Can I learn Japanese in 3 months?
Summary
TLDRIn this video, the speaker embarks on a challenge to learn Japanese in just three months, debunking the myth that rapid language acquisition is impossible. Despite having a busy schedule, they commit to one or two hours daily of focused study, incorporating mnemonics, listening, and repetition. The speaker outlines specific goals, such as mastering 1,000 sentences for conversation and understanding 2,000 verbs, aiming for 100,000 repetitions to solidify learning. Weekly updates will track progress, and by the end, the speaker aims to demonstrate fluency through a one-hour conversation in Japanese.
Takeaways
- 🗣️ The speaker is committed to learning Japanese within three months as a personal challenge.
- 🏋️♂️ Despite common skepticism, the speaker believes that learning a language in three months is achievable and plans to demonstrate this through their experiment.
- 🚫 The speaker acknowledges the 'impossibility' excuses often cited by critics but dismisses them as illogical.
- 🌐 The speaker's language learning approach is influenced by their European background and the languages commonly spoken in the regions they frequents.
- 🔒 The speaker will not be learning Japanese full-time due to other commitments but will allocate one or two hours daily.
- 📅 The speaker plans to provide regular updates on their progress, aiming for daily but acknowledging the reality of life interruptions.
- 🎯 The speaker sets specific goals for vocabulary, grammar, and conversational ability, emphasizing the importance of quantifiable objectives over vague notions of fluency.
- 📚 The strategy includes learning 'Language Islands' for speaking and 'Mass Sentences' for comprehension, along with extensive listening and repeating exercises.
- 📝 The speaker will not initially focus on reading Japanese characters (Kanji), prioritizing spoken language comprehension and speaking ability.
- 📈 The speaker outlines a rigorous weekly plan involving memorization, repetition, and gradual expansion of language knowledge, aiming for rapid progress through focused effort.
Q & A
What is the main goal of the speaker in the video script?
-The speaker aims to learn Japanese within three months, demonstrating that it is possible to achieve language proficiency in a short period through focused and intensive learning.
Why does the speaker believe that learning a language quickly is often met with skepticism?
-The speaker notes that skeptics often dismiss rapid language learning achievements by claiming that the language learned is 'too easy' or that the learner already knows many languages, thus implying that their method wouldn't work for others.
What is the speaker's native language, and how does it relate to the languages they typically learn?
-The speaker's native language is not a Romance, Slavic, or Germanic language, but most of the languages they speak belong to one of these families, which they learn primarily because of their geographical relevance to the places they frequently visit.
How much time per day does the speaker plan to dedicate to learning Japanese?
-The speaker plans to spend one to two hours a day learning Japanese, acknowledging that they have other commitments and will not be learning full-time.
What is the speaker's approach to providing updates on their language learning progress?
-The speaker intends to provide almost daily updates on their progress, either through videos or posts, detailing their learning activities, such as the number of repetitions, words memorized, and sentences reviewed.
What are the speaker's specific language learning goals for the first week?
-For the first week, the speaker's goals include learning 100 sentences from their language island list, memorizing the vocabulary from these sentences, and completing a significant number of repetitions with both the language island sentences and 2,000 mass sentences.
What method does the speaker plan to use for memorizing vocabulary and sentences?
-The speaker will use mnemonic associations to memorize vocabulary and a method of listening and repeating sentences multiple times to reinforce learning.
Why does the speaker choose not to learn to read Japanese during this three-month challenge?
-The speaker decides not to focus on reading during this challenge because their primary goals are to understand and speak Japanese, and learning to read would significantly slow down their progress.
What is the speaker's overall strategy for achieving fluency in Japanese within three months?
-The speaker's strategy involves setting clear numerical goals, such as learning a specific number of sentences and vocabulary words, and completing a high volume of listening and repeating exercises to achieve fluency.
How does the speaker plan to demonstrate their language proficiency at the end of the three-month period?
