What are the three main concepts of language learning?

1. Repetition makes language learning subconscious. 2. The brain is efficient in language learning. 3. Discomfort during practice leads to comfort in usage.

How many vocabulary words should I learn initially?

Aim for 2,000 to 4,000 of the most common vocabulary words.

What is the importance of grammar in language learning?

Grammar should be learned in context, not in isolation.

How can I remember vocabulary words?

Use mnemonic associations to create vivid images related to the words.

What is the role of AI in language learning?

AI can help generate sentences, explain grammar, and provide vocabulary lists quickly.

Should I focus on kanji right away?

No, focus on learning hiragana and katakana first before tackling kanji.

What is the best way to practice speaking?

Listen and repeat after native speakers to improve pronunciation and fluency.

How does immersion work in language learning?

Immersion requires deliberate practice, not just passive listening.

What should I do if I feel overwhelmed?

Take breaks and use passive methods occasionally to avoid burnout.

Fluent In Japanese. My Approach.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St_Fk0_5jgA

Zusammenfassung

TLDRThis video outlines a fast yet challenging approach to language learning, focusing on the importance of repetition, vocabulary acquisition, and practical usage. The speaker emphasizes that while the method is quick, it requires effort and discomfort during practice to achieve fluency. Key strategies include learning 2,000 to 4,000 common vocabulary words, using AI tools for grammar and vocabulary, and employing mnemonic devices for memory retention. The speaker also highlights the significance of listening and speaking practice with native speakers, and the need for deliberate practice rather than passive immersion. Overall, the video encourages learners to embrace the process and trust their ability to become fluent in a new language.

Mitbringsel

🎯 Fast but challenging language learning method
🔄 Repetition makes learning subconscious
📚 Focus on 2,000-4,000 common words
🧠 Use AI for grammar and vocabulary
🖼️ Employ mnemonic devices for memory
👂 Listen and repeat after native speakers
🚫 Avoid focusing on kanji initially
💪 Embrace discomfort for comfort in usage
🛑 Passive immersion is not effective
🗣️ Deliberate practice is key to fluency

Zeitleiste

00:00:00 - 00:05:00
Video opens with a quick introduction to language learning, emphasizing that while the method is fast, it is not easy. The speaker outlines three key concepts: repetition makes language learning subconscious, the brain is efficient in learning, and discomfort during practice leads to comfort in use.
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The speaker stresses the importance of learning basic grammar quickly, ideally in one day, and in context rather than isolation. They recommend using AI tools like ChatGPT to understand grammar rules and sentence structures, focusing on practical usage rather than theoretical knowledge.
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The speaker advocates for learning 2,000 to 4,000 common vocabulary words upfront to save years of study time. They explain that vocabulary in isolation can still convey meaning and that understanding context helps in grasping the language more effectively.
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The speaker discusses mnemonic associations as a technique for remembering vocabulary, providing examples of how vivid imagery can aid memory retention. They encourage creativity in creating associations and reassure that forgetting is part of the learning process.
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The importance of listening and repeating after native speakers is highlighted, with a focus on the need for deliberate practice rather than passive immersion. The speaker suggests using various media, including YouTube and TED Talks, to enhance listening skills and vocabulary.
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The speaker concludes by emphasizing the significance of deliberate practice in language learning, sharing personal experiences that illustrate the effectiveness of their method. They encourage viewers to embrace discomfort in learning and to trust the process for achieving fluency.

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Video-Fragen und Antworten

Is this method easy?
No, it's fast but not easy.
What are the three main concepts of language learning?
1. Repetition makes language learning subconscious. 2. The brain is efficient in language learning. 3. Discomfort during practice leads to comfort in usage.
How many vocabulary words should I learn initially?
Aim for 2,000 to 4,000 of the most common vocabulary words.
What is the importance of grammar in language learning?
Grammar should be learned in context, not in isolation.
How can I remember vocabulary words?
Use mnemonic associations to create vivid images related to the words.
What is the role of AI in language learning?
AI can help generate sentences, explain grammar, and provide vocabulary lists quickly.
Should I focus on kanji right away?
No, focus on learning hiragana and katakana first before tackling kanji.
What is the best way to practice speaking?
Listen and repeat after native speakers to improve pronunciation and fluency.
How does immersion work in language learning?
Immersion requires deliberate practice, not just passive listening.
What should I do if I feel overwhelmed?
Take breaks and use passive methods occasionally to avoid burnout.

