/6k deck. The word in the front of the deck and the reading and an example sentence in the back. Also, some people focus on learning the kanji and every single reading but in my opinion you shouldn't do that. You should learn the readings through vocabulary rather than memorize them. The reason is because I notice that there are some "unspoken" rules of kanji readings.
For example, if a kanji has a つ at the end of the reading then it most likely has a reading that ends with っ (small tsu), so if a kanji had the reading ふつ then it most likely has a reading ふっ as well.
Anyways, other than that, it's just studying the reading of words and practice by reading the words. I mostly read manga so I have definitely gotten used to not needing furigana as much.
Wow man I love watching your Japanese journey and I’m happy for the progress you’ve made. I started watching you mid 2021 (the same time I started learning Japanese). I always enjoy your videos and u inspire me to keep learning Japanese and to keep making yt content. I really love the channel bro, please keeping making great content even if it doesn’t have anything to do with Japanese!!!
Thank you very much!
I've been interested in Japanese language for over 3 years, but, unfortunately, I'm too undisciplined to study it consistently, so it goes like 1 month of intensive learning and then 7 months of doing nothing. I wish, I could really become such a persistent person as you! BTW thank you for your videos, they always motivate me to study at least for some time
And here Iam Wasting my time on this video Translating words and applying random grammar for like 10 minutes on each sentence spoken by looking at subtitles I don't know if this would help or not
@@crobatgaming5661 bro, applying random grammar is applying random grammar, not studying
I can't commit to learning a language every day either, but I've found if I keep sort-of loose goals, then I will work a reasonable amount of hours per week naturally. Maybe don't try so hard to learn the language, just try learning some part of it and don't worry about how committed you'll be (it's been working for me)
Reading and listening along with your Japanese conversations is something from which I can learn a lot! Would love if an extended version was uploaded to your second channel!
Another banger upload from Livakivi as always
You motivate me to continue to improve every day
Thank you for your videos
What a great channel bro, I just watch almost the whole content that you've done and It gives a lot of motivation for my english learning journey, even though you are learning japanese it's still delightful for me . Thanks man :D
im a swedish native but japanese is such a beautiful language not to mention the people who natively speak it are the nicest people ive ever met!
greetings from sweden
This video is so good to watch with the subtitles and english and japanese phrases.
I really enjoyed this video. Seems you did really well for barely doing any speaking up until that point.
About exactly 2 years ago, I came across your "I learned Japanese 1 hr/day for 600 days" video on the YT algorithm, and it was the sudden spark of inspiration that led me to believe that learning Japanese could actually be an achievable feat for me. I spammed duolingo for 2 weeks, then dropped it for a core Anki vocab deck, and then eventually transitioned into a more immersion-based / sentence-mining approach, and ever since studying Japanese has become a huge (mostly) daily passion for me. I still have a long road ahead of me (hard to say exactly but I'm maybe N2-ish level right now?), but I've only been enjoying the ride, and it has had an immensely positive effect on my day-to-day life. I just happened to search up your video & channel again on a random whim, and it's once again inspiring to see your continued efforts as well as the milestones you've achieved.
I just want to say thank you so much for giving me that first spark of inspiration that's now developed into a core & indispensable part of my life! The idea of learning Japanese prior to then had always interested me, but the thought of it had previously always seemed too daunting and in my mind an impossible task. Somehow, that video of yours 2 years ago gave me the message I needed to just start and actually give it a proper try. So yeah, I can't say thanks enough for that, and all the best to both our journeys with the language going forward! 本当にありがとうございました！
That's awesome to hear, thanks for sharing! I'm glad that its been a positive experience thus far, its pretty much been the same for me as well, and its cool to think that the first video gave you some influence, and when revisiting my channel years later, you discovered that I'm still learning as well, as that's something I'd like to see in a scenario like that as well! Thank you and good luck on the rest of your learning! :)
@@Livakivi you are the reason im learning japanese Thank you.