-The speaker plans to demonstrate their proficiency by engaging in a one-hour conversation in Japanese, showcasing their ability to speak and understand the language after the intensive three-month learning period.
Outlines
🚀 Setting the Challenge: Learning Japanese in Three Months
The speaker embarks on a challenge to learn Japanese in three months, dispelling the myth that it's impossible. They acknowledge the skepticism but are determined to prove it can be done. The speaker discusses the common excuses people make when faced with the idea of rapid language learning, such as claiming certain languages are too easy or that prior knowledge of other languages makes the process unfair. They also touch upon their own language learning journey, explaining why they've chosen to learn languages that are commonly spoken in the regions they frequent, despite not being related to their native language.
📅 The Plan: Daily Updates and Weekly Goals
The speaker outlines their plan for learning Japanese, which includes daily updates on their progress, though not every day due to other commitments like travel and family. They emphasize the importance of consistency and accountability in their learning process. The speaker also details their weekly goals, which involve learning a set number of sentences and vocabulary through repetition and memorization. They aim to demonstrate that with dedication and smart learning strategies, significant progress is possible even with limited time dedicated each day.
🎯 Specific Goals and Methods: Language Islands and Mass Sentences
The speaker sets specific, quantifiable goals for their language learning journey, focusing on vocabulary acquisition and the ability to speak and understand Japanese. They plan to use 'Language Islands' to build conversational skills and 'Mass Sentences' for comprehension. The speaker explains their approach to memorization, which involves associating new vocabulary with mnemonic devices and repeating sentences multiple times to reinforce learning. They also discuss the importance of listening and repeating as a core part of their learning strategy.
🏋️♂️ The Commitment: Hard Work and Smart Strategies
The speaker reiterates the importance of hard work and smart strategies in achieving their language learning goals. They describe the intensive repetition and memorization techniques they will use, emphasizing that while the process will be challenging, it is designed to yield quick results. The speaker also mentions their intention to share their materials and methods with their audience, potentially offering them for free or behind a paywall. They conclude by expressing their excitement for the challenge and encouraging their audience to follow along as they document their progress.
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Keywords
💡Language Learning
💡Fluency
💡Language Islands
💡Mass Sentences
💡Listening and Repeating
💡Pneumonic Associations
💡Shadowing
💡Comprehensible Input
💡Repetition
💡Gloss
💡Vocabulary Acquisition
Highlights
The speaker is undertaking a challenge to learn Japanese in three months.
Common skepticism about fast language learning is discussed, with the speaker aiming to prove it possible.
The speaker clarifies that language learning ease is often unfairly attributed to language similarity or prior language knowledge.
The speaker's language learning focus is on European languages due to geographical relevance and travel habits.
The speaker's native language is not Roman, Slavic, or Germanic, adding complexity to language learning.
The speaker will not be learning Japanese full-time due to other commitments.
A daily learning schedule of one to two hours is planned for Japanese.
Daily updates on progress will be provided, though not every day due to other obligations.
The speaker will maintain a daily log of learning activities, including repetitions and memorization.
Weekly plans will be shared, along with how effectively they are implemented.
The speaker sets a goal to have a one-hour conversation in Japanese by the end of the three-month period.
Quantifiable goals are set, including learning 1,000 language island sentences and 2,000 mass sentences.
The speaker will focus on spoken Japanese, deferring reading and writing until later.
A detailed weekly goal is outlined, including specific numbers of sentences and repetitions.
The speaker emphasizes the importance of working hard and smart for effective language learning.
Materials used in the experiment will be made available for others to use after the challenge.
The speaker's approach is compared to training like an elite athlete, focusing on results and effective techniques.
