Stat-Tracking-Fanatic Stevijs 3 walks us through his proven language learning methods and answers questions that r/AJATT redditors & twitter users asked. We covered a ton of technical details in this one, so watch to find out how he's fast-tracking his language learning.
Stevijs3's Milestones:
Reading Easy NHK news: 3 months
Reading News: 650hrs of immersion+Anki
Reading First Book: 915hrs total, 593hrs immersion
Passing N1: 3800 total hours
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:13 What micro & macro goals do you have?
6:41 How did you go about learning English?
10:24 How in the world have you managed to make English stick to this point?
11:43 What led you to get into Japanese?
13:25 What are your goals with Japanese?
16:49 Where is your Japanese ability now? What can and can’t you do?
18:39 幼女戦記
21:44 What’s a piece of content that you found challenging but learned how to overcome?
18:39 What’s the last piece of content that you found very challenging?
25:03 What’s been the most challenging aspect of learning Japanese?
28:00 What does maintenance of your Japanese ability look like? Is there an “exit” strategy? (On average, how many hours are you spending with Japanese per day?)
30:00 From Mysterious_Parsley30: Has there ever been a point where you feel like you overestimated your growth or ability?
31:54 Do you have any methodology that you use, such as the Pomodoro technique or timeboxing?
37:38 Any plans to live there?
39:00 You have extensively documented the time you’ve spent on Japanese. What brought that on?
At what point did you start reading native texts?
42:58 What does your toolkit look like? (google sheets, anki, …?)
43:15 If you went back to 2018, would you have tracked or done anything differently?
47:47 Shadowing
55:39 You distinguish between Native & Wild Sentences - what do you mean by those?
59:15 How do you use frequency lists as an advanced learner? Target numbers? How do you balance obscurity with usefulness past the 10k card mark?
1:02:04 Pass/fail percentage in Anki
1:06:25 Sentence cards vs. vocab cards
1:12:41 Do you have a different perspective in some particular area with MIA?
Thoughts on switching to Vocab cards, specifically DJT anime cards?
1:18:24 Any plans for another language?
1:19:41 Any plateaus or phases of discouragement?
1:21:06 What milestones have you found? Roughly how many hours did it take to reach these milestone? Average hours per day?
1:23:41 Any tips for people at these marks?
1:25:05 From Junglecreature99: How did you fit so much time for Japanese while balancing university, personal development, and life in general?
1:13:55 What’s your stance on subtitles?
1:31:18 You would consider the time spent listening during your walks as part of your active listening time, is that correct?
1:32:42 Do you have any idea how big of a difference passive immersion has made for you?
1:34:09 Any recommendations for how to break into audiobooks?
1:37:07 You’ve mentioned reading manga feels unproductive. How are you balancing fun with productivity?
Have you thought about reading more difficult manga?
1:46:26 Any plans for production RTK?
1:48:27 How do you recommend people consume content such as yours or this interview? How do you balance meta learning / L1 entertainment?
1:50:09 When will you get to a point that you feel comfortable with Legend of the Galactic Heroes?
1:52:47 What non-language learning activities have been the most impactful on your abilities?
Any other tips to learners out there that may not be directly rooted in MIA/AJATT?
1:03:53 How do you deal with leeches?
2:01:36 What’s your current opinion on Morphman? How has your usage of the tool evolved?
2:03:06 Is there anything practical related to NS you would recommend listeners look into?
What’s a recent piece of content would you recommend to others?
2:04:34 From Chu-Chu-Island: What anime is he watching right now? What are his Top 5 Anime? Bottom 5 Anime?
2:13:52 You mentioned Band-Maid was music you got into, what other Japanese bands are you into?
2:15:58 What’s one piece of advice you’d give to someone on the path to learning a new skill?
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