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let's make the music for this video so
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quick I want to say right away this is
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not a learn effortlessly method yes this
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is fast it's very fast
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but it's not easy I want you to know
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that up front so you know what you're
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getting into but I believe in you so
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let's get started the main Concepts that
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you should keep in mind when you're
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learning a language are these three
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things number one through repetition
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language learning becomes subconscious
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number two your brain is more efficient
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in language learning than you will ever
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understand and number three discomfort
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during practice equals Comfort when
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using the language and comfort during
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practice equals discomfort Comfort when
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using the language now you guys know I'm
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not a grind set mindset guy I don't
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believe in that but the third one I
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really want you to pay attention to that
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just moving forward in general okay the
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steps of learning a language here's the
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Prelude learn the very basics of grammar
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this should take you like one day max I
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know that sounds kind of crazy but
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grammar is something that you really
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want to learn in context I believe in
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isolation grammar is kind of useless
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unless you're just trying to understand
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how the language works which is what
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this day is for this time is for you
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just want to understand how it works but
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as far as practical use it's way better
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to learn that when you learn sentences
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because our goal is to make the language
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work without really having to think
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about it just like in your native
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language you don't really think about
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conjugations and all these rules you
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kind of just think of the idea and the
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thought or sentence comes out that's all
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you want to do in your target language
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so leveraging the basics of grammar
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actually gives you an advantage but
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again we're not doing a deep dive here
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so what to look up as far as grammar I
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would personally recommend using chat
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GPT because it gets a lot of The Upfront
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work out of the way and you can simply
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ask it what are the rules and grammar of
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Japanese or whatever language you're
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trying to study things you want to focus
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on learning are things like sentence
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structure formal and informal speech
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basic
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conjugations and other things like that
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also another prompt you can put in is as
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a English speaker what are some things I
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should know about whatever language or
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you can change the languages around to
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fit you but if you're watching this for
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Japanese you could say as an English
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speaker what are some things I should
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know about Japanese I would highly
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recommend leveraging AI because this
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stuff used to take me days or weeks to
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do but you can do it in just a few
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prompts so why only the basics I kind of
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went over this already but grammar is
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something you want to learn in context I
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just really want to make that clear I
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know we can get caught up in grammar
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rules and conjugations and trying to say
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everything right but your brain is going
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to pick that up whether you want it to
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or not it's just going to happen I
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realized this in Japan when I was at
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work and my co-workers used to ask me
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sentences in English or things in
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English none of them spoke English but
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they would ask me things and I wasn't
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able to explain it and on the inverse I
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would ask them Japanese questions that I
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had and they weren't able to explain it
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so we were both kind of lost on grammar
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yet we knew how to make the thoughts
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come out in a sentence format this is
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something that's going to be
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uncomfortable for a while but but you
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have to trust the process because again
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we want to make the language work
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without really having to think about it
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I'm probably going to put up a black
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screen every time I say that because I
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really want you to know that okay that
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was the Prelude so Step One is learn
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2,000 to 4,000 of the most common
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vocabulary words now again before you
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think I'm crazy I'm going to tell you
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why you should do this upfront honestly
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it's because you save years of study
