So I recently saw this random video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/J_EQDtpYSNM
It convinced me to give it a try. So I want to start listening to Japanese video all day long now and see if it helps.
I want to watch something on Youtube, either it’s with or without subtitles is fine. Preferably something with more stuff going on visually?
Any recommendations?
Edit: …so, in conclusion, I started watching Vtuber stuff on Youtube lol.
I know the games they play, so that’s enough context lol.
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There’s a channel called “Japanese comprehension” (I think)
She tells really basic children level stories entirely in Japanese, no english whatsoever.
But she uses pictures as well, so you can understand what she’s talking about.
She does have more advanced stuff, but you have to pay to see it
柴崎 is a guy on youtube who paints and talks about what he’s painting
Onomappu is great!
Old news. Of course comprehensible input is important, but learning grammar and memorizing the basic meaning and pronunciation of vocab (via Anki or otherwise) helps to make input comprehensible more rapidly than it otherwise would be. It really isn’t about any one thing to the exclusion of any other.
One of the benefits of being an adult is that you don’t have to learn like a baby. You can have the new language explained to you in a language you already know using concepts you’ve already acquired through life experience. Babies can’t do that.
Conscious learning is important. That’s the whole point of conscious thinking – it’s a slow and effortful analysis of problems that can’t immediately be solved by subconscious fast processing. The conscious successes are then practiced to train faster more efficient subconscious networks (as in e.g. learning to swim, or to drive a car, or to successfully decode sentences in another language).
So yes, get plenty of comprehensible input, but don’t waste the advantages of being able to shortcut language discovery by having grammar and vocab meaning explicitly explained to you.