This is so true. If you were like me and kept learning vocab and grammar and kanji but was always thinking “when will I understand?”. The. I just started consuming irl Japanese content creators with no subs or minimal Japanese subs and actually tried extremely hard to really listen. You think you are listening but you are not, you are listening the way you listen to English. You gotta try really hard and focus then slowly you will find that you don’t have to try as hard and so on. All of a sudden you will start hearing way more vocab you know. It was always there. You just had no listening skills.
@alyx4436
Ай бұрын
And the grammar is like the least important part of listening. It helps with speaking and very important for writing and reading. But honestly you can get the gist without being super anal about grammar. As long as you got the general basics of grammar in the back of your mind. One day it just randomly clicks.
@ryacw
Ай бұрын
@@alyx4436 you couldn’t have said it better lol
@NHNster
Ай бұрын
The algorithm reccomended this video to me. Nice video, the view is so beautiful, I would love to just be able to live there.
@CainRG1
Ай бұрын
Good advice. I'm a bit burnt out from immersion recently because I've been doing it on and off for 6 years now and I'm still not as fluent as I'd like to be, but I'm getting there. This was good encouragement for me to keep doing what I'm doing, so thanks for that. Beautiful scenery too
@yokkabai
Ай бұрын
I totally understand not wanting to go back. I moved to Japan (Kyushu) and have lived here for 15 years at least. I agree that immersion is critical. I don’t have the discipline to just study grammar and flash cards all the time. Language acquisition accelerates with actual experience.
@AutumnPrincess
Ай бұрын
Your idea about changing your identity or aligning your identity with what you want to accomplish really resonates with me. The first time I read about that way of thinking was in Atomic Habits by James clear, where he argued, and heres just an example, if you want to always have a clean room think of your self as a clean and tidy person, because would a messy person spend that 1 minute making their bed or folding their laundy. And the more you think of yourself as a clean and tidy person the more you clean, and the more you clean the more you think of yourself as a clean and tidy person, creating this wonderful positive feedback loop. Great insight into language learning (and change in general)
@ryacw
Ай бұрын
Glad it resonates, definitely one of the best mindsets you can have for this language
@msmith155
Ай бұрын
Awesome scenery
@johannkroeber392
Ай бұрын
Hi ryan i lived for one year in sasebo kyushuu. Best time of my life. Really enjoyed just walking around the city like you do.
@snooks5607
Ай бұрын
0:52 not yet, but honestly I bet we're not that far off from having that. realtime AI translation tools like whisper are pretty good already, pair it with directional mic that only picks up the speaker you're facing and you'd probably do decently in comprehending most every day situations with zero language skill, although it'd probably be given as audio instead of subtitles ..and while speech synthesis is getting better too it's going to still be a bit awkward to first having to speak in your language for it to translate it
@mojoryse7836
Ай бұрын
my name is ryan too :D i have found that i can understand a lot more when i have japanese subtitles with japanese audio but its so much more difficult with just the audio itself
@Xca-ak47
Ай бұрын
Dude the view looks awesome where is it from the part of Japan
@ryacw
Ай бұрын
It’s around eastern Fukuoka prefecture
@Xca-ak47
Ай бұрын
@@ryacw beautiful place🗾 but why u leaving Japan
@ryacw
Ай бұрын
I can only afford 2 weeks lol. I’ll definitely be doing a month at least next year tho.
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