KZread bizarrely won't show Matt's comments. Message from Matt: " Thanks for having me on! If you want to hear more about how I became fluent in Japanese with Anime (and movies & TV shows), check out my channel! kzread.info "

@mattvsjapan

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!!

@WhatIveLearned

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattvsjapan ...but it's letting him reply to comments? What is going on 😂

@PeterMazur

2 жыл бұрын

It's because youtube detects links as spam :P

@lockergr

2 жыл бұрын

As an ESOL teacher, I am stoked to watch this video and share these tips!

@WhatIveLearned

2 жыл бұрын

It doesn’t even show them in the “held for review” section tho Other comments with links end up there

If you feel bad because you have the language skills of a 6 year old in your target language, just remember that it took them 6 years to get to that point and it probably took you a lot less.

@longanh9151

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@goldeneaglereborn

2 жыл бұрын

Wisdom

@rrrrrfffff

2 жыл бұрын

That was very inspiring

@bigbando9437

2 жыл бұрын

wow, you are wise

@HilbertXVI

2 жыл бұрын

but that's not really relevant because you're presumably far older and more capable than a 6 year old

Watching my 5 year old become conversant in Mandarin by just arguing with his grandma has been incredible.

@WanderTheNomad

2 жыл бұрын

Can't win arguments if you don't have the right words

@kgal1298

2 жыл бұрын

Kind of wondering what they argue about now lol

@gozen-wv7kb

2 жыл бұрын

@@WanderTheNomad this is so true. I cant speak perfect spanish so I always fail to banter with my mom

@OVXX666

2 жыл бұрын

im 18 and i still cant speak mandarin my native language bc bitches whitewashed me and now that im an adult its no longer socially acceptable to not be fluent so i dont practise with anyone reee

@PaarthK1

2 жыл бұрын

@@OVXX666 don't blame others take responsibility also it is never too late to learn

When I get tired of learning a language, i just watch a ton of videos about how to learn a language.

@MarvNature

Жыл бұрын

Lmao

@eunjin5582

Жыл бұрын

same

@lxn-2008

11 ай бұрын

same

@JiroAzuma

10 ай бұрын

Yup

@kassart4465

10 ай бұрын

Like what I'm doing right now lol

When I was in college, I went through a phase for a while where I tried to learn Japanese. There was this Japanese pub near my school that all the students from Japan went to and worked at and so I decided one day I was gonna go there and order and try to have conversations with people in Japanese. So I spent a bit of time memorizing how to order, practiced it a bit, and after sitting in my car nervous for a while, I finally got the courage to go in. So I sat down at the bar, and asked for a beer in Japanese. The bartender looked at me blankly for a second and then in perfect English with no accent said “I’m Korean, I don’t speak Japanese. What do you wanna order?” That was pretty much the end of my effort to learn Japanese 😂

@Haru-nee

2 жыл бұрын

Konnichiwa! Fighting! That's it. That all I remember. It's okay. You'll be fine. I bet he won't even remember.

@jeygee3736

2 жыл бұрын

Lol reminds of Karate Kid scene when Jayden Smith tries to speak Mandarin to the Chinese looking guy on the plane and he's like "dude.. I'm from Detroit".

@underwaterspacetraveler17

2 жыл бұрын

Lol, this was such a fun short story.😄 I want to hear you tell more of your funny life stories now. Super hilarious story. Had to comment on it... even though it's been months...

@simonnik9725

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@georgiamaguire692

Жыл бұрын

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahhahahahaa

You will find this absurd and love to mock if you never learn second langauge. But for us non native English speakers, this is how we learn. Through cartoon, action movies and lots of internet exposure.

@aikou2886

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget videogames. A lot of people learned English because of games.

@envy703

2 жыл бұрын

It’s all input-one language youtuber

@ipsnagi9442

2 жыл бұрын

I got most of my English from cartoons especially at the start until they dubbed everything in my native language(s). I was mighty miffed at that...

@poliisi5

2 жыл бұрын

The whole internet

@longanh9151

2 жыл бұрын

That's literally my childhood

"Japanese man speaks perfect English after watching American soap opera, Friends" The primary way non native English speakers learn English is from watching and listening to Shows, movies and music from America. Lol

@Jmotist

2 жыл бұрын

The only reason i can speak fluent english right now is because i got bored when i was twelve and just started watching pewdiepie and smosh without understanding anything.

@Biomeducated

2 жыл бұрын

So true! I'm Belgian and I learned English early on by all the American shows on our television channels! Simpsons, Fresh Prince, Power Rangers, Family Matters, Full House, Friends...

@mac1437

2 жыл бұрын

I never liked anki tho.

@abeldnite

2 жыл бұрын

I learned English by watching South Park lol. I started first with subs in my native language, then with subs in English, and finally I started cursing left and right in fluent English.

@luxeayt6694

2 жыл бұрын

@@Biomeducated I'm from belgium as well and learned english in the same way.

I worked with a guy (car design) he was from South Korea, he always used to say "now over to you for the latest update" I asked him where he learnt English he said it was from watching the news channels 😁 and soap operas 👍

@fenrirgg

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, back to you "My Turkish Life"!

@norikosato7823

2 жыл бұрын

I once read "The Secret Garden" to learn some new English words and expressions, and ended up remembering only one expression "you have my permission to go". I have never used it as I have never had a servant.

@thenightjackal8876

Жыл бұрын

@@norikosato7823 call a friend and say that to them when you're done talking to them🤣🤣

@alexislopez9355

Жыл бұрын

Lol. This is why context and usage matters.

@rayiscoolandawesome

Жыл бұрын

😂

As someone who learned English by this method (unconsciously, without knowing that it was a method), all he says makes complete sense. From getting lots of input (TV shows, movies, books) to looking up words, to memorizing patterns of usage and pronunciation, this is exactly how I did it.

@JacobRise1492

2 жыл бұрын

Well your English is perfect.

@Carbono-_

Жыл бұрын

Pretty much what I've been doing for the past two years

@frog6054

Жыл бұрын

Learning English is not hard for me because most medium I consume is in English.

@diniza

10 ай бұрын

Bro, I do that without realising it too... I just consumed a lot of Minecraft content at the beginning and just started to understand what they're saying... Now I started to consume linguistic content too

@darth9817

8 ай бұрын

Literally,so true,i ve been doing this for 7-8yrs and am sure that i can speak and understand it like a native.

So I'm Vietnamese living in Germany leaning how learn English from a guy in the U.S. explaining how to learn Japanesse. Amazing how connected the world has become.

@Mdragwa

2 жыл бұрын

Chào em! Im a Polish Guy living in Vietnam, talking with my sister living in Germany about my Japanese learning 😂😂😂 . Btw. The context part remind me that moments when learned the first sentences and words like "Trời ơi!!!" "đi đâu đấy?" "uống bia với anh!" :D. I Love Vietnam, Vietnamese people and Vietnamese language

@Terrapin22

2 жыл бұрын

Now the trick is to do nice things with these connections :)

@patriciajohnsonson8639

2 жыл бұрын

Vietnam’s is very hard to learn. I said one sentence in Vietnamese to my daughter’s Vietnamese in-laws. They claimed to not understand anything I said . It turn out I had spoken the final word of the sentence with the incorrect pitch. I said “I have a headache”, in Vietnamese. I guess nothing was understandable because of one part of one word that I had said incorrectly. I will not continue to learn the language because I cannot perfect the intonations.