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time right away unfortunately
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traditional methods that are pushed they
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have you kind of take taking a slow
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route where you're gradually increasing
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difficulty of things that's fine and it
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works but the problem is it takes
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forever to learn enough vocabulary to be
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comfortable enough to use it in a real
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sense I believe the word on the Internet
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is comprehensible input or something
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like that I'm not really sure I don't
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know who made it but that method it
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works like I said but it's just slow it
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takes a long time and maybe you're like
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me and you have other stuff you like to
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do you like to play guitar piano go to
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the gym whatever you don't have all day
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to be sitting there
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trying to learn 20 vocab words in a
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month when you can just do it in one day
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along with that once you do this
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everything you ever watch or listen to
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becomes somewhat comprehensible and that
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really opens up any kind of content you
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want to watch which leads me into reason
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two vocabulary and isolation takes you
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very far so even if you had no grammar
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no idea how to formulate a sentence
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nothing all you had was vocabulary words
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and you could just pick and choose at
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random you could still get your point of
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across in a lot of ways I did this a lot
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when I was living in Japan and it worked
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extremely well and even when I was using
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the wrong versions of some words my
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point was still across in the same way
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so I really cannot stress how important
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it is to just have a large array of
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vocabulary words to choose from and it
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works for understanding too so say if
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you're watching jiujitsu kaisen and the
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part where nanami is talking toor about
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goo and he's saying
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or something like that maybe you only
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know or or which is trust and you know
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rely on and respect and you can look at
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the tone of voice in anami and see that
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he's angry at the last part you may know
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oh he trusts and relies on him but he
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does not respect him this is something
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that's going to go on subconsciously but
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it's a process you'll really have to
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trust but I promise you if you do this
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with vocabulary up front so many
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sentences and so many things are going
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to make sense and you're not even going
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to realize how good you are at the
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language over time for this reason alone
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I believe it's important to just get a
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lot of vocabulary words done but I will
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say this is probably the hardest part of
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learning a language so yes it's
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uncomfortable it kind of sucks but if
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you can get the very hard part out of
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the way
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initially I believe the rest it's not
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easy per se but it does open you up up
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to just having a lot more experience and
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a lot more flexibility with the language
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because again our goal is to make the
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language work without really having to
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think about it when doing this by the
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way just get the base word down don't
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worry about the different forms and the
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negative form and all that it's okay to
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have an idea but just study the base
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word and again a lot of this stuff will
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just come when you learn sentences now
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how do you remember all of these words
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without forgetting them something I do
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and I've been doing for years is I use
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pneumonic associations there's another
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YouTuber who does this as well and I'll
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point to him later he has a really good
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channel on language learning in general
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but pneumonic associations are basically
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taking what you have and attaching it to
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something you can already remember or
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see in your head so for example the word
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chasu in Japanese means to scatter
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around now if I
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say that means the wind was strong and
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scattered around all the papers cheetah
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aasu the word the way I remember that as
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I literally think about cheetah in a
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castle and the cheetah are running
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around they're you know knocking stuff
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off the counter jumping on the walls all
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this other stuff it's a Goofy image but
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it really sticks in my head I only did
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this once and this was maybe seven years
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ago and I've never forgotten that word
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another example is like in Turkish if I
