Please come back! Even if, for any reason, you’re not still learning, I’m sure I speak for most of us when I say an update would be amazing. We never got to hear you speak, so if you’re at the point of doing output, we would certainly love to hear it! This video was extremely well done, you put together a lot of very useful resources, and for someone who’s only one week into their Japanese learning journey, this video has been a tremendous help. I hope everything is ok. Please come back if you can. If you’re not still learning, you still have serious potential as a KZfaqr.

I highly recommends KZfaqr named Tokini Andy for grammar! He’s covered Genki 1 and 2 and quarter 1 and 2. So basically N5-N2 levels of grammar. He does live streams for the grammar but he has made cut down versions to make it more convenient. I’m also learning Japanese but I’m only a few months into it.

You are really well-spoken! You have a very 'clear' and understandable voice, it's lovely. You would be a good voice actor!

I'd be interested in seeing a 2 year update. I've just recently started my own attempt at learning Japanese via immersion and anki -- I find these videos very motivating.

Thank you for sharing! I found your progress through the updates motivating.

I love your editing sm! I hope you see more and more success

I love your video and hope your learning journey becomes successful.

yay i'm glad i found your channel because i'm at a similar stage in learning and i also like youtube videos for my immersion content, you gave me some good suggestions for new channels to watch so thank you :) good luck with your studies!!

Hey Su! I like your videos, I started learning myself and hope for a 2 year video from you soon! 😊

Thanks for the video. This is super helpful. I would love to see you walk through your process for sentence mining.

I LIVE FOR THESE VIDEO ESSAYS

excellent resources you shared here! good studies to you

Great video. Good job on your progress. I hope you continue to study the language and reach your goals

俺も勉強し始めてから２年間ぐらいで今までアニメやドラマはよく理解できない、でもスアッドさんと違って暗記は4ヶ月ぐらいだけやっててimmersionも少なくなっちゃった。スアッドさんの言う通りなにかの動画や本を完璧に読むとユーフォリアになる、やっぱそれが一番好きなところだな。 俺の場合はアニメより本とゲームのほうが勉強してて聴解力より読解力のほうがマシかも。 この旅に一緒に頑張ろう！

Not learning Japanese atm (German) but it's cool listening to how somebody has been doing using immersion.

I have been studying for maybe a year and a half now and was trying to see how others immersion experience is. definitely need to update my anime list now

I've been on and off with self teaching Japanese(I really need to jump back 😅) but one thing I've heard is that videos involving kids can be great for learning. They are developing their vocabulary and can potentially help with your overall listening and comprehension.

Thank you for making this! Videos like that motivate me to continue the journey of learning japanese. Im nowhere near your level but I hope I can be at a similiar level in 1 year especially because you are not sounding like you try-harded 5h+ a day or something, so that shows that only thing I need is to stay consistent and it may actually not be such a daunting task (I'm still a beginner so more things I learn about japanese the more I am intimidated by its complexity in things I would never expect like for ex. number of counters for some absurdly small groups of specific things or shapes)

It sounds like your journey so far in learning Japanese is going well. You have a pretty good structure, unlike me lol, I usually learn by using children’s songs as one of my methods but it’s a bit unstructured because I don’t have a strong enough grammar knowledge just yet

its very motivating that you can understand that much with just 2000 words

Ayy whaddup yo! Nice to see more people documenting their progress learning Japanese! Just a quick suggestion on grammar; since you're a year in and mentioned Tae Kim, I think you'd benefit greatly from understanding real Japanese structure instead of the flawed "Eihongo Grammar" that textbooks and Tae Kim teaches. Not trying to shill myself so I'll recommend my teacher, Cure Dolly sensei, who has many videos exposing all the flaws of textbooks and Tae Kim while teaching a more useful model of Japanese grammar called "Japanese Structure". PS. I've remade Cure Dolly's videos in case Cure Dolly gives you the creeps a bit.

Your video is so inspiring! I've been learning Japanese for a few years now and your progress gives me a lot of hope that I can achieve fluency in the future. I've been using phone apps like lingodeer and wanikani for learning kanji and vocab (definitely not duolingo 🙂). I'd say I am at N4-ish level right now. Also I have an online tutor that gives me an opportunity to speak which is really important. After just a few months I can actually speak about my day. However understanding content is still hard so the immersion method could be useful for that.

Love the anime lofi in the background 😂

I use Migaku too, great tool. Although I still prefer yomichan for word lookups. I also struggle with mining and almost everything except desire to continue. For grammar I think the DoJG (Dictionary of Japanese Grammar) is a super good resource. I've found mining the example sentences in there to be very beneficial after reading through the grammar point.

That's one of the best thumbnails I've ever seen.

I just made 1 year this month, I did some anki and I do watch some grammar videos, but the bulk of what I'm doing is just watching A TON of anime/media. I like where I'm at, but I'm not at your level. I would understand about 30% of a simple slice of life. Good work!

