All Japanese All the Time pt. 3 

wow I think katz is a genius, maybe the best thing for japanese learning since heisig. the interviewer doesn't sound like the sharpest crayon though

if any of you have any doubts about this, i got to tell you it actually works this is how i learned english i just spent 60% of my time watching vlogs on youtube,playing games or other stuff and it was all in english i didn't do it because i wanted to learn english i did it cause i liked the content and well in about 2 years i ended up knowing quite a lot of english so my point is you guys should watch what you like and you shouldn't feel like you are doing this to learn japanese but to have fun

Language acquisition is a process in which its participants need not be aware. - I forget. But it's true! Native speakers learn to fluency with nearly a 100% success rate through the same way everytime. An environment in that language, doing things "in" the language and constant interaction with the language. Sit down, immerse, and pay attention, and you will learn. As long as your input is greater than zero you will suck slightly less. Learning 5 words in a day is better than none. Knowing 30% of the words in an episode is better than none. Listening to 15 minutes of audio is better than not doing it at all. Consistency and having trust in the process will get you to fluency. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go fail the N6.

This guy is amazing at explaining things.

Brilliant series of interviews even if the Cantonese dragonball was distracting ;) Thanks for the upload!

Thanks Tkyosam for putting the AJATT videos up. Without them I wouldn't know where to start learning japanese. I'm 500 some kanji strong and the number is still going up. Much props.

I love watching this interview. I wish Tyko would interview Khatz again.

todays the day i actually start ajatt, i will update you guys in 2 years

Would love to see more with Katz. I love his theory on learning Japanese. Started trying it a week or so ago and my Japanese friends tell me my comprehension is much better now. And I've just started.

been trying it for a year and i am never going back to textbooks

man, katz is real with it. feels good hearing someone who gets it!

Almost a year and a half into ajatt (with a couple of unfortunate months off due to life commitments). I watched these videos before I began ajatt and now I'm back once again to rekindle my motivation which has been waning over the last little while due to my level not being nearly as high as I wanted it to be. Thanks to these videos I feel that my motivation is returning to the level that got me through RTK all those months ago. Thanks Khatz.

Interesting 3-parter thanks for uploading them!

Outstanding comments from Katz. The info he is sharing makes so much sense. I have taken three semesters of formal Japanese classes at a local college, and I still don't feel I have mastered the language. From this day forward, I will use Katz' practicle recommendations. He is very knowledgeable. Thanks for the upload TkyoSam. You rock dude!

Kathz is inspiring, that dude really knows what he is talking about. He gives me the motivation to continue with the japanese

Wow its really great to see this interview! I'm SO glad to hear Khatz's common sense argument of Anime Vs. Textbooks. If it's made by native speakers for native speakers then its all good! TOO DAMN RIGHT!

lol "mmm..stay.. blaaaccc....." so funny hahaaha great vid sam i thougth i would never hear the real Khatz unless i suddenly walked into him in japan lol

Rated 5 stars and commenting to help the video in results as I think although its only 30 mins in total its probably one of the sources that will/has helped me the most in learning japanese. Katz speaks a lot of sense and points out the simple fact that being immersed will help you without you realising, ive gone to university in a different part of the country (in england), and coming back after 4 years everybody says my accent has changed, its just something that naturally happens Great vid!

RU-vid recommendations be: 2009: no 2010: um uh 2011: nee 2012: i dont want 2013: nop 2014: no is no 2015: I SAY NOOO 2016: i think better not 2017: i cant 2018: 1 word Noup 2019: This is not the time 2020: Perfect

Great explanation and tips, and funny vid too.

props to katz, man i hate his writing persona on his site, but hes really insightful to listen too.

katz is a genius and tkyosam is so funny man!! lol

Langauge classes might help to a certain degree, but I still think you are going to get more out of the immersion all the time along with Hesig vs. taking classes (plus, the cost of dvds and manga waaaay outweigh the costs of stupid classes)

thanks for posting! Excellent.

