Thank you! I'm glad to hear that😊

Thank you!!

Germaineさん！動画見たことあります😊コメントありがとうございます。

ありがとうございます🥰

Thank you! I use iMovie app on my iPad to edit these videos.

ありがとうございます😊

「相撲をする」とも言います。「相撲を取る」は相撲の勝負をするという意味になります。 「家族と」はあまり言わない気がします🤔「家族で」の方がいいです。

今はポッドキャストを作る予定はないです。今はたくさん動画を作りたいので、ポッドキャストを作る時間がないです💦🙏

The trick is to keep at it. I don't study in a particularly special way, just slowly bump up my vocab in Anki with individual words and full sentences (audio) and do immersion like Hololive. After almost a couple years of study I still don't understand 100% of the video, it's a marathon to learn a second language without access to native speakers!

It’s important to stay with it, there are times when you’ll lose motivation, but you need to focus on the end goal during those times. I’ll tell you what I’ve done to be able to understand these videos in about 6 months of learning. 1. Learn hiragana and katakana: these are important if you want to advance in the language 2. Focus on content that interests you: it’s important to be completely engaged and enjoying the learning process. I was watching anime in Japanese that I had already seen in English. Which leads me to the next point 3. Comprehensible input: which is the focus of this channel. I think watching all of the very beginner videos a few times (they’re short so this doesn’t take long) really helped. But don’t focus on one source. Comprehensible input can come from Japanese dubs of your favorite shows and movies, anime’s that you’ve seen before in English, and any thing that you can get lost in reading. 4. Tolerance ambiguity: YOU ARE NOT GOING TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING. It’s important to stop focusing on every word and just listen. Eventually words will start popping out because you’ve heard them so much. This is a good time to look up what they mean in a dictionary (I use an app on my phone). Since you are hearing them clearly it means they’re ready to be learned. 5. Vocab and grammar: I’ll start by saying that I didn’t really study much vocab, maybe I studied 300 words through flash cards. This slowed my progress a bit but I still enjoyed the process. I wish I would’ve done the tango n5 deck on Anki, and I recommend that you do it as well. If you do it, make sure to do your reviews everyday!! You could do only 5 new cards a day if you wanted but no skipping reviews! As for grammar, I think it comes naturally. Watched a lot of anime, looked up grammar if it popped out at me, looked through the first few lessons of tae Kim but that’s about it. Final thoughts: About six months into my learning, understand about 50% of the anime I watch (one punch, jojo, other shonen). Currently going through tango n5, suspending cards that I already know. Also going through rtk, which is really great but if I had started when I first started learning Japanese I would have burned out. Also just starting to read through manga which I put off for way too long. Definitely start reading as soon as you can, even if you can only understand 10 out of 20 words on a page struggle through it and try to get lost in the plot, that’s how you subconsciously learn, same with listening.

Try using some kind of word list or vocabulary deck that is frequency based to cover your basics. There might be 500000 or so Japanese words, but a very small number of those are used many thousands of times more frequently than the others. The 100 most common words make up around 50% of the language, the most common 1000 words around 75-80%. Personally I noticed a huge boost in comprehension after I first learned the 400 most common ones.

@@zweck4629 Yes, though it's important to select them taking into account your immersion material. Lots of core decks are from the news, which has a surprisingly different vocab than anime. I have plenty of words in my core 2k deck I have never seen in the wild, and words that I mined from anime that I hear daily! You'll want to learn the whole 2k eventually of course, but focusing on what you actually hear occasionally first is best.

@@skateforfun4224 Wow thanks a lot for that, and all the other replies to my comment. Really helps guys! Also, well done for improving so much in 6 months!