Thanks for watching my videos and leaving a comment. It did take me quite a while. English is a difficult language for native Chinese/Korean/Japanese speakers. My next video will be about how I keep my motivation for a long time. I hope my channel can be helpful for your learning. 醉後決定愛上你 is definitely fun to learn and it's really amazing to see 張孝全 and 許瑋甯 acting together again in 誰是被害者 10 years later!

Thank you!

Thanks for watching and leaving a comment! Shadowing is reading the transcript out loud immediately after you listen to the same audio, just like mimicking the actors in the show. The rubber band thing is just one method of how to pronounce like an American that the book American Accent Training introduces.

@@natenoto i see, thanks!

Thanks for the encouraging comment. The intermediate is so long that we often get lost. Wishing you a good luck to your Spanish and Korean!

Yea but I think he needs to be like this girls on Instagram saying that they are ugly and fat, to get some coments like yours

It's not quite, it's slightly* off. But he's probably as close to native as you can get. Amazing really.

what is osm

ah it's awesome. I really appreciate it. Few people pay attention to it in general, but it's an important element for me and I spend some time finding the ones that I think match what I say. All the tracks are listed in the description box JFYI

Wow! 57 y/o and learning a new language! I'm so not sure if I can do that in my 50's. I respect that. I agree it's important to produce utterances. And as you mention, it comes after a certain period of comprehensible input phase, and the bigger problem is that majority of language learners would probably not reach the phase where utterances get important, so I just wanted to focus on that problem in this video. but thanks for sharing anyway, I just roughly knew about the thesis. I will take time and try to read thoroughly!

庭でバナナとレモンを育てています！

@@natenoto すごい

I really appreciate your comments. It's encouraging!

Thanks for leaving a comment and pointing out the pronunciation. I think my pronunciation wasn't clear enough because I never meant to say "comprehensive." I will pay attention to it!

Oh ok that’s not so bad

Thanks for the comment. Let me give it a thought as I don't generally watch Japanese things from a learning perspective.

@@natenoto No worries. Thanks for the reply! I've been watching a bit of しろくまカフェ which seems like it was made for language learners, because the dialog is simple, slow, clear, and combines both polite and casual speech in every day life. But other than that, I haven't found much which is suitable for beginners/intermediate and also interesting and enjoyable to watch.

Thanks for the kind words! I am also always curious how others learn languages. It is a fun part.

especially interesting to hear this from someone who lives in a country like japan because its probably one of the worst environments to learn a foreign language. very inspiring.

Agreed.

hahaha, it will be a thumbnail idea for my future video.

For me, that's the starting line, to match what the word means and what it actually sounds like. I eventually do review over and over again and that way I can improve my listening comprehension. So, in my case, understanding the meaning and sound comes first, and then I get to used to the sound and speed over time. It's just comfortable when I stop and understand. When I don't understand, I don't feel like I am acquiring the language. I'm not trying to deny your thoughts/ways, it's just how I feel and do, just in case.

Thanks for leaving a comment. Nate is just an English name that I made up from Noto. Japanese would be a challenging one!

Thanks for the comment. I learned Korean in college and also have been there a few times. Method-wise, the only thing I can think of is that I practiced in the shower room, where my voice revervs and sounds a bit better for some reason. I just really kept practicing until I feel I'm pronouncing correctly by mimicking how native speakers speak in TV series or KZfaq. I hope I got your point correct.

Thanks for sharing your precious experience and such an encouraging comment. It makes me feel so much effort put in each video has been paid off. Wishing you a good luck on your Japanese learning!!

Thanks for the comment here as well. I actually have also been wondering the same thing, like why I can enjoy repeating the same thing. I hope I don't sound arrogant, but this is just out of pure curiosity, because if I can put this into actual words, I just thought it could be valuable for others. That being said, I always try not to make myself bored. The first thing I should mention would be that I like learning new things, and in that sense, every single new sentence is always a new learning of grammar and vocabulary, which is always fun for me. Aside from that, I always choose the episode/series that I am interested to learn. When I find the series super fun, sometimes I keep learning til, say, the episode 4, 5 or 6. When I get enough of it, I just go ahead and look for another series. Sometimes I just finish the first episode, and look for another series. Reviewing the episodes that I already watched is painful for me, so what I enjoy more is always learning from new episodes and it takes about 70%, I think, of my learning. I always try to keep a comfortable balance. It does take time, but just in my opinion, any methods take time in language learning. Maybe there is one that takes less time and another that takes more, but perhaps it's a small difference. So, if that's the case, I just dare to choose the one that I can have fun with the most so I can keep learning. And it just happened to be my way of learning from TV series. I also have a long term goal that I wanna impress native speakers. I feel this has something to do with my introverted nature, but right now it's difficult to articulate. I intuitively do all of these, and haven't been able to put them into words. I'm hoping that I can make a video about this. I don't think you are just being impatient. I think your/my "enjoy the process" mindset is an important element in language learning.

