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I'm 6 years into learning Japanese, and passed N2 last December. In my learning journey there was only 5 months that I could focus only on Japanese. Reaching N1 in 1.5 years sounds so crazy to me 🤣 but I enjoy learning slowly, because it doesn't feel like a chore. Lately I haven't been studying much, but I'm studying for my driving license, so I still learn a lot new vocab and train my reading.

Stevi is my inspiration for hitting 5 hours a day immersion for the past month +. I'm hoping to carry this momentum to the doorstep of fluency!

This is very helpful, thanks for sharing with us!

Thanks Stevi, greatly appreciate this!🙏🏽

Awesome video! I'd totally watch a sequel where you go through the rest of your journey so far in the same style. Really enjoyed this! Glad to see you joining the Migaku team, too! Great move for all parties involved!

This was such a reaffirming and informative video. I was basically on track like this until my "build-up" phase was prolonged because of uni/life/internships. I was still reading news and tweets here and there, but couldn't find time to fully commit to the MT & daily sentence mining. I felt like I had completely lost track and wouldn't fully recover, but ik i can make up this summer to finally hone down to pass into "sustaining" my immersion & MT. Again, Thank you for making this!!!!!!!

This is hands down the most helpful video for learning Japanese I've seen. Thanks!

Super interesting. Thanks!

Thanks a lot for this guys

So ya boy is officially part of the team now? Daaamn Migaku keeps them sweet.

great breakdown

Thank you for sharing more with us Steve, someone should really create a complete blogpost out of this video with all the numbers and details.

I've been waiting a long time for this. Thank you. Stevi, please have my babies.

thanks stevi

Immerse til midnight? Then get up at 6? Jesus lol

I can relate to the things you did when you started. I started learning Japanese around three months ago and will finish the first volume of RTK tomorrow. I'm planning to remember the Kanji in RTK 3rd Volume after that. I think it really helps with remembering vocabular in general in the long run, although it's incredibly painful to keep going sometimes. Right now it takes around 1,5 h to review the Kanji every morning and around 1,5 h to add around 25 new ones before I go to bed adding up to 3h/day. During the first 2 months I started watching anime with just Japanes subtitles to get a feeling for the language, but now that I'm hooked I use it to mine vocab for my Anki deck using 10ten reader and yomichan. I will look at the Japanese subtitles first and after that check the English subs. Right now I'm mostly using 1 sided decks, meaning I just look at the word written in Kanji to figure out the meaning and reading. I use the Genki textbooks and Rocket Japanese Online course as well every now and then, but I would only recommend the latter if you have too much money on your hands.

wow so you didnt even spend all day on it, must have been insanely focused :O

you showed us what is possible now it's up to us...

I'm doing half his hours and honestly can't do more than that. I'm wondering if I'll be able to get an N1 in 3 years, it would be cool.

i personally stopped studing to pass an exam and i just started to enjoy the language, i will be honest with you all, this language can take you up to 5 years to master, i been studing this languages for almost three years, and im sure you can do the N1 in two years or less i studied a lot back then, i was ahead of my class, my weak point was reading and because of that i failed getting the n4 though i was close to pass it 16 points or so in my first year, my reccomendation is if you read you will pass it easily, most of people can be good with grammar and vocabulary as me, im about to get my third year studing japanesse on august and im just enjoying it, even if i spend 4 hours or 1 hour studing in my opinion its better to enjoy the languages than stress yourself so be honest with you and if you can not read news or a book come back to it later when you have a higher level, just enjoy the language

this guy is insane

I started this method on June 1 2022 but i've been studying japanese for a year now so i have advantage on grammar and vocabs

That intro though. I thought I was having a fever dream. 🤣

Really awesome! Not sure I could sustain this schedule, my Mrs would kill me for neglect 😂

In the beginning, did you create a card vor EVERY unknown word you stumbled upon? And did contain your Anki cards plain text only? And did you experience that through reading your listening skills improved?

Super hilfreiches Video danke sehr :) Ich würde gerne wissen ob Stevie komplett auf englischen und deutschen content verzichtet hat? Hat er ab und zu auch mal ein Video/Film auf Deutsch geguckt?

Am I wrong to assume that you need some kind of mental condition to be happy while spending your whole day on uni and learning japanese 24 hours a day? I could do his schedule 1 day until feeling exhausted and depressed :D

I was really feeling bad that this guy had dusted me in card count in less time, as well as got his certification. Then the idea popped into my head: "Did he even watch any anime at all?" I didn't hear him say anything about any shows he watched other than occasionally the news and the corny love drama. This guy is intense. One thing is for sure, I've got to build up my reading. I can blow through dozens of volumes of manga but god damn 2 hours a day reading will drive my ADHD brain absolutely insane.

for RTK did you write down every kanji every day ? Didn't quite understand what you did with all the kanji on one sheet

The only thing I cannot agree is the title. It‘s an awesome AJATT timeline! JLPT is only a plus. I do not think you should do the JLPT N1 in the end. However I would like to know if you had problems with german as your mother language. I see some problems in the beginning translating everything from Japanese to English and then to my native language. Danke 🙏

