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A lot of people learning Japanese want to get good fast because everyone they see online is already super good, so they end up trying to learn 50-100 words/day. 90% of the time it just leads to burn out and you give up. It doesn't matter how slow you go as long as you do not stop
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Years ago, when I bought something for the first time in Japan they asked me 現金ですか?
...and I told them 元気ですよ！
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I spent a lot of time reading novels in the first two years learning Japanese. While it definitely helped me pass N1 and have a better understanding of grammar, I didn't feel like it had a direct impact on my speaking ability. IMO I only got better speaking by speaking more
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I think a lot of us have the idea that if we became fluent in another language, our lives would just be so cool everyday. But in reality once you're fluent, watching media in the target language just feels the same as your native language
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I always say お早う御座います in full kanji just to shock native Japanese people a little bit in the morning. It's time to WAKE UP
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A lot of people talk about the importance of taking breaks for learning languages, but I actually don't think you should take breaks. If you're passionate about something, you'd want to do it everyday, weekend or not. If you're not passionate, you might as well do something else
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I think the most fun period about learning a language is the point where you can't understand everything, but you can almost figure out everything from context. It's the point you'll make the most progress as you immerse every day
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When I first started studying Japanese I made a goal to pass the JLPT N1 after 5 years based on what I read about it. I really saw the power of Anki + Immersion after 1.5 years when I was able to pass it without directly studying for it at all
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I've noticed a trend of people passing the JLPT N1 faster and faster with higher scores. In order to assert dominance I will be taking the JLPT N1 again later this year blindfolded
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I’ve always wanted to learn Korean but I feel like I would be cheating on Japanese
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A lot of people ask about how to get motivated to study Japanese. The truth is that if you have to motivate yourself to do it, you probably don't want to really do it, so you probably won't put in the effort needed to get fluent. Learn the language you really want to learn!
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I think it is a trap to follow a "path" for language learning. If I learned one thing from interviewing so many people on the podcast is that everyone carves out their own path and gets good in that way. You can get good even if you hate reading, Anki, or Anime.
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During my study abroad in Japan, I was the only student in the program who became able to have full conversations in Japanese. I want to say it's because of immersion + anki but who am I kidding its definitely the Japanese girlfriend that did it
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My phone has been in Japanese for so long that I always forget that its in Japanese until someone asks me why my phone is in Japanese
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just uploaded a video of how I initially passed the JLPT N1 in just one year. probably one of my highest level production/effort video yet. would appreciate it if you checked it out!
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According to my Anki stats, I've dedicated something like 700 hours to "studying Japanese". So technically, I've only been studying Japanese for 700/24 = 29 days - and I passed the JLPT N1 a while back.
Fluent in 30 days baby
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The more fluent you get in Japanese, the more you just see Japanese people as individual people and not by the stereotypes that you often hear from people who just travelled there
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Sometimes after I've been immersing for a while its insane to think that there was a day that I couldn't even catch a single word in my immersion
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The point of language learning is not to speak another language, its to shock natives. 🖐️🎤
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I think people often underestimate the power of self belief in language learning. If you truly believe you'll get fluent (or native), your brain will try to figure out a way to get there, and even if you don't succeed you'll get a lot closer than if you didn't believe in yourself
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They say if you learn 20% of the most common words in any language you can have 80% of most conversations. What they don't tell you is that with Japanese, you can have have 90% conversations just by saying えー! and そうだね again and again
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Learning a language is kind of like collecting game. You collect new words and phrases that you can use, and speaking is just almost like showing off your collection.
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Just got my Japanese confirmed as Jozu by native speaker. So yeah, I'm pretty good. AMA
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I don't speak much Japanese these days, and my speaking ability has definitely suffered. Whenever I do get to talk to Japanese people now I really want them to tell me nihongo jozu to boost my confidence but they won't say it anymore 😭
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If you're learning Japanese then you know what it's like being the one guy in the friend group telling everyone how there's a word/phrase/idiom in Japanese for that specific thing you're talking about every other day
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Learning Japanese has taught me the discipline to study everyday, the ability to think from a different perspective, and most importantly the joy in shocking natives.
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Being a polyglot on YouTube is kind of like learning how to play the C chord on 10 different instruments
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I love this joke. If you speak 2 languages you're bilingual and if you speak 3 languages you're trilingual. What are you called if you only speak 1 language?