Transcripts
all right here we go let's talk about
learning Japanese in three
months uh there's going to be a lot of
talk about learning Japanese in three
months because I'm going to try to I'm
not going to try I'm going to learn
Japanese in three months um I talk a lot
about learning languages fast and
there's always someone in the comments a
bunch of people in the comments saying
that that's impossible even if there are
lots of people who've done it with a
bunch of different
languages and there will always be some
sort of excuse if you learn X language
they'll say that it's too easy or that
you already knew
languages you already knew too many
languages that are similar to that so
it's too easy so your system doesn't
work it doesn't work because you already
know too too many languages that's um
pretty weird logic but okay um and then
they always mention really well non
European languages always um for some
reason they never mentioned Finnish or
Hungarian or languages like that that
are not related to uh Romans or that
they're not Romans languages they're not
Slavic or Germanic which are most of the
languages I speak are Romans Slavic or
Germanic and obviously although my
native language is not Romans it's not a
romance language it's not a Slavic
language and it's not a Germanic
language it doesn't really have a family
it's its own thing but uh yeah most of
the languages I speak belong to one of
those famili simply because not because
I want to say I I speak more languages
and so I go for the easy ones simply
because if I'm from Europe and I mostly
spend time in Europe I and I travel in
Europe and especially like the
Mediterranean and Eastern Europe I do
like Germany as well um it makes sense
for me to learn the languages of the
places I go to
often yeah
so if obviously it makes sense for me to
learn Portuguese French
and Italian not because of easy so I can
tell you that I speak more languages but
because I go there much more often than
I've never been to Japan honestly uh or
I've recently been to Korea I didn't
learn the language I just didn't have
the
uh time or
motivation uh anyway I'm starting to
ramble a little bit let's let's go let's
go straight to a point yes you
absolutely can learn a language in three
months or
less and I'm going to conduct uh three
month or 12 week experiment in which I
will learn Japanese from
scratch uh this is what I will do first
of all I'm not going to learn Japanese
fulltime because I've got things to do
I've got business I've got family and
friends Hobbies things to do you know
got projects side projects other
languages I'm I'm
learning uh not from scratch just trying
to get better at slowly simply because I
enjoy doing that and also I always learn
several languages at the same time um
for a very specific reason if I'm
coaching a bunch of people who are
learning different languages and they're
all at different level I always need to
be with at least one language I need to
be at the beginner level another one at
the intermediate level and another one
at an advanced C1 C2 level and still
trying to improve because otherwise if
the last time I was a beginner or
intermediate level was years ago I can't
really relate to uh my clients so I need
to be learning several languages at the
same time also because obviously I'm
really into languages but anyway I will
spend two one or two hours a day with
Japanese not more but I will still get
results and I'll show you how so what
I'll do is um daily
updates not every single day
because well I've got you know holidays
and things to do and and plans and trips
and things like that so I won't I won't
make a video on my Japanese progress
every single day but um most of the time
I'll try to do it
daily um if not a video if I don't have
the time for that I'll this a post and
I'll give you specific details on what
I'm doing how many reps how many words
memorized with associations how many
reps of listening and repeating or
shadowing how many sentences reviewed
how many flash
cards everything yeah I'll keep it as a
log a daily log uh I'll I'll write it
down for the days that I am not making a
video or maybe not some days I won't
even touch Japanese because yeah I'll be
traveling I've got wine trip coming up
to rioa if you go to Spain come to Spain
I say go to Spain because I'm the best
country and we don't really anyway let's
not talk politics um if you go to R if
you go to
Spain you should visit rioa if you're
into wine really good
uh okay um yeah daily updates as as
often as possible I've got yeah a bunch
of trips and a bunch of family things
and obviously I won't
be uploading videos does but the rest of
the time away and the days that I will
that I don't upload videos if I still do
some learning I'll let you know the next
day anyway yeah so I'll give you exactly
the weekly plan I got and how much
I'm actually implementing the plan
sometimes things happen or you're busy
or you just don't F like doing it it's
usually not my case but for a lot of
people that's it does
