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You fail when you quit.

There's a difference between passing the JLPT N1 in a year and being able to fluently speak natural Japanese in a year.

Everyone hates learning kanji but personally im having so much fun! Its exciting when I see kanji i recognize when reading. Im working on my hiragana and Katakana speed reading too and its fun. I WILL NOT GIVE UP IDC IF IT TAKES ME 10 YEARS

日本語ばっかり使ってたら、英語忘れちゃった。

People need to stop focusing on trying to learn a different language "fast". Just learn it in detail and be motivated. I've been learning Japanese for 17 years now and still can't read a lot of Kanji. I focused more on conversations and communication rather than reading comprehension. Choose what you want to learn about Japanese and then learn the grammar. That's your ticket to formulating sentences on your own. That took me a good 2 years to accomplish. Youre not gonna learn grammar and be able to have in depth conversation in 6 months, the realistic timeliness is 2-3 years. It takes the brain a while tog et acclimated to THINK in a different language and then once you start speaking it that takes another year or so to be confident in it. Language learning is a labor of love NOT a sprint.

its also very important to point out that anyone who reached fluency withing a month did so by studing 6-8 hours daily. Nearly noone has the time to do that with a regular job, kids, family, hobbies etc. So most people will take around 3-5 years to reach that level of fluency. Do you need to reach that? not really, depending on what you want to do. But you can start immersing yourself in the language with way less and then naturally acquire the language that way.

been studying for 8 months but I feel like I've been focusing on grammar and reading - I can read pretty well now but can't have a basic conversation :(

I started Japanese 15 ago, it was my major at university (alongside with English). After I graduated 🎓 I was afraid I might not remember so I started practicing on my own and been practicing for 10 years after graduation. In 2019 I started going to Japan, in order to practice as well. I went in 2019 and then 2024. I met my husband there. He's Japanese and only speaks Japanese. I'm so thankful I didn't give up, especially because at that time we didn't have the internet and resources we have today. Today, we live together in Japan but even if I speak everyday, I'd like to practice more (he uses easy Japanese with me 😂) so I'm also thankful I found your video. 勉強になりました、先生、本当にありがとうございます

今日本語が勉強するのが4年間ですが初心者です。JSSTのレブルは4です。アメリカに住んでいるので頑張っています。

As for me something I did to help my input is putting a ton of post it stickers in my appartement on every furniture I have, 椅子、鏡、冷蔵庫　and also I took many basic everyday sentences or notes and put my pages on my wall where I put my boots on in the morning.  It helped me to remember things like particles for example so each time I pass in front of them I am always tooking a look at them so its staying fresh in my head.

I’m getting ready to take the N3 exam in December. Lately I’ve been feeling like I’m still far away from achieving a meaningful mastery of the language. At first hearing you guys say that most daily conversations are around N3 level was… strange? which is when it hit me that I was listening to the video without resorting to the subtitles, which I couldn’t do a year or so ago. So I guess that is true! 心強い！

ありがとうございました

lol, N1 in 6 months 🤯
I've been studying for 12 months now and I'm still mid-N3, struggling in every aspects of the language (listening, speaking, kanjis...).
I think I'll need at least 18 more months to reach N2-N1. (NB: I'm 39 and I do it as a hobby, so obviously, it may take more time than an actual student).

Yay🎉 this is exactly what I was looking for. I’m only interested, at least for now, basic Japanese that’s enough to help me get around when I visit Japan. Can’t wait to take your course. 🎉

this video comes at a perfect time since I decided to start learning Japanese this year ^^




also, stop procrastinating. just start.

Learning some Japanese (I'm around an N4 level) before my trip was the absolute best thing I could have done. Even basic attempts to speak were met with so much warmth, humor and surprise, and my interactions with Japanese folks were the highlights of my trip.  I highly recommend making the effort even just for basics, it will really enrich your experience. (PS - am I the only person who loves studying kanji? Nobody believes me when I tell them I love writing radicals and kanji.)

This is my second year living in Japan and it's already about 5 months since I started working in a Japanese company although I only have N3 in my pocket. I attended Japanese language school on my first year, and luckily before I finish my school I got hired as a full time employee.

I must say these past 5 months I feel I progress so much through work because I can't speak other language than Japanese because my boss (he's Japanese) and team members (all foreigners) can't speak English. So I have no choice but to speak Japanese even though my sentence and grammar are all over the place. Although I haven't reach business level Japanese, at least I always try to use the ~です ~ます form, in a result I can't even speak casually with my friends LOL.

As Kahn-san said, my head is always shocked when someone brings a new topic to the conversation, my brain can't work that fast to find the right and proper response. So most of the times I feel everyone misunderstood myself because the way I speak or because I choose the wrong words or how to create a sentence. And sometimes I just shut myself down because somebody else already response to the conversation, so I get left behind. Not to mention all of the new vocabularies and words that I never heard or forgot what it means. So truthfully, I only understand 60-70% of what my boss said LOL

For me, this method of learning is way more effective for me rather than school because we have little chance to speak, only focus on textbooks and tests. But it demotivate me to continue studying and abandon my goal to take N2 this year because I'm already too comfortable practicing my Japanese in my work environment.

But anyway, I'm gonna keep learning and practicing my Japanese. Thank you for the video and sorry for the long comments! >.<

One thing people don’t talk about is that when you go shopping. The workers speak in Keigo. It’s completely different than conversational Japanese.

Great video! I think when trying to learn Japanese a lot of people think it’s possible in a month or two, and while it could be, learning any language is a marathon and not a sprint!