@xXJ4FARGAMERXx

2 жыл бұрын

@@patriciajohnsonson8639 Has the same vibe as: "I will not continue football (⚽) because my kicks aren't perfect"

@jemand8462

2 жыл бұрын

Solltest lieber deutsch lernen ;)

This guy was watching so much anime he's got anime eyes.

@ohnana5801

2 жыл бұрын

His eyes are so pretty

@AbuLHajl

2 жыл бұрын

noticed that!

@kalei7463

2 жыл бұрын

i was literally thinking of the same thing, i couldnt stop staring at his eyes because theyre so pretty

@Aomura98

2 жыл бұрын

Damn, those pupils are straight out from shojo manga.

@deusexmaximum8930

2 жыл бұрын

can't unsee

51:20 As a teacher in public Japanese schools who quit because I felt so sad for my students' suffering and hatred of English after their years of the idiotic way that it is taught, this is the best description of why it is so hard. I have described it as trying to explain what a dog is by taking it piece by piece and then adding in a description of how it might act once it is pieced together as a dog. His description of trying to teach swimming by teaching the physics of it is very apt.

@dreamsi

8 ай бұрын

I like your metaphor for it. I’m so sad the children are still being taught language in this counter productive way that makes them hate it. I hope schools in Japan can make changes and reform the education style for teaching English so that it can be practical and enjoyable. I taught English in Japan at 2 different language schools and both had different approaches but I tried to bring my own style into both where I tried to make it as practical as possible. I have a Japanese friend who did her doctor thesis in this field and is also trying to change how English is taught in Japan. I believe change is happening and will come, I really hope it does.

This dude is so smart and explained it so well. He’s inspiring me to continue my journey and Gain fluency in Spanish.

@arielbenitez98

2 жыл бұрын

You can do it!

@donduro3

2 жыл бұрын

Tu puedes, sigue adelante!!!

@anticlickbait

2 жыл бұрын

Ahh Español, el gran enemigo de todos jaja

@galadriel5056

2 жыл бұрын

Animo! Tu puedes lograrlo 🙏✨

@elkazekage3471

Жыл бұрын

Han pasado nueve meses desde tu comentario, necesitamos actualizaciones, ¡¿como te ha ido?!

Did you master japanese? -Yes. What did it cost? -My native language: 40:28

@madladdie7069

2 жыл бұрын

Oof, yeah. I barely use anything else besides English and it shows.

@xcassyx2516

2 жыл бұрын

clicked the timestamp and a Dove ad suddenly appeared 💀

@abeltrame0000

2 жыл бұрын

This made me laugh out loud, so true 😂

@azariahprice4592

2 жыл бұрын

😭

@willrodgers7974

2 жыл бұрын

I get it's a joke and all, but I actually like when people mess up in their native language like this. I find it motivates me when I forget something in my target language to remember that, ya know, people sometimes get brain farts, or tongue tied, or just straight up forget the word that they want to use, and that that's ok, and happens to people all the time even in their native tongue.

He sounds like he's a data scientist building an AI model.

@izzy1221

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Feed it data and let it recognise patterns.

@ThatTrueCJ201

2 жыл бұрын

Matt: The bitrate of the concious mind is underperformant for real-time application. We should upgrade to the unconscious model.

@picapica201

2 жыл бұрын

So it's ironic for people to view it this way, because AI neural networks were thought out & constructed _based on_ how our brain/networks process data & learn. _Hence comes the name,_ actually. But if by familiarity with the concept of "neural networks" people are able to learn better by mimicking them instead of forcing themselves to do how their brains were mistreated at school, then it's all for the best I think. We went full circle.

@Michael-jn1rq

2 жыл бұрын

In a way he is

@TheMonstermike3

2 жыл бұрын

@@Michael-jn1rq was about to say this, yeah. Data science and neural networks are directly inspired by human brains, computer science as a field was born from Alan Turing's philosophical question on if you can replicate the human brain through science to create AI. So yeah it's entirely true actually. This relates also to how every field of academia is actually part of the same big field of knowledge. Just here I've mentioned a connection between language, computer science, and philosophy.

As a guy who has already learned 3 languages, and is working on Japanese as his fourth right now: This is all exactly what I've found out - the hard way - through my own experiences. Lots of comprehensible input = learning the language That's the secret. All you need to know.

@muktapervin5939

2 жыл бұрын

I also have learned 3 languages and am working on Japanese as my fourth right now.

@darianmorat

2 жыл бұрын

So I need to watch content of my level right?

@callmeqt1269

2 жыл бұрын

@@garyahreedjr3125 I’m a big fan of podcasts and KZread videos about my interests. For a while, you may need to stick to basic reading or beginner KZread videos designed to help, but once you get over the hump you can watch what you normally would except while learning a different language.

@callmeqt1269

2 жыл бұрын

@@darianmorat yes, that is the best way. It’s fine - in my opinion - if you wanted to watch anime in Japanese while still learning the basics, for example, however I don’t think that will end up being the fastest or most enjoyable way after a while. Do what you enjoy.

@maegalroammis6020

Жыл бұрын

bravo you just discourage us to go in japan

I love how Matt almost "changes personality" when he speaks in Japanese. He kind of sounds like he lost his confidence, but that's completely normal. In Japanese, humbleness and selflessness is valued more than self confidence, so a lot of people end up speaking like that, including myself to stay out of trouble. As Matt said, I too believe that language learning is as much of a culture learning as learning the technical skills. In my case, it really opened my eyes because I realized that ways of thinking and communication can be drastically different depending on culture groups.

@onyxko

11 ай бұрын

He literally speak like real Japanese. So smooth and also his attitude as well. And you are right, Japanese don’t talk with confidence.

@jambofett

9 ай бұрын

This is very true. I heard of a study where bilingual people were asked certain questions. They discovered that their answers changed according to the language in which the question was asked. Very interesting. Basically- language is more than just words. It’s a mindset.

@happyfoxdude3736

8 ай бұрын

I myself am bilingual and I hear the difference in my voice when I speak. The language is a mindset because I don’t think at all in English in the middle of a conversation of my native language, so there are definitely some differences.

@shamiir1812

5 ай бұрын

Because that's what happens when you learn a language and reach a point of proficency as this guy did. You need to think in that language to speak it so fluently and he actually does manage to think in Japanese and literally set himself into "japanese mode". I'm a native spanish speaker but when I switch to english I also adopt like a new personality, I become more friendly and kind, while in spanish I tend to be more serious and not that conversational.

@lukejm5721

4 ай бұрын

@@jambofett It's not just a mindset. It's a shared thinking space, or a shared-meaning space.

“I will keep moving forward…until I can speak fluent Japanese from watching anime.” - Eren Jaeger

@technic1285

2 жыл бұрын

"What's waiting for us on the other side of the ocean is the Overseas Bros."