Your Japanese journey is going so much faster than mine did 😂😂. I'm not jealous. I'm working on Korean now and my Korean journey is going even slower than Japanese did. Like you I struggle with properly studying grammar consistently. What saved my Japanese was my local community college had a really good Japanese teacher and I could take the class after work. No such luck for Korean. Just today I decided to stop all vocabulary SRS and only do grammar Anki decks / textbooks for a while and see if this helps. I don't pickup grammar through osmosis like some people do. And regarding outputting early. I think Matt's thinking on outputting early probably started out being that you don't have to do it but then somehow ballooned into this weird thing where you not only don't have to do it but it's actually bad. I don't think anyone else outside the MIA/Refold community champions this idea. You'll find many people who will swear up and down that outputting early and often is more helpful than anything else they do - they wouldn't say this if it weren't true. People who develop bad habits and never fix them are people that stop trying to learn I think. They reach a level that's "good enough" and then just coast. Instead of reading books or KZfaq videos on grammar/pronunciation etc and actively listening to natives to make sure they're mirroring them, they just rely on feedback from whom they're talking to. If nobody tells them it's wrong then that's good enough. But if you're actively trying to improve you'll figure out your mistakes and fix them as you go no problem.

25:28 my take on this, is that you'll never get it perfect the first time. broken nihongo is fine, don't sweat it. me and my friends have a blast when we mix in a bit of japanese in our conversations, and also surprise ourselves with how we're getting better at it everytime :)

You can use OCR like manga-ocr to look up hardsub words too

nice video, ive been following along with the updates. Im doing immersion learning as well and its going well. I also found a Japanese tutor to practice output with also its so true about the highs and lows, somedays i feel really good and I can understand a lot then the next day i cant understand much at all and feel demotivated, but we persist through it🙌

Dang proud of you. I’ve unfortunately fallen off due to college but hopefully I’ll be where you are one day.

dope

hi su amazing video, when you were starting out did u do intensive or free flow immersion and how did u feel about getting spoiled from shows you havent seen in english that you watch and dont understand much in

WOW

こんにちは！Thank you for a very wonderful video! I'm a Japanese studying English. I have one question! When you watch Japanese anime and videos, do you watch them with Japanese subtitles? When I watch English videos, I can't understand without Japanese subtitles.

Didn't know you could change the anki wallpaper... do you have a link for yours? It was rly rly nice

is there a video that shows your anki set up?

i reccomend asb player, it creates soft subs for youtube and has been very usefull for me!

I've started to learn japanese through duolingo, I just got Anki for the cards. I wonder which cards are you using, mostly the one that provides the hiragana way to pronounce the kanji?

I started learning Japanese since a week i saw so many tipps and recommendations for books like genki or Minna No nihongo. But i’m not sure what book i should use bc there are to many and i don’t want to waste money. And how do i start (after learning Hiragana and Katakana) learning vocabs? Is there a book whit Japanese vocabs and the translation for our mother language? (mine would be german). I’m using Duolingo aswell, hiragana and katakana I’m learning by my self i’m writing them and learning to say them correctly. The hard part would be kanji i don’t have a pc so i can’t use anki sadly (but i do have on my android tablet the android anki version) but idk if this is good enough. So yeah u got any Tipps for me? especially for learning vocabs and the translation in the mother language. Thanks for the help. ^^ 🙏

You have a really nice voice! You should be a voice actor

hey, i was wondering how you managed to get persona 3 fez on pc? and when do you recommend i start sentence mining as a beginner?

What podcasts do you recommend? I know 3.7k words for reference How did you deal with having to look up so much in the beginning? Like I said, I know 3.7k words and I'm rewatching one piece because I remember the plot really well and figured the language wouldn't be too hard but I still find myself in a daze looking up sooo many words and I feel like its just going in one ear and out the other...

Before going to migaku how did you get like the audio from the video that you mined from onto the sentence card that you made? I’m using a MacBook and I’m still trying to find a way bc I can’t use share x and i really would not like to pay for migaku

Why you stopped uploading 😢

Saiki is my main show for immersion and mining cus I feel like I can rewatch the same episode like 20 times and still love it I'll have to check out spy family since my partner said rly good things ab that one too Hope ur immersion journey is still fruitful, best of luck :)

whats that sentence mining card game?

How's your progress now?

I am curious on whether you had other hobbies/skills you were actively practicing other than learning Japanese. As is the case with me, I've got a LOT of interests and things I want to get better at, and my japanese time is always in contest with time slots for my other interest, even though I really want to learn ~1000 words by the end of the year. Any suggestions on how I could move forward? 😞

Is this method any good for reading, or just for listening/talking. I got back into learning japanese recently and want to take it a bit more seriously.

Hey, I’m wondering if you’re continuing your immersion journey, and if we have a 2 year update to look forward to!

hi su

What are the links to the KZfaq channels you recommend for immersion? I can't copy and paste the Japanese names and for the life of me can't figure out how to search for them.

Hey su 👋 just found your channel and would love to hear where you're now, over 1.5 years in. are you still learning? I've just started a month ago and haven't done much immersion, so this was very helpful. Thanks!

Helloo are u still in japan?

A question. What language would you learn after you're confident enough in your Japanese skill?

do you use any tools for dictionary lookups for playing persona?

Just wondering, how often and what length of time do you study each day?

Hey there, does anyone know, where the scenes from 18 mins til the end are from?

That is a rad Anki background

Have you ever considered going to a language school?

With immersion, are you supposed to avoid using English subtitles?

a minor mistake in the description, you put output as listening

i keep losing my place because i have to leave mid vid to do stuff but did she speak in japanese in this vid? if so pls put the timestamp

Do you mind dropping those youtube channels in the comments?

Any updates?

Do you study kanji?

How do you make your cards? They look really nice. I’m really shit at making cards, like they straight up either don’t work and the ones I get to work really suck🥲 ALSO PERSONA 3 YOURE SO BASED FOR THAT. I also recently got P5R from steam so I can replay it in Japanese

if you like games I recommend game gengo. you'll learn more from one of his videos than you would from a month of flash cards