10 Month Japanese Immersion Progress

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No formal courses, textbooks, teachers, nor any experiences talking to anybody in Japanese. (Calculated) immersion through the internet is all you need. This is a timestamp to record my progress after nearing 10 months since using the Mass Immersion Approach

I wouldn't say following it to a T is necessary as I hardly followed what it says; just used its general ideas and continued how I saw fit. But those ideas are invaluable

Informative videos, also good for all things Anki. Anki with proper MIA addons is 100x better

Japanese foundation any learner should have. I believe this playlist can serve as a substitute to any textbook. Once you absorb the playlist, dive directly into native resources like anime or books. Don't fear the ambiguity and lack of understanding that will be present at first.

While you should study with advanced material even if it's above your level, I believe supplementing the powerful momentum associated with studying "well-beyond your level" with closer to your level material is very useful. Particularly with the live recordings, this channel essentially feels like a tree that has endless low-hanging fruit to collect. At an intermediate level comprehension feels very high, so rather than having much energy exerted toward trying to understand what is being said, you understand most all of it and that energy is exerted into absorbing Japanese sentence structure and cementing it in your mind. For beginners the channel is also great, as I imagine it sits at a goldilocks zone of difficulty that I haven't encountered with any other resource thus far. Wish I found this channel when first starting. I mostly use this channel's live recordings for shadowing (speaking out loud alongside the video), and I believe this was a paramount component in getting me to be able to formulate thoughts (along with getting my tongue muscles accustomed to Japanese)

Not a question; a must download. Shift+hover over a word and dictionary definition pops up. Matt vs. Japan has (a) video(s) on this

Primary site I use when studying anime. Even if you're not learning Japanese but like anime, this site is amazing

Kanji:
I used Wanikani for Kanji, but I don't necessarily recommend it. It's slow, doesn't allow you to go at your own pace, and although it provides lots of vocabulary, learning them in its isolated fashion doesn't make them stick. It was nonetheless an indispensable help for me, but there are almost certainly better options. Focusing on remembering the meanings of Kanji (rather than individual readings) and learning Kanji readings (as well as meanings) through what you encounter in immersion through sentence mining is probably the way to go.
I may not agree with everything in here but it seems to have the right idea most everywhere; serve as a good Kanji guide

0:00 Japanese background
4:08 Kanji
6:50 ドジ
7:40 Recognition vs. Recall
9:37 Wake up call to reality/starting MIA
11:34 YT channel that served as Japanese foundation
13:34 Anki/awful example of sentence mining
15:41 Passive listening
16:38 Adjusting according to your own circumstances
19:43 Wrap up
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109free rideから来ました。


皆さんがピアノ上手と言ってたので、後で拝見しまぁす😄

kiyomi
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109から来ました
3年前からこんなに日本語が上手に話せてた😮ビックリ✨
発音もGoodです✨

初めて日本に来て109でゲストに……
何か持ってる✨ 運✨✨

くろ助-vk
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really incredible! honestly kind of inspiring, makes me wanna try language learning again lol. glad you’re doing okay man!

Lozoots
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Wait, a classical pianist, OoT speedrunner, and can speak Japanese??? You're a genius!!!

ShadowCooper
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I decided to commit and actually learn Japanese to the best of my ability in October, and I keep coming back to this video as a source of inspiration. The more I learn the crazier watching this video becomes.
I learned pretty basic vocabulary and grammar for the first few months in order to be able to comprehend an "acceptable" percentage of stuff if I watched native Japanese content, and now I've been immersing for several hours a day minimum for months.

I'm at the 7 month mark, and even though I don't think I'll reach your 10-month level in 3 months from now, I'm very happy with my progress. I'm currently watching YouTube entirely in Japanese (on a separate account for JP only algorithm), Twitch entirely in Japanese (chatting as well), and I'm also reading One Piece in Japanese. I don't keep count of my vocab or Kanji count, but I think they're about N4 level based on how I do on random practice material, Kanji being more confident cause I put more effort into Kanji somewhat disproportionally.