@amadeusakreveusmusic3356

2 жыл бұрын

Hey hey hey

@popopop984

2 жыл бұрын

Eren Jaepanese

@yeetdeets

2 жыл бұрын

TATAKAE

@dugglebay3483

2 жыл бұрын

Queue the hiroyuki sawano…

hey, im japanese and poor at english, so im probably making some mistakes. but i wanna say aloud that his japanese is really really perfect, not almost, PERFECT.

@paulwalther5237

2 жыл бұрын

It’s not fair.

@SelcraigClimbs

2 жыл бұрын

"Wanna"の使い方が正直に完璧です Your English is top notch mate 👌

@user-gm5tt4rj5t

2 жыл бұрын

@@SelcraigClimbs thank you!:) i love english!

@lewis0705

2 жыл бұрын

your english is great in this comment :)

@thomasski_7

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-gm5tt4rj5t hey do you want to be friend? I am learning Japanese now, you can teach me Japanese and I can teach you English. 私教えるお前英語、お前教える私日本語

He's a great communicator in English. I appreciate the way he puts his thoughts together to speak them out. I am sure that is part of the reason (apart from massive amounts of time and a whole lot of work) he was able to understand how to eventually embody the Japanese mindset in his use of that language.

@simonebaker4915

8 ай бұрын

Yes, I noticed that too. He’s a great communicator in his own language first. I’ve been studying French for a while and considered fluent. One day I complained to my former teacher that I still sound too hesitant. Her reply: it sounds exactly the same as when I listen to you speaking in your language… 😵‍💫😂

@TheSeeking2know

8 ай бұрын

@@simonebaker4915 Interesting that you have an experience to validate the assumption and take it further.

Immersion is exactly how I learned english. I literally didn't speak a lick out loud outside of the occasional sentence or two in class until I was 18 years old and joined a teamspeak server, and once I got over my apprehension and shyness to actually speak out loud, nobody would believe I wasn't a native speaker or that I was even from the country I was born and raised in because I just didn't have any clear signs of accent despite very little experience of actually talking.

@PoptartParasol

2 жыл бұрын

Same thing happened to my german SO. He actually never spoke english out loud until a few months before we met, and I was kinda shocked when he told me that. He wrote english, consumed english media, and did all of this but it's only very recently he started speaking and he sounds pretty much fluent with almost no accent. Really goes to show how your brain internalizes information

@Gigachad-mc5qz

Жыл бұрын

I still have a very Shitty german accent and it wont go away

@elkazekage3471

Жыл бұрын

Lucky you, I learned English in middle school and I use it almost daily but I still have a Mexican accent 😭. It doesn't really affect me in my day to day, but it is still depressing to see how some people have the facility to get rid of their foreigners accent while some people never do.

@Gigachad-mc5qz

Жыл бұрын

@@elkazekage3471 same :c for me irs german accent but i wish i had british accent

@aibel99

Жыл бұрын

English really has to be the easiest language to learn. It is used literally everywhere. I could go to your country and find people, media and copy written in English. People who Don't speak English know English words. The same cannot be said for any other language.

Sections in the video: - (1:24) How did Matt learn Japanese? - (4:03) Context teaches more than textbooks - (5:35) Why you need to forget English - (6:16) Should we learn like babies? - (10:04) The only way to learn a language - (10:57) The real reason for flash cards - (11:56) The most effective input - (15:18) Why your brain enjoys this method - (16:57) What did you do specific for Japanese? - (20:34) Identity and language - (23:48) Matt speaking Japanese - (25:58) Why you can't hear pitch accent - (28:53) Why most people don't learn pitch accent - (31:16) How Matt learned pitch accent - (33:25) Improving Japanese pronunciation - (36:50) Staying focused on your goal - (40:58) Diminishing returns from input - (42:41) Converting input into output - (46:17) The barrier to effective output - (56:08) The refold formula for language - (59:09) Outro

@charliechaplin3831

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@TheBlaze4000

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@WhatIveLearned

2 жыл бұрын

Hero

@ashleshapaliwal6838

2 жыл бұрын

thank you

@Arnond35

2 жыл бұрын

Youre doing the Lord’s work!

I learned english that way. Just repeating after songs, audiobooks, movies just gives you understanding of the language. It did make for a funny situation when during my english lessons I often went with gut feeling of what feels right in the context instead of trying to remember the principle.

@glokta1

2 жыл бұрын

You're doing it right!

@Yarblocosifilitico

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, totally. I started by reading the lyrics of songs I liked, and filling my gaps in understanding. From there, it's just a matter of time til you understand the entire song perfectly. Same with shows, etc.

@AllerKingLol

2 жыл бұрын

Same, exactly, i relate to what you said about what "feels" right

@-danR

2 жыл бұрын

You've misunderstood the entire video. He didn't say he acquired Japanese by _repeating_ stuff. That's what 80% of standard language-learning does. He spent an enormous amount of time _listening_ and _watching videos_ and _reading_ ; and using Anki cards to cement vocabulary down solid. It was long after this that he started initiating speech.

@Hyumifu

2 жыл бұрын

Sameeee

I always theorized that the reason kids learn language so easily isn't because we're wired to better learn it at a young age, but because we're completely immersed and are given material to consume that uses a very simple, comprehensible model. Even the way children are spoken to is simplified to try and meet them where they are. This way after only a few simple concepts are finally learned through exposure (for instance repeating a word + showing a picture in kids TV), they can communicate and understand that communication, and then they're slowly dragged further and further from that small set of concepts through much more until they can have conversations and understand much more. As adults, we jump right into grammar, word memorization, and then once we can "understand" basic speech we'll immerse, which is backwards. You don't understand the speech or language, you can take a sentence, spend a BUNCH of time processing the words and grammar in your head relative to native understanding, and then convert that into your native language, but this is far too slow for immersion to be understood, so then you struggle to grasp at words and phrases you've mapped to a meaning without the translation step, then you're basically starting at 0 again with all that memorization being worthless. To simplify: children learn a language and then need to be taught how to read and write it. Adults learn how to read and write, then try learning the language.

I’ve been watching Korean dramas for almost 10 years and now I can speak simple conversational Korean without having studied it. I don’t know the grammar but I know how to form sentences naturally just from having heard it so many times.

This man is so articulate. The way in which he can so easily and clearly explain his learning process and all the mechanisms at play really goes to show how his learning decisions were always conscious and backed by some form of science found in literature.

@benia1908

2 жыл бұрын

that's what like 10 years of understanding it and doing videos about it does

@nikvalinsky

2 жыл бұрын

Matt is also clearly just extremely intelligent

@BenjaminKuruga

2 жыл бұрын

He has created a lot of his own articles and anki add-ons, as well as videos explaining his methods. It's pretty second nature to him now.

@sach196

2 жыл бұрын

r/increasinglyverbose

@mcmuinorac5848

2 жыл бұрын

Are you trying to r/whoosh ppl?

