Matt vs Japan's Guide to Starting Output

Other things I forgot to mention:
-Before you have reached Stage 3 (AKA, before you have a foundation in understanding the language), shadowing is a complete waste of time.
-If you choose a YouTuber as a parent, make sure that they don’t use jump cuts in their videos. You want raw, unedited segments of them talking. It’s important to be able to hear how they stall and use filler words. “みずにゃん” is an example of an ideal YouTube parent.
-Make sure your parent speaks the same dialect that you want to speak. This can be an issue in Japanese.
-The main purpose of shadowing is to improve the accuracy of your pronunciation, as well as reduce the amount of effort it takes to properly pronounce the language. Because you don’t have to use any brain power formulating your own sentences when shadowing, you can fully focus on pronunciation. This is what makes shadowing the perfect way to practice pronunciation.
-Once you find shadowing audiobooks relatively easy, THEN start shadowing your parent.
-Shadowing alone isn’t enough to build proper pitch accent habits, because when shadowing, your brain doesn’t have to recall (decide) how to pronounce specific words; you are simply (blindly) mimicking what you are hearing, like a parrot. This is why you need to practice reading text out loud with correct pitch accent in order to install the habits.
-When you output (especially when you film short videos of yourself), try to speak like your parent.
-Ideas for what to talk about in the short videos you film of yourself: summarize the plot of a piece of media you have consumed recently, talk about what you did yesterday or what you are going to do later today, or explain an opinion that have about something.

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[mattvsjapan]

Happy new year guys! You better all meet your language learning goals next year.

[huuhaa]

Plotwist: Matt vs Japan is actually a native japanese who does these videos in order to learn his english accent.

[isaac]

I just wanna say something slightly off topic, but I had this eureka moment where I started to realize just how important constant immersion is. Holy crap, it's nuts what a difference it makes, it really is the magic ingredient. I honestly thought you were kinda crazy at first talking about the benefits of immersion, but I'm seeing them now lol. I'm mad that I didn't take it seriously before, but I just have to keep on moving!

[ProfKisuto]

I still come back to these videos - wish you'd come back...

[wzufigo]

I’m a Japanese guy who learn English. FYI, you’re one of my language parents !

[zahleer]

I feel like my next "language father" is gonna be Matt haha. He speaks so fast and he brings in many new words that I never come across in my natural English Inmersion.

[SB-hsyn]

So happy that i came across your 3 hour video in 2017. You literally changed my life dude. Keep doing what you're doing, Matt.

[ronsan]

Great video!
I'm using your videos to improve my English!

Regards from Brazil

[bgill]

1) Open your mouth. 2) Speak.
Love your videos :)

[squallada]

Thank you for this fantastic year, Matt. Let's aim even higher next year!

[ChrisDoesStuff]

Definitely hope to reach a level where I'm comfortable with the most common things in Japanese and where I'm able to read and listen to most things with a high level of comprehension this year. Meaning that I have to put even more effort this year into comprehension than I did last year.

Also Matt I appreciate all you've done with the MIA community in 2018 and I'm looking forward to the changes coming in 2019.

Happy New Year!

[jackneals]

Yo! As someone who used to be a skater and the fact that my favorite brand of decks was Toy Machine... I can't help but feel very happy that you got a Toy Machine character blow up doll in the background.

[tsundokuboi]

I was gonna ask a question but you answered it in the last minute of the video lol
Happy New Year, Matt

[kevinp]

When I was studying Turkish all of my Turkish friends were women and it absolutely affected how I spoke Turkish. I had to step back and force myself to listen and speak to men more often. Great advise Matt.

[jonathangamble]

Hey Matt, I would be interested in seeing a video on what you actually do when you record yourself. How do you choose topics, do you repeat the same topic if you have not mastered it, things like that. Thanks man! I do not speak Japanese but I find your videos very useful for general language learning!

[cuongnguyenduy]

I'm trying to shadow you, Matt.😀

[uzumakitay]

I see your videos to learn how to learn English . XD
Good techniques and I really can understand everything you say, I’m glad that I found your channel.

[shannonrosejohnson]

This is one of my favorite videos I’ve seen of yours

[JapanWalkerJJ]

I'm Filipino born and raised in America, but with native Filipino parents. The thing is I don't know really know where I got my natural English input because my parents always spoke tagalog in the house its like it came out of nowhere. I think it maybe came from the American kids shows that I grew up watching like spongebob and blues clues. So pretty much it was mostly television and music that gave me the input I needed for English, and Pre-K was what gave me my output by surrounding myself with english speaking kids and an English speaking teacher.

[ivan.guillen]

Nice of you helping other people acquire languages. I understand the input proposal and I will apply it to my next language of choice. I just wanted to say that, yeah, the skill-building process inevitably puts you in a position of producing both unauthentic and authentic speech at times, but I think it has its advantages as well. I do think the "ideal" language acquisition approach would need a combination of many proposals out there and we just need to do our research, understand them and take what's good for us. So, personally, I am going to use the Input theory along with other things.