This may sound weird but the most exciting people to talk to in Japanese in VR chat are non native Japanese speakers that know Japanese but not English. Because, when I speak to a Japanese person I think that maybe they are just humoring me and I sound like an idiot. But when I talk to a Korean person in Japanese, we are using the language as a tool to communicate when we otherwise could not at all, and I think that's really exciting.

As a Japanese who's teaching myself English, French and so on, your contents have been really informative and motivational :) Thanks for sharing us your journey!

Congrats my buddy, time flies by 4 years of Japanese with 0 days skipped here also, but I studied 2-3 hours a day on average so I'm probably around 3-4k hours. I can understand pretty much everything (99% of animes, manga, internet articles,games, youtubers,comments etc) unless it's something that I wouldn't understand in my native language also. I passed the full JLPT N1 practice test with 80% correct answers (those reading parts are made to screw your brain into making a mistake man). Ready to take the real test in 2 weeks now! wish me luck

I've been learning Japanese for 60 coming 70 days now in a row. You've really inspired me and I hope to reach your numbers soon!!!!

You definitely sound like a foreigner but your speaking level is so good for someone who hasn't practiced that much so who cares? People are so self-conscious about sounding native that they forget that the most important thing is that people can understand what you are saying. Not whether you have the correct, Tokyo accent or not. Pitch accent doesn't matter if you can't form actual sentences. I think that is a concept that should be learned right as you start studying for a day or two so you have been exposed to the idea and then immediately forgotten about for like 5 years. All you need to know for that time period is the basic phonetics of the language. Things like how to pronounce "fu," "ra, ri, ru, re, ro," and "wa" properly. "Fu" is somewhere between an F and an H sound, "wa" sounds more like "uwa," and the r sounds are somewhere between an R, D, and an L sound. You have so many people focusing on pitch accent who can't even pronounce their Rs correctly. Once you get the basics of the language, everything else should be a speed run to high level fluency before focusing on having the proper accent. Otherwise you are wasting your time on something that is far less important than becoming fluent in the language.

for anyone demotivated, when living in Germany, it took me 3-4 years of achieving fluency. This while I WAS in Germany and spoke to natives on a daily fucking basis, had German lessons in school, it took me an absolute crazy time just to be able to take part in discussions, conversations and to interact with Germans. I'm at a pretty good level now but I'm still learning after 5 years. Same with EVERYONE, even all of us are still constantly learning english, we still come across words we've never heard for example. Japanese is the same thing, you never stop learning and that is actually a beautiful thing in my opinion. Keep going, you don't need 5 hours per day, and don't set too high expectations

To all language learners, a very important point was made in this video. Proficiency in speaking basically comes in one way, by listening to and understanding your target language. If you get to the point where you're understanding all the movies, podcasts, music, youtube videos, people's conversations in your target language, natural sounding output is inevitable and you won't have to work too hard at it. Just focus on a ton of native input and keep at understanding every word, nuance, etc. You can study grammar later. Think about how a child acquires their native language. Same thing.

I've spent years wishing I knew and wanting to learn Japanese and trying to learn the best method instead of just doing it. I'm still not as consistent as I want to be, but these videos are a huge inspiration. Good job and keep it up!

Crazy how its been 3 years already, can't believe it. I also can't wait for the day I'll return to this video to see the progress! Also, HUGE thanks for everyone watching these videos, you've made this journey way more exiting! :^) - Link to a video which explains everything I use for learning Japanese right now: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iceGe9Wrq5mRYnk.html - Link to my personal Anki deck on my Patreon, meant for those who are curious about it/want to support the channel: www.patreon.com/posts/sharing-my-anki-58946093

15:35 this is so true, so many Japanese learner did this very basic mistake. Whenever they hear that they must learn 2000~ kanji, complex grammar, particles, or even knowing that japanese use more than 1 writing system, they are always like "man this shit is impossible!" Like really, just don't pay attention to the amount of kanji there are or anything else and just learn as many as you can and you'll be fine.

That Boris Johnson clip is gold, I don't know how it has evaded me until now.

The VRchat was very wholesome and congratulations on reaching this new milestone. Thank you so much for the inspiration and advice. This channel introduced me to anki and my Korean studying has improved immensely since using it. Good luck for the future.