I learned English almost exclusively through years of comprehensible input. It's amazing how abundant American pop-culture is all over the western world nowadays, especially for the people of my generation and those after because of the Internet. You really just learn English by accident.

@JTS-Games

2 жыл бұрын

This is so true

@planetary-rendez-vous

2 жыл бұрын

Nowadays if you don't learn English, it'd because you've segregated yourself deliberately.

@powerhousebikki

2 жыл бұрын

@@planetary-rendez-vous True. At least anyone can easily learn intermediate level English.

@stefdiazdiaz7067

2 жыл бұрын

And then most fools were I live can not speak even basic English xD

@powerhousebikki

2 жыл бұрын

@@stefdiazdiaz7067 I mean it's not anyone's fault that they can't learn a language. They might not have much interest in learning it or they simply didn't like to invest their time and engage in learning the language.

This guy is incredibly modest. What he's doing is 10x harder than he made it sound.

@joejo4549

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I think talent is under stated in most things

@gogl0l386

11 ай бұрын

Not really if you actually listened to what the message is (which is based on the studies by Stephen Krashen). Literally just watch so much anime you can without subtitles (to your own language), and make anki cards for sentences containing only one word you didn't understand. It's literally that, and it works, anyone else who says "you can't learn from anime" have definitely not tried this as there is a whole community (the "AJATT" community) who has learned it by this way, and they are always known as much more fluent than these supposed "polyglots".

@Ribcut

11 ай бұрын

@@gogl0l386 There are thousands of people who have watched anime since childhood who cannot speak Japanese

@gogl0l386

11 ай бұрын

@@Ribcut They've watched with subtitles. I can guarantee that anyone who has watched anime without subtitles for 10 000 hours knows Japanese (and probably better than most N1 people). This is backed up by studies. Also, this is precisely how I learned English before even having it as a subject in school (I'm Swedish).

@Ribcut

11 ай бұрын

@@gogl0l386 Without subtitles, how would you learn the language or even know what they are saying?

I'm a native Japanese who studies English. Matt was talking about his Japanese learning experience and tips, but I thought it also applied to English learners! I've been in Australia for almost 6 years but I still sound like a fobby... I had lost motivation studying English but you inspired me again! Thank you for this interview and your video!

@MichaelFitzpatrickk

Ай бұрын

A Japanese accent in English sounds better than an Aussie accent in English. Don't sweat it.

@walkwithtomo6708

Ай бұрын

@@MichaelFitzpatrickk Ohhh, thank you🥹

This was a terrific video. The whole time I wanted to pause it and just go study Japanese. This is very informative and motivational.

@ffnovice7

2 жыл бұрын

AJATT is also an element resource

@KilgoreTroutAsf

2 жыл бұрын

Ganbatte!

@KilgoreTroutAsf

2 жыл бұрын

@@themelancholyofgay3543 If you dont USE them, as in reading words, your brain wont find a use for keeping the associations between sound and glyph.

@paulwalther5237

2 жыл бұрын

That’s how all of Matt’s videos are.

@SelcraigClimbs

2 жыл бұрын

@@themelancholyofgay3543 "it was just characters" ..... I mean... every language (barring a few exceptions) have a character-based fundamental component

I'm a linguistics major who took a class on second language acquisition. This video pretty much covered all the theories and models I learned, but applied directly. Great stuff.

@gingerale1591

Жыл бұрын

@@mtw5034 "Cringe"

@thebronx9159

Жыл бұрын

@@mtw5034 what?

@thebronx9159

Жыл бұрын

@@mtw5034 how is that cringe? all it does is give the video more credibility. which is what we want, right?

@bloxer9563

3 ай бұрын

@@mtw5034 lol you do you

One of the best Matt vs Japan interviews on KZread. Bravo! This is so valuable. Thank you!

Incredible interview, This Matt talk is more deep and personal than usual. A big hug for both.

Matt is SO well-spoken, I actually can't believe

@paulwalther5237

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it doesn’t seem fair that he speaks Japanese AND English better than me. Surely AJATT should have held back his English a little bit?

@thestruggler7926

2 жыл бұрын

Man I wish I was articulate. I can't even explain things really well in English so I'd 100% struggle in Japanese trying to present facts lol.

@k.5425

2 жыл бұрын

Yess. When I watch his videos that's something I like. I admire his speech. He's well spoken, I need to imitate him or something. He should give us tips😂😂. Like bruh, I tend to mumble and leave my sentences hanging when I speak. It makes me wonder how I would express myself coherently in any other second language I decide to pick up. It's one thing not speaking coherently in your 1st language vs a second language you're not yet comfortable in.

@flukedogwalker3016

2 жыл бұрын

His ability to articulate complex ideas is one of his innate language gifts he was born with. He could learn any language and speak at almost native levels, only thing missing would be his acculturation, he would not have the same cultural knowledge and social behavior growing up in that culture that would help him blend in better. His curiosity and natural affability helps a lot as well as developing his ear to achieve better intonation.

@lieutenantpepper2734

2 жыл бұрын

well spoken in english

I've been using Matt's model for language learning for about 14 months to learn Korean. Immersion learning is the only reason I could have stuck with it. It makes it a lifestyle where you just enjoy content, show up every day and try to learn a little more each day. Looking forward to reading more Korean books the send half of this year

@karifurai8479

2 жыл бұрын

@@dj0- yeah, or maybe a couple of days like 3-4 at most.

@Oliver-jz1jl

2 жыл бұрын

Keep up the grindset

@sickandtired3289

2 жыл бұрын

@@513regichan Thank you. I didn't mean any harm. I was just saying that learning kana is so essential and what helps speed up the process.

@sickandtired3289

2 жыл бұрын

@Lucas_540 On Fiverr No. You are now purposely trying to take what I said in a malicious way. You said earlier in this SAME comment section saying that you did not have time to study. So I recommend that you try your best to FIND time to learn it because it helps for various reasons to get it done as soon as possible. What you said - "I can't study 24 seven like you..." It does not take a month to learn each. I have taught foundation level Japanese for year and did evening sessions with students to help them get used to using kana. You even saw me say "I do not mean any harm" and that I only wanted to help you speed up the process. But if you decide to ignore that and completely interpret what I said in a negative manner. I cant help you with that. I also said within a week. Not even a day.

@callmecraig3046

2 жыл бұрын

@Lucas_540 On Fiverr Honestly man, he's kind of right. It should only take a couple days at most. You can do what I did and brute force it into your memory in two days if you wanted to. The way I learned them was to write each one out front and back on a piece of paper and say it to myself as I wrote. I haven't used Japanese in a while but I can still recognize kana at a glance.

