I Spoke Japanese With 3 Real Japanese Teachers for the First Time (italki Japanese part 1)
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
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PART 2: • Speaking Japanese Afte...
Teachers from this video:
1. SoSo: italki.app.link/teachersoso
2. Anri: italki.app.link/teacheranri
3. Show: italki.app.link/teachershow
In this video I spoke face-to-face (sorta) to 3 real Japanese teachers for the first time and it was a pretty nice experience. I definitely feel like my Japanese has come a long way, but at the same time it made me realize that I truly need to get serious about practicing output eventually as well, which I might start doing this summer!
MUSIC:
Kyou Nakanishi - 50年くらい一人で十分だ。
Animal Crossing City Folk OST - Able Sisters
Animal Crossing: City Folk OST - 11 PM (Snow)
Animal Crossing: New Horizons OST - Able Sisters Shop
Animal Crossing: City Folk OST - Marquee
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:40 italki rundown
1:35 Teacher 1: SoSo
8:00 SoSo conclusion
8:30 Teacher 2: Anri
14:50 Anri conclusion
15:20 Teacher 3: Show
20:55 Show conclusion
21:40 Thoughts on the experience
22:35 My current plans
23:15 Outro
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PART 2 IS OUT: ua-cam.com/video/edA8bGXooTo/v-deo.html
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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!
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.
If Livakivi has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Livakivi has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Livakivi has only one fan then that is me. If Livakivi has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Livakivi, then I am against the world.
@@jasean1 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.
Yes my favorite UA-camr!!!! My goat!! I'm still going strong day 55. Another banger video of course 🙏🙏🙏
Go for that 56 tomorrow 🙏
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
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。
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 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
Why wait that long? 1000-2000 words should be enough to start reading.
@@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.
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.
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)
Great video as always,thanks
Excellent video as always! Thanks :)
Your progress has been amazing!
Another great and inspiring video. Hell yes. Great stuff!
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
Very enjoyable to watch/listen to 😊❤️
Legit my favorite channel right now. Keep up the great work my man!
Your learning journey has been hugely inspirational, Livakivi!
Thank you for sharing your experience!
Thank you for uploading this video. It in itself is a useful resource for speaking and listening.
Man I just absolutely love your videos
Another banger upload from Livakivi as always
Here for updates and I was satisfied. Go my man!!!
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
You motivate me to continue to improve every day
Thank you for your videos
Great video, as akways! Your content keeps getting better with each video. Keep it up Liva san!
Thanks for the content, I always feel like it's always both motivating and interesting, hope you keep doing whatever you enjoy :)
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!
This video makes great immersion material
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! 🍀
This video motivated me so much to start using italki as well
thank you for the interesting videos
These videos are always interesting to watch. Atm this is my favorite channel as there isn't really any other channel like this one.
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!!
Top quality content as always
I love watching your journey! Your Japanese output was great.
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!
This video is so good to watch with the subtitles and english and japanese phrases.
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!
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
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.
love your vids man!
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
It's been an honor to witness your japanese learning journey, love your channel, keep it up man!
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
always great content👍
You the goat man!! On 4600 words strong wanna catch up to you one day, I look forward to your updates its so sik.
So proud of coming back to these videos, a bit sad I never reached that point, someone has to carry our hopes!
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.
Livakivi You are the best youtuber out there keep doing what you do.
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!
You have become my role model. Thank you.
I can't imagine how much effort you put into writing subtitles for this video🤯
This channel is a goldmine.
I had the impression of livakivi being a much bigger channel but he's such a wonderful small gem
That was very interesting!
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
Another banger video
I really enjoyed this video. Seems you did really well for barely doing any speaking up until that point.
and again, you just boosted my motivation, what a gigachad you are !
Your other videos are nice too but nothing quite hits like a good Livakivi language learning video. Keep 'em coming please!!
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!
Livakivi please keep pushing this boulder of learning Japanese up the hill so that we can all keep fanboying you
Great video
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
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)
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 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.🥰
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.
you've come a long way man 😊
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.
please upload the hour long conversation, really want to hear the conversation and get some input training out of it
Yo bro that's unexpected didn't expect this banger.
Well that certainly sparked even more motivation for me to learn japanese lol
I just started learning Japanese, (which will be my 3rd language) and i am loving every minute of it. iTalki is a wonderful resource, along with Pimsleur, pretty much Tofugu has created and my Genki Books. Gambate everyone!!!
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
All teachers seemed so helpful and sweet, couldn't have a better advertisement than this so I hope they paid you well lol
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
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.
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
new motivation just dropped
My favorite UA-camr in my favorite series
any chance of the full convos going up, maybe on your second channel?
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
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.
livakivi if u dont mind i was wondering what age did you start learning japanese, love the videos keep them coming
Watching videos of your progress gives a huge confidence and motivational boost for me. It feels great to know that with enough patience and dedication I will be able to achieve similar results in the future. I'm currently on a 200+ days streak and just did a mockup test for N4 9/15 correct with most failures due to grammar / unknown vocab. It turned out better than I expected.
Keep it up :)
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
Hey liv, I just started Japanese from Duolingo, My main focus from it to get some words right a little knowledge of it so I can get what you guys were saying without subtitles, after that I can go for other resources
Will Duolingo prove itself useful for that?
I think they really changed the Japanese Duolingo, so I'm not sure what its like nowadays, but it does introduce a bunch of words yes. Though, eventually Anki with the Core 2k/6k deck will be more direct in terms of vocabulary.
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.
Watching this video on estonia's independence day was surprisingly wholesome
my second favorite dog
Get yourself a nice cup of coffee/tea
Thank you so much!
My pleasure
ありがとうございます with love from Ukraine