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said Sending g into that means I love
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your smile or I like your smile
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sending I think of that as sending a
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message I send someone a message and now
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it's your message so my brain thinks s
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yours this is a dumb example but I think
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of that as a sound that I make when I
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pet a cat and the Cat smiles so g means
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smile again you want to think in Vivid
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images whatever comes up in your head
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you just want to run with that sorum I
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think sounds like save your room so
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in my mind you save your room for
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someone that you love or someone that
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you like so sending Gish into Vim I love
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your smile another simple one is Buu in
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Turkish means this so I think of Buu the
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ghost like from Super Mario 64 or
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whatever Super Mario and he's pointing
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at something saying this maybe there's a
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Turkish flag behind his head again the
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more Vivid the better that being said
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this is a skill and you're not going to
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be able to do it for all of them that's
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fine if you find yourself stuck on one
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just come back to it another day or skip
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it in general especially if it's a
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common word that you know is going to
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come up often maybe you don't have to
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create a nemonic device for it you can
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just understand that it'll be memorized
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anyways some words even in Japanese I
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could never think of one but I've used
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them so much they've really just been
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internalized and I don't have to think
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of one anymore there's going to be
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several like this so just try not to get
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too frustrated and to add on to that
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only you are going to be reading these
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so you can get as crazy as you want as
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wild as you want whatever helps you
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remember it just go with that no one's
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going to be opening up your notion or
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Google documents and trying to see what
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you have written down just get as crazy
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as you want to get okay potential fear
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of pneumonic associations you may ask
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well what if I remember the wrong thing
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like cheetah kasu what if you remember
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cheetah instead of scattering around
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well in my experience I've never had a
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problem where I remember the wrong thing
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I think our brains are pretty good at
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sorting out what's correct especially
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because when you learn it in a sentence
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the whole sentence has a meaning so what
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did I say earlier
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K I think that's what I said I'm not
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going to think about cheetah because I
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just said the wind is strong so wind is
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strong and papers you know you can kind
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of get the rest from there but in my
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experience I never really had a problem
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remembering the correct thing
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these days I believe you can find full
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Excel sheets of vocabulary lists online
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and then maybe you'll just have to add a
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column and add a Association on the end
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so if there's like four columns just add
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a fifth one and add whatever helps you
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remember it I may make some or find some
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and put it on my patreon or Discord but
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try to do it on your own a lot of this
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is going to be a deliberate effort but
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again the time it takes you to do this
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it may seem like a lot but it's going to
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save you months if not years of total
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practice so it's worth really doing your
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homework on and take your time with it
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you may only get through like 20 or 30 a
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day not even that you may only get
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through 10 and you're mentally exhausted
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that's fine again this is kind of a
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hyperbolic Time Chamber in a sense where
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everything you do really accounts for
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months of work that someone else would
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do so there's an idea I call an
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intervalic idea and basically what this
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means is that the time between the word
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being shown and the Demonic Association
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and the meaning is going to be long for
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a while it may take you a few seconds
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but after you keep doing this what's
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going to happen is that it's going to be
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instant it's going to instantly go from
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the word to the meaning and you won't
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think about anything else in between
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it's just going to be very quick just
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like it is in English or whatever your
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native language is so cheetah kasu you
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won't think about cheetah in a castle or
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any of that like me iar CH and I just
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think something was scattered around
