Good Evening from Okinawa!
This is my third post almost in a day but I’m looking if anyone would mind chatting with me about the aforementioned topics listed above.
I’m looking to find a person that has had sometime with utilizing Immersion in learning Japanese, Anki and learning the core 2k/6k Word deck. I’m trying to advice on how to balance and start it up. I’m used to learning with Textbooks or in a formal classroom setting. Please feel free to check my post history.
Watching a lot of Matt Vs Japan and various other YouTubers.
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Yeah, whats up?
Not sure if anything has changed, but as far as I know the entire point of Anki in immersion-based approaches lies in making your own deck via mining, not using pre-made ones like the Core 2K.
You can’t jump straight into mining, of course. You need some sort of base knowledge first, and I think Matt and a few others have previously suggested that people could use Anki (more specifically the Tango N5 and N4 decks) to acquire that knowledge. I’d imagine you can probably do the same thing with the Core 2K if you really wanted to.
Personally, I don’t think how you develop that base knowledge matters all that much. You could also just work through Genki or use a free resource like Tae Kim’s guide. I basically just did that and jumped straight into playing games and reading novels afterwards. Felt like banging my head against a brick wall at first, but that’s probably always going to be the case, no matter how much time you spend preparing.
MattvsJapan is full of total BS for a beginner. I’ve personally listened, tried and evaluated the methods and found it to be mosly nonsense with a few gems here and there. I would just do the Anki deck through, forgetting immersion for the moment and then after hitting 5k/6k vocab dive into manga and easy light novels. Once you sort the grammar out (which is easy most of the time) you will just enjoy reading without going through the regular learning pains almost everyone else has. Knowing all the vocab is the foundation of near complete comprehension.
What’s up? I’m using the core 2.3k (about 1000 words in now) and visual novels/anime to learn Japanese. If you need anything, hmu.