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Patreon Q&A - August 14th, 2021 (Patreon)

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2021-08-14 17:00:05
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0:21 - How has learning Chinese changed your outlook on language learning?
1:54 - What was the most anime-like moment of your life?
4:47 - How should I go about SRSing corrections from natives?
8:44 - What advice do you have for busy people trying to learn a language?
10:45 - If someone divided their time evenly between reading and listening, what kind of ability would they end up with?
19:49 - What's more harmful: early output or letting your reading ability get too far ahead of your listening ability?
30:02 - I'm having trouble acquiring a specific aspect of the language. What's the best way to deal with this?
37:11 - Is media that was designed to be listened to (not watched) better for passive listening?
42:16 - Have you ever thought about making a YouTube channel where you talk about things like Classical Japanese or etymology?
48:53 - Should I stop intensive immersion after reaching my sentence mining goal for the day?
53:26 - On my Anki cards, is it better to put my TL or NL on the front of cards?
55:49 - How should I go about studying Japanese grammar IN Japanese?

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Patreon Q&A - August 14th, 2021

TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 0:21 - How has learning Chinese changed your outlook on language learning? 1:54 - What was the most anime-like moment of your life? 4:47 - How should I go about SRSing corrections from natives? 8:45 - What advice do you have for busy people trying to learn a language? 10:45 - If someone divided their time evenly between reading and listening, what kind of ability would they end up with? 19:49 - What's more harmful: early output or letting your reading ability get too far ahead of your listening ability? 30:02 - I'm having trouble acquiring a specific aspect of the language. What's the best way to deal with this? 37:11 - Is media that was designed to be listened to (not watched) better for passive listening? 42:16 - Have you ever thought about making a YouTube channel where you talk about things like Classical Japanese or etymology? 48:53 - Should I stop intensive immersion after reaching my sentence mining goal for the day? 53:26 - On my Anki cards, is it better to put my TL or NL on the front of cards? 55:49 - How should I go about studying Japanese grammar IN Japanese? LINKS: -ゆる言語学ラジオ - Channel about linguistics in Japanese - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmpkIzF3xFzhPez7gXOyhVg -象は鼻が長い - Video about は and が in Japanese - https://youtu.be/yzTqAU_kiKM -現代日本語文法（研究）の入門本をいくつか簡単に紹介 - Resources for Japanese Linguistics - https://dlit.hatenablog.com/entry/2018/02/20/123800 -Website for learning 国文法・学校文法 - https://www.kokugobunpou.com/#gsc.tab=0

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Anonymous

What are your thoughts on the Output-Hypothesis?

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. Sometimes words can be used out of context, sometimes there is a made up word, sometimes context wont be enough to disambiguate meaning. Another example would be 読唇術 vs 読心術. 十余年 vs 十四年, 邀撃 vs 要撃 and other 用語 can be very tricky. I'm quite advanced yet sometimes I need to pretty much choose an interpretation, instead of just processing what is being said like in other languages I know and that's really frustrating. 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?

Anonymous

Matt, what are your thoughts on Passive listening when you don't understand most of what is being said?I have watched a couple videos recently about comprehensible input saying that we should only be really trying to get 90% - 100% comprehensible input and that passive listening when you don't understand much is absolutely pointless and shouldn't be done. I just recently started learning Mandarin and understand maybe 50 words MAX. What are your thoughts on this?

Anonymous

What advise would you give to someone who wants to learn a language but is not tech-savvy enough to use tools like Anki? I had someone ask me how I am learning a foreign language and even after explaining what I do in simple terms, their first reaction was "Oh, I'd never be able to do that". What would you recommend to do for the beginner process of learning the first 1k words for someone who is not great with computers?

Chicken

I know you're not a food guy, but what is your go to meal. What's the meal you eat most often?

Anonymous

If it's not good to have your reading ability out scale your listening ability, would it be best to pair all your reading sessions with audio? So listening to the audio book while following along reading the actual book...

Anonymous

When it comes to mining sentences and making flashcards, I find that making cards during free-flow immersion is much easier and more comfortable for me, compared to intensive immersion. But, are there any drawbacks or negative effects of mining sentences during free-flow immersion versus intensive immersion?

Anonymous

Hi matt! If I spent a 6-8 weeks in Japan, would it still be necessary to continue my daily routine of active immersion in Japanese content? Or would simply living there be good enough to improve?

