AJATT 12 Month Update Progress Report | 12 Months Learning Japanese With Immersion

This video is another update and big milestone, hitting the 12 month mark for AJATT and my Japanese immersion using input approach and Anki.

As I've been doing videos every month since the 6th month mark, nothing much has happened in terms of progress, but nonetheless this is quick update highlighting my level, routine, future plans, and more.

Any questions, drop them below!

[akainikki]

Thanks for checking out this AJATT 12 Month Update Progress Report! Any questions, drop them below!

[olivermunkholm]

Over 4 hours of anki in single day is insane, well done man

[DonAnimegaOriginal]

Ayyy congrats, man! I saw your 11 month update and it’s inspired me to start my own journey. I’m currently 13 days in so we’ll see how it goes lol.

[Djax]

Congratulations on your year man! I really like following your content as it has helped keep me motivated to stay dug in to learning. Im headed to Japan this November and hoping I am not totally clueless 😂

[PatChatGC]

Awesome update, 1 year is great! Keep it up!

[零時茶]

Yes ! AJATT!! Keeping the dream alive, not too many people doing this anymore. I am on a similar timeline to you, with regards to AJATT last december, before I was just repping Anki for a year and passively listening sometimes (who could have guessed that didn't work by itself?). Cheers and best of luck.

[HypotheticalTiger]

Nice update, hope it continues to keep going well!

[m.wilkinson]

Hi man, really nice update video. I'm also on my own japanese learning journey so it's inspiring to see you plodding along every month, good on you, and I hope you continue and succeed!
I saw on one of your replies that you said you're lucky that you have the time to do all this anki. Based on everything you've said it sounds like you're getting about 3-5 hours of immersion with podcasts and anime and then you're studying for about 1.5 hours or longer on anki. That's basically something like 6 hours a day just with japanese. My question is what does your day look like that allows you to have a lot of time to dedicate to learning japanese? From time to time I get a lot of free time but even when I sit down to do some japanese I find I only get a good 2 hours or so of japanese when I could potentially do 4 or 5 hours. Part of it is time management, but the other part is that I have other things as well.
I'm just curious how you've organised your life and your days. Maybe it will give me some insight in how to organise my days as I'm also self-employed.

[sorrygoogle]

where did you buy the ready player one book from? :D

[Oldbettie]

Im very curious to compair my 12 months when I get there. It seems you have taken the more exponential path with 20+ cards per day which will result in that moment eventually where you just feel like you understand.

Im on a more linear path of truely understanding less words (8per day). I will be at around 1700 words by my 12 month point but i already feel like i understand a good amount of what i listen to.

I did more cards early. 12 cards each day till 1000 words after that i dropped it. Since i felt like i was better of listening more and taking fewer words per day since they get exponentially less common as i learn more.

[cortezz]

nice update!
I wanted to ask about your stats on mature cards because I feel like I'm seeing a decline throughout the months, and I was wondering if it was the same for other people (I'm around 82%)

[Foxhound_Maisey]

Have you done any grammar study at all? I went through a single textbook in about 3~ months and I feel like I don't have the issues you've been having with regards to output

[htfucustoms]

you should try Short Stories in Japanese by Olly Richards.

[Tyranitar]

Looking at your anki stats, you do seem to have a very high ratio of young to mature cards, which tells me you might not actually be retaining the information well enough for anki to be productive. I would highly recommend trying to let go of the mindset that you need to hit 10k cards by X date, and drop the number of daily new cards to 10, as 22 per day is pretty intensive even if you're someone with very good memory. As you get further along in your studies, you get better at memorizing words without the need of anki, and the some of time you spend on anki would be better spent on more immersion. Well done on maintaining consistency for a whole year. Oh also, there's an anki add-on I believe that will pause your reps, some people use it when going on vacation so they don't get swarmed with reviews when they come back.

[TJCorporation]

Just some things to pick your brain, i wouldn't recommend changing anything if it doesn't aline with your goals and what you consider fun.

You mentioned you used to get 70 words an episode now its about 20 or so, that sounds to me like your are not using a frequency list and you are possibly not aiming for i+1 sentences. If you are not using a frequency list and are mining words that are way to infrequent for your current vocab count, then you are making things a lot harder for yourself, because 1. You wont see them as often, so remembering them will be harder(more anki pain) 2. You are increasing your general comprehension by much less compared to a frequent word. You compared yourself to brit vs japan but lets say the 7k words he has in anki are the 7k most frequent ones, then his comprehension will be much higher since those words just come up more often. Even if you also match his 7k.

Another point i would like make is, that you mentioned you feel the need to go harder on listening because you couldn't catch everything in a RL conversation. In my experience if you have a baselevel of listening, that you can pick out the sounds and like you mentioned pick out a word you don't know. Then doing more reading/watching with subs is a way faster way to build comprehension than just doing pure listening, because you can go at your own pace, look everything up and really focus on comprehending. And this will boost your listening way more than just doing pure listening practice, at least that is my experience with it.

[CarelessMiss]

I'm interested. Why isn't the video in Japanese if it's AJATT? Forgive my crudeness