日本語 Immersion - Why and How (Hikosaemon agrees)

The most crucial part of learning Japanese for me has been immersing myself as non-stop as possible in the language. Although I live in Japan, inside my apartment I still have to work to keep up the 日本語 input.

---Links---
Immersion Resource Forum:
http://forum.koohii.com/viewforum.php?id=5

All Japanese All the Time: Immersion
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/cute-girls-mathematics-language

Study Method:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CfSpdGSVsc
http://jouzu.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/japanese/

Japanese Subtitle files:
http://subscene.com/subtitles/0-9/Japanese.aspx
http://www.allsubs.org/search-subtitle/japanese+subtitles/
http://forum.gaijinpot.com/showthread.php?t=11129
http://www.mysubtitles.com/

Audiobooks:
http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?id=804

Video Game Sites and ROMS:
http://www.famitsu.com/
http://www.jp.playstation.com/
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/
http://www.romulation.net/

T-shirt like mine:
http://www.cafepress.com/delbertmon

Thanks Hikosaemon for your support:
http://www.youtube.com/hikosaemon

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Learn
• Japanese
• 日本語
• Andrew
• Marston
• All Japanese All the Time
• AJATT
• Study
• Immersion
• Anime
• Manga
• Subtitles
• Audiobooks
• Hikosaemon

[HoseiTutor]

haha !! I love the video, everything you said is true, the hikosaemon part was funny. So I don´t mean to hate, but since you took every advice in this video (partly the exact wording) from the AJATT site, i think it would be fair to tell people where you got this stuff from and give some credit to Khatzumoto in this video. I don´t know if you do so in other videos, but i think it´s worth mentioning him in every single video like that is based on his method.

[delbertmon]

@HoseiTutor in the description it's the second link

[Radrey]

LOL @ hikosaemon. That was awesome. That's a pretty cool idea having youtube J-vloggers interrupting your channel. Interesting effect.

Like chemist.. I think I'm gonna make a response to this vid.

5/5

[delbertmon]

@Radrey absolutely make a video response. i'm hoping this can be a a decent reference for people learning the language, so the more perspectives the better. Hiko's response was epic as well. definitely worth a watch.

[BentoBenjamin]

I live in Sapporo on and off and I agree with everything you said, except for one statement. It is not possible to switch your iTunes to iTunes Japan unless you have a Japanese billing address. I've contacted iTunes about this and tried to explain that, while my postal address is in Japan, my billing addresss has to stay in America for various reasons. but it was a no go. oh well, good videos by the way! :)

[delbertmon]

@BentoBenjamin Bro... easy side step, buy an iTunes gift card at a 7-11 or something and create an account using it. That's what I did and it worked the first time. Down side is you have to buy gift cards to use the store, but you're still spending money and getting products.

[XxZaackxX]

I really like your SHIRT!!!!! lol

[Pokeball26]

I listen to japanese music everyday, haha. Have been since about the 6th grade. I'm in the 11th grade now, and finally attempting to learn the language. Though throughout the years i have picked up several phrases but haven't bothered learning how to actually speak it fluently or write it out. I just bought a hiragana/katakana learning handbook today. And this video gives me so much confidence! I'm ready to immerse!

[KamiSetsuri]

Thanks for the advice! I found myself getting lazier and lazier because of school and video games. (and summer) I use to love learning Japanese 4+ hours a day, but now it's like I have to force myself to do it, and then I might have a little fun while doing it. Also I do make a note, I have changed my computer to show Japanese when I boot up, but I changed my screen font back to english. (to understand programs and stuff) so a burn-out is pretty hard.

[KamiSetsuri]

@sora3428 hey, I'm using the same book. (and making very slow progress) what I'd recommend you do is to get this one program called Anki and download the deck with 25k facts. (just search "japanese core" in the anki search). Also I highly recommend you go to this site to review the kanji you learn from that book, it is actually based on that book, and it's VERY helpful to me. it's called: kanji.koohii(dot)com let me know if you want to know more.

[ilike3or4]

So a year has past. Do you still have you system in Japanese and you do still devote a lot of time everyday to learning? I'm using iknow.jp website - learning words and their kanji, instead of helsing. I also watch anime, japan tv via KeyHole program... lots of stuff. But I take a breaks sometimes, since it's too much for the brain. I know about 600-800 words after about 3-4 months. But I chaned websites and system back to English. But that's just me.

[acw584]

hey thanks for the great video. you mentioned a link to japanese audio files with english translations... can you please post the link? thanks very much!

[mark95427]

good vid

[jugglingotaku]

For me I like video games a lot, so I watch a lot of 実況プレイ videos on youtube. It can actually be better than buying the game because you get a real person speaking in the background, making comments on the game, and you can also pause and look up words.

[Unicornzilla]

thankyou so much for this video !!!

rright now im working on how to form sentences..

i immerse myself, and study 5 hours a day.. yet -_- i cant remember it all by then end of the week, it took me 2 weeks to learn hira and kata, and it was easy..

but forming a sentence and so forth took me almost a year..

do you suggest anything???