Zap

Can someone let me know which Katsumoto he's taking about at the start?

Diogo Lameiro
>>65813978

The point of passive listening is to make use of time that wouldn't be put into active immersion anyway. Would it be better to do 2 hours of active versus 1h of active and 1h of passive? Yes, of course. But its better to do one of each rather than only one of active.

Merlindchan

What's your opinion on Glossika?

MichaelCharl.es
>>65871969

He's talking about the guy who made AJATT, one of the first big websites which pushed immersion over traditional classroom style learning.

Anonymous

Are there any things from an immersion based language learning approach that could be adapted for use in learning other skills (for example drawing or making music)? Or is the act of learning a language just too fundamentally different from learning something else?

Anonymous

Hi Matt, just wondering are you guys working on a next Japanese deck or are there any plans for one in the near future? Just wondering because I’m coming close to finishing the JP1K deck and I found it very beneficial and I’d love to see a follow on. Thank you.

Vulcan

When I watch a show without subtitles, I sometimes become engrossed in the story and get in a zone where I forget I'm consuming a foreign language. I am a little worried that my subconscious mind might heavily focus on the visuals in order to comprehend, because when I concentrate fully my understanding of most shows is only around level 4. I am taking a break from learning new words, and just focusing on immersion while maintaining my reps. Do you think it is possible to fall into a trap where your brain overly concentrates on visuals to understand during free flow immersion, and your language learning plateaus because you're not actively studying or immersing with media that is purely audio?

Anonymous

Hey Matt, this is a question that may help all beginner Mandarin learners. In order to reach basic fluency in japanese, I really only needed a few things: monolingual dictionaries, jisho, anki, and RTK/Tae kim in the beginning.. I'm about to start with Mandarin and it seems like starting this language is a much more daunting task. I can probably learn pinyin and the tones, then blow through remembering the hanzi. After that I'm stuck. Did you use a certain grammar guide for Mandarin? It seems like the chinese grammar wiki is a bit too cluttered to be very useful. Also what is the mandarin equivalent to jisho? Thanks!

Anonymous

MATTO-SENSEI, what do you think of adjusting video speeds when streaming Netflix, Yt, etc.? If you set it to 0.75 speed for example that might help with comprehending fast speech, right? Or is this a bad idea because it's better to just take the content at native-level speeds?

Anonymous

Any advice for people who are starting an L3 but still feel like they should focus on their L2? I think this problem persists until you're extremely advanced in your L2 but hearing your thoughts/advice would be helpful since you yourself used to have this issue.

Anonymous

Do you think it would be more effective to actively immerse 2.5 hours every day or 10 hours once every three days? Assuming the person can easily focus for long periods of time.

Anonymous

I downloaded MPV to try it out, but as a long-time VLC user I’m feeling a bit lost. Can you elaborate why you prefer it over VLC and how you use it?

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

If I'm not a native english speaker and I'm doing a deck like jp1k, should I use an online diccionary to translate the translated words of the deck that I don't understand the usage in English or the actual meaning?

Anonymous

do you have any advice for someone struggling to find a parent that meets all of the criteria? I'm 21 years old and studying Chinese. Finding a parent similar age to me with unedited content is a nightmare to say the least. I have managed to find one person that fits all of the content requirements (100+ hours of content all unscripted, and unedited, with both video and audio). I already have level 5 comprehension when listening to his content, but I don't like his voice/accent, and I'm not particularly interested in the things he talks about. On top of that, I only know that he is born in the 80's, so he could be anywhere between 10-19 years older than me. Sometimes I feel like I would be better off chorusing and shadowing lots of different interviews and things with different people that I actually want to sound like. I guess in short, are there any requirements for finding a parent that are more flexible than others, and what are the downsides to not having a parent, and instead just imitating lots of different people.

Indi H

What was your experience being in full time education (high school/uni) and fitting immersion around classes and study? After 1.5 years of my time being 90% free(due to covid), I'm going back to uni and thinking about how my immersion hours will be impacted. Commuting will take care of passive listening but I'm not sure if I'll fit in my usual 3-5 active hours on top of everything else. Thanks :)

Markus

Matt, for your passive immersion when you where listening to the shows you´ve watched, what did you do about the opening and ending songs? Did you cut them out? I have the possibillity to do so but its quite annoying because very often they aren´t right at the start or end.