Japanese Progress Update - 6 Months | Refold/Immersion Learning

I recently got back into learning using Japanese immersion with refold, MIA, TheMoeWay, AJATT methods and thought I'd post an update video for how I got started again and what I've been doing for the past 2 months.
Sorry for rambling a lot, I recorded this after being awake for 30 hours.
- - - RESOURCE LINKS - - -
- TheMoeWay resource list
learnjapanese.moe/resources/
- LearnNatively - Reading recommendations
learnnatively.com/user/hullo/...
learnnatively.com
- Mokuro - Manga OCR
github.com/kha-white/mokuro
- TMW eBook Collection
nyaa.si/?f=0&c=3_3&q=TMW+eBoo...
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00:00 - Intro
00:11 - 1 - 4 months
02:47 - Starting again
05:08 - Reading
11:51 - Listening
13:16 - Stats
14:23 - Future plans
15:49 - Outro

[@LokitoGFX]

bro 100 new cards A DAY IN ANKI???

[@ganqqwerty]

I'm at 8 months mark, but I'm a heavy listener: about 900 hours of listening and less than 100 hours of reading. Hmm, maybe less than 50 hours of reading. I am trying to get more reading, but it really feels harder than listening. Your vocab increases so quickly and your anki time is so low, it's amazing! I guess it's all because of reading. Best of luck!

[@EllaRayTur]

Thank you! I love these kinds of videos- so motivating!

[@b-san948]

it's great to see you come back!

[@Test_749]

he is back!!

[@KY-ki1vt]

If you live in the US, you could visit some Japanese dense places like Seattle's Japan town

[@UCantNinjaMe]

i wish you best man

[@derpauleglot9772]

Thank you so much! Some of these resources will come in handy :) By the way, how’d you find the clips you used in the video? Some of them were quite fitting and finding them manually would take a lot of time.

[@rlaouse]

back from the dead

[@apdo6107]

hype

[@ajanaethompson8445]

Progress. 👍

[@ganqqwerty]

Podcasts maybe help you with listening a bit, because you can do simple chores or walks during listening while still being concentrated

[@GloriaTheAnimator]

what kind of manga did you read? i cant seem to find any manga i can really understand without having to look a new word every 3 minutes

[@hulloh]

I still have to look up words a lot while reading but thanks to Mokuro + Yomitan it's not too bad compared to using Jisho or another dictionary. Some easier manga are からかい上手の高木さん, レンタルおにいちゃん, ルリドラゴン and of course よつばと!

[@carlosmoran1920]

Does someone know where to see ”僕の心のやばいやつ“?このアニメは本当に見たいんだでも字幕付けだけで

[@hulloh]

You could try hianime, you'd probably need to use asbplayer and download jp subtitles for it though (probably from jimaku)

[@aqurial]

Weren't the reviews too overwhelming while doing 100 cards of anki ?😭😭 how much reviews did u have to do everyday

[@teleotter2833]

ik he has to be lying because there’s no way by week one he’s doing at least 500 cards a day and then he says it only takes 30 minutes

[@teleotter2833]

my 250 cards takes an hour and a half 😭😭

[@teleotter2833]

and i’m only doing plus 10 cards a day maybe 5

[@aqurial]

@@teleotter2833 yeah lol i do 20 cards and i have like 120 reviews everyday it takes me like 20 mins lmao

[@hulloh]

I'd already "learnt" this deck a year ago which is why it didn't take long long to finish daily, I only did 100 cards a day until I started to not recognize the majority of words (after a week or so) and then eventually settled on 20 daily until I finished the deck. Of course, if I was doing 100 new cards a day I'd never seen before, on top of reviews, it would take me hours. I've kept track of all my times so far and the highest it's been was 35 minutes (first day of starting again).

[@cod4148]

to state the obvious: your listening hours are very low. what are your thoughts on passive listening in the background? Khatzumoto says every moment you should be listening to Japanese

[@hulloh]

I have done a lot of passive listening (for most of the 200 hours of reading manga I had a stream playing in the background) but now that I'm reading novels I can't really focus with any talking or songs with lyrics in the background. I'm already spending almost all of my free time actively immersing so there's not much room left to add passive in. I also feel like I saw more improvement from 10-15 hours of active listening compared to 100+ hours of passive so it's not really a priority for me at the moment.

[@ashtonchretien]

Could someone tell me how tf a beginner can use the core 2k/6k deck with all the new vocab and kanji

[@Oldbettie]

Just start with like 4-5 new cards a day and just do it. It sounds daunting but once you get the hang of it it's fun. I'm upto 8 new cards per day which puts me about 3000 words per year. I also do a few sentences for reviews it takes me about an hr every day

[@ashtonchretien]

@@Oldbettie so just brute force? You actually find you remember all that new stuff

[@Oldbettie]

It's not brute force it's doing something you want to learn and immersing in it. We learn by doing, if we don't do we can't learn. I don't remember every single kanji every day but over time they add up

[@menzoie643]

goal is to reread punpun in japanese haha

[@j5679]

the volume is a bit low but apart from that cool video