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that's it I don't think about anything
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else anymore this goes with vocab words
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and full sentences by the way you'll
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hear someone say something in an anime
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maybe the entire sentence or the whole
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dialogue and maybe you've heard that
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before or several times and it's going
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to get to the point where you're not
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really thinking about it you just
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understand what is being said okay
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something to help this process is to
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listen to and repeat the words for good
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practice I actually use used to use the
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little Google translate text to speech
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box because nothing else was really out
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back then but you can find text to
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speech websites these days I believe
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natural reader is one maybe I'll link
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some in the description or my Discord
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but find something to help you hear it
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as you study it that way you can kind of
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get the input and the output at the same
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time when I say repeat the words by the
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way I do mean out loud I know some
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people will argue that you should not
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speak from day one I think
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you should speak immediately as soon as
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you hear it try to speak it try to say
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it just get it in your brain and get it
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working because this is really going to
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help you in the long run this may
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require you copying and pasting words
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one by one but again this is going to
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save you months if not years of practice
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in general so it's just something that's
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you're going to have to do but an
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alternative these days are Ani decks and
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I believe these days there's full maybe
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5,000 words already laid out and it has
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the sounds it has sentences has
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everything pretty much there so you can
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just download that and get to using it
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right away I'll say this again by the
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way learning vocabulary is the hardest
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part of the language in my opinion so if
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you can really get through this part it
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unlocks the rest of the fretboard I said
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fretboard I'm sorry the rest of the
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language I'm thinking about guitar cuz I
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got to practice after this but it
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unlocks the rest of the language and you
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can really get your ideas flowing and
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you can get the input that you want to
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get and start to listen and repeat after
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native speakers which leads me right
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into step two there's two parts to this
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but the first part is listen and repeat
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after native speakers I really want to
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emphasize native speakers because I
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speak Japanese in several shorts and
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just different content on my channel but
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I don't have the best accent I say
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things wrong and all that you really
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want to prioritize native speakers take
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their sentences and what they say and
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say it like them because they have a lot
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of the things things that I don't so
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really prioritize native speakers so the
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importance of listening right away after
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the vocab is because sentences tend to
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blend together in Japanese and most
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languages really and it's a very fast
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language so you want to just start
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getting the repetitions in this is going
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to be very difficult when you start and
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you may have to listen to the same
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sentences 20 30 40 times but that's a
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part of the process movies are fine
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anime is fine YouTube is fine I would
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recommend finding something with made
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transcripts if it's YouTube things like
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the easy Japanese Channel or Ted Talks
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or Street interviews regardless of
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whatever method you use understand that
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the fundamentals of the language are the
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same so you can learn from anime you can
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learn from YouTube you can learn from
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TED talks but a lot of the fundamentals
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are going to be the same now if you only
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learn from anime there will be an
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adjustment phase but it's not that bad
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believe me you'll be fine just use
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discernment just like you would in
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English you wouldn't say fight scene
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things at the restaurant and vice versa
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it'll be the same in Japanese and it's
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not that hard to decipher you'll be fine
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but understand that the fundamentals
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will carry over this is optional but use
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documents titled after the video you
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watching to fill in vocabulary knowledge
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gaps this is something I used to do for
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some things say I watch a TED talk in