Honestly this makes so much sense because my experience with English proves it. I've never benefited a thing from school other than alphabets and basic vocabulary and grammar. Grammar later on became a hindrance to me even. It got so complicated I couldn't keep up with it, and yet I was the best in my school when it came to English, and that wasn't because I "studied" it. The only studying I did was looking up words when I didn't know them. That's basically what SRS sentences encourage. The real meat of the language came from me using it every single day since I discovered the internet. Since I was 12. Everything I liked was in English so I started to pick it up. Even watching YT I wouldn't understand a lot but I had to learn what the guy was saying so that I can install that cheat mod into that game and shit talk my opponents, in English too xD. I wasn't methodical with it like AJATT is and that's probably why it took so long before I actually became fluent (in highschool I would've considered myself just a little bit away from fluency, when I started college I considered myself fluent). English at that point was as natural as breathing to me and I preferred it to my native even in my own thinking. So I really understand why this works from firsthand experience and I can't wait to apply it to my Japanese too, and later on to Korean... and Portuguese... and Spanish... and German lol. But better not get ahead of myself.

The part about like "90% percent of star trek is star trek words" makes alot of sense. I'm going to watch japanese Seinfeld and that whole show is basically like everyday conversation so it would probably work well. I'm starting to get kind of excited about trying this method :) the only thing that sucks is that i have to go to school and go to work and that takes up most of my time and not one person speaks japanese. It'll make it more difficult.

watch the first minute of star trek-discovery episode 1-1 on Netflix in Japanese; that will blow your mind...

I think if you use this method of audio and visual input and combine it with learning the most used vocabulary words, that will be a recipe for success. As kids we learn individual words first, then learn how to combine other words with them until we can make sentences. That way when your watching something, you can pick out some words already and see how they use them and how they connect. Plus it would be more fun that way, which will keep people more motivated to stick with it.

the pretender was awesome.... so is old spice... so is Katz and his little multimedia nook of awesomeness.

sam is fucking funny true person enjoying life i enjoyed the interview with katz i just started reading his stuff and i have to say im enjoying it i will stay with katz method of learning japanese its alot better then all the bullshit textbooks and classes that ive tried and made me give up on it a few times

i like how blunt he is "you suck and you will suck less if you just watch it and learn kanji instead of cramming info from textbooks"

Wow, the way he studies is so similar to how I study! The best metaphor for how I'm learning is "learn like a child". Surround yourself with the language and the culture and you'll pick it up! My studying tools: Japanese music on my Mp3, changed all my computerized objects that have a Japanese setting to Japanese, watch Japanese TV, Movies, Anime, read books in Japanese, find websites that let you talk to Japanese people, talk to Japanese people on Xbox live hahaha ect. ect.

I forgot French when I moved out back in 2009 and Am starting to re-learn it. Idk man AJATT has something unique to it, the Japanese culture, Anime&Manga, and all those mythical figures like Khatz and Matt. It feels like I want an AFATT version to French, cuz the gap between What immersion looks like for Japanese learners relative to French learners is SO HUGE.

Doing it with Mandarin now. It's hard going back to being a n00b, but there is a lot of fun of going back to being a n00b again :D

get the Hesig file off Khatz's site(under the kanji section in the table of contents). Copy the story as the question and the kanji as the answer.

YOO your boy Katz is the man. I do japanese 24/7 and I'm way ahead of the class.

for anybody who has a version of windows vista other then ultimate and wants to turn their computer japanese, google vistalizator and you can download the software their to do so

This is some deep stuff. I'm more of an output from day 0 adherent, but I've always utilized passive learning (listening in one ear) as an additional strategy- it doesn't cost anything and it can be fun. I more on the Laoshu55000/ Benny Lewis tip than the Steve Kaufman/ Krashen side but hey we're all language learners and we all get along. I'm one of those (perhaps rare) learners who actually did learn Cantonese and Mandarin in school and did pretty well if I do say so myself, but I think that was because I was always taking my shit outside the school and practicing on "The Streets of San Francisco."

@rosplodj I gave you both a thumbs up. That made me chuckle.

Hey where's the dude right now?

that's EFing awesome lol the famous sam is answering my question lol ty

@japanesechallenge what are you talking about there is a video here on youtube of him speaking Japanese.

this works nuff said

When will we get some more video from Katz???

@Leemumbaful yes it does, ignore the people that say it doesn't.

If you mean at 1:06, then he was referring to the character Jarod from the TV show "The Pretender".

I finally see Khatz on video. He's so cool. Sam, I'm not tying to be rude, but you can ease up on the swearing seeing how Khatz doesn't seem to swear. Only curse when the other curses. Don't if the other doesn't. Good video, man.

cha la head cha la.... wtf does THAT mean yo? haha great vids.