For me the funny thing is, I learned German when I was younger in exactly this way. My life at that time revolved around just sitting all day at the TV and listening to what they were saying on SuperRTL or in dubbed shows like Spongebob Squarepants and noone actually knew I could understand anything, but to everyone's surprise, I understood everything and could actually communicate in German with a native speaker at almost a native speaker level without actually ever been to Germany at that time. The sad thing about the education system is, that they don't teach us to actually learn a new language, I think the education system (at least here in Poland) tries to brute force a memory-based language from just learning to remember words or focusing on comunicative skills in a contextual lesson. The thing is, I actually understood at a pretty young age, that humans are actually born with the easiest way of learning a language - it's everything this video is talking about -> I N P U T and additionally I M M E R S I O N. A child learns the language of it's parents without actually brute-force memorising words, they start by the input after that then comes the meaning, the fun fact is, that you can do exactly that as an adult. I also find immersion a monstrously improving factor for this way of learning a language. If you immerse yourself with symbols, signs, words from another language, it's a way better memorizing method than brute-forcing a dozen of words at once.

Probably not something most people can do, but for me the biggest boost to my Japanese learning was going to a Japanese manga school. Not a language school. An actual school in Japan primarily attended by Japanese students. Going to classes, going out to eat, hanging out in dorm rooms, etc. with 95% Japanese people, really opened my eyes (or perhaps my ears) to how Japanese was really spoken. I think it also made a difference that most of the students I met were young adults who had never met a foreigner before so whereas Japanese people who attend international parties or people who work with foreigners, would often come to you with certain assumptions and adjust their language to accommodate you, the people I met at school would come not knowing what to expect and usually just end up treating me the same as anyone else.

I agree 100% with Matt. I learned English because I was into computers and every programming book translated to Danish was from the stone age (give or take a decade). The way I went about it was to ask my parents for English novels for Christmas (Dragon Lance: The Elven Nation Trilogy and three Star Wars novels). In the beginning I would use a dictionary for the individual words, but lo and behold, by the third novel I was done using the dictionary. After that I tried my best not to look at the subtitles (on analogue TV you couldn't turn them off)... and the whole thing kinda took care of itself after that.

@k.5425

2 жыл бұрын

I feel you on the subs. I got a couple of Spanish series gardsubbed in English and it's very difficult to get your eyes not to look down.

@breadman5048

2 жыл бұрын

This is the way

@stevenfallinge7149

2 жыл бұрын

Continuing to use the dictionary is the best way to continue learning new words. The other day, I picked up 以心伝心 and 感慨深い because I heard them in a sentence and had to look them up. Just switch to J-J dictionaries like weblio, goo, or kotobank once you know enough words.

@breadman5048

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevenfallinge7149 yeah I think 99 % of words I learned by context and reading not really the dictionary

@asdfasdfasdf1218

2 жыл бұрын

@@breadman5048 It's probably different between common words and the rarer words you find in a book. For example, you probably wouldn't pick up words like "quotidian" or "inchoate" unless you read a lot of books, and even then you might not know what those words mean unless you look them up because they don't show up often. For Japanese, visual novels and some other games turn out to use a lot of rare words, like 馥郁たる, 絨毯, or 石膏.

7:23 Okay. This explains a LOT. Why most of the time if you (carefully and KINDLY) correct someone's language, they won't get it. I had an in-law who was terrible about pronouncing TONS of words. For example, she pronounced "idea" as "ideal." And she refused to change it. She was sure she was right because that's how she'd always known it. Nobody had bothered to correct her until me and so she legit didn't believe me. Things went south when her child started school. He had learned from his mother and his words were so mixed up that the only human being who could understand him was her. The school sat her down and explained the problem. After months of therapy and no progress for the kid it turned out that she was undoing all of the therapy he was getting at school at home. The kid was actually becoming sort of bilingual. He's speak English at school and her f'ed up toddler language at home. SHE had to go to speech therapy to help HIM. And she was baffled. She had no idea that she was so wrong about so many things. When she spoke to her mother about it, her mother said that she thought her (adult) daughter's mispronunciations were so adorable that she reinforced them and just never stopped. Other people didn't want to be rude or hurt her feelings, so they kept their mouths shut. I'm the only person who cared enough to try to stop her sounding like an idiot. I tried to show her words spelled out and tried to help her sound them out. She legit thought that the words were just words that sounded differently than they were spelled. She thought that *I* was the moron. But why wouldn't she? People in her life either reinforced her 2 year old pronunciations or ignored them. I was just one data point in 24 years of life experience. It wasn't until a ton of experts were about to fail her son for kindergarten because he couldn't speak basic pre-school English that she was upset enough to hear them out, admit she had a problem, and bend.

@-yttrium-1187

2 жыл бұрын

This makes sense, my father is fluent in dutch exept for some nuanced grammar that he's unable to differenciate. I took over some of his mistakes exept that I can get it correct if I'd take more time to think.

@Trakusenpai

2 жыл бұрын

Damn, this is hands down one of the most unbelievable, thought provoking comments I've read on KZread. I wish the best for this lady in question, but what a shame for her and the kid!

@lebimas

2 жыл бұрын

How do you listen to everyone else pronounce the same word differently and still think to yourself you're pronouncing it the right way?

@jessepriest2883

2 жыл бұрын

@@lebimas Ya know how Japanese people often can't hear the difference R and L? It's the same the thing. As you're growing up and learning your first language, your brain is assimilating all the sounds and patterns and such as "correct" language, building the machine he talks about in this video. Once your machine is built, it will take unexpected sounds and lump them in with the closest sound it was expecting. So basically because her mom reinforced those pronunciations so much, her brain would take "idea" and go "yeah, they said ideal" cuz that's what it expected

@johnvienna3422

2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. Hope she and the child can work it out. I also never corrected my wife's mispronunciations in English (like the grandmother here, I found them kind of adorable). But now our eight-year-old son does correct her. She then sort of looks to me for confirmation that he's right, and of course he's always right. Thankfully she accepts it more easily than the woman referred to in this comment. And she also hasn't (yet) asked my why I never corrected her...

Man, so much gold is sprinkled throughout this interview. Thank you to you both for this.

This was a great interview! I am definitely re-evaluating the way I learn Japanese now. I bought a couple textbooks and while I don't regret it, I definitely feel like something was missing and everything Matt said about learning through input might be the help I need.

His method is strikingly similar to mine when I was teaching myself Arabic. Obviously, Matt was more regimented and diligent than I was, but I just kept consuming and consuming Arabic content until my Pronunciation was absolutely perfected. When I visited Saudi Arabia 5yrs ago, after being there for a week I was able to hold short conversations and communicate with people. I wasn't fluent but I was able to understand most of it. This is after NEVER sitting in an Arabic classroom learning it the traditional way. You also have to have a love and enthusiasm whilst learning too.

@HxH2011DRA

2 жыл бұрын

That's so cool!

@hopecarter5874

2 жыл бұрын

"His method" is just renamed AJATT though, isn't it?

@allergictohumansnotanimals5671

2 жыл бұрын

I did that with Arabic as well and now I’m fluent. I’m American so studying Arabic as a second language was extremely hard but it paid off in the end. Like, really paid off. It’s amazing how much input actually works, even as an adult. Now I’m studying German and it’s very easy compared to Arabic.

@tendatonda1634

2 жыл бұрын

@@allergictohumansnotanimals5671 Mabrook habibi

@alowrcase281

Жыл бұрын

If I may ask since I'm trying to learn Arabic too what content were you consuming? Don't really know where to start lol

Be obsessed. That is the single most important take away from this; be obsessed, do nothing else and provided you have some talent, you will be able to more or less get similar results.