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Japanese and there's a lot of words that
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they use I'll have a sheet named after
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that with the link and and I would have
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the vocabulary words there create a
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neonic Association and so on this was
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just if I didn't know the word already
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okay step 2B which is more important in
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my opinion is to make or find several
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hundred sentences in every category
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around your life and drill those this
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means basic interrogatives small talk
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things around work school where you're
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from all that uh Hobbies interests
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anything like that that evolves evolves
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anything that involves the same things
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that you would talk about in English
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these are the things you want to do in
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the target language too a note about
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translators and chat GPT I know people
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talk bad about it but in my experience
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they're actually really accurate the
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problem people have is they don't know
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how to use them and so they give it a
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bad rap but if you use it correctly in
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context that's all you have to do just
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use it in context it's actually pretty
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good most of the Japanese I learned when
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I was at work in Japan was right from
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Google Translate and I would say those
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sentences at work just fine and everyone
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understood me I still got paid a lot of
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money and so on but if you put in
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isolation words or just some random
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thought that doesn't have a context it
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may give you the wrong meaning chat GPT
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is even better in my opinion because you
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can prompt it to say hey give me 30
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sentences about Jiu-Jitsu in Japanese
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and it can just spit them out right away
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and now you have practice for the next
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couple days right there and a comforting
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note again whatever you study the
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fundamentals will carry over especially
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certain things like Combat Sports you'll
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have to learn how to say if something
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happens then do this that fundamental is
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very useful in just normal language in
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general my opinion of sentences is that
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they're Frameworks and the more
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Frameworks you learn the better and the
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more you drill these all you have to do
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is change out the subjects and the
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vocabulary words whenever you need to so
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me in my brain when I'm speaking
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Japanese these I basically say the
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skeleton of a sentence and then I just
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pick a vocab word to put in place that's
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in my opinion that's how a language kind
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of works without you really having to
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think about it and another comforting
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note here we're not trying to be perfect
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okay I'm going to tell you from
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firsthand experience no one cares in
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Japan if your accent's off or you say a
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couple things wrong no one really cares
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even at work where I was getting paid to
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speak correct Japanese no one cared I
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still got a lot of money I still had a
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lot of clients everything was fine
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and honestly I would say America is the
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only place where people get upset that
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you don't speak the local language like
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if you listen to me talk I don't have
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the best pitch accent sometimes the
00:19:09
consonants are not sustained like they
00:19:11
should be and so on there's a lot of
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mistakes I can make but it doesn't
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really matter and it's never mattered we
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do not care plus I'm not Japanese I am
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0% Japanese so to me it really doesn't
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matter if you're Japanese well if you're
00:19:25
Japanese learning from me that's crazy
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but if you're Japanese maybe it matters
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but even then just say hey I didn't
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learn it growing up I learned it from
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some black guy on the internet but if
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you're not Japanese really just don't
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stress it I know some people they
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hesitate to get the speaking practice in
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or they hesitate to actually go use the
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language because they're too afraid of
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how they're going to sound they're too
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afraid of the input that they're going
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to get or the feedback that they're
00:19:51
going to get but I promise you it's okay
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okay some other Concepts to keep in mind
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is I said this a little bit earlier but
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use chat G PT /ai do not have a
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conversation with chat GPT because again
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that's not going to translate to real
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life you want to just get materials that
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will translate to real life so ask it to
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give you sentences ask it to create
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conversations that you can practice out
