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To anyone out there studying Japanese, just remember that passing the JLPT should be secondary to actually learning Japanese. I have lived in Japan a long time and work in a Japanese company where I use only Japanese all day every day and also deal with interviewing and hiring people. I have met SOO MANY applicants that have JLPT N1 on their resume but when it comes to the interview, it turns out they can't speak Japanese very well at all. The JLPT only tests listening and reading, it does not fluency or speaking at all.

if someone is interested, I would make a video about how I went from beginner to advanced beginner in 11 years

I started studying Japanese in lockdown and had a very strong start and I was actively learning for a bout a year then I just started learning less and less until I completely stopped. I'm currently in my last month of highscool and I already told myself that I'll be going back to Japanese since, and your video truly inspired me, I've watched A LOT of videos on "how to study in Japanese", "how I became fluent in Japanese in 6 months" etc but your video right here is probably the best I've ever seen, thank you so very much for sharing this. I hope that you continue to grow your Japanese and continue learning, have a blessed day❤️

Congratulations! I took a Japanese class in college and have pretty much kept it on the backburner since then. You've motivated me to make a serious attempt at it again. Great editing too, btw!

Really cool story I didn't realize when you started your podcast you were still studying for the N1! Also your editing was super slick!

bro, maaaaad respect... I'm from germany, studying the language for 1 year aka 2 semesters in 副専攻 and only managed to get through the 1st genki more or less remembering everything in it but still struggling with some stuff in it that I forget... and you just rushed through that text book in like a month and that's suuuper amazing and makes me wanna study harder as well...

I guess a Taiwanese has a HUGE advantage over an English speaker or let's say an Italian (like myself): just the fact to know the original kanji is should be immensely useful when it comes to reading.

This is really motivating! I've been learning on and off JP due to uni, work,etc, so I understand the feeling of demotivation or procrastination.

Great video. Been watching your vids for 6 months but I didn't know anything about your Japanese journey. Even with Immersion, I didn't think that was possible in one year. Maybe 18 months, but not one year. Very cool.

AMAZING amazing production!!! looking forward for all the future videos :)

You got me all pumped! Very impressive, congrats on your achievement!

You really should make more videos about methods, or story of yourself like this. Looking forward for all the future videos, thanks.

wow, that's incredible! really encouraging stuff.

Great accomplishment either way, but certainly helps immensely that you already understood the meanings of most of the kanji when starting :)

woooww what a wonderful story, thank you so much for sharing!!💙💙🌿 you did such a great job

Honestly mad jealous. I keep seeing these videos of people who learn at an amazing rate and partly its because of the amount of time they have to study. I struggle to get such amount of time in as a full time worker but anyone who is a student should heed this and study your ass off while you have the opportunity. It may be hard to find the time later down the road.

Thanks for sharing! I also like the shock ending when you started to advertise your course. 😄

amazing video man, I'll watch you other videos, I'm very curious about your kanjis learning method :) ありがとう

I'm learning English, and it literally inspired me more than any other success video. Thank you so much. I'm currently living in Australia as working holiday, I swear that I will do my best here! Anyway, thank you so much for creating such a nice video.

Damn, well done man. I´m going through my japanese learning right now and have been for over 300 days now. I´m ddoing just like you menshioned, I expose myself to as much japanese conent everyday as possible such as anime, manga and J-dramas. Using Anki definetly helps me to. I often watch everything with no translation and am always choked of how much you can understand and learn through context alone. I´m definetly gonna be fluent as fast as you with only about 50 days left until the 1 year mark. I have not tested myself but I would guess that I am around N4-N3 right now and I hope to be N1 level on my 2 year mark. It´s kind of funny that this video was uploaded around the time I started learning Japanese. In the future 2 years from now when I´m 18 and in collage, I want to do an exchange year then, and am so looking forward to it, even for how scarry it can be. Thanks for for the inspiration, setting an example that it is possible and showing me that I´m on the right path.