@leone41ll

2 жыл бұрын

@KvAT i.e. the fool is the precursor to the master.

@INFIDEL96

2 жыл бұрын

Not obsessed. Motivated. Talent is only an excuse used by lazy unmotivated people.

@thinking-ape6483

2 жыл бұрын

@@INFIDEL96 So talent does not exist?

@INFIDEL96

2 жыл бұрын

@@thinking-ape6483 I don't think so. I would say Matt has perfect Japanese because he spent thousands of hours learning the language. I have never seen someone learn a language with "talent" They are always ordinary people who have been extremely dedicated, studying and consuming content over a long period of time.

@thinking-ape6483

2 жыл бұрын

@@INFIDEL96 So again, talent does not exist.

This was a great interview! You had great questions and he answered them in such a easy to understand way. I watched all the way from beginning to end with my eyes glued to the screen and ears listening intently!

This is a solid interview man and well conducted really allowing Matt to get his ideas across. I appreciate it.

That sounds exactly the way i learned english... i just watched about 1000 hours of tv series with english subtitles... fun fact is that english has a bunch of concepts and phrases my language doestn have... and because i use english more than my native language, these concepts became an integral part of the way i think... and that is when you realise you think in concepts, not words... one effect this has, is that if im speaking in my native language a lot of the time i build the sentence with the assumption that i can just say that sentence by just taking the concepts and using the words that represent them... but if my language doesnt have that concept my brain just throws an exception and i use english word/phrase/word for word translation of that phrase - which means that it makes it really difficult for me to speak with people who do not speak english Also the thing with the vowels, totally true, in czech we have slightly different sounds to all the letters, and we never get taught not to use the czech alphabet... so what you get is this horrible accent that is so unmistakable that when i play dota, if a czech person says anything (most of the time 1 word is enough) i can immediately tell they are czech. feels like every language i came across is made up of different set of sounds

@Venyrean

2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting perspective that i can wholeheartedly relate to. For me its not speicifically a struggle to parse concepts into correct sentences, but more of a general decline as i tend to not spend as much time with my native language as i am doing with english. Although, the thing with concepts happened to me once at about halfway where i am right now where english was superimposing a fair bit on my native lang's sentence structures that i was trying to use and so there was a period that i imagine i did sound really strange.

@GankAlpaca

2 жыл бұрын

So same for russian. I can really just tell if a person russian or not just by listening to the way they say interchangable vowels (like in the word "probably" where the vowel o is written but the correct way is to say it using -ah sound) or in the way they pronounce b, ph, p, r sounds. Also russians tend to lisp and so do I. I find it the most difficult aspect to get rid off.

@msDanielp369

2 жыл бұрын

There's only one way to...- Cause what happens happens and not if not. So, in pronouncing right, you ever once sit and, as if, think about it; So slowly setting the habit, and now making the right phonetic sounds. So interesting, that thing of what y'all saying above. Mm it got me this idea of, the very unique sounds of a language. Language is a personality... And those sounds are related... Like using certain consonants or vowels; and that shaping your mouth and vocal cords patterned. Like how English is veeery round, even more so british. Like spanish and so less so. Round is harder to listen if not flowing. And, actually most other languages which then are more direct and less vowely, are easier to just get it. Also English is not phonetic at all! Feels like. I can see the whole pattern in, even the culture!, If not such delusionally me now, I could say that in English in general is also more free.

@jeffreysmith236

2 жыл бұрын

22 years ago I was driving a taxi in the southeast U.S., where I grew up, and I was learning Russian because I had a very attractive young female Russian regular customer. I was following the written pronunciation guides in the book plus listening to her accent. Now I knew I had no idea how to pronounce the vowels so I guessed like German vowels. So she is riding in the back giving directions since she chose a different route every day to prevent being followed. I said something in Russian in response, and the blood drained out of her face and she asked in a terrified whisper if I was KGB. I laughed so hard I almost lost control of the car. I told her that was the greatest compliment I had ever received in my life, and it still is.

@HxH2011DRA

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffreysmith236 please tell me yall married now XD

he is living the Weeb dream

@IvorMektin1701

2 жыл бұрын

He unlocked the bonus level

@Menaceblue3

2 жыл бұрын

@@IvorMektin1701 Level 99 Weeb master samurai

@Sx-xy2zi

2 жыл бұрын

Needs a Japanese kawaii girlfriend too. Then it's fully unlocked

@hhfbko

2 жыл бұрын

Epic

@dontworryhouston

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sx-xy2zi he has one lol

Thank you so much for this video. I've always thought Matt's approach would be better for me, but I've also felt kind of pressured to think more popular approaches are "tried and true" so I should default to them. This video gives me more confidence to dive right in!

Such an awesome interview, really enjoyed that.

I appreciate how introspective the I interviewee is, I think a lot of people fall into that trap of allowing one thing to be like the crux of their whole identity and growing out of that makes you a much healthier happier person.

@bascal133

2 жыл бұрын

@SnugglerWuggler smart lady ✨👩🏾‍🦱😀

@ataraxia7439

Жыл бұрын

What’s your icon pic?

@bascal133

Жыл бұрын

@@ataraxia7439 a character called Hazel from a comic called Seconds by Bryan Lee O’Malley

Matt has really helped me and made me more confident in what I'm doing, I'm part Korean and i really want to learn Korean and live there someday however I didn't really know how to do it because i was getting lots of different opinions, matt has simplified it and made it comprehensible, i love you man.

Such a helpful video. Has helped me redirect my Japanese lessons, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed before listening to what Matt had to share.

I think I've seen nearly 10 interviews of Matt vs Japan. I feel like this interview did the best job of letting him express ideas completely. Part of this may be because he has now had a lot of experience explaining these things, but still, nice interview.

@Purpial

2 жыл бұрын

We have the same name

@alfred0231

2 жыл бұрын

@@Purpial Thats cool. Collin with 2 l's is uncommon. Do you also mean first & last? Cause I've been working on the assumption that I am the only one, would be interested in knowing otherwise.

@okal2468

2 жыл бұрын

@@alfred0231 I have a friend named Collin spelled exactly 2 l’s

I went from speaking no English to sounding like a local Londoner in 5 years, and I totally agree with this guy. Observer observe and observe more, understanding is not important in the beginning, your brain is going to pick up words and without you knowing it, and will naturally use it in speaking. Another one is avoiding speaking or limiting exposure to your first language, I mostly didn’t talk, read or listen to anything in my first language for 3 years.

@chilael6892

2 жыл бұрын

Any content you recommend to build a london type of english?

@WaitingForTheHook

2 жыл бұрын

What % of people have the option to avoid their native language AT ALL, let alone for 3 years? It's cool that it worked for you, but that's not a story pretty much anyone can replicate.

@chilael6892

2 жыл бұрын

@@WaitingForTheHook You don't need to completely avoid your native language, it's just the more you do avoid it the better you'll become in your target language, is my take away atleast.