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loud ask it to explain grammar to you
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ask it to explain the ways that it's
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used take a word put it in there and
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tell it to give you several sentences
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with that word just get really creative
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with it but you can leverage a I in such
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a good way that you can get a week's
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worth of work done and just a few
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minutes of typing and now you have an
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action plan for the entire week so
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really leverage that you know it used to
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take me a long time to do this stuff
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from scratch notebooks Google Docs all
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that now you can just type it in and you
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got everything of course this is still
00:20:50
really hard work because you have to do
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a lot of deliberate practice listening
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and speaking out loud and all that kind
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of thing but you get a lot of The
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Upfront work out of the way okay I'm
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going to talk about making the process
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fun so as you can tell everything I've
00:21:02
said so far it's not really that fun
00:21:04
studying a bunch of vocab words drilling
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the same sentences it's not really a fun
00:21:09
process so I would say on some days if
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you need a break or you feel like you're
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a little bit burnt out then you can opt
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for the more passive options or you can
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just take a day off but I would also add
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that maybe you should see the end result
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as fun you know watching Juju kaon or
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JoJo's bizar Adventure or something with
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no subtitles see that as fun take a
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break when you need to and like I said
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use passive methods when you want that
00:21:34
break but really try to push yourself a
00:21:38
bit and see how much discomfort you can
00:21:40
deal with and try to get to that goal
00:21:43
because that is way more fun than trying
00:21:46
to watch kids shows in Japanese and all
00:21:49
this other stuff because you know what
00:21:51
you actually want to watch the quicker
00:21:53
you can get there the faster you can
00:21:55
actually enjoy it okay the next one is
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space repetition and my experience space
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repetition is a natural process that's
00:22:01
just going to happen you don't have to
00:22:03
schedule days you don't have to schedule
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times it can be 10 minutes it can be a
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day it can be a week it's just going to
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happen naturally in general when you're
00:22:12
learning once you kind of have it down
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just move on to the next thing if you
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know I'm going to use the same word
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chasu if you can say it out loud and you
00:22:21
understand the meaning move on to the
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next thing by the time that word comes
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up again see if you remember it that is
00:22:26
a space repetition you don't have to
00:22:28
really calculate this okay now I'm going
00:22:30
to talk about why I really believe in
00:22:32
this method and why I believe it's the
00:22:33
absolute best way to learn a language
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with my experience and this is something
00:22:37
I call the Hinata realization so to make
00:22:40
a long story short I was working out at
00:22:42
a gym in Japan and the manager I used to
00:22:45
talk to all the time wanted to hire me
00:22:47
so we kind of did the interview while I
00:22:49
was resting between sets and I asked him
00:22:51
a lot of questions and that was it I got
00:22:53
the job however the only problem was I
00:22:56
was conversationally fluent but I
00:22:58
couldn't would talk about anything a
00:23:00
personal trainer would do or I didn't
00:23:02
have a certification or any of that I
00:23:04
had two weeks to do this so I had to
00:23:06
learn about how to say all these Fitness
00:23:08
movements Breathe In and Out certain
00:23:10
posture certain positions hydration diet
00:23:13
nutrition all this other stuff keep your
00:23:16
knees outside of your toes when you
00:23:17
squat you know all the trainer type
00:23:19
stuff I had two weeks to learn this
00:23:21
stuff and so basically what I did is
00:23:23
exactly what I'm telling you here I got
00:23:24
all the vocab words I needed and I
00:23:26
started making a whole lot of sentences
00:23:28
with Google translate on just gym talk I
00:23:31
would just create sentences I thought of
00:23:34
every possible gym scenario that I could
00:23:37
so I could fill in as much gaps as
00:23:38
possible in that two weeks the result of
00:23:40
this is that a lot of the vocabulary
00:23:42
words and sentences that I had trained
00:23:44
at home with no one else it actually
00:23:47
came out pretty natural when I had to
00:23:49
use it with clients they all understood
00:23:51
me just fine I could understand the
00:23:53
things that they were asking me and it
00:23:55
was a really big realization for me at
00:23:57
the time how however I was still having
00:23:59
to process it this is where the Hinata
00:24:01
part comes in my client Hinata at the
00:24:03
time this was the day where everything
00:24:06
felt subconscious and I had realized it
00:24:09
about halfway through the session that
00:24:11
the entire time I was not thinking
00:24:13
everything she was saying I was just
00:24:15
processing it and everything I was
00:24:16
saying back to her it was just coming
00:24:18
out just one thought the sentence came
00:24:21
out and she understood me this is why I
00:24:23
call it the Hinata realization because
00:24:25
that day when I was training Hinata it
00:24:28
really clicked for me that this method
00:24:30
is probably the best thing ever as far
00:24:32
as language learning I remember going
00:24:33
home that day and just being really
00:24:36
excited because that had never really
00:24:37
happened to me before as far as finding
00:24:40
something that was extremely useful to
00:24:43
work in that short amount of time now
00:24:45
with all of this it is difficult again I
00:24:47
think I said that before but this is a
00:24:49
difficult process this is not an easy
00:24:52
effortless process but it's fast it's
00:24:56
faster than you think it's extremely
00:24:58
fast the problem with the fast part
00:25:00
though is that you're cramming a lot of
00:25:03
the pain into a small amount of time but
00:25:06
I truly believe it's worth it because by
00:25:08
the time someone else is just now
00:25:11
learning how to say oh I want to go to
00:25:13
the store in the morning you can be
00:25:15
watching anime and you only have to look
00:25:17
up a few words okay I want to talk about
00:25:19
immersion real quick and why it does not
00:25:21
work for most people so immersion in
00:25:24
general requires a lot of deliberate
00:25:25
practice okay when most people people
00:25:28
say immersion they think put on a
00:25:31
podcast listen to Japanese all day and
00:25:34
passively do things I'm going to tell
00:25:36
you now passive efforts don't really
00:25:39
give you results as an adult I think our
00:25:41
brains we just have too much to think
00:25:43
about and these passive efforts don't
00:25:45
really do anything for us immersion
00:25:47
requires a lot of deliberate practice
00:25:49
many people I hear will say oh you know
00:25:52
move to the country and acquire the
00:25:55
language and you know you're around it
00:25:56
and you become fluent that's not how it
00:25:58
works I can promise you now you will
00:26:01
never learn a language like that
00:26:02