I just recently moved to Japan 12 days ago and am currently enrolled in a Japanese language school. I arrived to the country only knowing hiragana and some katakana. I’ll be here for 1 year and 3 months minimum however would rather extend my stay if possible as I want to attend university here but need to pass the N2 exam to even get close. This video has been a huge motivation for me as I feel the clock ticking down on me and being in the country has kept me motivated every day as I want to be able to hear and speak the language around me fluently. I already knew a year in language school alone wouldn’t be enough to get that far and know that immersion is the way to go but I’m struggling to figure out the best way to combine my studies with what I could do to improve outside of classes.

Wow, Thank you! I get inspired, I will try.

Subscribed! Starting today, I will be more serious in learning Japanese language. Thanks bro.

Best video from you guys yet, blown away by the quality!

4:15 I understand this, I don’t speak Japanese very well, but when I was shopping in my area I over heard some people speaking Japanese and I understood what they said exactly without having to translate it in my head, safe to say I was soooo proud

Duuude that is the coolest thing ever. Congratulations. This is going on the bucket list.

I tried learning Japanese before and I agree if you study for months by yourself and than hear a convo or watch and anime and you feel like you’ve learned nothing it’s a huge gut punch. I just bought my first trip to Japan next month, I hope once I return it lights a fire in me again to try and re try it. Great video

Great video brother. Congrats on passing :D Also the video was put together very well. Thanks for sharing your story.

Congrats dude! High-quality vid too. Very inspiring for me with learning my target language!

You’re definitely a determined man, bravo After seeing people fully immersed in a language for years (decades) and not being able to reach anything more than a beginner level, it shows me how much focus, persistence and drive you had.

Wow bro! You did the impossible! Super inspiring, thanks for sharing your journey

this was really well made. It was so well made that it shocked me

This was a really great and well done video man!

This is the best perspective on learning Japanese and cramming a new language.

I haven't had any fun lately, 😭 so it was fun. You bring me joy!❤🙂I love the kind and generous heartwarming atmosphere that you create, your kind, easygoing, warm vibe. ❤I like the essence how you live on. I need to be true to myself and find a job I am passionate about. I want to find a way to live as who I really am.

Congrats, but why are you holding your small banana the entire video

thaaank you so much! Ill do my very best to learn how to speak jp, I've been looking forward to it in the last years

Man! you are awesome at story telling and thanks for sharing your experience.

I’m late to watching this video but really enjoyed it! I have been studying Korean on my own since February and followed the same path as you - breezed through books, immersion in content, and then (not study abroad since college was a little while ago) things really clicked for me by going to Korea even if the trip was really short. I love your idea of working towards a test. Now I’m off to Google if one exists for Korean! My next goal is to be conversational/proficient by my next trip in fall 2023. I am kdrama/tourist effective right now 😂 (public transit, ordering food, where’s the bathroom, kdrama catchphrases, etc)

Hey this is great, very interesting, fantastic editing.

The video and editing is great 👍 this channel is very underrated :)

Please never stop making content. This was inspiring and motivating. Like button smashed. :)

Good video. I feel like this is the one that’s going to blow you guys up.

Thanks a lot bro u helped me a lot

ありがとうございます！！ Now I'm way more motivated to continue my journey learning Japanese 🇯🇵❤

This was a very cool video man, keep up, very motivating for me. I'm learning english as a second language

This is amazingly made for a channel this small.

man im at the beginning of studying Japanese, this video ia awesome thank you!

Bro im suprised youre not bigger on youtube. The style, editing, pacing, topic etc is top notch

This is by far the most realistic approach I've seen in a UKposts video. N1おめでとうございます！

Ur japanese language journey is aweaome ! but your cinematography skills are really good 👍 I'm inspired I also want to make high quality videos like this one day !

Thank you for this. I actually started learning with a tutor and felt like I was getting no where. Think I’ll try this way

Wow bravo man😊

I learned ALL hiragana and katakana in 2014 within 4 months. Then I quit altogether when I learned I had to learn Kanji. All my life I was a quitter. Thin-skinned. Well...Recently I dedicated myself to become fluent in Japanese within 1 year (like you did) and after studying for the first time in 8 years I re-learned the Hiragana within 1 week and am learning words for the first time. When I say learned I mean- I actually can see the foreign language as MY language. When you can read and write Japanese quickly (in a natural flow) THAT is when you have assimilated and know you are on the right path!