@picapica201

2 жыл бұрын

@@chilael6892 Harry Potter? lol

@chilael6892

2 жыл бұрын

@@EresirThe1st Well I was thinking more about youtube channels since that's the bulky of the content I consume but, gimme one of these series and I'll try to dig out the rest. Thank you.

Absolutely love your channel. Glad you started to do language related videos.

I want to thank you both. This is the most useful language learning video I've ever watched. I've always wanted to learn languages, but never had any success. I'm currently in school again (at 52) and decided to take Japanese as my required language class (one of the languages from my list of ones I want to learn). I'm currently halfway through the course and doing well per my number grade (not as well as that grade says in reality) I still seem to be doing more translation instead of reading/understanding. My main issue is memorization of vocabulary and the hiragana/katakana (these I have pretty well memorized, just get the similar ones mixed up still) and not to mention kanji which we are really just starting on. Regardless, thank you both for putting this video up and I look forward to consuming more content from both of your channels.

This is interesting. I’ve used these methods to learn English. This was intuitive and natural to me. Now I use these methods to learn Korean language. Works out pretty well for me.

@Geo-st4jv

2 жыл бұрын

I've been doing this for like 10 months in Korean and im probably concidered an advanced learner atleast in reading

@christinaeconomos4726

2 жыл бұрын

so, you just watched and immersed yourself in english?

@christoph6055

2 жыл бұрын

@@christinaeconomos4726 that's what I did, yeah

@k.5425

2 жыл бұрын

Can you go a little bit into detail about how you're learning Korean? Especially when you were a complete beginner, starting from scratch. What apps/resources you used.? As you understand very little at the beginning

@DannersKananers

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I'd love to know your recommendations for media/content for beginners too.

"Haha what you can't learn Japanese from anime, lol all you know is kowai desune" Matt: *observe*

@simoncleret

2 жыл бұрын

More like マット: 見て

@EXTREMEKIWI115

2 жыл бұрын

ガヴリール様カンペキ天使だよね！！！

@whathell6t

2 жыл бұрын

@@themelancholyofgay3543 I agree. You also learn Japanese from Tokusatsu shows. Without further ado, HENSHIN.

@yossared901

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I see what you did there. Very... cute.

@jonathancross3097

2 жыл бұрын

Probably the reason that he was able to learn Japanese from anime while most people who try aren't able to is because usually they still keep the subtitles in their own language. Iirc some study said that language acquisition from watching a foreign tv show if you keep native language subtitles is virtually zero.

Omg thank you SO much for this video. Because of Matt I got to know about pitch accents. I'm learning japanese and as a beginner I had no idea that the lexical meaning could also change with the pitch; I only thought it changed the emotion and way of saying the same thing. Wow. This was so great and motivated me so much more to keep learning this beautiful and unique language.

I've been following matt and this channel for many years, really cool seeing the two collide :)

ほんとにお上手ですね！ I will practice hard to be able to speak English fluently like you speak Japanese.

@Gaganpreet708

2 жыл бұрын

I will practice hard to be able to speak Japanese fluently like you speak English!

@wimpykid7514

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gaganpreet708 same lol

@Im-BAD-at-satire

Жыл бұрын

めっちゃ練習できられます、今病気にかかっちゃいますけど

@maddog643

Жыл бұрын

I will practice hard to be able to speak japanese and english fluently like i speak arabic

@maddog643

Жыл бұрын

like me * i need to back to work😅😂

Clickbait title: White Guy Speaks Perfect Japanese from watching Anime Reality: A guy practices Japanese 6 to 8 hours daily for 3 years obsessively before even trying to speak it, and then goes to a school with native Japanese people to practice for 2 more years.

@UmamiPapi

2 жыл бұрын

Not very click-bait. He did explain how and why he used native content for the bulk of his (at least early years) learning. Obviously you won't achieve a high level by just watching the titles you already like. You have to broaden your consumption and make it something you go out of your way to do.

@delfost

2 жыл бұрын

His "practice" is just watching anime and reading books with an app he used 30 minutes a day to learn vocabulary, and him going to school wasn't really an important part of learning the language, you can make the speech practice for free going on discord and talking or something similar.

@_capu

2 жыл бұрын

didn't he said he was in Japan for only 6 months? And that he was able to speak fluently in 2 weeks!

@sidma5661

2 жыл бұрын

He was in Japan for only 6 months in his first year of learning Japanese. And he actively avoided speaking Japanese and stayed in his room, studying Japanese. Though the rest of what you said is true.

@el_equidistante

2 жыл бұрын

@@delfost OMG did you even see the video?

Fascinating specific example of massive comprehensible input being the greatest way to learn a target language, loved the intonation as pitch accent insight. thank you.

Your editing is amazing, it must have taken days to collect that B-roll. Respect.

I'm learning English. Just in time, lol. I'm gonna get fluent fore sure!

@petrabanjarnahor229

2 жыл бұрын

Just watch Hollywood or listen to music

@TheReMorseCode

2 жыл бұрын

You're doing great!

@iabaca

2 жыл бұрын

"for" sure. But keep it up!

@SuperSpecies

2 жыл бұрын

@@scottapache5041 yablockos

When you're such a weeb that it becomes cool.

The learning to swim analogy comparing learning rules and physics versus empirical learning is really interesting, because that is precisely how computer translations made a massive leap forward. Previously there was a lot of the precise analytical modelling of the rules of a language versus the current methodology which is roughly a massive amount of data input into a relatively unoptimized learning algorithm

The vowels! I started taking classical singing lessons at 16 and only really took an interest in Japanese later, so the clipped vowels was something I noticed immediately. It's almost a hard onset followed by a glottal stop. Will definitely be saving this as a resource for how to learn any language.

This has to be one of the most interesting talks I've come across with respect to language learning. To be honest I was a bit reluctant initially noticing the length of the video, but each minute was super on point. I've noticed that spaced variable rewards also work in language learning such as: getting to understand a show you didn't get before, talking to a native speaker and them thinking you're a native etc. Identifying those rewards has been crucial a role in keeping myself motivated, and keeping these rewards spaced enough to feel driven. Thank you for your content. 😊

When people ask me about my linguistic proficiency, I point out the incredible basis of input vs classic learning. You need to forget the skeleton of the first language and try to put a skin on, rather, feel the shape and ingrain it.

Thank you for sharing this video!

This is really a fantastic interview and well made video. Thanks for your efforts :)

Matt finally hitting the mega spotlight he deserves!!! Nice thanks for bringing more awareness to his super helpful channel :)

Best video to introduce people to immersion-based language learning.

This was outstanding! Thanks so much this 🙏🏽!!!

It's crazy how much of Matt's experience and even internal thought process with Japanese almost perfectly describes my experience learning as well. I can definitely see how lots of input and written output to form my own connections with the language and my thoughts helped in the beginning. It also makes sense that speaking at the beginning is not entirely necessary since even babies don't speak until they've already had hours and hours of input. I'm definitely gonna test this method with Spanish now that I'm more aware of Matt's example and my own previous experience learning Japanese.