happen um so I'll give you the weekly
plan and later on in this video I'll
tell you the plan for the first
week and then how much of it i' I've
been implementing every day all right
and uh at the end of each week I'll try
to talk on camera it'll be pretty bad
the first time but I'll be able to say a
bunch of stuff badly but I'll be able to
say it uh second week I'll still speak
badly but I'll be able to say way more
and third week I'll speak even more and
better and so on uh and uh at the end of
the whole 12 week three month uh period
I'll try to have a one hour conversation
well I'll have a one hour
conversation and uh
I probably won't speak perfectly but I
think I'll do pretty pretty well there
so let's talk about specific goals let's
talk numbers
because because uh being fluent is very
vague and or learning the language is
very vague and doesn't
really it really depends on the person
right what do you what's that's that's
something you get a lot in those videos
becom fluent in language first let's
let's spend 10 minutes talking about
what fluency is and now let's just
quantify what I want to do and then you
can I'll do all of this 100% I'll
probably do more than this but um you
will be able to tell if this amount of
work for for this amount of language
learning work for
Japanese uh you'll see the results
obtained after this amount of reps
language is mass sentences blah blah
blah you'll see the results so that you
can tell if it was worth it or not maybe
you decide that you rather do uh 3,000
hours of comprehensible input or
something but uh yeah let's let's talk
about numbers so three main
things uh I want to be able to speak and
I I want to be able to understand so I
know I need lots of vocab I need
to um obviously the grammar but the
grammar I learn it with the m sentence
but lots of vocab I need to learn my
language Island so I'm that's my list of
sentences I use to learn to have
conversations so everything I want to be
able to say in usual conversations this
will be really helpful for uh the that
final final video in which I I have a
conversation because if you if you learn
1,000 lines you're able to have a
conversation the problem is if you don't
understand the other person yeah so my
my language Islands which I learn in 12
weeks um Mass sentences that I'll have
to create and I'll make them available
lat Lang natural language learning in
the platform for you to learn Japanese
with if you want and two 20,000 of them
I
think around 20,000 so
2,000 verbs and then all the
conjugations with lots and lots of
vocabs so all the common vocab and all
the all the common verbs with all the
all their conjugations
everything in a huge
list uh lots of
examples and I learn
that with
audio I will not learn to read because I
don't need to for now I want to be able
to understand Japanese and I want to be
able to read so if you want me to try to
learn Kani or something we'll have to
wait for a while once I understand
spoken Japanese well
in December if something terrible
doesn't happen before that once I
understand spoken Japanese well and I'm
able to speak pretty well then yeah
looks interesting so maybe I'll try to
learn to read but um yeah it's not
particularly useful if you
not
well if you don't want to Read Manga or
something which I don't care about uh or
you not moving there or something you
don't really need to all I want is to be
able to
understand spoken language and to speak
so and it it it would slow me down
immensely if I try to learn I don't know
how many characters there are but my lot
so language Island a thousand each of
them probably more MTH sentences 20,000
is with all the uh grammar and
vocabulary included and
um 100,000 reps of listening and
repeating SL
shadowing for this I will use glower at
some point I think but that's going to
come later because gloss is I like it
but it's
very confusing and very unstructured
and it's good when you you're already at
an intermediate level and you want to
learn a bunch of a few thousand extra
sentences to use in ation but if you're
learning from
scratch um it's probably not the best
idea so what I'm going to do is focus on
my language Islands first and mass
sentences so language islands for my
speaking and um Mass sentences for
comprehension what I'll do is lots of
listening and repeating well first of
all no let's jump to the uh weekly
weekly goal so first week again language
Island Mass
sentences and listening and repeating so
100 sentences of language Island
learning 100 sentences in a week doesn't
sound crazy right it's very doable those
will be useful sentences that I've got
in my list so that I'm already able to
speak some Japanese with that I learned
that by fast
memorizing uh the key
wordss with pneumonic associations
and uh then loads and loads of listening
and repeating I'll have a translation
next to each sentence and I listen and
repeat the sentence as many times as
necessary until I can I can understand
them and say them not flawlessly but
pretty
