What is the AJATT Endgame? INTERVIEWING GEORGE IN KOREA

Today i interviewed my friend George in Korea. We discussed learning Korean vs Japanese, life in Korea, the AJATT endgame, and more.
George's channel: / @ginkorea
Patreon: patreon.com/SevenStop
DISCORD SERVER: / discord
Discord tag: sevenstop
Timestamps
0:00 - intro
2:14 - How similar are Japanese and Korean?
11:58 - Will George learn another language?
15:26 - Resources
25:55 - Korean social and economic issues (i.e. demographic crisis)
34:42 - Reading vs listening (vocab & redpill tangent)
47:19 - How early should you output? How to improve?
49:45 - Korean/language learning community, Refold, & Anki
1:03:01 - Korean learners
1:08:30 - What is the AJATT Endgame?
1:18:43 - What did AJATT teach you?
1:22:13 - What skills did you learn from doing KZbin?
1:23:52 - Outro

[@mumu32]

Enjoyed listening to this. Honestly I think the endgame, should be to just live life smoothly in Japan and be able to use Japanese at a decent level in the workplace if needed, not perfection or 'native level' because that's a massive time sink. I especially agree with the end part that you should draw a line when you're fluent and pivot into something else. I assume that most hardcore learners/ajatters are aiming to work and live in Japan at some point, but it's a trap to only focus on Japanese. I can't stress enough to the youngsters thinking of doing ajatt that you want to work on a marketable skill as well because Japanese isn't a skill in Japan, everyone speaks, reads and writes it natively. The harsh reality is that even after a couple years of ajatt, while you may be fluent, you still won't be able to perform to the level as a native japanese person in the workplace, which is a disadvantage long-term career wise. If your goal is to live and work in Japan, you really want to offer some sort of value to the job market (not english teaching or translation), so you can have a job with a good WLB and decent pay and actually enjoy life in Japan and not earn peanuts and have to work overtime so you can pay the bills. Just my 2c as a guy who made some stupid mistakes lol.

[@sevenstop41]

Amazing comment! Thanks for your input!

[@ModestKnowledge]

Some of my favorite guys from the immersion learning community! Great interview guys! (Shiro aka Kiritsu)

[@NamekSaiyan]

Redpill is absolutely wholesome. Who is the Japanese face of redpill? I'm interested. Also bro, I hope your channel blows up. Your takes are very balanced. How has learning Japanese affected your personality or were you always to cool calm and collected?

[@sevenstop41]

Thank you! I used to be less calm (if you look at some of my older videos you can tell). My personality changed over the past couple years as I started to resocialize after AJATT and make friends with people who were older than me. Before college I worked full-time for a year (the period between the 2nd and 3rd year updates on this channel) and that made me mature a lot.

[@ClowdyHowdy]

Tell em George. Tell em how good they have it 😁 The tools are very mature and the whole ecosystem of immersing with Japanese is a lot easier to dive into. But this is changing as the tools get better. My favorite is Kimchi Reader. It's the best Korean learning tools for immersion learners. It parses the language better than every tool out there, makes it really easy to read stuff or look up words on vodeos on mobile and computer. I'm a huge shill for it because I don't have to think about it anymore or get dragged down by process. I just immerse. I like Korean KZbin though. I'm a big KZbin guy.

[@eieigo]

found u lmaoi've been into korean youtube about 기록법, 노트, 일기, 다이어리!! it's so good.

[@Natsuuu1315]

Congrats on 1000 subs

[@Weeb1600]

NEW ROOM DROP

[@nelic2111]

As someone who is new to the ajatt method, how many hours did you guys usually immerse a day? 4-5 hours? With breaks?

[@JetJaguarEnthusiast]

The idea is that you should immerse as much as possible, but I believe Seven Stop specifically has said at least 3 hours a day before.

[@sevenstop41]

I immersed at least 3 hours actively every day (in runtime) and usually went up to around 4. I basically did as much as I could though. Some days I would do it all day. I also passively listened from waking up to bedtime every day. Yeah I took breaks a lot, I didn't do 4 hours straight.

[@Retog]

The red pill self-development stuff is so cringe. Mostly pseudo-science and culture war nonsense. At least it was when I watched and read it 5+ years ago. Long form content about complex topics is interesting though.