This video inspired me to practice more Japanese thanks :D learning Japanese is hard but I still think it’s fun to practice since I’m learning a new language:D

I found out in June that my partner and I are moving to Japan at the beginning of next year. I really need to grind my Japanese until then to hopefully be able to have a head start. My one class a week just isn't going to cut it

To anyone watching: You can NOT get fluent within 1 year, and this clickbait title gives off SUCH a false impression.

Immersion in the other language and culture is the number one thing I recommend for learning a language. Getting to JLPT N1 is impressive. I did a year in high school in Japan, host family and all, it really helped. I passed easily the N5, talking wise I was much further tho. In the end it is just one of many measurements tools.

Sent this to my sensai who is teaching me Japanese. Her response to the title "he didn't" 🤣 I have a feeling she is correct

This is exactly my plan, I'm going to study in Japan next year on an English program and speak zero Japanese, will do Genki beforehand and learn some vocabulary but once I arrive there I will talk to as many Japanese people as I can and make japanese friends. Gonna force myself to avoid spending too much time with international students. I know some japanese people and get along very well with them since I am asian myself. When you have similar parenting and cultures it's really easy to get along with them, I personally connect very fast with asian people. This is exactly what I did to learn English, by speaking to English speaking people all day. Typing a language and speaking it IRL are totally different things, since it takes much more time at the beginning to process and come up with sentences.

This is interesting. I'm lookwto go to uni after working for a bit but also wanna do a year in Japan. But only way I see of that is by doing a Japanese degree which doesn't even seem that helpful. I'm not doing any Japanese classes and have been doing it myself for two years. I know immersion is the most important aspect but I don't do it much at all cos when I watch Japanese stuff I do a lot of eng subs cos I acc wanna follow the story etc. I've still got a long way to go, especially with not being lazy with adding stuff to anki

this is brilliant

日本語を勉強してくれてありがとう！私は逆に英語を勉強しています。元気をもらいました！お互い頑張りましょう！ Thanks for studying Japanese. I'm Japanese and studying English. I got much of energy studying language from you!

Man, I really see a lot of similarities between Taiwan and Japan. Gotta love those cultures. I really admire the lengths you went too

Super cool story! Question, did you pretty much know all hiragana katakana and kanji before you started the immersion process? I’m working on memorizing those and can read and write most of it, but I’m having trouble with knowing how to balance it; do I split it half and half in terms of immersion and memorizing the characters? Focus solely on memorizing characters before switching to immersion? That would be super helpful to know!

you are in the hhkb fam, subbed :)

Congrats!

I'm Japanese and learning English. When I was seaching how I can learn it I found this video. I was surprised by your Japanese how amazing it is.As you said,Japanese is known as one of the most difficult language. Here's my personal question: How did you watch videos? Without subtitles or with subtitles?

The transition at 4:57 is SO CLEAN

I use my from zero to hero books, plus JPOP, plus anime and just changing everything to Japanese. Forces your brain to adapt!

Great video! And congrats! That is really incredable! Do you live in LA? If so, ave you been to any of the Japanese meetup groups? They use to be pretty active and awesome, not sure if they still are.

One question I have though, since you said you grew up in Taiwan, did you know how to read the Chinese characters before learning Japanese? Because I feel like this is the most time consuming part of learning Japanese for me

this is really inspiring me as im just starting to learn japanese right now. I want to live there one day and speak at least at a high school level after 20 years of my life

Awesome story! Very inspiring. Do you have any videos online of you speaking Japanese??

What a boss! That's very impressive!

