2 Years of "Learning" Japanese using AJATT/Refold/MIA/Immersion

2 years ago I started learning Japanese with the purpose of watching Anime, YouTube & VTubers. Since I was already able to comprehend 90% of Japanese media by the first year of self studying Japanese, I decided to push and try to clear the N1 in under 2 years. #japanese #anime #jlpt

The main method I used to learn Japanese over the past 2 years is a modified version of AJATT (All Japanese All The Time). The main method of learning is Immersion in Japanese media and I spend about 12+ hours day immersing in Japanese content every day. I enjoy immersing in mainly videos and not so much books- as I've explained in the previous video, I find reading relatively boring compared to videos so I don't like reading so much.

Other names for the method I use are MIA/Refold, and just general immersion learning. I'm not an active part of any of these communities as I mainly just go my own way and do what I feel to be the best.

As for the things I've been immersing in, some of my recommendations are:
- Raw anime (Tutorial here:    • Видео  )
- 調べてみたら -    • Видео  
- Learn to play Mahjong -    • 【雀魂】麻雀初心者に必要な知識は一個だけ。すぐに遊べる！激アツの実例もある...  
- Play through Yakuza 0 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/63...
- Japanese VTubers other than Hololive (Eilene, 深層組, Nijisanji, あおぎり, Animare, Kagura Mea, Tamaki, Itou Life, etc.)
- Check the lyrics of Japanese Songs (神っぽいな, phony, 裸の勇者, ph, ヴァンパイア, etc.)
- Real life YouTubers (Kimagure Cook, てるしゃん, たかちゃんねる)

The past 2 years of Learning Japanese have been a crazy ride as I've made some really insane progress over the past year alone. There are thing I never thought I could've done like clear the N1 in less than 2 years, make an entire video in Japanese, and SPEAK Japanese!

Please do NOT use this video as a guide as I am no expert in language learning, this video contains my OPINIONS and FINDINGS on language learning as of the making of the video and are subject to change in the future.

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🎬 Timestamps:
00:00 The BEST Way to Learn Languages
1:11 How I used Anki WRONG for 1.5 years
2:11 What I'm Doing Differently to last year
2:45 How I Sentence Mine using Migaku
3:23 How I Started Working for VTubers
4:33 Can I speak Japanese after 2 years?
5:05 Comparing my skills to last year
5:47 Writing 2021 vs 2022
6:16 Listening 2021 vs 2022
6:37 What I'm Immersing in Now
7:26 Goals for 2023
7:53 How I passed the N1 in 2 years
9:13 My Final Goal for 2023

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