All Japanese All the Time pt. 1 

no way I just stumbled upon this 😭💀

He really really is. You can just tell the way he talks and behaves. He's up there, without a doubt.

indeed

where you at now? it been 6 years. it would be a shame if you still can't speak Japanese

@@ラオーフ It is a fucking shame. Have you heard of Matt vs. Japan? He's picked up Katsumoto's mantle. Whatever your disposition you should check him out. Six years ago I went hard at learning Japanese but at the same time I decided to go to community college. That fucked it all up. I couldn't keep up with both so I stopped the Japanese. Looking back now I should've dropped out of community college instead.

@@DontPaniku damn bro... I wish you the best. Hopefully you pick up ajatt again or whatever it's called now.

@@DontPaniku Goddamn that's depressing

@@DontPaniku You do know that you could've still immersed while at community College, right? You could've passively listened to Japanese or just spent the free time you had watching videos or shows. Sounds like it was just pure laziness that threw you out of Japanese.

hahahaha

My thoughts as well.

5:20 "You should turn that down a little... so we can hear you."

Fuckin’ eh

Wowww

TkyoSam🤔

I totally agree. I've been having english classes for 4 Years now, but I hadn't really got to a decent level before I started immersing myself outside of class. Around 1 year ago, I started watching videos in English about skateboarding, because most of the videos on youtube about it are in english, but ever since that moment, my English skills have started to improve way faster than I thought they ever could.

@@sorbead1 truth hurts :(

Yup Kana and hiragana first is good

OH MY FUCKING GOD DUDE, CAN YOU FUCK OFF OF EVERY COMMENT SECTION I STUMBLE UPON? HOLY SHIT, but seriously though, hope your ajatt journey or whatever it's called is going well. Wish you the best, seriously. :)

@@goldenisaiah4347he’s at level 69

He abandoned his boy!! He has abandoned his child!!!

Khatz will always be the man who changed so many lives

Well you're right. Reading about grammar will help you out for sure. Back in 2009 I think people emphasize studying grammar too much and khatz wanted to go against it a bit.

@@justalameusername1736 that makes sense

I don't think im quite fluent personally, but some would consider me fluent. I'm more fluent than most polyglots or people abroad in japan on youtube though lol. (that's not saying a lot) A little while after hitting the "intermediate plateau", i stopped studying as hard each day, so im definitely a little behind where i could potentially be at right now. im still grinding though! i appreciate you asking btw @@goldenisaiah4347

I'm customizing it to use with my kids in 2019!

How did it go?

@goldenisaiah4347 not even remotely close.

J Subs

アーメン

That's totally fine.

Right, dude? I learned both in just a few days!

its because, what do you use kana for anyway when in the beginning you dont know anything.. you dont know any japanese yet. i think khatz means by the time you know kanji, you'll be decent enough at japanese to know a few words you can read in hiragana. there is no need to use kana yet, better get kanji out of the way while doing your listening

Phantom Madman this is interesting because I wrote my comment 3 years ago ( apparently :/ ). I am now fluent in Japanese and can read hiragana and kanji. I can only speak for my own experience, but for me, which one you start first is almost an irrelevant point if you are truly in for the long haul. Although I still think that as hiragana makes up half of what you read and it is so quick to learn ( relatively ) that it makes no sense to wait. Get that out the way first, then use that understanding to learn more.

Gary Hewson thats awesome dude, yeah i just think this is what was going throught khatz mind. personally i did it the other way around too, and now i know about 500 kanji. i'd say it doesnt matter either but i knew people who started way too late on kanji after getting kana down. anyway im nowhere near fluent yet, i can hold a conversation with alot of grammar mistakes. planning on going hardcore this summer

Phantom Madman that's awesome! Keep it up! Yeah I see how some people might start kanji super later if they do kana first. But again, same as anything in life, it's the actually showing up part that's hard. Who cares what you start first really ... but what ever you start are you actually gonna stick with it for year after year.

@@goldenisaiah4347 Whoa 14 years ago. I think I'm fluent or at least close to it. I got kind of lazy with the last push toward full fluency. I hit about the same level where I am now in around 4 years after that. My main goal was to be able to watch anime with no subs and read manga and I can definitely do that, but I have to look up words here and there still, partly because I stopped using anki too early.

@@goldenisaiah4347 Nah I stayed in the US. Japan work culture seems pretty terrible.

I don't think he's disregarding hiragana and katakana, I think he's saying Kanji as in "learn Japanese writing first" in general, because many people rely only on romaji. It wouldn't make sense to learn Kanji without hiragana/katakana, especially considering that in his old website he recommended to use the book "Remembering the Kana" to learn both.

Where you at now

3 years later if you practiced you should be able to speak portugese.... so did you stick with it

Portuguese sucks fam

Conseguiu aprender?

@goldenisaiah4347 living in Japan, but learning never ends

@goldenisaiah4347here for life. you?

@goldenisaiah4347 I actually am, yes lol. Im about 17 or 18 years in now. I still start every day with Anki flashcards and I have an insanely long unbroken streak of that. The secret has been to be really disciplined in how I do it as the very frist thing I do when I open my eyes in the morning! I mean I dont check emails, twitter, IG, nothing... I dont even get a sip of water! Just open the app and grind through my reviews... The adding of new cards I do only very rarely now, so getting through the reviews takes only about 10 to 15 minutes. What's crazy now is since starting all this I've had kids, so now the immersion has really ramped up again as I attempt to get them as bilingual as possible. The house is once again filled with the sound of Ghibli :) Sorry for all the extra info, but you really prompted me to reflect on where Ive come after all this time! Thanks

I totally get you haha, totally agree

he's in the zone, being immersed, that's what this is all about