Super awesome to see you speak in VR chat I've been practicing since about the pandemic started, still awful though. I also took a Japanese course in 2019 tbh not a big fan of that learning environment all the output basically killed my grade and motivation. You deliver information so well in these videos and hell you got me on anki what a huge boost to my vocab that was. Also I just like your meme usage in these videos.

Usually these types of videos would demotivate me, but this one got me really fired up to start learning again! Congratulations on 3 years!

My progress after just over a year has been rather underwhelming but the one thing I'm happy with is how consistently I've been doing Anki with only 6 days missed. This video gives me hope that if I just stick with it and start immersing more that I might eventually get to a level I'm happy with.

Even though you are quite a small KZfaqr I always wait your videos with patience and I instantly watch them once you upload them. This doesn't happen with almost any other youtubers :)

Very interesting video. I was shocked that you had spent 1,000 hours in Anki. That's the most I've ever seen.. I have 6k cards myself, I think I'm going to stop adding new ones for a while.

A Livakivi video? Pog! For someone who hasn't actively done output practice, your spoken Japanese sounds great! I'm at a high beginner level of Korean and do 45-minute italki lessons just to keep myself accountable and consistent. I don't think it has wildly improved my grammar or vocab, but at least now I'm not scared to speak Korean, even if it is a bit clumsy. What I'm really finding difficult is keeping a decent Anki streak. But you and many other learners prove that it can be doable and yield significant progress in the end. Cheers!

i'm around n5 after 6 months of learning and i really love seeing your updates! it really motivates me and it's nice to see where i'll (hopefully) be in 2 and a half years!

I don't know how I missed this upload! All of your videos are very motivating, and you especially did a great job with this one. I haven't hit a year yet but it helps seeing other people's progress. I found your output impressive in the sense of constructing sentences pretty quickly. Keep it up!

Thank you for sharing your personal experience, I am trying to learn Japanese myself and I think your videos are always really motivating and have helped me to have a baseline on where and how to start this learning experience. This video was really pleasant to watch so I just wanted to say thank you again !

Thanks for being so transparent about your progress!

Woah, I was literally bingeing your videos yesterday wondering when this would drop! Great vid, motivating as always!

Your comprehension has sparked a mass of motivation as im at 700+ words right now in my 4th month study! Glad to see the long journey can be very rewarding through consistency.I myself want to get to 1000+ words and to begin grinding kanji so I can begin reading more during next year! Thank you! 👋😙

You are one of my bigger inspirations when it comes to language learning, and I don't ever remember feeling demotivated by watching your video, seeing how your progress isn't incredibly fast helps me put into perspective how much time it can realistically take to learn Japanese. Thinking of increasing my immersion in the language after this video. 動画くれてありがとうございました

This is awesome man! I remember watching your first video about your first 600 days of learning Japanese. It really inspired me and taught me that learning languages is going to take a long time but you should enjoy the journey of learning it. I dont think many people in the language community say that enough, so thank you. I've been learning Japanese for almost 8 months. There are many days where I'm not motivated and/or have skipped but I dont want to give up because I remember videos like these and tell myself to keep at it because I'll thank myself later. Im going to start a new Japanese streak today and hopefully by the time you upload a new video, it will still be going. Thanks for the inspiration my friend! ありがとうございます！一緒に頑張ろう！

Fantastic video. I've been learning for 6 months straight now and while I was glad to see I could keep up with the N2 test and content comprehension, you blew me away with how well you could speak natively. I hope to get to that level eventually. Aside from the usual SRS stuff, I consume so much Japanese Vtuber content on the daily while reading the comments that tracking 'immersion time' feels pointless. All the best mate!

I started Japanese journey very same way as you did. Currently I've studied for around half a year every single day. Usually best I can manage is 20 minutes of Anki per day. Guide to Japanese is another 50 minutes but I can't really do this every day. With only 6 new words per day I don't think it's much but I already started to notice huge difference. I can finally understand some of more complex sentences. For now I'll stick with this schedule since I'm not in rush to be fluent. I know I still have long road ahead but with your videos I know more or less how much more I need to study to reach certain milestones. Also if not for one of your previous videos I'd probably give up. I didn't know how exactly Anki works and 20 words per day made me burn out very quickly. I was also more focused on looking for easier methods to learn words instead of just grinding new words. Seeing how much you have improved makes me really motivated. Thanks for the videos!

