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hello everyone! new vlog – i try to work on my paper but I don’t really get anything done LOL

Are you 18+ and self-study Japanese? If so, please complete this survey to contribute to my senior uni project about kanji learning strategies and Japanese self-studiers!

https://pomona.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0diEIOumKFKUBNA

It can take about 10 minutes, 15 max. There are no right or wrong answers; just answer based on how you study, however that may be. 

Please try to submit your survey by this Friday, December 10 at 10am PST. The survey will close Monday, December 13 at 11:50pm PST. :)

i hope you remember you have the strength to handle this week ahead, and if you find that you need help, i hope you also remember that asking for help is another form of strength. i’m proud of you.

Language Learning Through Immersion: One & a Half Years Japanese Update

Today marks 1.5 years of learning Japanese through immersion. ʕ•̀ω•́ʔ✧

Some things have changed since my 1 year update, mostly in how I use Anki and in the way I’ve been selecting my immersion material. Still very much enjoying this method of learning, but I think its good to reassess and plan how I’d like to proceed every half year.

In a span of 6 months, I managed to add another 734.62 hours of immersion to my overall count. I somehow ended up immersing a similar amount of hours (367.04 for listening, 367.58 for reading) for both skills, reading beating listening for exactly 10.8 minutes. I also have 270.01 hours of passive listening (JPN subbed content), so I’ve actually immersed a total of 2231.28 hours, 1961.27 hours of which are active, averaging 3.99 hours for the past 6 months or 3.57 for the past 1.5 years of everyday Japanese language immersion. I’ve also spent another 411.33 total hours on word and grammar reviews on Anki.

I don’t feel like I’ve hit a wall in my immersion yet, as in not having enough material to immerse with anymore, but I’ve started to understand what I do like in Japanese media and it really is a matter of always having something I like lined up so I don’t “run out”. 

At this stage, I also feel like it’s impossible to hit the intermediate plateau with immersion learning. There’s just so many new words to discover, grammar to learn, and output skills to enhance that the thought of language learning plateauing with a method like this seems silly. I haven’t even grazed the surface especially if going by my standard of learning words alone - learn every Japanese equivalent or similar word I know in my NL and in English - the ceiling is actually quite high. 

That’s why I’d like to finally tap into my output ability. Being able to read and understand conversations in a language is really fun, but the real challenge is to actually use it outside of media consumption, to actually communicate with native speakers through text or speech.

So as a call back to my 1 year update, do I feel fluent after 2,200 hours of immersion learning? No, but it definitely has at least made me proficient in listening and reading faster than if I continued learning with traditional methods, which back then at the 1.5 mark was me still learning the most basic words, grammar, and Kanji.

ANKI STATS, GRAMMAR, OUTPUT, AND OTHER GOALS

Hi everyone! I hope y’all can support my latest youtube video. Here’s the link if ur interested in watching it: https://youtu.be/MsqmVLYeAJQ

here we go! first youtube video is up ~ hope y’all can give it a watch hehe <3