I love your Japanese update videos. I would happily listen to an uncut 3 hour video of your iTalki lessons (I don't need subtitles for Japanese either). I've used iTalki on and off for over 10 years and I've found it to be great for Japanese speaking practice once I was able to talk. Simply amazing really. My 75 year old dad is brushing up his German after countless years of neglect and he found an iTalki tutor he likes a lot too. But I'm not so happy with my experience using the tutors to learn grammar at a beginner to low intermediate level for Korean. I've heard good things from other people however so different strokes for different folks. I think for me when I can't express myself well the iTalki one on one format with no tests just doesn't work so well. And switching to English makes the whole thing useless. I keep trying however. Grammar is so hard.
I noticed right away that you said you wanted to speak casual Japanese and then SoSo-san proceeded to use keigo (even just the simple textbook -mas form is considered keigo by Japanese speakers). Most Japanese people, even teachers when you sign up for a lesson to practice a certain style of speech, will end up speaking in whatever way feels more natural/comfortable to them. If your main goal is just to enjoy yourself speaking Japanese for an hour and maybe as a plus focus on a specific style of speech then this is not a big deal at all. It's way more important if the tutor is listening and responding to the content of what you're saying. But sometimes you do want to focus on that style of speech and then.. well I guess you can be rude about it and keep reminding them or just try several teachers until you find someone who doesn't need constant reminding.
And I'm not going to lie. I sometimes pick teachers because they look look nice. Like your 2nd tutor - no way in real life am I going to get to talk to a pretty girl like that for a whole hour.
Overall I really like iTalki so I'm glad you had a good experience. I look forward to your future videos on your Japanese journey.
You are the reason I started learning Japanese 5 month ago. In the first 3 month I only studied 30 min per day, but later I realized it will forever to even reach upper intermediate. So I am currently studying 2 hours per day. Thanks for uploading videos of your progress that always motivated me.🥰
I can't imagine how much effort you put into writing subtitles for this video🤯
Here for updates and I was satisfied. Go my man!!!
Livakivi please keep pushing this boulder of learning Japanese up the hill so that we can all keep fanboying you
Livakivi You are the best youtuber out there keep doing what you do.
It's interesting to me how language works. after all the time you put in you'll be totally fine without studying anymore but if you decided to continue there is an incredible amount of knowledge still available
just found your channel throught the macbook video and I actually like you lingual content & I might also start learning Japanese after I finish with Spanish
This video motivated me so much to start using italki as well
4年間の積み重ねが実を結びましたね。素晴らしい挑戦でした！
You the goat man!! On 4600 words strong wanna catch up to you one day, I look forward to your updates its so sik.
Crap, I totally thought I was subscribed and you were on a hiatus or the next video was taking a long time. Thanks for continuing to make these great videos. I've got a good backlog now xp
Subscribing, your channel is so full of interesting tips, content and your journey is amazing. I'm learning for a few months now, each day, and looking forward!
Another banger video
I love watching your journey! Your Japanese output was great.
Once again, very proud of you man. And what a great example of how important it is to be able to understand what is being said to you.
Yo bro that's unexpected didn't expect this banger.
This video makes great immersion material
It's been an honor to witness your japanese learning journey, love your channel, keep it up man!
So proud of coming back to these videos, a bit sad I never reached that point, someone has to carry our hopes!
Stellar progress! I have a question though: Have you ever met anyone you could speak Japanese with in Estonia?
I haven't, but I did hear Japanese once on a ship to Finland when I was around 3 months into learning lol
Watched one video from you a couple weeks ago and you instantly became one of my favorite content creators on the platform. Saw this in my feed and dropped everything. Love what you do man keep the bangers coming!!
dude i love your videos and am proud of the progress you've made. nobody on this platform gets me as excited as you when you drop a new vid
Another great and inspiring video. Hell yes. Great stuff!
Thank you for uploading this video. It in itself is a useful resource for speaking and listening.