Personally I'm very impressed, great work and keep up.This was very motivating and makes want to learn more even if I have a lot further away from my japanese goals than you are currently. I was also very impressed with your output even if it wasn't perfect. The fact that you were able to carry on a conversation without getting, "日本語上手" as instant response out the gate impressed me.

Congrats on 3 years! I recently got past 1 year back in September, so seeing where you're at now is a great encouragement for where I can be given 2 more years of consistent study. I gotta thank you for making these videos. I especially appreciate the time and effort you put into documenting how you study Japanese, as they've been a great help finding new resources to use and getting ideas for new material and study methods that I can try out. They're the whole reason I gave up on Duolingo, picked up Anki, and delved more into Tae Kim's grammar guide and immersion. I feel like I've been able to make some noticeable strides in comprehending Japanese ever since then, so thanks for the inspiration!

I LIVE for your update videos! You are huge inspiration to me. Keep up the good work :)

Super motivating for me as I'm daily learning Russian fairly consistently and just hearing anyone track themselves in terms of language learning is super cool and helps me improve. Love what you do!

Thank you for these videos, they motivate me so much! :)

Been looking forward to this video! Love your videos and your modest attitude towards language learning

You deserve so much more views! Great video, very inspiring.

I binged watched your videos when I found them around last month. Ive been learning Japanese more seriously for about 7 months now, and although I’m bilingual already, I learnt both languages when I was a small child, and trying to learn a 3rd at the beginning of my adulthood, I was starting to get a bit demotivated cause I was starting to feel that there was no way in hell I’d be able to learn to the point that I could just watch anime without big concerns. But watching your videos really give me a boost cause I find it very interesting that you were documenting your journey and not just started making videos after you were already at such a high level. I appreciate that you make content on how language learning actually works and not just some bs “you can learn JP in under a year!!!” Although it’s something that can take so long and isn’t really fun (at least in the beginning), the reality of the process and believing in the idea that we shouldn’t try and put a finish line down is really inspiring and relieving Thank you for your videos and sorry for the rambling!

Livakivi coming out with another great video! Congrats on getting to 3 years!

I remember watching your first video and it made me motivated to start studying japanese, and honestly I feel so happy for you. You've come so far! :) This motivates me even more and I look forward to following your journey as you keep improving. Love you :)

I recently Discovered your channel. Absolutely love the quality and your tips are usefull for learning polish. Keep it up!

That's amazing dude, you're one of the guys that inspired me starting to learn Japanese. I've been playing a lot of VRChat to get some input and live streaming almost daily to show my progress. I really want to be able to read and speak Japanese properly, thanks for your videos.

unironically one of if not my favourite channel on yt currently man, its great to see your progress and has motivated me moreso than anything else :D

Congrats!! I loved your first video and I went 9 months straight studying japanese while working full time at a Japanese restaurant but I got really burnt out so I had to stop for 4-5 months while still reading newspapers or twitter in Japanese. After watching this video I'm now trying to go back to all the anki cards I studied in the past and get back on the train again. Super proud of you and can't wait to see where else you go :)

Love your JP videos man, wish you all the best in your learning journey, and I'm looking forward to more vids

I liked this video a lot. I'm about 100 days nonstop into WaniKani (after 5~ years of on-and-off Duolingo stuff), and seeing the results that are possible with constant effort is really inspiring. Thanks for making these videos, not just for the inspiration, but also for.making clear that input is the important thing, and with enough input -> immersion, everything else will be attainable eventually.

it's nice seeing someone from baltic states too:) I'm starting to learn japanese, i hope i can achieve as much as u!

your channel will blow up soon, such good editing, narration and content

Thanks to you, now I know that I have to do more output than before, superb video and continue like that 👌🏻

CONGRATS WITH STICKING TO YOUR GOAL!! very commendable 💪 ❤️ 🇯🇵

Amazing video as always

i was waiting for around 2 months to watch this because i knew it would motivate me again. Now that i have more time i watched it and i am starting again with learning right now :D Thank you for uploading your progress, i really enjoy your videos :)

So cool to see how much you've progressed, it's a huge inspiration for me. Those interactions in VRchat are awesome, the avatars help a lot with being shy trying to speak a language I guess. Will definitely try that when I reach this level of proficiency.

