wonderful video

Really enjoyed your videos and insights this year Josh, onwards and upwards, looking forward to 2025 and seeing what happens! 😊

this was a wonderful video from you as always! im wishing you a beautiful 2025 🎉

今年の全部の動画をありがとう！来年も頑張って！楽しみ！

Great video. I think many people outside Japan just come to Japan and think "Japan weird lol", but there is usually a logic or reason behind how things are done there. If someone doesn't like the Japan way that's fine, but at least you are willing to understand it, instead of writing it off as just weird or just bad.

Thank you for sharing your reflections with us; your open mindedness and ability to learn about new perspectives requires a respectable amount of emotional intelligence. This video speaks wonders of your character! Also, I hope you have a very wonderful new year in 2025 + I look forward to your upcoming videos!!

You and your partner are absolutely beautiful together just from what I've seen in this video! Not to mention how gorgeous the scenery is around you two as well 🧡 You've uploaded another masterpiece as always!

I hope more people adopt this kind of mindset - the world would be much kinder and less combative. Thank you for sharing this with us 😊

What a Grade A video. They keep getting better! The camerawork of course as well. Perhaps these new perspectives can be applied to how you make videos as well. Curious as to if they already have in some small ways.

Really enjoyed the video. I enjoyed your thoughts and reflections. And the shots were just so beautiful! Just wow. Thank you for all the hard work editing and making these.

wow the opening shot is beautiful!

I loved this one, very interesting, thanks Josh 😊

it's lovely to see this as im 25 and been worrying that if i study and save before going to language school i'd be to old as I'll be 28 when ready to make the move. this reinstalled some confidents in my plan, thank you!

Pet everything! Love seeing the different shots and feelings you capture with your cinematography! Have any plans to hike 富士山?

Definitely on the bucket list now, so beautiful, another great vid Josh 😊

Josh, いつも通り本当に優雅で役に立つ動画ありがとうございます！この間Joshのショートを見たんですが、N2の試験どうでしたかな？僕はN3受けたんですが思ったよりうまくいったかなと思っています！そもそもテストの結果と日本語の能力あまりに関係がないと思いますが、それでも少しやる気が出てきますね？最近は頑張り気味になってきていますね。😅そう言えば少し聞きたいことがあるんですが、大阪のISI日本語の学校に興味あります。もしかしたら東京キャンパスと大阪キャンパス違うんですが、大体ISIが好きなんですか？もしおすすめがあれば、教えてもらえるとすごく嬉しいです！！😊

Beautiful place, :)

Great advice!! Cheers :)

Good luck mate! Hope it goes/went well! 🇬🇧

I was wondering how things were going! Good luck :)

Good luck! and have fun!

I appreciate the videos you upload, as your channel has been very insightful and well-crafted. I'm also an ISI student, so it has been helpful hearing you reflect on your learning progress as you continue along your journey. Best of luck, and looking forward to your future updates

Wow. The videos and shots you take are amazing! You are amazingly talented as a video photographer! All the shots look so amazing! Your thoughts and commentary is also so insightful. Finding a study method that works for me all the time has been impossible, but I love always branching out and trying to find new ways to learn. I'm not at all as good at it as you, but I like how you do not only have a passion for learning japanese. But also a bit of a passion for learning how to learn.

Always enjoy tuning in and getting updates! Good luck in your 3rd semester!!

So beautiful!

I was looking for videos introducing how the day by day life of a foreign student in Japanese language school in Japan, and I found and watched one of your videos, just love the way how you tell the story and watched all the videos of your channel from the beginning. Thank you for sharing!

I always look forward to when you upload and this video is no exception! What a wonderful relationship you have with your partner - y’all are all smiles and laughter! ❤ Many blessings to you both. Thank you again for another insightful video.

amazing video, thanks a lot.

Josh, 素敵な旅で素晴らしい富士箱根の自然をシェアしてくれてありがとうございます！やっぱりJoshはJoshの恋人と過ごしたら、ニコニコ輝く笑顔しているなと思います！😊旅でパートナーがJoshの日本語が聞こえる機会がありましたかな？

Attended the language school for 2 years back when I was 33. Learning Japanese was the easy part. The hardest part was trying to juggle between school, doing baito part time job to be able to afford paying for current school tuition, rent and food, while at the dame time going through hell which is job hunting in Japan (especially as a non-native English speaker, meaning you aren't wanted anywhere), so I would be able to stay in Japan after school graduation, because going to college was too expensive to even think about. While also trying to find time and willpower to somehow do homework. Finding a day to go explore the country or basically have free time for yourself, other than sleep time, was like a luxury. There were students who worked like 2-3 part time jobs and even broke the "no more than 28 hour per week" rule just to be able to pay for school and college. Our class had older students I their 60-70s though, who were there just to study and then go home. So you can do it at any age if you have the will to study (and enough savings to sustain yourself during that period) you will have a good time.