@@natenoto so much of "why" we do what we do is hard to explain because it's triggered by a deeper need in us to impress, to prove ourselves, or something similar. I love that you mentioned that. Your comment doesn't come across as arrogant at all. At least not to me. Keep making your videos :)

I really enjoy watching my favorite shows over and over again (even in my native language) lol

Thanks for the comment. What I wanted to mean was, I don't "write down" the translation of a whole sentence. I take notes on the words/grammar I don't get, and I kinda do translate the whole sentences, but that's just only in my mind. My focus is always to understand the message of the sentence as it is in the target language. I showed the translation process in the video only because I was just hoping it would be easier for the viewers to understand the way I think in my mind. But I got a similar comment from other viewers, so I think the way I described/spoke was kinda confusing and not clear. Apologies for that. I currently don't watch through an episode without stopping. I usually write down about 30 seconds of subtitles and then decipher them. And I repeat it til the end. The biggest reason is because my Chinese level is not really high, and I know I wouldn't understand most of what is spoken. When I don't understand, I don't feel like I'm acquiring the language. So, instead of just listening to the audio that I don't understand, I just start writing down from the very first round. After I get to understand the whole episode, I do watch/listen to the same episode and try to improve my listening comprehension. If there is only one meaning for me in listening without understanding, that would be getting used to the audio elements (not meaning) like their rhythm or pitch tones, etc. It IS important, but in my case I can cover that in the 2nd/3rd/4th.. round of watching the same episode.

No problem if you are having fun and learning from them!

@@natenoto Yeah, I know, but I'm asking because I sometimes feel that my English skills are not going better fast enough because this media is... too much comprehensible? I mean, sometimes I understand all they saying. I don't know if it's obvious or not, but I'm not an english native speaker (I'm from Spain)

I see, then I suggest you choose the ones a bit difficult for you. When I understand most of what is spoken, that gives me a feeling of confidence, but it also means that I'm not learning much from that.

@@natenoto Well, the thing is too that I don't know if the vocab is too easy or in fact I'm better in the language that I think. I don't know if de-activate english Subtitles, because maybe if I should recognise words without subtitles I understand less. Idk

lol the latam dub of phineas and ferb is helping me learn spanish

我以為日文超複雜所以我建議妳慢慢學啦！

@@natenoto 你自己的母語，連你也覺得超複雜！🤦🏻‍♀️

Thanks for the comment. It's more like I get familiar with the words by watching the same episode again and again, and that way I understand not just what it means but also how to use it along the context. It kinda takes time but when I push myself to memorize, that pressure is demotivating and things don't work good to me.

Thanks for sharing your precious experience and thoughts. I respect an enormous amount of you put in language learning. My way of learning is "to learn like a child with adult's wisdom" in a nutshell. I look up many times but the focus is always to understand in the target language as it is as you point out. I agree with your thoughts on the school system as well. It is helpful at the very beginning, but we need to take off from that at some point of our learning journey if the purpose is to become fluent, not getting a good score on exams. Luckily KZfaq or any other online learning platforms are getting influential more and more, so I'm hoping that I can be part of the sources that share what's beyond the school system.

That's a common situation in the 19th century, all the immigrants to USA, never had a course or class in English, they just learned it, by listening, repeating, talking on the streets. It's about the same, as learning piano without reading notes, still common today. For a dyslexic you are writing kinda long texts .. can't be that bad with you.

I think it's normal that speaking skills improve later than reading and listening skills. Same as my case. I kept watching and learning from video content. Aside from Friends, I used to watch my favorite KZfaqrs (like Kevjumba, nigahiga, etc) It's unfortunate that they don't make hilarious videos anymore but you can find other channels you like. I started with mimicking some of the phrase that I liked and mumbled them over and over again until I became able to say them without thinking. And then gradually I tried to speak out my thoughts on my own (just by myself), and at first I didn't come up with the right words/phrases in most cases, but in that case I always looked up how native speakers would speak in a correct way. It of course took time, but I kept doing that, and then gradually became able to comfortably speak my thoughts. This is just my way and there can of course be others that fit you better, but I think your B2 reading and listening is pretty a good foundation to choose any. Thanks for the comment, I will consider making a video about speaking!

Thanks for giving answer. I was also thinking like that so I made about 10 sentence including words which mostly belong to B2 level of English through chatgpt for each word I had learnt, then translated into my native language, then translated back into my target language on my own, then compared them that where I made mistakes, definitely it was helping but it took so much time. Because of that I asked. Again thanks, I made sure that I am on the right way to improve speaking.

Thanks for the comment. yeah those are for entertainment for sure haha. I am not able to make those with my personality. I will try what I can do!

Thanks here again. I really appreciate your comment and wish you a good luck to your Japanese!