American.
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I think Anki definitely boosted my path towards fluency in the first two years, but after that there was close to zero utility to adding new words, especially since I could already read novels while only using a dictionary minimally
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10 cards a day in Anki doesn't seem like a lot, and if you're starting out you'd probably finish them in 5-10 minutes. Compound that over 3 years it'll actually be hard to find new words in everyday immersion
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I stopped using Anki this year after hitting around 10k cards and the benefits were clearly diminished.
Now I spend that time in the morning listening to the KoreKara Podcast at 2x speed and my Japanese has never been better
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Never stop immersing
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wait, I already spoke taiwanese, mandarin and english before I started learning Japanese. am I allowed to call myself a polyglot now
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For my Japanese learners out there, I'm introducing the KoreKara newsletter where I will send you weekly immersion content, Japanese tips, and interesting words to accelerate your progress.
First e-mail will go out next week but you can sign up now! 🧑💻
Link below👇
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Both learning Japanese and growing up in Taiwan gave me the perspective that extremely polarizing/controversial topics in one country might be something nobody cares about in another country
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The best immersion is the type where you forget that you're immersing.
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Just got an Oculus and it's kinda amazing. Spent an hour walking through where I studied abroad in Japan and Shibuya. It feels just like I'm back in Japan.
Ping pong is pretty addicting too. Now its time to explore VRChat..
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I think one reason I got burned out studying Japanese during the pandemic was because I wasn't really interacting with any native Japanese people. I tried to make sure to read x pages and watch x shows, but without any actual use for it, my motivation to study disappeared
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Japanese Conversation Tip:
If you don't know what to talk about, just start speaking in the worst accent possible and they'll ask you why you're so good at Japanese.
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Initially my goal with Japanese was to reach native level, but as the goalpost moves seemingly further away as I get better I would be happy just reaching a 帰国子女 level of bilingual-ness lol
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As soon as Japan opens up for tourism you know I'll be on the first flight there
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I think one trap with focusing too much on immersing with stuff like podcasts and youtube videos is that you might get to a high level of understanding in Japanese and be able to discuss theoretical topics, but you'd still might stumble w/ basic stuff like ordering food naturally
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me trying to finish my anki cards before midnight so I don't lose my streak
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Sometimes when I order in Japanese I end up ordering the stuff that I know for sure I can pronounce correctly instead of the thing I really wanted
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I started taking Korean lessons on iTalki from a Korean native who teaches me in Japanese and also happens to be studying Chinese in Taiwan. It's crazy how similar the vocabulary is with Chinese and Japanese and the grammar is so straight forward when its explained in Japanese
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When I studied abroad I could choose between Sophia University, Waseda University, or this random school in Saitama. I ended up choosing the school outside of Tokyo so that I would be forced to speak Japanese more and it definitely made a huge difference
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With language learning, if you don't use it you'll lose it. Even with my native language Chinese there are a lot of times I'll start a sentence in an English way and will have to end in a weird way or I'll unconsciously have English filler words from mostly speaking English now
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Learn something new in Japanese everyday
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Even though I knew passing the JLPT N1 wouldn't necessarily mean that you're fluent, I still set that as a goal when I first started out and it definitely did motivate me to continue learning new words through Anki
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Sometimes when I hear another learner speak Japanese and they're pretty good I have the urge to say nihongo jozu, but I hold myself back
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Is it possible to shock Japanese people as an Asian man, if so please let me know how because I would like to go viral as well
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If you don't enjoy the process for anything you do, it's unlikely you'll reach the end goal you desired
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A couple of years ago I passed JLPT N1 (the hardest JP fluency exam) without "studying". All I did were my anki flashcards and immersion every day on autopilot for 4-6 hrs.
Doing something every single day relentlessly taught me that small actions repeated over a long period
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just watched the jujutsu kaisen movie last night. was pretty hype except when I saw they translated いくら (salmon roe) as "caviar" in the subtitles. totally ruined the movie for me 0/10
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The skills you need to succeed at language learning are the same skills you need to succeed at any other hobby
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is it true that sometimes the kanji in a word is too hard for Japanese people so that's why they use hiragana in the middle of the word?