This gives off Awakenwith JP vibes so hard lol

Hey Josh, could I please know the name of the anime at 4:50? 😊

Age is fairly irrelevant these days … got my PhD at 40 after a long absence from formal education … and that took 3 years of full time study.

Joshさんの全ての動画をありがとうございます！次の動画を楽しみ！

かっこいい　ドウガ　です　😊

Thanks for the video Josh! Found it super interesting as a future japanese student (next year I'll be at ISI too). Please keep us updated of your journey!

That was adorable. ☺ You're a wonderful storyteller! Happy for you both and so glad to hear she was able to come visit you!

Another great video Josh. Excited for more!

Thank you for this insightful take on your life in Japan. Its always fascinating to learn about how different people and cultures live compared to our own.

I really hope Japanese culture can survive into the future!

Very nice narrative!

A beautiful upload ,thank you :)

I spent five years working on German and got no where, that was last millennium. I’ve now picked it up again the last two years and I’m finally seeing some progress with self directed learning. I couldn’t cope in a classroom. I’ve finally made it to starting on B1 level work (CERF) and I can understand the recorded A2 level exams available on KZbin, test as A2/B1 level on free online tests etc and talk about basic topics with my German colleagues. If I was dumped in the middle of Germany with no resources one of my colleagues told me they thought I’d PROBABLY not die. High praise indeed! Certainly an improvement over not being able to anything more than book a hotel room and order a pizza, which is what I could just about manage when I left school. I’ve been trying to learn to knit for forty years off and on, despite finding no difficulty with crochet. Knitting is very difficult for me. I have had to get special needles and use stitch markers every few stitches. I’ve had to try multiple different ways of holding the needles and yarn and accomplishing the stitches. It’s taken nearly a year this time to learn to do the two basic stitches. I’m finally getting somewhere. Ultimately, we’re all better at some things than others. Do you need to do the thing? Do you enjoy the journey? Are you particularly stubborn or interested in the challenge? If any of those are true you will find a way through. For me it just takes a long time and I have to find a method that works for me. I don’t learn in a normal way. But I can keep picking and choosing from other people until I find enough things that work that I make progress. Energy beating myself up is energy wasted. There are things I can do that others can’t. I’m too old to worry about some non existent competition. .

All this effort and tools seems a bit like a perfect procrastination technique

Hi Josh, nice to see this video. Well, kinda sucks getting older aren't we? 😂 Dang I hope people just be able to appreciate our experience instead of our ages.

Mate, when i watch you speaking japanese, its just a dream for me, im 54 and at the biggining of my japanese language journey, my wifes japanese , my kids are fluent, my dream is to be able to talk at your level! i think its all a matter of perspective, iv learnt i will never be the ajatt utuber whose fluent in 2 years. Ill be happy if i can just get to n5! your inspirational Josh, and i think as long as your enjoying the journey,thats the main thing 😊

Josh, 最近このチャンネルが見つかってとーても面白になと思って勉強になりました！実は２０２６三月ぐらい妻と一緒に日本に引っ越する予定があるんだけど日本語の学校も入院したくて少しずつ日本語と日本文化がわかるようになりたいと思います！Joshみたいに自分で日本に行く前に一生懸命勉強していますのに結構失敗がるんですね😅多分Joshの感情がわかりやいと思ってしかも対策も役に立つことあるんです！感謝します！もちろん、僕は知らない人ですが、頑張ってくださいね！一緒に夢を果たしましようね！

Wow 😍

I’m not sure how many words you’re learning everyday for class but of course you need to prepare for class and make that the priority. And then if you have time go ahead an review (Anki or whatever). That makes total sense. It’s been a while since I was in school but I remember missing homework assignments because particularly in foreign language classes because I was tired at the end of the class and the teacher (as it seemed to me) didn’t make any effort to bring it to my attention. It seemed they would say it or write it when I wasn’t paying attention on purpose. After it happened a couple times I would check with the teacher on my way out for the homework. They found this annoying making me wonder if they really weren’t trying to sneak it in without me noticing 😂. (They probably just didn’t like repeating themselves)

I’m not sure how many words you’re learning everyday for class but of course you need to prepare for class and make that the priority. And then if you have time go ahead an review (Anki or whatever). That makes total sense.