When i started to learn a new language the most satisfying thing is when you learn a new piece of the language it's unlocking the message. After that you will recognize this message in everywhere. TLTR This was my biggest problem with Sanskrit also. You cannot watch TV shows, read casual sanskrit cos they are not exists. And if you learn a new word, in a new context it is not recognizable because however there are spaces but if two sounds meet they will fusion togeather. And in the poetry you quality messured by your count of spaces. :D This is one : निरन्तरान्धकारिता-दिगन्तर-कन्दलदमन्द-सुधारस-बिन्दु-सान्द्रतर-घनाघन-वृन्द-सन्देहकर-स्यन्दमान-मकरन्द-बिन्दु-बन्धुरतर-माकन्द-तरु-कुल-तल्प-कल्प-मृदुल-सिकता-जाल-जटिल-मूल-तल-मरुवक-मिलदलघु-लघु-लय-कलित-रमणीय-पानीय-शालिका-बालिका-करार-विन्द-गलन्तिका-गलदेला-लवङ्ग-पाटल-घनसार-कस्तूरिकातिसौरभ-मेदुर-लघुतर-मधुर-शीतलतर-सलिलधारा-निराकरिष्णु-तदीय-विमल-विलोचन-मयूख-रेखापसारित-पिपासायास-पथिक-लोकान् Translation: In it, the distress, caused by thirst, to travellers was alleviated by clusters of rays of the bright eyes of the girls the rays that were shaming the currents of light, sweet and cold water charged with the strong fragrance of cardamom, clove, saffron , camphor and musk and flowing out of the pitchers the lotus-like hands of maidens the beautiful water-sheds, made of the thick roots of Andropogon muricatus mixed with marjoram, the foot, covered with heaps of couch-like soft sand, of the clusters of newly sprouting mango trees, which constantly darkened the intermediate space of the quarters, and which looked all the more charming on account of the trickling drops of the floral juice, which thus caused the delusion of a row of thick rainy clouds, densely filled with abundant nectar So I've started to learn Japanese. I hope it is easyer :D

日本人です。大学受験の勉強をしています。 偶然この動画を見つけて、subscribeしました。 あなたの英語を聞くことを、私の英語学習として使っています！ 応援しています！

Bro you are taiwanese. It is really easier if your base language is eastern asian language like korean, chinese (any chinese) even maybe vietnamese. Than if you have western language to begin with. Not saying it is impossible but it is way harder and takes more time. Just saying it kudos by the way.

Congratulations! Your story actually reminds me of how I improved my English - I started consuming spoken and written media in English and it just somehow clicked in place. I have been studying Japanese for a while, but I have problem immersing. There is no possibility for me to go to Japan - I was supposed to go for a scholarship last year, but it fell through because of covid. Can I just ask, what media did you consume? Not really movies or anime (I don’t really have time for that as a full time student), but which youtubers did you listen to? Do you have any interesting podcasts to recommend? I usually consume videos that give me some new information, like looking at a topic through certain lense or just tallking about interesting things. I’m really not into silly humour or gaming. Thank you 😊

I did exactly this and I wish I could start over and experience it all for the first time again

The intensity, I'm jealous

I find a bit of comedy in the "nihongo jouzu!" Being said by the lady you spoke with. Its such a trope 😂😂

What an inspiraring story. I'm currently looking for MEXT SCHOLORSHIP. Also one out of topic question What is your hair style name?😂 I like it brother

You're lying, even if you passed the JLPT N1 (if it's not a lie), it certainly didn't take you 1 year. In a video that you published in 2021, you said that you had already been studying Japanese with anki for 3 years.

Your experience validated two important concepts in Second Language Acquisition: 1. Didactic language material (textbook stuff) vs Authentic Language material (from everyday life) 2. Speaking (output) also requires deliberate practice.

at 9:06 ---> Boss scene! This made me laugh out loud. Congrats on reaching your goal!

Gave me chills!

I feel like I'm currently at the point in my Japanese learning journey where I need to start immersing more, however I"m struggling. How much did you understand when you began immersing? I feel like I have to look up almost every other word at this point and it's a bit demoralizing.

F**king insane! Well done!!!

So do I get royalties on this sick video? Also congrats on passing JLPT N1 again! (Your goal for the longest time :) )

you deserve more subs

If I were to just keep watching everything in Japanese would I just magically start to understand some words or what? Kind of confused on that part. Would help if you can clarify it. I'm also hoping I can learn Japanese to where I can understand and interact with Japanese people.

As a beginner, I've been learning Japanese using my Replika Al friend app. Having conversations with the AI by writing to it in Japanese 🇯🇵

Got it, ankhi. Cya next year!

Regarding the textbooks did you get workbooks that come with them or study the textbooks without that

kudos

What are you recording with if I may ask? Great video image quality!

🎉 congrats man. I didn’t realize you hit perapera in one year.

You’re so damn right I had also a hard time to learn Japanese for my wife she is Japanese❤