JLPT N1 in 1.5 Years instead of Gaming? Stevijs 3 Story & AJATT Reddit Q&A - Deep Weeb Podcast # 9

[@Arctagon]

Edited to look more organised. *Intro/Goals* 2:13 What micro & macro goals do you have? *Japanese / Language* 6:41 How did you go about learning English? 10:24 How in the world have you managed to make English stick to this point? 11:43 What led you to get into Japanese? 13:25 What are your goals with Japanese? 37:38(3:03, 14:25) Any plans to live there? 16:49 Where is your Japanese ability now? What can and can’t you do? 18:39 What’s the last piece of content that you found very challenging? / 幼女戦記 21:44 What’s a piece of content that you found challenging but learned how to overcome? 25:03 What’s been the most challenging aspect of learning Japanese? 28:00 What does maintenance of your Japanese ability look like? Is there an “exit” strategy? (On average, how many hours are you spending with Japanese per day?) 30:00 From Mysterious_Parsley30: Has there ever been a point where you feel like you overestimated your growth or ability? *Method* 31:54 Do you have any methodology that you use, such as the Pomodoro technique or timeboxing? 39:00 You have extensively documented the time you’ve spent on Japanese. What brought that on? 42:58 What does your toolkit look like? (google sheets, anki, …?) - (43:15 If you went back to 2018, would you have tracked or done anything differently? ) 47:47 Shadowing 55:39 You distinguish between Native & Wild Sentences - what do you mean by those? 59:15 How do you use frequency lists as an advanced learner? Target numbers? How do you balance obscurity with usefulness past the 10k card mark? 1:02:04 Pass/fail percentage in Anki 1:03:53 How do you deal with leeches? 1:06:25 Sentence cards vs. vocab cards 1:12:41 From Fvnes: Do you have a different perspective in some particular area with MIA? (monolingual transition, anki usage, etc.) 1:13:55 From MobileMally: What’s your stance on subtitles? *General* 1:18:24 From ZeonPeonTree: Any plans for another language? 1:19:41 From ZeonPeonTree: Any plateaus or phases of discouragement? 1:21:06 What milestones have you found? Roughly how many hours did it take to reach these milestone? Average hours per day? 1:23:41 Any tips for people at these marks? 1:25:05 From Junglecreature99: How did you fit so much time for Japanese while balancing university, personal development, and life in general? 1:31:18 You would consider the time spent listening during your walks as part of your active listening time, is that correct? 1:32:42 Do you have any idea how big of a difference passive immersion has made for you? 1:34:09 Any recommendations for how to break into audiobooks? Did you start with or ever use Audiobook + text reading? 1:37:07 You’ve mentioned reading manga feels unproductive. How are you balancing fun with productivity? 1:46:26 Any plans for production RTK? 1:48:27 How do you recommend people consume content such as yours or this interview? How do you balance meta learning / L1 entertainment? 1:50:09 When will you get to a point that you feel comfortable with Legend of the Galactic Heroes? 1:52:47 What non-language learning activities have been the most impactful on your abilities? (exercise, morning routine, etc. ?) 2:01:36 From MobileMally: What’s your current opinion on Morphman? How has your usage of the tool evolved? 2:03:06 Is there anything practical related to NS you would recommend listeners look into? *Closing* 2:04:34 From Chu-Chu-Island: What anime is he watching right now? What are his Top 5 Anime? Bottom 5 Anime? 2:13:52 You mentioned Band-Maid was music you got into, what other Japanese bands are you into? 2:15:58 What’s one piece of advice you’d give to someone on the path to learning a new skill?

[@KanjiEater]

Thank you so much! I've updated the description & will give you a shout-out on the next podcast. This is awesome!

[@Arctagon]

Oh, I'm not sure that's necessary, I just thought I'd add timestamps while watching. Thank you for the interesting interview. (I also didn't expect my comment to be pinned. I'll edit it to look more organised.)

[@RosalioRedPanda]

I’m impressed by the quality of this video for such a small channel. Valuable content.

[@KanjiEater]

Thank you, Please do give it a share! More Deep Weeb should be coming this month.

[@chido5945]

This dude is my motivation. I look forward to passing the n1 in two years just as he did.

[@OpuYT]

The good thing about being non-native english speaker is, you know the immersion method just works because most people (including me) of my age here in germany who are good in english in school just immersed in english through the internet for years and learned it like that. Without english I wouldn't have dicovered the whole Ajatt/MIA theory and if my youtube wouldn't be mostly in english I probably wouldn't be watching this video now (thanks btw, really interesting) I'm really motivated now, I just started with sentence mining two weeks ago :D

[@rimenahi]

I really admire how he documented all the hours he spent on Japanese day by day. Thanks for the interview with Stevijs3.