New video! And I'm among the early birds yay! You really inspired me and I'm currently on day 65 of learning Japanese. Thank you Livakivi!

hey hey, thank you for putting this video out! Im studying Japanese and am very keen on sticking to practising.This was quite inspirational to me :) hope you have a good day!

This was a really enjoyable video. Cheers.

Really motivational. Thank you for sharing.

25:30 that is SO REAL dude that explanation is so relatable realest part of the video by far

I found your channel about 2 weeks ago and it completely changed the way I view learning languages. In high school, we were required to learn Spanish the same way you learned Russian. I absolutely hated it and retained almost none of it. Because of those experiences, I assumed that I just wasn't capable of speaking another language. Since I started watching your videos, I decided to take another stab at learning a different language. I've been studying Japanese over the past 2 weeks. I haven't done anything crazy but I've been learning a few words everyday. Normally, I would've burnt out by this point but I haven't yet. Your techniques work so much better than what they teach in schools. I plan to keep learning more and more, even if it's at an extremely slow pace. Thank you for the inspiration!

I really like your videos - they're realistic and relatable. I've been learning for coming up to 3 years too with a similar journey, though more heavy on the Anime cards. Currently approaching 14000 sentence cards, and I plan to keep going for some more.

Very thought provoking brilliant

It's very admirable that you've been learning consistently for 3 years! good job dude And don't be too hard on yourself with speaking. For comparison, I've moved to the Netherlands 2 years ago and I'm still far from 100% fluent in Dutch, despite going to school here and using the language everyday. Reading & writing comes kinda naturally, but talking is really just something that, in my experience, requires a lot of pratice. You can do it 頑張れ～！

This video inspired me so much?? I’m on my 71st day of my Korean learning streak and I can’t wait to be this far in Korean 🤩 I wish I took it seriously earlier

Congratulations!! 🥳

Love your videos, always good content 👍

Playing video games in the target language is so underrated. Awesome video - congrats on your progress! Loved your earlier JoJos video.

amazing video as usual. I am approaching on 200 hours of active immersion in Japanese and man your channel has helped me so much. Keep up the great content and good luck in your future Japanese!

Your Videos are very motivating please keep posting them

Thank you so much for the loads of motivation as always! I recently completed the anki 6000 core deck and am on my way to the 10k words (anki core still) as well and am doing as much as immersing as I can! And for a first time speaking, I find it quite impressing!

Awesome video :) you are my most motivating KZfaqr and I can’t wait for your Matt vs Japan interview in the future ! Haha

Following your Japanese journey has been an awesome experience; here's to another amazing year of learning!

Your progress has been amazing, like a year ago I felt I was around the same level of japanese as you but I haven't been studying consistently and now I feel completely left behind lol This was a great video! Love your editing as always

Nice Samurai Champloo music at 9:00 . These videos realllllyyyyyyy inspire me a lot , not just to learn new things , but to put in hours into drawing and other things and seeing improvement . Maybe I should learn french .

youre a big inspiration bro!! youre doing great C: learning japanese is a long journey but it is worth the effort

Would love to see more content of you speaking japanese. VRChat part was fun to watch!

Hey Livaki, big fan here, juts wanna say that I love your content. I just saw your video and man, what a pleasure honestly . I've already watched most of your videos and some of them twice and I wanted to give you a little advice that has helped me so much (my native language is Spanish, currently learning French to B2-C1 level and starting to get back to Japanese) Try this;Think in Japanese, just like that. Try to have all your thoughts and inner conversations in Japanese that is going to help so freaking much, even more if you take in account that you have already a good basis on the language itself. It'll make your brain more flexible and you will literally be in a full immersion environment all day. Also, if you're doing something in another language try to translate into the most natural Japanese you can. It'll force you to do active recall and be more comfortable on expressing yourself, which you will be truly grateful in the long run.These were advices from a polyglot on Reddit, and from my own experience it has made a huge difference on my language learning experience. Hope to see more stuff from you, and take care of yourself Consistency is the key!

