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Patreon Q&A - July 18th, 2021 (Patreon)

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Sorry if I seem a little low energy during the second half; I started getting a little hungry 😅


TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Intro

0:56 - Can you tell us more about the friend you’ve mentioned who learned Japanese entirely through listening?

3:09 - Is it possible to transmission from being reading dominant to listening dominant after reaching basic fluency?

7:22 - Although I do passive listening for 6 hours a day, I only have 1 hour a day to spend on actively learning Japanese; should I spend it on Anki or immersion?

11:11 - When reviewing sentence cards, if I could only remember a word due to the surrounding context, how should I grade the card?

15:20 - When watching TL content with TL subs, is it best to pause before or after a subtitle line is spoken?

17:42 - Are you able to listen to Japanese songs and perfectly understand everything?

21:29 - Is there anything you would trade your Japanese ability for?

21:41 - How much more efficient is Refold than AJATT?

26:35 - What is the most optimal way learn to perceive the pitch accent patterns?

31:07 - After studying Japanese for X amount of time, I understand X amount. Is this normal? What should I do to improve?

33:43 - Now that I’m fluent, how can I learn to write eloquently in my target language?

43:21 - How should I review monolingual vocab cards?

45:08 - I get tongue tied when outputting even though I know what I want to say in my head. How can I fix this?

45:43 - I just quite WaniKani after learning 1,300 kanji. Should I do JP1K or just jump into sentence mining?

48:25 - When I try to use target language fillers, it feels forced and awkward. How should I deal with this?

50:38 - If someone had the ability to perfectly parse all of the phonemes of a language right from day 1, how much faster could they learn the language?

55:27 - What is the ideal length for a passive listening playlist?

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Patreon Q&A - July 18th, 2021

Sorry if I seem a little low energy during the second half; I started getting a little hungry 😅 TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 0:56 - Can you tell us more about the friend you’ve mentioned who learned Japanese entirely through listening? 3:09 - Is it possible to transmission from being reading dominant to listening dominant after reaching basic fluency? 7:22 - Although I do passive listening for 6 hours a day, I only have 1 hour a day to spend on actively learning Japanese; should I spend it on Anki or immersion? 11:11 - When reviewing sentence cards, if I could only remember a word due to the surrounding context, how should I grade the card? 15:20 - When watching TL content with TL subs, is it best to pause before or after a subtitle line is spoken? 17:42 - Are you able to listen to Japanese songs and perfectly understand everything? 21:29 - Is there anything you would trade your Japanese ability for? 21:41 - How much more efficient is Refold than AJATT? 26:35 - What is the most optimal way learn to perceive the pitch accent patterns? 31:07 - After studying Japanese for X amount of time, I understand X amount. Is this normal? What should I do to improve? 33:43 - Now that I’m fluent, how can I learn to write eloquently in my target language? 43:21 - How should I review monolingual vocab cards? 45:08 - I get tongue tied when outputting even though I know what I want to say in my head. How can I fix this? 45:43 - I just quite WaniKani after learning 1,300 kanji. Should I do JP1K or just jump into sentence mining? 48:25 - When I try to use target language fillers, it feels forced and awkward. How should I deal with this? 50:38 - If someone had the ability to perfectly parse all of the phonemes of a language right from day 1, how much faster could they learn the language? 55:27 - What is the ideal length for a passive listening playlist?

Comments

Anonymous

What's up Matt! I was just wondering what was the most anime like moment you ever had in your life? Lol.

Hayden

Thank you for answering my question Matt. Yeah, that reality is kind of unfortunate, I think I will just keep my immersion ratios at 80% listening and 20% reading in hopes that one day my listening catches up to my reading. Also looking forward to that interview. Thanks again for clarifying!

Anonymous

Hey Matt, how has learning Chinese changed your outlook or approach to language learning from when you learned Japanese?

Anonymous

I've been actively studying Spanish for almost 4 years and would consider myself to be in Stage 4 of Refold. In order to improve my output, I write every day on a subreddit on Reddit where you write a paragraph or so, and a native corrects your mistakes and gives you suggestions for improvement. How would one make Anki cards out of these corrections?