I'm looking forward to hearing additional thoughts and/or experiences you've had in the past 3 years sometime in the future if you post some kind of update.

I hope you've been good man! :>

Txrje
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Awesome job dude! Please do more progress videos. God bless you dude!

日本語-ws
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I was literally just thinking the other day "man I wonder what Zudu is up to"

This is sick dude. Absolutely insane progress

HapticNoise
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I am actually speechless! Super impressive! Please do more videos on learning Japanese! I feel horrible for taking a whole year and learning only hiragana and katakana, so this was ultra inspiring! I hope by the end of 2021 to be able to speak basic sentences.

WhiteangelAndromeda
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Finally someone showing off their practice/progress iv seen people 14months in and not have a single video of them talking in Japanese.

vegetass
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Thanks for sharing this. You're awesome. Very motivating.

xxfoobarxx
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Here from your vid 5 years ago about your speedrun of die alone Lol! I had never heard of you but you seem really cool. good progress

sensei
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How many hours do you immerse on average?

saito
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Your progress is amazing especially your pronunciation. I expect you to improve drastically within the next year, I'm 16 and plan on starting soon, I will be going to a school. However most of the time I will be doing self study.

I will be studying 4 hours during school days and 12 hours during the summer. Which is about 2128 hours total if my math is correct. I plan on learning 5-10 words per hour. So theoretically I can learn around 7, 000-10, 000 words a year (accounting for mistakes).

joelstatosky
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If you can a update video would be amazing.

yodasuki
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wow.... this is amazing.... if you need anybody to go to japan with you hit me up.... im being serious on that haha. Also its hard to recognize you haha. good to see you again. Ps I have been wanting to learn japanese for a while now... I might give this method a shot and i would like to see your routine.

thetwitchjester
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This is art. one of the most fascinating videos I have seen in my life. It is 3:20 AM and I can no longer sleep. I am on level 23 of wanikani and level N4 on Bunpro. Starting tomorrow, I will watch the Dolly playlist and fully immerse like you have. Any current updates? Do you vlogs or make any other videos? I would happily pay for a patreon! Are you still learning japanese? what was your motivation? Thank you so much. God speed.

davidchernenko
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Hey there, this was a really good video and your japanese is insanely good. Shows the 10 months really helped. I have a few questions as i want to get better at mia too. 1: how many hours did you spend each day on listening? 2: did you do passive listening, and if so, did you see improvement in it? 3: how many words did you learn a day? Thank you so much and God bless

日本語-eo
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At the 2:12 mark you said the year was 3018

skippychurch
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It was interesting to get your perspective as a Wanikani user that eventually went to the full Refold approach. I really like WK to learn Kanji and I'm using a program called Kaniwani to train the recall portion, since like you said its mostly recognition. Right now I'm level seven in Wanikani. Would you just recommend that I go through all Cure Dolly videos and immediatly start watching anime/reading manga alongside Wanikani?

lesliemoore
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こんにちはZudu!
I'm beginning my japanese immersion journey today, but I am still kinda confused on what to do. Over the last ~4-5 weeks, I've been working through the Tango N5 Anki deck, so I have a vocab of roughly 350-450 words at the moment.

I'm just confused on how to immerse properly while watchin stuff on Animelon. Your method you outline is basically that you watch the episode once without pausing, then re-watch while mining for words you don't know. The problem for me is that's basically almost every sentence for me right now, due to my limited vocab (even for really easy shows like Shirokuma Cafe...). The vast majority of sentences in that anime are not 1T for me.
So... what's the move for me? Do I do the active immersion technique 100% of the way through (looking up every single word I don't know)? Because I'm totally down for doing that. Or would it be better to wait until i finish the N5 deck until I start doing lookups, and maybe even mining?
In your conclusion monologue at 16:45, you mention that the most effective method is the most fun for you, even if it's not enjoyable. I am 100% with you on that. I don't have that much time per day to immerse due to life responsibilities... figure 2-3 hours a day.. but I'm willing to do whatever to maximize effectiveness in that time.

Sorry if I'm being confusing and a pest, I'm just stuck and need some help. ありがとうございました!

nikoflow_fm