How I Study Japanese | 6 Month Progress Update

Hello people, let’s go through how I studied Japanese in the last 6 months! :D Here I share what I’ve been doing to learn Japanese. It's going pretty well I think! I'm nowhere near fluent, but still ^^

About the MochiKanji App

Cure Dolly - awesome channel all about studying Japanese: @organicjapanesewithcuredol49
Playing games in Japanese: @GameGengo
Great channel with lots of interesting videos about learning Japanese (and other stuff): @Livakivi
Japanese channel about renovating old countryside house: @inakamon

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Camera - Canon EOS M50 / Google Pixel 6a
Microphone - Røde Micro, Hollyland Lark M1
Tripod and gimble - Rebecka 2.0, Ronin Micro Whatever It's Called

0:00 Intro
1:48 Vocabulary and Kanji
4:17 Grammar
5:49 Reading Immersion
7:48 Listening Immersion
9:55 JLPT Mock Exam
13:31 Outro

[mochidemy]

Hi Julian, Thank you so much for a good review of the MochiKanji - Learn Japanese, and a useful video as well. MochiMochi wishes you and your channel more success with the insightful content you bring to your audience! ☺️

[arceus]

mochikanji actually seems useful.. i usually ignore sponsors but i like how they split vocab into different sections. im moving to tokyo in 3 days (to attend KAI because your video convinced me lol) and the travel vocabulary seems helpful

[dimondhannes]

Another Swede watching fellow livakivi he as well as you inspire me so much on my Japanese journey thank you

[paithoon]

Oh, I see MochiKanji seems more features right (I've watched your previous video). I tried conversation feature and it's so fun and interactive

[shuu]

The breakdown of your study hours into different categories really helps to see where your focus has been. Awesome!!

[DirectorCM]

Cure Dolly will live on forever and nothing makes me happier knowing that. She was honestly the most grounded and efficient Japanese teacher.

[travelphuan]

Your dedication to Japanese learning is seriously inspiring

[bilayofficial]

Excited to hear your thoughts on potentially tackling the N2 next. You've got this!

[AmzadSalazar]

Shadowing is a great next step in your speaking journey. Looking forward to hearing about your progress!

[hongnhungo]

the golden time on Mochi seems like your personal coach ^^

[kendall]

Your determination to keep pushing forward in your Japanese learning journey is truly inspiring. Keep it up!

[hangshoo]

I'm also hooked on MochiKanji =))

[braggarmybrat]

Goodness, don't beat yourself up over your Japanese! At the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, Japanese is a Category IV language, the hardest, and requires full time study for 64 weeks at least! Good for you, for jumping into an immersion situation. BTW, I spent a year in the Army living outside of Tokyo. Wonderful people.

[MDobri-syce]

Congrats Jullien and great video! I am slowly, trying to learn Japanese again before I become a lazy old man! Also, That's how my brain feels with Swedish over the past few years. Since I finished the Swedish Skill Tree a few months ago, I started funnelling in some Norwegian. I am nowhere fluent in Swedish but my brain knows enough that it finds Norwegian somewhat boring so, I alternate. However, I am glad I started with Swedish first instead of Norwegian even though Norwegian is slightly easier but the difficulty is about even almost in both languages.

[NoraBrown-kbtm]

I start learning Japanese, and this video inspires me a lot.

[petuniaacuy]

Playing Pokémon in Japanese sounds like a blast. I'll try it

[emiec]

Me, a French nobody who has studied Japanese for 4y up to a N3-N2 lvl and hates herself for having forgotten almost everything after 8y, and who has been studying swedish on and off for a decade already and will finally move to Sweden next year (unless shit hits the fan), stumbling upon your channel: *shocked Pikachu face*

[annekerenza]

2, 225 hours of Japanese study in 6 months? That's seriously impressive dedication!

[northernswedenstories]

Japanese is such a cool language and culture. Truly unique. Been enjoying watching Shogun and Tokyo Vice on TV lately. Great shows.

[gudagaava]

Very interesting, as always. (Yayyyy!)
A question for you, Julian:
Since I know the Swedish translation of Finnegans Wake (by James Joyce) by heart, do you think it will be a good idea to learn Japanese by reading the Japanes translation over and over again? (As I know you are a translator yourself, I would appreciate an answer from someone who knows how difficult life can be sometimes.)