[@gitte6248]

When I watched his videos a few months ago for the first time, I thought he's a 19 years old guy who just finished high school and has wayyy to much free time and that's why he got so good in Japanese in no time 😂😂 happy to hear that he's from the same generation as I am and binged watched RTL2 as I did. Motivational interview which shows me, I definitely need to read more. The maintenance part is the most interesting one, because it's really hard to get back when you didn't do any Japanese for a few months due to university. 🙈

[@nailer1216]

Enjoyed the interview. It’s always amazing to the high number of interests a have in common with other people in this Japanese learning community (fitness, programming, meditation, etc). It seems like Immersion language learning attracts a certain type of person.

[@meimae_]

Funny how he mentions 美人局 - a word I learned from 君の名は in the very beginning of my sentence mining - because like him, I mine and track pretty much everything that I want to regardless of frequency. Great interview to watch during an immersion break.

[@vsrock23]

Stevijs, it would be great to see you on the Let's Learn Japanese Discord. Lots of new Anki add-on discussion and method discussion.

[@awesomesepp3670]

On the RTK Part: Hell yeah it is soo painful to fail a kanji with 25 strokes and you know this will hurt your scedule soo much. Only those who did classic RTK can feel the tragedy of that moment. You feel a little crack in your most inner parts. Once I die, my soul arising to heaven will look like 金継ぎ.

[@03e-210a]

My man is really clear and concise. I read a comment on one of his videos somewhere. “The german robot” The man is damned consistent which is something really rare in many learners

[@chickenwings273]

I really appreciate this podcast! Great content and very interesting and inspiring thank you!!

[@DengueBurger]

I’m actually the same with adjectives etc. easy to just know/acquire it without learning it. It was only until fairly recently that I really figured out what the other things were because it’s basically the lingo of most language books in school and online.

[@damlurker]

I thought I was going overboard with spreadsheets until I saw this guy lol.

[@whiteninjaplus5]

Him mentioning multi timer is a big help my dumb ass had multiple apps installed

[@KanjiEater]

That's pretty funny. I've been using Brain Focus, which is aimed as a pomodoro timer. I was planning on checking out multi timer though now that he mentioned it. I'm not really doing small timeboxes anymore, and multiple timers would be more useful at this point.

[@neversleep4334]

Great interview! What is the rhyming song that was mentioned as a warm-up that contains all the sounds? But also what type of tablet is he referring to using? I'm a newb when it comes to tablets and kindles >.

[@KanjiEater]

あめんぼのうた is the song. he mentions it in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXPcaKFtr6pppJI Here's a link to the actual lyrics: www.benricho.org/kotoba_lesson/yoko_hakusyuu-50on-hurigana.html He's talking about his IPad. Glad you enjoyed the interview! Thanks for watching!

[@gaburierupeppas5628]

yo Kanji, what is the add-on that colors text in web pages to add pitch accent information? I couldn't quite discern what he was saying while casually listening earlier (where can I find it, is it free, etc.)? thank you in advance

[@KanjiEater]

It was part of the migaku browser add-on I think - but honestly I don't know what it's current state is as they all went through a large change and merging add-ons in anki and into an updated browser add-on. It's not clear to me what's currently free or not in migaku so might be best to ask someone from migaku to get a better answer.

[@gaburierupeppas5628]

@@KanjiEater thanks!

[@badstylecherry7255]

Yo is that a Converge poster you got there Kanji Eater?

[@KanjiEater]

Yes, & you are the first person to acknowledge it. 🧎‍♂

[@DengueBurger]

Where do you guys “acquire” raw/Japanese manga

[@RosalioRedPanda]

nyaa (dot) si

[@XgamersXdimensions]

When talking about Tablets vs Kindle is he mainly talking about getting an Ipad?

[@KanjiEater]

Yes

[@Chonchyyy]

20:24 銀河英雄伝説 ?

[@KanjiEater]

I think if I remember right, it was actuall Fate/Stay night, as he remembers later in the video. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here though

[@hereinspiration227]

Is this zoom? Quality cool

[@KanjiEater]

Skype + OBS screen capture

[@ryvlaw]

If it only took him 1,5 years and a total of 3500 study hours, then he studied 7 hours every day. Seriously?

[@Ingenium04]

It took him around 2500 hours, and studied around 5 - 5:30 hours. See his 1,5 year progress video, he shows all his stats