This actually helped me a lot

Great advice at the end there, think that’s my final push to play Yokai watch in Japanese. The games on switch are way different (and damn those tutorials) so I’m gonna give the series another shot from the 3ds

Learning how to write kanji made me learn them so much easier and faster

I was thinking to stop to quit learning japanese just because i dont know how to learn kanji properly for myself😭 almost give up, then found this video.. Perhaps i just need to have a break and start over again😭 yes it is frustrating when i can not find the best way to learn for my own💔 lol it s hurt haha

お疲れさまでした！

I have played all versions of Final Fantasy 1 and I've played almost all of versions of Final Fantasy V. Maybe I should try learning with them.

For the ones that are somehow challenge-deprived, the Sekaijuu no Meikyuu series is the one.

my favorite games on the 3ds are the monster hunter games, especially monster hunter 4 ultimate and monster hunter double cross but they are aparently really hard and high level for japanese and its the kind of game to explain extremly complex mechanics on text boxes right before throwing u into a deadly fight

u totally forgot to mention 3ds modding which is pretty much required to really enjoy the 3ds at its best now, it removes the region lock and download only games are avalable again and it reopens the online thanks to services like pretendo

the only textbooks ive used are the japanese from zero series bc the author has youtube vids for all the lessons an helps with expanding knowledge an pronounciation

good vid

For me Persona 4 - 5 - 3 are the best for learning Japanese

Matter of fact, Chinese and Japanese people often have problems writing kanji, EVEN THEY FORGET HOW TO WRITE IT!!, sure it was useful years ago, but in the current world, writing isn't that necessary

Thanks GTA V, Minecraft, Warframe, etc. for teaching me English. Now it's time to learn Japanese with games!

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Well, i don’t know about you but my translator doesn’t allow me to set it from Japanese to japanese … 😅

Watched this right after ordering a couple of textbooks for $100. Now I am regretting my life choices.

Nice guide and advice, im filling my 2ds with DS visual novels and im swapping all my 3ds games for the jap version, time to get some serious gains

I've been studying Japanese for like 15 years and I still can't read all the Kanji. It's really exhausting.

I just started learning Japanese. I’m still at the point where I’m learning kana. I added kana to my phone’s keyboard and I was playing around with it for a while. I use autocorrect and whenever I tried typing out the few Japanese words I do know, the kanji comes up in the list you’re given. Tbh, I think that yes you do need to recognise kanji but what’s the point of learning how to write them if you’re almost always going to be using a keyboard? We’re in the digital age. No one is going to give you a hand written letter and expect you to write something back

Oh I NEED that shirt that is hilarious

When I was a kid, my dad and I always played FFX together. The menu was in German, since that was the console's language, but all the dialogue is in English, which is how I learned a lot of words like antidote and defense, etc.! It really helped me to learn English. So, recently I got back into studying Japanese and looked up a Japanese Let's Play, which I've been really enjoying. I know the story by heart, so while the Kanji and move names and all of that are hard to understand, I actually found I understand much more of the dialogue than I thought I would. It's been really motivating and it has also helped a lot with my Katakana skills. Thank you for the great list of recommendations! I'm not at the level where I could play a game in Japanese, but I'll come back to this in the future for sure😌

I am only a week in, and I am already finding reading Kanji actually to be easier than long strings of kana... My brain remembers their general meaning more, and helps me contextually understand (....guess) what the phrase is trying to say.

Good opinion, but the title is stupid. The actual takeaway is "don't write kanji if your main goal is communicating (speaking/typing)". I guess if you want to communicate on paper, you'd want to be able to write 🙂

Just a heads up, I made the mistake of downloading usotuke hime to momoku ouji without realizing that it doesn’t support Japanese on my switch! I just wanted to put that out there. Is there something I’m doing wrong to not be able to play it in Japanese?

Four wives? 😂

One game I'd have to recommend is Megaman Battle Network (Rockman EXE). I play the DS ver. of BN1 a lot and it helped me learn a lot of katakana and some hiragana. I still am not seriously studying the language but it does help in some cases, the katakana that is. I was able to buy Biohazard Deadly Silence for way cheaper than the RE English version which is triple or more the price and its not only english voiced but most items are katakana.

I learned to read through Pokemon Platinum on a NDSL as a preschooler

Thank you Ty for making me study today!!!

One huge mistake that I’ve seen is that a lot of people, particularly when starting out, go wayyy too hard. The pace of their learning becomes unsustainable and they just get super bored after 2-3 weeks. A couple of tips to get around this: 1. Take it easy. It might be fun to learn for 4+ hours a day right now, but it won’t last unless you’re a superhuman. 2. Learn with a variety of resources. Try a bunch of different things. Definitely do *not* try to find the best way to learn and then stick with it. The variety will help keep things interesting, and also give you repetition in the key foundational areas of the language.

My habit tag is taking the tram, which makes at least one day of the week more difficult than the rest.

Wow, amazed to be part of the first 1000 subscribers, how have you not blown up yet? This video is literally the voice of reason and very refreshing amongst all the “I crunched 5000 kanji in 1 month and you should too” videos. I am approximately N2 and all the things you say make sense. I am still very hard on myself when playing games in Japanese or reading novels. 4 years ago I was not even able to read Japanese at all, and now I am beating myself up for not being able to flawlessly read through Kafka On The Shore in Japanese? I need a break from myself lol. Thank you for showing me your perspective and letting me be kind to myself for once. Hoping to see much more of your content!!