Anonymous

Hi Matt, I hope you're doing well. I was just wondering would you ever consider doing a one off, vlog like video in which you show us what a typical day of immersion looks like for you, you could show us how you approach the different forms of immersion on an average day perhaps. Thanks for reading!

Anonymous

Hey Matt, In your opinion, what do you think is likely more harmful in the long run if one's goal is to develop a native-like accent: Excessive early output or Allowing your reading ability to greatly outpace your listening ability? The reason I think this is an important question is because for languages that are similar to English, like French, if you were to dedicate as much time to reading as you were to listening, not only would your reading ability outpace your listening ability, it would completely blow it out of the water. I have already seen many concrete examples of this in the French Refold discord, where French learners are devouring 19th century novels but still struggle to understand common conversation. I'm worried that this may harm their accents in the long run. Thanks

Greg St. Angelo

Copy/paste from last video: So, I'm not sure if this is written out somewhere, I vaguely remember seeing or maybe hearing you talk about it but I cannot remember specifics. I was wondering what I should do when a jp1k card becomes a leech. I had a few weeks in a row where I got very minimal immersion time due to work, etc., and decided it would be good to still get in my anki reps whenever I had free time. I have found that I am forgetting words at what appears to be a higher rate than when I had more time actively immersing in the language. Any tips on leeches and approaches to them for jp1k specifically would be ideal but feel free to elaborate on non-jp1k topics if you have the time. Thanks Matt! 😊🇯🇵

Ian

Do you have any advice for busy people trying to learn a language

Anonymous

Hey Matt, For learning new vocab through Anki, is it better to have the prompt as the TL word and the answer as the NL translation, or vice versa? I've noticed that whenever I see or hear a word in Japanese that I recognize, I can't seem to translate it because the 2k/6k deck is English to Japanese, not Japanese to English. This problem doesn't happen with the JP1k deck, so thanks so much for that! Idk if I should just flip all the cards from the 2k/6k. Thanks for your time and all your hard work!

Anonymous

こんにちはマット! In terms of passive emersion, what content would be best to passively immerse with? If language acquisition occurs because of comprehensible input, than wouldn't that make anime and other shows suboptimal to immerse with passively because you are lacking some of the context that is only provided through the visual aspect of that media? Wouldn't this make listening to audiobooks, podcasts, and other such media designed to be consumed without the visual aspect of said media better to passively immerse with because you aren't lacking context? Does it even matter in the early stages of language learning?

Anonymous

When are you going to bust out your bass and lay down a bass line for your lovely patrons?

Anonymous

Hi Matt! Thanks for answering my question! My circumstances have changed a bit since my last question and I can now dedicate a lot more time to immersion. However, I'm having a lot of difficulty doing intensive immersion and find that breaking the flow of the situation to look something up makes the process really painful. I can do freeflow just fine, and I can easily tolerate ambiguity, but feel I'm missing something by not doing intensive immersion. Should I be doing something differently? For reference I'm still pretty early in the process (about stage 1C, 600 or so cards into JP1K)

Anonymous

I remember hearing you say in a video that it would be a good idea to up the volume of anki just to get a large amount of input and then rely on the immersion to solidify it. Would you recommend this for the JP1K deck aswell? I was thinking that it might help speed up reaching kanji fluency if I'm seeing more cards (more kanji) per day even if I have to fail them more times before they become mature cards. Ps. I find that with a good amount of the jp1k cards I remember the meaning in english but I forget the pronunciation, is this okay?

Anonymous

If the amount of reading/listening one does to reach fluency affects the way their brain processes the language, what would someone who divided reading and listening time equally be like? I was also wondering if there are any specifics about having a reading-based understanding versus a listening-based understanding of your L2 that you could share

Anonymous

do you think any of the ideas in immersion learning could apply to other areas of life? what do you think immersion learning for like, chess, would look like?