well Mass sentences this is going to be
weo 2,000 verbs or 2,000 example
sentences and I know well actually I
don't know how grammar Works in Japanese
but I I want to learn the grammar with
this but what I want to learn is
the uh basic non- conjugated version of
of all those verbs in a sentence maybe
some of them will be conjugated I don't
care it just just be able to these are
the verbs blend the verbs that's it
later on I I learn each one of them in
all of like for each
verb each one of those 2,000 verbs I
learn 10 or 20 different sentences or as
many conjugation there are on forms in
Japanese and for each one of them I
learn an example sentence but I will
start with just an example sentence of
each one of the verbs to just get as
much data as possible fast and then
expand to the whole list so for this
again I
will first use
associations so a couple hundred words a
day I guess should be fine
can do that in less than an hour um with
pneumonic associations I memorize them
and then loads and loads of listening
and repeating around 50% of the
listening and repeating will be the
language Islands the stuff I want to be
able to
say
um no actually let's not do that let's
not do that because um you
see
no that that be yeah yeah I just started
doing the math and and if I do 5,000
reps of 100 sentences I'll
just I'll hate myself because it's each
sentence 50 times which is insane now
each sentence 10 to 20 times will be
more than
enough uh with the language Island
to be able to say them relatively
well
um and after that I'll just turn them
into flash cards and I'll translate from
English into Japanese and get the
feedback and that way I'll learn to say
fine but yeah 10 times each listen and
repeat will be enough and then the rest
of the Reps
so I don't know nine 8 to 8 9,000 8
9,000 reps each one four five times yeah
that's good uh with the m senten 2,000
sentences each one five times more or
less so it'll be more more than 10 reps
10,000 reps in total but it'll be quite
a lot um the way I'll do this and I'll
show you uh tomorrow or the day after
I'll show you I'll upload a video and
showing you how I'm doing it but what I
what I'll do is
um repeat each sentence five times so
it'll be my name is mik and it be my
name is mik my name is mik my name is
five times and the next one nice to meet
you nice to meet you nice to meet
instead of doing 100 sentences one after
another and just just for forget
everything I'll do five times the first
one five times the second one five times
the third one
so sounds like
torture but um again if you this is not
for the
lazy if you're willing to gogin it if
you want to put in the hard work and
learn really seriously this kind of
learning will work and you will get
really good results very fast as long as
you doing working habit also working
smart this is this is super
effective but it's going to be hard
work if you instead want to spend many
thousands of hours watching content and
hoping that someday you'll be fluent
okay then go do your thing but here I'm
going to show you what happens when
you work hard and you work smart and you
go for results and you only do the
things that will get you results fast
right this CH is about results it's not
feel good stuff and telling you some non
no no no this is here we learn languages
like an athlete like an elite athlete
trains uh for competition all right so
it's going to
be memorize the whole well all the vocab
in in the 100 sentences then listen and
repeat the 100 sentences over and over
and over memorize the vocab in the
2,000 sentences of the mass sentences
and then repeated 2,000 sentences over
and
over for the whole week this is going to
be my week um it's not going to be my
whole week one or two hours a day of
this will be will be good already and by
the end of I mean not the end of the
week it's already the end of this week
but by the end of next week
um I think I'll be able to speak a
decent amount not well obviously but
I'll be able to speak a little bit and I
know a couple thousand words which is
not bad in a week of work
right and this I said if you're
interested in learning Japanese I will
give you links to the materials I'm
creating for
myself that you'll be able to
use after the experiment I'll just put
everything under behind a payall and
natural language learning but during the
experiment you can come and use them
right because
um yeah it's I think it's going to be
interesting and a lot of people are
interested in
Japanese uh or who knows maybe I'll just
give it all for free like I did with
Spanish
anyway Japanese long story
short it's going to
be uh three
months lots of learning daily updates
almost daily updates and by the end of
it you'll have 1 hour video of me to
speaking Japanese
I will have learned basically all the
vocabulary that you need to learn in um
to learn the langu to speak the language
and I'll be able to speak pretty well
that's the plan right St tune because
there more com in
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