I've been learning for several years, with an hour of one-to-one tuition a week. Certainly "for fun" for than anything else, although part of the reason is to be able to use it when I next visit Japan. Anki has been a bit factor in my progress - partly because my memory isn't the greatest. I'm in my mid-50s, and part of me wishes I'd started learning 20-30 years sooner. But I've just got to go with where I am. One problem I ran into with Anki was backlog - especially after spending a decent amount of time reading unfamiliar content - be it NHK Easy News, Manga, or (lately) Japanese KZfaq videos with captions rather than speech. I'd look up vocabulary and add it to Anki, but didn't really have much of an idea how useful that vocabulary is going to be to me in the future. That backlog would then deter me from reading that sort of content for a while, because I felt I needed to clear the backlog first. So I imposed a new rule. When adding new vocabulary from those sources, I tag where I've got it from (the specific KZfaqr, or manga, or whatever), but then I suspend the cards. (I've actually created a separate deck for them, so they don't disrupt the pie chart in the active decks). Then when I encounter that vocabulary from a different source, I tag it again and THEN I can unsuspend the cards and move them into the relevant deck. Encountering that vocabulary somewhere else hopefully means it's more likely to be useful. That has really helped with the backlog problem. Sure, my "pending" deck is still ballooning, but I can potentially have a clear out at some point and delete a bunch of cards that haven't cropped up again via a different source.

My favorite game is the Ace Attorney series. God help me.

Can you write the list of games please? I was wondering what the very first game was called. Greatly appreciate it

I've never seen anyone online recommend sticking to Japanese -> English dictionary lookups, it's always "Once you're past the beginner stage, it's much better to switch to a J -> J dictionary" which never made sense to me. Why would you want to prolong the time it takes to look up a word? That's the most tedious part! Imagine someone learning English saw the word "tree" and had to look it up, what would be the better approach? A: Seeing "tree = 木" then getting back to the fun stuff 0.5s later, or B: Spending a few minutes (and extra dictionary lookups) to parse "a woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground." I get that making sense of the definition is "extra practice" but I'd rather spend more time on the game/book/TV show than on wordy "dictionary-speak".

I don't understand, you tell us to stop using Japanese definitions... (I wasn't anyway lol) but then show us an example where it was useful? If anything I wasn't using Japanese definitions and now I think it's more useful than I did before...

the 3ds is incredibly easy to mod, if you mod it you can bypass any region locks and download games for free! the consoles are in high demand because of this though, so if you're looking to get a new one Japanese ones are the cheapest.

Ha! I just has this conveesation with my wife about me not remembering vocabs

There's this certain element in writing kanji that just reaches a point where you can look at one and immediately know how to write it, that is because you can already comprehend radicals. Learning vocabulary is the main part, as you broaden your word arsenal that is basically the apex purpose of why you're learning japanese (since if you're learning it for kanji, then you should've just learned chinese lmao) as well as knowing how to read words, as like many already know, kanji doesn't have a consistent reading. Radicals however, is extremely consistent. The only kanji without a radical basis is 飛 (kanji for 'flight'), but besides that, literally the other 2000+ kanji are based on repeated patterns that you will recognize the more you are exposed to more and more kanji, thus look more and more simple. It's a learning curve that gets easier the longer you are in the journey. The best best news about all this is that if you learn radicals and vocabulary, you will instantly know how to write kanji. I've never tried the straining kanji writing repetition method, because I really found it overwhelming as well as unneeded; and it's because it is. You will naturally be able to read kanji you never knew how to write by just learning vocabulary, and you will easily determine how they're written by a look of it after familiarizing yourself with radicals.

I own Japanese versions of RS, FRLG, platinum, hgss, BW and B2W2, and I’ve never really actually took the time to study the language despite always wanting to. Wanted to learn to better understand the natural spoken language. This actually gives me motivation to take the time to start.

I like the new Intro seems like u improved ur vocab. Hi

The thing after the live stream is called a VOD ya dingus also Hi.

I really appreciate the video and have changed my switch to Japanese, but I’m confused by the part where use an English definition… can I just use google translate from Japanese to English for this? Thank you

What a strong thinking tool! Thanks so much for sharing.

I have that same Animal Crossing Switch! I've been learning Japanese for 3-4 months now and never thought to use the Switch, have played Animal Crossing on and off for about 2 years, I think having it on Japanese will help a lot. I made up a bunch of flashcards I just heed to start using them. 😂 Excellent video, thank you!!❤

When you upload iPhone footage into premiere it naturally blows out the highlight. You should change the sequence settings to Rec.709 or whatever to get the proper exposure and saturation

I looked through your description, the comments, and the video of course (and could've definitely missed it!), but I was wondering which model of the 3ds do you have/recommend? I have no gaming experience with consoles and I've been looking for a fun way to do some of my Japanese studying. Would you recommend the 3ds over the switch? I'm someone who's never touched a console, so I'm not sure what I'd prefer, but the size of the 3ds looks a lot better to me and because it closes I'd be less afraid that the screen would get damaged. Also it seems like the 3ds might have a lot more games available, but I'm not sure. What're your thoughts? :D

Thanks for sharing! I feel like I can relate in some ways, I recently found out I have BPD, which makes me very sensitive to negative emotions and involves high mood swings. I'd say I'm good at critical thinking, but that all goes out the window when my emotions get stirred up. One resource I've just found which is used primarily for treating BPD, but also I think is great for anyone, is DBT (dialectal behavioral therapy). It involves 4 processes, two of which I think you talked about here, mindfulness and emotional regulation. Anyway, thanks for sharing, I think its cool the algo recommended this to me at this time in my life.

I like talking videos like that!!! 👍👍👍 (I also like your other videos!!!)