I've been learng Japanese for almost ten months now, and your videos are really inspiring every time 頑張って

Glad to see you again :)

Subbed your channel when you had 1k subs, your channel has grown a lot. Also congrats for 3 years on learning Japanese.

You should make more videos in VR chat I really enjoyed that part of the video and you should be really proud of yourself. What a great video and its kind of ridiculous how far you've come in such a short space of time in such a hard language. I love it when you post such long videos and you've really inspired me to keep on learning so THANKYOUU!!

I absolutely loved the vr chat output haha. So sweet

10 hours ago I was hoping that you upload a new video and here it is :)

I feel like this video is gonna have 1 million views by 1 year. Very nice content!

You should definitely be proud of how far you've come. I think your journey definitely shows that consistency really beats everything else. It's also interesting that your just starting to look at pitch accent recently. I found it funny that I literally can't tell why your output is bad/unnatrual even after a year of immersion. Goes to show why people advocate for native input so much. On the whole anki streak thing I'm personally comfortable with skipping days. In my almost a year of using anki I've missed like 10-15 days randomly and at least for me I'm ok with the learning tradeoffs of not having a streak when life gets too busy. Thankfully I haven't ever had to miss more than 1 day in a row, so I've never had a big trouble with getting back on. It's kinda like how in college I got a B my first semester and then never had to worry about getting a 4.0 GPA even though I made like almost all As the rest of the time. For me, I don't wanna be tied to the streak

The reference you made comparing time spent in video games to language learning is super accurate I think anybody can learn anything if they just put the time into it

Congratulations 🎉🎉🥳🤗👏

Hey man, your original video was both one of the most motivating and demotivating things I've ever seen. For me the demotivation came from the fact that I had put in roughly 9 months as of that time and felt like I had barely reached a suitable rate compared to you. What was motivating was the fact that someone had reached that level in that time at all without going the full AJATT. You introduced me into immersion based learning and actually got me to use anki. You have single handedly allowed me to improve even by a little bit and for that I'm thankful as hell. Hope to reach close to your level within 3 years and can't wait to see where you get in that time. Thank you.

More VR Chat please! That was really cool to watch and hear you speak Japanese :D

for 3 years that's amazing! Im learning japanese and this video helps out a lot.

I absolutely love hearing you speak Japanese it's so good dude

This is so cool!

I love your content, really motivating

wow, this video is great man

These videos motivate me to always keep getting better at something, it even gets me in the mood to go to the gym in my most lazy of days.

hi man random recommendation but i enjoyed your video very much. I just want to say, keep up the good work and i like your dedication, 3 long years with tons of hours and you you still say your speaking isn't good but you won't give up and will continue your journey. Others may see it as something that demotivates them as they probably be thinking they want to be fluent with 3 years worth of learning but to me we all know everyone learn at a different pace, some picks up faster, some slower. I think you done great to know that many words and honestly to me it inspired me to work harder. I only started wanting to learn Japanese seriously (listening and speaking first) recently, whether I will get to your level or not in 3 years i would have to see but in any case you have a good dedication and as you're continuing your long journey it really inspires me to not let go of this motivation of mine and do it too. I'm thinking of a tutor or something but right now I'm just trying all sorts of free materials currently. My aim is to hopefully have basic Japanese by the end of 2022 maybe, I would be happy if by the end of the year i can hold my own for basic Japanese conversation, intermediate would be a massive bonus. Anyways good luck for your journey and thank you for the video and sharing your experience:)

Ahh, DaemonTools, such nostalgia.. Well done mate, and thanks for the motivation.

11:09 today i learned what "tonsure" means, (and English is my first language). i appreciated you contrasting what learning English was like for you, vs your journey of learning Japanese.

Bro that was a really good video. The editing was also peak-level. Also plz plz make more VR chat vids. They seem very interesting. Looking forward to the next video!

Incredible video.

yay more vids hope to see another drawing vid soon too

Watching this video I thought you had hundreds of thousands of subscribers! Great work!

Nice video as always. I literally burst into laughter as I saw Koji Seto because I didn't expect to see him here. He's such a funny man.