Maybe it's because I don't know how Subs2SRS works but I have some questions: - Stevi said that he created the deck but then he "mined every unknown word". What does this mean? I think the process of mining was adding unknown words to Anki so, does this mean just "to clean" the automatically created Sub2SRS deck and leave inside the deck just the phrases you don't know? So, if you don't know any phrase, you will use the deck 100% using what Sub2SRS gives you. Am I correct? I got confused because they appear separated also in the Sustain table, Anki section. - He talks 2 or 3 times about having a sentence with 2 or more unknown words and creating anki cards for those (1T sentences). Do that "difficult" sentences get deleted? Or you just keep them to try to review 2 unknown words at once? If this is the case, when you are reviewing and this sentence appears, when do you hit "Good" if you don't know the sentence at all? After looking for the meanings in the dictionary? - In the 3rd phase, the Sustain one, does count the "complete mining" of episodes as Anki or as Listening? (For those 4.4 hours a day, where they just episodes watching and relistening or it was that part of anki added?) - For grammar cards, I suppose he make the same as he did with Tae Kim but with advanced grammar, no? Thank you!

Regarding NHK easy: did you read without furigana from the start and would yoi recommend doing that?

Hi, I'm wondering if we can have your Anki Deck copy if you don't mind. 😁

Nothing about this story speaks to me in any level that I can relate. RTK + Tae Kim in 3 months, MT in less than 1 year, "kana should take a few days", routine more optimized than a Sim character, and uni + a job? I wish I felt inspired like so many people, but this trajectory is more telling about Stevie's talent, mindset and discipline than AJATT's strengths.

do you have like an ultimate guide / recommended routine for people?

11:16 Jesus, what an example. I haven't slept for three days, hahahahhaa.

Where can I find these fitness books you listed?

Where did you get subtitle files for subs to srs?

I'm really curious what size grid he practiced Kanji on, it does a bit larger than 0,5 cm

when you come across a new word when reading, do you stop and look it up? if so what do you do with it? write it down? anki card?

So crazy that they would just watch shows they completely couldn’t understand and try to decipher them.

Which Anki settings did you use?

I am more fond with Steve as an "authority argument". Maybe write the person directing or narrating the video in the title so we can find videos more easily?

Oof, wish I had so much time.... school starts at 800 and ends at 1600 here. Do anki during the breaks. The I need to work on my robot (cool robotteam I'm in) at school till 1800. Aaaaannndd then school work till 2000. Only have 2 hours left for immersion oof, sometimes even less

What did you use to track your time? Did you track it manually inside your Excel sheet or did you use some app?

So, if I’m understanding correctly, you made the MT by month 3?

mirin discipline brah

I assume input was pretty incomprehensible at first? How did you learn new words through that method?

Koh Tao?

aint no way my bruhduh just got bored and made a whole ass mario 😹🫡

Just noticed a mistake with the anki hours for the build-up phase. You said you did 2hr33m a day on average, which would be 229 hours over 90 days. But you also said 336 hours in total, which would be 3h44m a day on average.

when i saw the schedule i couldnt help but think.. what a friggin miserable life that looks like.

I don't know how anyone can enjoy light novels. I wish I did or I would read as much as this guy.

Math mistake at 14:35

We Want part 2 : what would he change : 26:58

post your tae kim deck?

where did you find the books/manga in Japanese or would you always buy physical copies?

本当にそんなこと便利ですか?　全部わかりますか。スーパータイム管理が必要ですけど。

Let's mention that Mandarin has no anime or NHK easy equivalent. ie. There is no stepping stone to adult content like reading real news or watching movies/dramas :/

I can do 30 minutes a day, take it or leave it :D

HAHA GREAT! XDDDDDD

Seen plenty of younger people (age, say, 15-25) get to N1 level in 1.5 - 3 years, haven't seen anyone over the age of 40 do it. I would like to see research into acquisition as a fuction of age in immersion study being done at some point.

that guy is from Kazakhstan, same grammar as Japanese, so that's why learned so fast and got to a level where can enjoy the language faster

I feel all this video is going to do is make people quit when they can't POSSIBLY meet your standards you're setting. I study literly 4 to 5 hours a day, and a year in im getting woefully depressed. I'm entering n3 territory finally, which is still borderline baby talk. I feel this isn't realistic for people and will be more damaging than helpful.

Sorry you spent 30% of time purely learning Japanese for 1.5 years????

That intro was unnecessary and annoying as hell. Just why.. That being said, I've been looking forward to this video, so thanks Stevi. This video should be enough for people who always complain about not having enough time. In a good way. The way you went about your day combining language learning with your daily training routines was really satisfying to watch. If more vids about your language learning are coming up, then im looking forward to those as well. Peace ;D

Yeah, I don't buy these miraculous "I learned japanese in a year" claims. I guarantee all these guys were 3 to 5 years into their studying before they "started".