Anonymous

have you ever thought about making a youtube channel where you show off some of your classical japanese/etymology knowlegde? i think you could pump out these videos pretty easily and efficiently since you already know so much, and it might be a good way to get your name out there a little more in the japanese population

Anonymous

Hi matt! I'm Japanese using MIA for an English acquisition. It's been almost 7months since I started MIA (and 10 years since I started learning English itself) but I'm still struggling to get tenses right. I know what tense I should choose logically, but I have yet to cultivate the intuition for that and have to translate sentences into Japanese in order to confirm whether tenses that I used are correct or not. It's really demotivating so I want to ask your advice and thought on so called 'persistent puzzles' (how long took you to master tenses or 'は' and 'が' in Japanese, whether paying attention to those persistent puzzles while immersing can help to master them faster, whether it's possible for all people to master them as long as they get enough input or it requires a talent to some extent, etc. You don't have to answer all these questions!) Thank you

Anonymous

Hi Matt! Do you have any recommendations for books on Japanese grammar and/or linguistics in Japanese? Also what resources did you use to study 学校文法?

Anonymous

Hey Matt, I've doing your various methods in their various forms for 2.5 years and I'd say I've reached basic fluency. For the past month I've been talking with a Japanese person on italki and my outputting is generally fine, but I've noticed the weaknesses of doing only immersion based learning with no fundamentals. My sensei asked in English what the difference between "until" and "by" is, then took it further and asked what the difference between 「まで」 and 「までに」is and to be honest I couldn't answer very well. I also have been using some N1 完全マスター workbooks and there has been an extraordinary amount of deficiencies I've found within my own ability. Would you say a return to fundamentals is worthwhile for everyone learning a language?

Anonymous

hey matt, what is the reason behind the audio only being on the back of the card? do I slow my progress if I put it on the front of every card?

Anonymous

Hi Matt, is it a problem to be reading dominant in a language? I would say that I'm reading dominant in my native language (English) because I need to see a word to learn it. Is it possible this is just a learning style? (Definitely agree that you don't want to have a big gap between listening and reading ability.)

Anonymous

Matt, I know you've been on-off studying Chinese for the last couple of years. As a Chinese learner myself, I'm curious to know if you're still studying Chinese, what has your journey been like with it, how has the journey compared to that of Japanese, and lastly if you have stopped studying Chinese, why did you? Thanks!

Anonymous

Probably was asked before but I'm currently half way through the JP1K (have 410 new words left) haven't missed a day of Anki and I'm getting ~60 reviews per day for the last 1 month and honestly it's overwhelming , I can't remember fast enough what I learned the days before. the kanji at this point became very complicated for me and hard to remember, I tried to do early reviews when I saw I have a lot of them the next day and it sort of helped but still I can't keep up. should I lower the new words per day and focus on only reviews for a some time?

Anonymous

Do you recommend to stop intensive reading after you've reached your sentence mining goal for the day? Say you've alotted 1 hour for intensive immersion (reading show with subtitles) but you mine your goal number (say 15) in only 30 minutes. Would you continue mining and intensive reading? Or just move on to free flow?

Renchan

If I am mining with vocab cards (in the "anime cards" format) instead of sentence cards, does a sentence need to be i+1 to mine a word from it? Sometimes I come across an i+2 sentence, decide to look up both the words, and realize one of the words might be useful to mine, but am hesitant because it is not from an i+1 sentence. Would your answer for this vary for more contextual words like adjectives and verbs, vs simple nouns?

jack

With intensive immersion it is tedious to constantly pause shows that you are watching, do you know a genre of reading that would pair well with free flowing a slice of life TV show? Or is it important that your intensive immersion be the same kind of content (ie tv show) as your free flow immersion?

Geniusssmit

Do you think that understanding Japanese audiobooks is significantly more difficult because of homonyms? I find that sometimes it takes a lot of effort to determine which word is being said. For example when I hear かんきょう first thing that comes to mind is 環境 when in fact 艦橋 is being said(even if I know both). So I have to retroactively process the sentence for the second time or to carefully listen to next few words in order to get what it really means and to not get confused. Another example would be 読唇術 vs 読心術. I’m asking about audiobooks because in general rare vocabulary that can be confused with more common homonyms tends to be used in books and it’s not a problem for visual media etc. It seems like spoken Japanese inherently is a bad tool for deciphering difficult texts. I would imagine understanding dictionary definitions auditorily would be very difficult. Especially when a lot of kanji used in a row. Do you know how Japanese people deal with this problem? How do you feel about it? How do you deal with it when listening to Chinese?