This is one of the most, if not the most, interesting discussions on language and learning I've watched. I did not get bored at any moment. Excellent questions, and great articulation of what was necessary. Thank you both!

Brilliant! I did the EXACT same thing to learn and master various dialects, accents and idioms in Latin American Spanish. Spanish music, books and especially novelas(soap operas). The only difference, I did it in the early 90's - sans Internet.

@ronlugbill1400

2 жыл бұрын

Which shows did you watch in Spanish?

@angelasvocie

2 жыл бұрын

@@ronlugbill1400 oh Gosh so many! But my favourites were "La Usurpadora" and "Esmeralda" I also moved into a Latino community and strictly watched Univision! So everything from "Sabado Gigante" to Walter Mercado - mucho paz y amor 😉 to "Lente Loco" to "Cantinflas" 😂. I was already fluent in French when I switched to Spanish, so listening to Gloria Estefan's music on constant repeat helped with intonation as well as interpretation. It's like he was saying; it's not about word for word translation, but an understanding of contextual inference. Because I'm old enough to look back and remember a time when could barely speak a few words, and I pronounced them with French accent. I see clearly the ability we all have to learn anything! I'm currently working on Haitian Creole and Brazilian Portuguese. I hope the video inspires people to dive in completely; immerse yourself in language.

@run2fire

2 жыл бұрын

Muy bien

This is such a great video, thank you for the insights. This is going to be key in moving to my next level of learning, some really important things to know in this video. Worth watching the whole thing.

58:30 that's a great point actually. It took me about a decade to reach a stable level of C2 fluency in English from both primary and high school education and then casually engaging in it daily whilst picking up new words here and there in the years since. 4 years ago I took a course A1 Russian language and by the end of it I did understand basic structuring and had a small vocabulary, but since then I've barely practiced it due to a lack of exposure and follow-up learning. This really confirms to me that you need to have a certain amount of stress over a certain period of time, kind of like progressive overload theory in Fitness, to really make lasting improvements. Eventually there will be a certain balance considering the Pareto Principle I'd argue, but all in all he's totally right about realistic expectations in terms of duration and intensity. Nice interview, got me stoked to pick up Russian again!

@georgefox4172

Жыл бұрын

И как, в связи с событиями последних четырех месяцев, желание учить русский не пропало? :)

The perfect language input sources I've found are visual novels. I really recommend you reading visual novels when you are learning foreign language

@salgee3006

2 жыл бұрын

Where can you find them? Sorry for the question, not really familiar with visual novels :) thanks

@Lulu_0809

2 жыл бұрын

Do you have any recommendations?

@k.5425

2 жыл бұрын

Visual novels? What are those?

@Amanda-C.

2 жыл бұрын

@@k.5425 It's a genre of game that's basically an electronic choose-your-own-adventure book.

@k.5425

2 жыл бұрын

@@Amanda-C. Thanks. Is it like those games shown in ads that pop up.

I personally learned English watching youtube... mainly AVGN who speaks quite slowly and clearly

@aikou2886

2 жыл бұрын

I usedto watch him a lot! His theme song comes to mind from time to time.

@keithws2779

2 жыл бұрын

My kid's English became amazing from just watching gamers on KZread.

@ziggynezumi4268

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah AVGN rules!!!

it makes sense, seeing how most non-english speakers learn english by watching a lot of english tv shows, cartoons, movies, etc. when i was growing up i learned most of my grammar, knowledge of slang, general definitions and so on by the mediums i've stated before. the passion to learn something helps you to find patterns to absorb and digest all that knowledge you are trying to gather.

It’s genuinely quite incredible what Matt has done, the depth he’s gone to and the time he’s put in has brought its rewards, even if, as he admits, his initial motivation was troubling and he suffered losses throughout the process.

Timestamps or these segments in the watch bar would be nice. Especially with this many points

@WhatIveLearned

2 жыл бұрын

Just added them thanks to @sweatytryhard

@stressedbyamountainofbooks

2 жыл бұрын

@@WhatIveLearned nice

One of the most informational videos i've seen! I put Linguist as what i wanted to be in my 5th grade year book, so this technique of learning like a child sounds very intersting, and is definitely something i want to try! Thank you!

I'm currently learning english language right now and these ideas are very helpful to me. I would also like to learn japanese in the future. Thank you very much!

Fascinating interview

This is super interesting, especially with the pronunciation point. I've been consuming anime and Japanese media since I was 10, though I only ever picked up a few phrases and words here and there, now that I'm actually studying Japanese my teacher and Japanese people I know compliment my accent and how well I can speak even though I've only been studying the language for 4 months. Great video, happy to know all the things I'm already doing outside of class are helping me internalise the language.

As a Russian boy I learned fluent English just by watching PewDiePie and dank memes from the start not knowing most of the stuff they were saying and moving to more advanced American with all of its dialects. And here I am 4 years later able to understand 99 percent of words

@danielantony1882

2 жыл бұрын

Holy картошкины, братан. You understand English better than a lot of Native speakers. Those wankers can't even understand the point of '

@fsholokh

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielantony1882 lol, same. I suck speaking at russian

@ItsameAlex

Жыл бұрын

@@fsholokh why do you suck at speaking Russian?

@obmarte3803

Жыл бұрын

As Russian, learning English from Russian is actually very common lol.

@nzajflynn

Жыл бұрын

Russian is my target language. I can't wait to speak fluent Russian.

I will watch every single one of your videos. Bravo, great work!

This is an absolutely amazing video. Such great information and very interesting, even though I’m currently learning Spanish. Still most of the concepts apply.

43:15 Like when Matt says that but actually English isn't your mother tongue and you're still learning it. That's motivating as hell. Amazing video, guys, thank you so much. ❤️

I learned English by immersion, and I had some very funny misunderstandings with it, and probably still do. I was hearing the word "permanently" being used in a context that talks about time, so I guessed that it was related to a period of time, like temporarily. (hint: it was the opposite) One time when I was playing monopoly with my host family, my host brother was going bankrupt, so I said to him "I can permanently borrow your estate card, and in exchange I can lend you some money". What I meant to say was temporarily. They laughed so hard and corrected me in the end. What a nice moment!

@alpacawithouthat987

Жыл бұрын

Lol at least you didn’t say something inappropriate

@adamwigley9738

8 ай бұрын

I apologize, but what does "host family" mean?

@One-Unical

7 ай бұрын

​@@adamwigley9738hi, "Host family" is an English term that refers to a family that welcomes and accommodates a foreign person in their home. This typically occurs when the foreign person is visiting a country for an extended period of time, such as for studying, working, or participating in a cultural exchange.

@adamwigley9738

7 ай бұрын

@@One-Unical ohhh, thanks, didn't know that

4:10 this is so true. I tried learning some Japanese grammar I was stuck on thru drama, and made grammar notes, and thankfully understood, context helps so much instead of grammar books, they are there for implementation.

Great interview!

his personality kind of changes a lot too when he's speaking japanese, he's just a perfect mimic

Holy shit one hour of curated content! It's incredible that this is free!

Great stuff. Thanks guys.

Number 18 was pure gold thank you Matt !!!