Examples:
1. 処方箋 > 処方せん
2. 覚醒剤 > 覚せい剤
3. 分娩 > 分べん
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If you use Anki everyday then you know what it's like to be living outside of Japan, speaking your native language and having Japan words pop up in your head nonstop
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People often ask me how I learned Japanese from scratch. The answer is quite simple: I spent just 1,000 logged hours in my flashcard app and probably 5x that immersing. But really they came down to a few core habits that I have applied to everything I've pursued since then. They
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It's very simple to speak Japanese natively.
@razatalks
and I distilled it into a simple 3-step process.
1. Learn Chinese (To Perfection)
2. Watch Every Episode of
@korepoddo
3. Enjoy native Japanese
Don't see why it has to be more complicated than that
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People often ask if I want to make KoreKara my full-time thing. I never know how to respond because I already work a lot more than full-time hours on the podcast just that I only make 100x below minimum wage from it lol
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One time I walked into an expat restaurant in Taipei and there was one table speaking Japanese, one table speaking English, one table speaking Chinese. I really wanted to go up and shock all of them but I held myself back
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Now that I don't watch Japanese media for the purpose of studying I find it harder to find stuff that is more interesting than in English
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One interesting thing about language learning versus other hobbies is that there is such a thing as "perfection", which is native level pronunciation, whereas something like playing the guitar is very subjective. But the truth is that either still requires lifelong learning
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You aren't jozu in Japanese until you can go to an Izakaya and read every word on the handwritten menu just by glancing
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I think the same way you learn a language to fluency is the same way you can master anything.
1. Total immersion (Courses, books, Interviews)
2. Playing the game (Talking to natives)
3. Learning from failure (Getting feedback and data)
4. Not stopping (Persistence)
The
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A lot of people ask me whether or not there's an advantage to knowing Chinese learning Japanese. I actually think there are some disadvantages as I had to break certain associations that I had with words and also make sure I don't think of the Chinese reading when reading jp
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One time I tried to order ハラミ (Skirt Steak) but I said ハサミ (Scissors) instead. I’ll never forget how confused the waiter looked as I repeated ハサミ over and over in different pitch accents thinking it was because of the pitch accent that they didn’t understand me
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tbt to that time where I edited for 16 hours straight - I love making videos so much
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have not uploaded on
@korepoddo
in 6 months yet views are suddenly spiking lol. is it time to upload again
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when I was studying abroad in Japan, I once tried to drink every single drink in the conbini. (I'd never buy the same one twice)
ngl there were some pretty disgusting ones that I had to throw away (Sorry Japan)
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We want to interview some of you guys in the community. If you have interesting stories about living/working in Japan/Asia or just learning languages in general DM me!
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It's kind of ironic but I feel like my Japanese has gotten significantly worse since starting the podcast since now I spend more time interacting/talking in English than in Japanese
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In Taiwan we mostly speak Mandarin, although the older generation speaks mostly Taiwanese. Kinda funny to think that although they are both technically my "native language" my Japanese is now far better than my Taiwanese
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I have this chrome extension that allows me to control the speed of videos. My default for YouTube videos is 1.8x speed, with modifiers up to 2.2x and 2.8x.
Sometimes when I talk to someone in real life I have the impulse to hit the 1.8x button
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The best hack to learning a language is to put yourself in a situation where you have to use it
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Recently I've started to think high levels of fluency with non-native accents actaully sound a lot cooler than just simply native level. People like Bruce Lee, Watanabe Ken, etc.
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It never fails to amaze me how amazing interpreters are, the amount of information they have to record and how they have to translate in real time, not to mention the sheer speed they have to speak at without stumbling
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When you get good enough that immersing doesn't really feel like language learning anymore and more... its time to pick up a new hobby in the language
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Rare footage of me doing my daily Anki reviews
here it is. the most amazing scene in television history. this was written, filmed, edited and broadcast on actual televison.
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The coolest part about learning Japanese is using the flick keyboard. That's pretty much it
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If I could change one thing in my time learning Japanese, it would just be to change the language to Korean since it seems there are an endless amount of Koreans where I live and 0 Japanese people
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Since I started my channel, I got over 20 million views from YT Shorts... and I just privated almost all of them.
They have been a net negative for my channel. I do enjoy making shorts but they attracted a completely different audience than what I aimed for, very low quality
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The difference between discipline and motivation is that with discipline, you'll make progress irregardless of how you feel on any particular day
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