Very enjoyable to watch/listen to 😊❤️
please upload the hour long conversation, really want to hear the conversation and get some input training out of it
Legit my favorite channel right now. Keep up the great work my man!
thank you for the interesting videos
This channel is a goldmine.
and again, you just boosted my motivation, what a gigachad you are !
I also just started outputting (I'm learning german) and luckily I have german relatives so I don't have to book no lessons lol. i feel like when I make a mistake I notice it immediately and when I can't formulate a sentence correctly I just say it in the best way i can and i get feedback so as next time i well remember that formula (not sure if that the correct word to use here).
I really adore your videos man, my current Anki deck now has almost 4k cards and I feel like I'm making really good progress. thanks for the motivation, I mean every video you produce is like inciting me to learn more and challenge myself (especially the renovating videos, really loved those)
Top quality content as always
Your other videos are nice too but nothing quite hits like a good Livakivi language learning video. Keep 'em coming please!!
These videos are always interesting to watch. Atm this is my favorite channel as there isn't really any other channel like this one.
I missed this video when it came out, but I still: Amazing video liva, you always motivate me to keep on learning, keep the good content up!
Your learning journey has been hugely inspirational, Livakivi!
Thank you for sharing your experience!
As usual I enjoyed your video very much. This was very interesting bc of the language teachers you've chosen. Thank you very much! Good luck with the output! 🍀
Great video as always,thanks
Your progress has been amazing!
Another banger video! Your stuff is always so motivating! Loved how varied the topics were based on the teacher and I even learned some new things such as the thing with Estonia's civil partnership system. Keep up the good work!
Well that certainly sparked even more motivation for me to learn japanese lol
Love your videos, as always. For some reason my deadass thought you were Finnish but I was close, at least.
Could you make a video about immersion content? Especially UA-cam stuff. It's a real problem for me, there's an ocean of content and I just usually watch stuff in my recommendations, but they are not in Japanese.
Great content as always, thank you~
It's really cool to see that good amount of input can also lead to such a level of output!
your vids are very interesting, it's cool to see you progress
You have become my role model. Thank you.
Great video, as akways! Your content keeps getting better with each video. Keep it up Liva san!
I am a native Japanese and I think your Japanese is already perfectly fine for life in Japan. I think you encouraged Japanese learners to be able to have a conversation without having to practice speaking.
Furthermore, I would like to note a mistake I noticed in your quest for perfection.
2:29 そうですね、友達の話し方がいいかもしれません。
6:46 魚もいますけど。I was very hesitant to make a correction. Fish are not people, but with this sentence it is more natural to say います.
7:16 エストニアでは日本のように魚を寿司にするような文化がないと思います。
7:35 一つ例を挙げると
7:51 全てが普通です。 ← めっちゃ is very casual, and since you are speaking in honorifics, Japanese are surprised when you suddenly become casual.
8:57 僕は4年間（よねんかん）
12:40 なるほど、そうなんですね。← なるほどですね is a phase that could have been said by a Japanese . Maybe it is said in a anime.
13:38 はい ← おう is It's a phase used by men, but not very polite. However, when it is extended like おおー, it becomes an exclamation, which changes it into a good-feeling affable malediction.
13:57 とても役に立ちそうです。
17:49 人も冷たい ←The expression "サムイ" is more likely to mean someone who is boring. 冷たいis more appropriate, but the expression 人も寒いis funny, so Show laughed.
20:32 とても役に立ちます。
All three teachers are great, especially the second, Anri sensei, who is charming and has great ideas about accents. She also speaks in a typical Tokyo woman's way, so if you can understand her, you can understand most Japanese women.
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Thank you for the feedback!
Excellent video as always! Thanks :)
Thanks for the content, I always feel like it's always both motivating and interesting, hope you keep doing whatever you enjoy :)
I really enjoyed the vid, it's entertaining and helpful. Altough I'm wondering if you could post longer videos with similar length as for example the learning japanese yearly ones. Anyway, keep up the good work. :D
Great video
All teachers seemed so helpful and sweet, couldn't have a better advertisement than this so I hope they paid you well lol
you've come a long way man 😊
Yay new video
love your vids man!