immersion is a deliberate practice that
00:26:04
you have to do on your own and then you
00:26:06
use it when you can I lived in Japan for
00:26:10
about a decade and I can tell you now
00:26:12
most of the foreigners I met did not
00:26:14
know Japanese because ironically Japan
00:26:17
does have subtitles I know that sounds
00:26:19
weird to say but everything you need to
00:26:21
do has some sort of an English
00:26:23
translation if it's that important now
00:26:26
your life is going to be extremely
00:26:27
Limited in Japan if you go there and you
00:26:29
don't learn Japanese but if you're just
00:26:31
looking to get around or only hang out
00:26:33
with your other American friends or
00:26:35
people who speak English you can
00:26:37
actually get by just not knowing much
00:26:39
Japanese so I say all that to say if
00:26:41
your version of immersion is active and
00:26:43
it's a lot of deliberate work then yes
00:26:45
immersion is very useful but if it's
00:26:48
passive or you think putting on Japanese
00:26:51
audio while you go to the gym and all
00:26:54
that is going to make you fluent it's
00:26:56
not going to do anything your brain is
00:26:57
just going to tune it out and not much
00:26:59
is going to happen I also want to say
00:27:01
this in a friendly way not like uh an
00:27:04
attacking way so if you have been doing
00:27:06
the passive way I would just invite you
00:27:08
to come on over to the active side okay
00:27:10
let's talk about the writing system now
00:27:13
because I haven't addressed this yet in
00:27:14
my opinion this is what you should do
00:27:16
learn hiana and Katakana these only take
00:27:19
maybe two weeks to learn completely to
00:27:22
the point where you can read Japanese
00:27:24
they're not that hard kanji however I
00:27:26
would say do not touch it until until
00:27:28
you can speak and understand the
00:27:30
language with confidence to add to that
00:27:32
all Kani can be read with hiana and
00:27:35
Katakana there's this thing called fuana
00:27:38
where the kanji is written and there's
00:27:40
hiana on top of it so it actually allows
00:27:43
you to read kanji when you need it you
00:27:45
can also use the computer to read kanji
00:27:47
you know it can put it in romaji which
00:27:49
is the characterized version and that's
00:27:52
what you really should be using but
00:27:54
kanji is something again you just want
00:27:56
to wait it's so much time have to put
00:27:58
into it for no benefit so just be aware
00:28:02
of that something else to note is the
00:28:04
double consonants and the extended
00:28:07
sounds and all that pay attention to
00:28:09
that cuz that is a big part of speech
00:28:11
but as long as you have that down in the
00:28:13
heagan upart you'll be fine you really
00:28:15
don't need Kani at all that's my
00:28:17
experience at least and I believe this
00:28:19
is just the most practical approach when
00:28:21
I was living in Japan what I saw was a
00:28:24
lot of people who didn't speak Japanese
00:28:26
or understand it on the inverse they
00:28:29
knew how to write it they knew how to
00:28:30
read some of it they knew the grammar
00:28:32
rules and all that but when it came to
00:28:35
actually talking to people there was a
00:28:37
blank that was drawn there was really no
00:28:40
skill there and unfortunately this is
00:28:42
the traditional way that people think
00:28:44
you should learn a language when
00:28:46
actually it's the opposite you should
00:28:48
learn to listen and understand and speak
00:28:50
it and leverage those little things like
00:28:52
grammar and all that to just speak and
00:28:56
understand better I read a lot of
00:28:58
Japanese now but this is a result of
00:29:01
sheer exposure and just years of being
00:29:04
around the kanji that I needed I'm going
00:29:06
to talk about this later as far as how I
00:29:09
learned kanji on accident but for now
00:29:12
just learn to understand and speak the
00:29:14
language so that's about it as far as
00:29:17
this part this is part one of the series
00:29:20
I'm probably going to make another video
00:29:21
and get into more detail but this video
00:29:23
alone is like almost years of work so
00:29:26
please don't neglect that come back as
00:29:28
much as you need to and revisit the
00:29:31
parts that you need to as often as you
00:29:32
can you can also ask me questions on
00:29:35
patreon or Discord or in the comments
00:29:37
there's a lot to unpack here there's a
00:29:39
lot that's going on there's a lot of
00:29:41
rules that you kind of need to overwrite
00:29:43
in your head maybe because this is a
00:29:45
strange method but it works it's really
00:29:48
the reason why I can speak Japanese the
00:29:50
way I do and understand it the way I do
00:29:52
and not to sound like that guy but I
00:29:54
believe this is why other people don't
00:29:56
have results it's because the deliver
00:29:59
practice is key here so just keep all
00:30:03
this in mind and really stick with this
00:30:05
process and I'm going to put out more
00:30:08
about this so you should subscribe also
00:30:10
or I'm going to send sco out to come get
00:30:12
you but I'm going to put out more
00:30:14
information about this later and really
00:30:17
help you guys out because some people
00:30:19
see language as this thing where it's
00:30:21
impossible especially Japanese they see
00:30:23
it as impossible or they see it as you
00:30:27
had to do it when you were younger or
00:30:28
your brain's not efficient and all this
00:30:30
other stuff but none of that's true the
00:30:32
key is just deliberate practice and if
00:30:35
you do enough deliberate practice like I
00:30:37
said earlier it just becomes second
00:30:39
nature but at first yes it's extremely
00:30:41
difficult you have to think about
00:30:43
everything in detail the sounds every
00:30:46
little thing you you're going to sound
00:30:48
like you're translating in your head but
00:30:50
that's totally okay that's the point the
00:30:52
point is to get all the repetitions in
00:30:55
and if you can keep that in mind when
00:30:56
you're practicing by the time it comes
00:30:58
to use the language like watch content
00:31:01
and talk to people it becomes easier and
00:31:04
easier over time because you're getting
00:31:06
a lot of that stress out in your room
00:31:08
basically you know I remember when I
00:31:10
first started learning I was learning in
00:31:11
my late 20s
00:31:13
intently but I remember all the limiting
00:31:17
beliefs that I heard other people say
00:31:20
but then I thought about it and I said
00:31:21
well you know maybe they actually don't
00:31:23
work hard you know and I'm not trying to
00:31:25
say that in a rude way but many people
00:31:27
people are confused about what they're
00:31:29
actually doing or if they're doing
00:31:31
things correctly and so when I really
00:31:34
just blocked all that out and I took my
00:31:37
own method into account it gave me so
00:31:39
much results and so much Clarity that I
00:31:42
want that for other people you know even
00:31:44
to this day I'll watch anime or I'll
00:31:46
watch content or I'll scroll real a lot
00:31:50
of my Instagram is Japanese algorithm
00:31:52
based because that's what I watch and
00:31:54
I'll watch that stuff and I can
00:31:55
understand it and it still surprises me
00:31:59
to this day and I've been doing this for
00:32:00
years but I always think about how
00:32:02
impossible I thought this was or how I
00:32:05
thought it would always be this I have
00:32:07
to translate and read sentences out of
00:32:10
my head and I can't make it stick but
00:32:12
that's not true just really take the
00:32:14
deliberate practice into account and
00:32:17
you're going to get the same results
00:32:18
that I have or even better really but if
00:32:20
you made it this far into the video
00:32:22
towards the end then I really believe
00:32:24
you have it you have what it takes to
00:32:26
become fluent I'm not some special
00:32:28
superum I'm not any of that I just
00:32:31
understand the basics of deliberate
00:32:34
repetition and how that leads to
00:32:35
subconscious Mastery and leveraging that
00:32:39
is the absolute best thing I've ever
00:32:41
done for language learning and if you do
00:32:43
this and really take the time to do it
00:32:46
one month of language study for you is
00:32:49
really I I don't know a exact number or
00:32:52
anything but it's going to be like 6
00:32:54
months of someone else doing the more
00:32:56
drawn out method so come back to this
00:32:58
video whenever you need to click through
00:33:00
it take some notes all that ask me
00:33:03
questions whatever you have to do just
00:33:05
take these ideas in mind and try to get
00:33:07
those results that you're looking for
00:33:09
and as a note Japanese was the first
00:33:11
language that I learned I didn't speak
00:33:13
anything before that and I remember
00:33:16
people telling me that I was crazy for
00:33:18
learning Japanese first because it's so
00:33:20
difficult for an English speaker but
00:33:22
again just keep all this in mind so I
00:33:25
believe in you you got it I'm going to
00:33:27
play piano Channel now so I love you
00:33:29
guys and I'll see you in the next one
00:33:31
peace
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