How I Learned Fluent Japanese In One Year

In this video I breakdown how I acquired fluent Japanese and passed the JLPT N1 in one year.

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[jayfife]

To anyone out there studying Japanese, just remember that passing the JLPT should be secondary to actually learning Japanese.
I have lived in Japan a long time and work in a Japanese company where I use only Japanese all day every day and also deal with interviewing and hiring people.

I have met SOO MANY applicants that have JLPT N1 on their resume but when it comes to the interview, it turns out they can't speak Japanese very well at all.
The JLPT only tests listening and reading, it does not fluency or speaking at all.

[bestiaonthedrums]

if someone is interested, I would make a video about how I went from beginner to advanced beginner in 11 years

[kai-kun]

Really cool story I didn't realize when you started your podcast you were still studying for the N1! Also your editing was super slick!

[grafikmancer]

Congratulations! I took a Japanese class in college and have pretty much kept it on the backburner since then. You've motivated me to make a serious attempt at it again. Great editing too, btw!

[its.brunie]

I started studying Japanese in lockdown and had a very strong start and I was actively learning for a bout a year then I just started learning less and less until I completely stopped.

I'm currently in my last month of highscool and I already told myself that I'll be going back to Japanese since, and your video truly inspired me, I've watched A LOT of videos on "how to study in Japanese", "how I became fluent in Japanese in 6 months" etc but your video right here is probably the best I've ever seen, thank you so very much for sharing this. I hope that you continue to grow your Japanese and continue learning, have a blessed day❤️

[doubleofu]

bro, respect... I'm from germany, studying the language for 1 year aka 2 semesters in 副専攻 and only managed to get through the 1st genki more or less remembering everything in it but still struggling with some stuff in it that I forget... and you just rushed through that text book in like a month and that's suuuper amazing and makes me wanna study harder as well...

[velvetdefalt]

This is really motivating! I've been learning on and off JP due to uni, work, etc, so I understand the feeling of demotivation or procrastination.

[fun]

You really should make more videos about methods, or story of yourself like this. Looking forward for all the future videos, thanks.

[corey]

Great accomplishment either way, but certainly helps immensely that you already understood the meanings of most of the kanji when starting :)

[thefantasyreview]

wow, that's incredible! really encouraging stuff.

[TheFiestyhick]

Great video. Been watching your vids for 6 months but I didn't know anything about your Japanese journey. Even with Immersion, I didn't think that was possible in one year. Maybe 18 months, but not one year. Very cool.

[stephwchen]

AMAZING amazing production!!! looking forward for all the future videos :)

[kn]

You got me all pumped! Very impressive, congrats on your achievement!

[firebirdwillgaming]

Damn, well done man. I´m going through my japanese learning right now and have been for over 300 days now. I´m ddoing just like you menshioned, I expose myself to as much japanese conent everyday as possible such as anime, manga and J-dramas. Using Anki definetly helps me to. I often watch everything with no translation and am always choked of how much you can understand and learn through context alone. I´m definetly gonna be fluent as fast as you with only about 50 days left until the 1 year mark. I have not tested myself but I would guess that I am around N4-N3 right now and I hope to be N1 level on my 2 year mark. It´s kind of funny that this video was uploaded around the time I started learning Japanese. In the future 2 years from now when I´m 18 and in collage, I want to do an exchange year then, and am so looking forward to it, even for how scarry it can be. Thanks for for the inspiration, setting an example that it is possible and showing me that I´m on the right path.

[mannyw_]

Best video from you guys yet, blown away by the quality!

[NationX]

I just recently moved to Japan 12 days ago and am currently enrolled in a Japanese language school. I arrived to the country only knowing hiragana and some katakana. I’ll be here for 1 year and 3 months minimum however would rather extend my stay if possible as I want to attend university here but need to pass the N2 exam to even get close.

This video has been a huge motivation for me as I feel the clock ticking down on me and being in the country has kept me motivated every day as I want to be able to hear and speak the language around me fluently. I already knew a year in language school alone wouldn’t be enough to get that far and know that immersion is the way to go but I’m struggling to figure out the best way to combine my studies with what I could do to improve outside of classes.

[Makiaveliiste]

You're lying, even if you passed the JLPT N1 (if it's not a lie), it certainly didn't take you 1 year. In a video that you published in 2021, you said that you had already been studying Japanese with anki for 3 years.

[Rationalific]

Thanks for sharing! I also like the shock ending when you started to advertise your course. 😄

[christianpaulreyes]

Subscribed! Starting today, I will be more serious in learning Japanese language. Thanks bro.

[maryj]

woooww what a wonderful story, thank you so much for sharing!!💙💙🌿 you did such a great job