2 freaking sentences into the first teacher and I learn 本名 lol... its never ending man i swear.
@Cosmokz 2 言い間違えたかな。実は、この漢字「本名」知れなかった
absolute banger
Damn bro I saw the Yuu pfp and I was like "shit good pfp"
I check your youtube page and god damn you've got her on everything lmao
My favorite UA-camr in my favorite series
ありがとうございます with love from Ukraine
A year ago your videos really gave me motivation to keep at it with Japanese but I have been really inconsistent. Despite this I have been able to understand most of what has been said in the first half of this video, yeah I should finish it before commenting but I don't want to, and I'm somewhat impressed with myself but at the same time I think I can do better. I have tried to read visual novels but that has been a pain, reading epubs in firefox with yomichan seems like my best option to try and pick up and incorporate into my routine, since the only thing I have been doing is inconsistently watch anime and only half of it without subtitles, but even so I've focused on not looking at them when they were present. The one thing I have been consistent until a month ago was anki. I have done it religiously every night before going to bed like a prayer of some sort, but then exams and projects pilled up really badly last month so I gave up on doing it daily and now I've only done it twice in the last month. But this video is giving me hope again tho. I might restart doing the 6k deck, I have finished it at the start of the year or around then but I'll restart it from the beginning because I frankly messed it up this past month. And moving forward I think I'll force myself to watch more anime without subtitles, watch some youtube as well, and get around to finally reading light novels. I seem to understand basic conversations so I hope to improve further. Thank you again for your awesome content.
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Dude that’s crazy. I’ve been rewatching every video you’ve made today. And today i get a new one. Dude, I'm so happy
That was very interesting!
I had the impression of livakivi being a much bigger channel but he's such a wonderful small gem
always great content👍
Watching this video on estonia's independence day was surprisingly wholesome
new motivation just dropped
Can we have the full uncut conversations on the second channel? Would be nice actually
Maybe next time! Issue is that I'd still need to cut out a lot of parts as I shared a lot of doxable information and so on.
Question for you (or anyone else who self-studies):
How did you get so good at output without practicing speaking?
I'm at approx N4 level. I can understand and comprehend written Japanese reasonably well for my level, and can say a few phrases and short sentences.
But my overall output is terrible given the 1000+ hours of study I have put in.
So yeah, I'm curious about how other self-studiers improved their speaking and output skills to a level where they can have a reasonably fluid basic conversation like this without actually practicing speaking much.
I recommend watching my 4 part series on how to learn Japanese (where I talk a bit about outputting) as well as my yearly update videos where I mention my experience with output (both have playlists on my channel).
In reality, 1000 hours is very little for fluent output - output requires not only a large vocabulary to freely express a wide variety of thoughts you might have, but also good understanding of said vocabulary, as well as a strong recall ability that will come from having spent thousands of hours on input, with a bit of output practice on top of that.
You're pretty much guaranteed to succeed in output as well, but its just going to take a very long time, and that's just natural, especially with Japanese. Even to this day, despite outputting a vast amount literally every day, I sometimes stumble when trying to find the correct words or figure out if what I just said was grammatically sound, but if I had another few years of this practice, that would most likely become much more of a rarity, and I'd have unlocked truly fluent Japanese for the rest of my life.
those subtitles must have taken a long time i appreciate the effort you put into your videos so that an idiot like me can understand lol
wake up new Livakivi video dropped
any chance of the full convos going up, maybe on your second channel?
Shoutout to SoSo saying he's a furry in his description lol. I wouldn't have considered that to be something people would publicly mention but is def a good talking point for those who share that interest.
What did the teacher think about your speaking abilities: your accent, your speed, the amount of errors you made? It’s interesting to prove or disprove the idea that a silent period can be really big and still you will speak fluently.