@TkyoSam kk cool thanks soo much for your help :)

@ciciluvsmw Hangul is easy^^ Even I learnt that shit. I sugges tprint out a hangul chart and learn each vowel and consonant, then go to a site with basic korean and start from there. Also immersing yourself is awesome too. Luckily Korean has an awesome tv series and movies culture^^

im editing some videos for him now :D

I disagree with most of the people who are criticizing you. This is really good information, and I have used this with French and Russian.

I hate textbooks, hate them with a passion and it totally takes the fun out of learning Japanese. This makes a lot of sense Sam, I'll give his site a read and try this method out. Learning can be fun?... Inconceivable.

hey um i'm going to jordan so if i try to learn japanese while learning arabic will it be a problem

It really is common sense, it's just that we're so used to learning out of textbooks, hands on experience sounds irrelevant. But all of this is entirely true. I mean, I lived in Jordan for a year and a half and I learned fluent Arabic without even taking a class. Ironically I forgot it all after a few years in the US, but still. The same thing applies to anime. Ive been taking Japanese classes for about four months now, yet like 60% of the vocab I know I learned from Anime. It's Simple.

Awesome videos!I just started reading Khatz website and I'm gonna try putting some of his methods to use.He seems like a really cool guy,and I loved his uncomfortable "stay black" at the end haha

Grazie a Big Luca!!

hi in the previous video you talked about a large page with links can you send em to me?

Sam's the reason I now use subtitles as a way of checking myself during japanese movies. It's been 2 weeks since I've started immersing myself in Japanese. I can only speak like 5%. But understand like 15% Input triumphs Output. I love you Sam. u_u Been watchin' your stuff since '08...

SAM how do u use SURURU. I dont how use the yahoo "remembering the kanji' website for the typed out japanese. So i can just copy and paste.

lol katz said stay black

real talk!

For the people wondering why they're talking in English: 1) It makes it easier to find for people who want to start learning the language, which is the target audience. 2)Khatz's method has been adapted to learn Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, or even Romance languages. Being in English lets people learning non-Japanese languages know about this method.

9:28 my favorite part, so true It's real. It's RAW son!

cant we do both imersion and studying or am i wasting my time?

shizzle!

HAHAHAHA the DBZ cha la la theme at 2:32 BBAHAHA

whats the name of his website?

it is..

5:10 It's like... we're so far behind in our own native language(as far as producing media) how can we possibly create something even half as crappy in our second or third language? As far as media goes(if you want to make something that people would actually buy) best to use your first language.

Omg dragon ball in the background! nostalgy TT.TT i want to learn japanese so bad

someone please apply ajatt's method to weight loss. can we just agree at this point that you can't lose weight without excersising?

@smokelakes your mom yo, your mom

I can learn japanese a lot easier now cuz of this video. Thanks

@rosplodj shizzle

@LifeFirst But the sentences patterns do affect how you speak. There are sentence patterns that if you use you will sound effeminate or rude. It goes beyond simply understanding the words. This is why you should be careful.

Khatz should have his own channel.

i heard Dragonball-Z theme =D go Sam your the best! gonna study in tokyo too in 2 years :)

so did it work for you? u fluent?

04:48 oh crap, here I am, after 20 years of using English, I learned that "did you enjoy" is not a correct wording.

wow

damn that guy is COOL

@aqnlex Do you mean Dragonball =)

this is how i would explain how it works. if you say the word 'apple' you immediatly think of an apple, (a real one or a picture, ..or maybe new york or something obscure ;) thats the way you need to think about words in a new language. if you learn from a text book tho when you you see 'ringo' you first think of the word 'apple' THEN from the english think of the picture of an apple or whatever. thats going about things the long way. translation in text books slows you down. bad way to learn!

@hydrolist1 I might be an idiot, but you're blocked^^

Thanks for interviewing Khatz, that dude rocks. I think he definitely has a lot of insight into the language learning process. I don't know if I agree with 100% of his ideas, but his website is definitely one of the best sites to check out for learning japanese. The interviewer needs to drop a few less f-bombs ! "Stay Black" WTF?!

@aqnlex Oh, never mind Dragonball Z is there too, lol

use this then watch youtube vids an I SWEAR you will look down on everyone who cant speak japanese as good as you

learning Russian, but the ideas all apply and thank you!

katz is so awesome, he's my new role model and yes, i'll stay black ;D

Khatz: rock on. we want to hear your japanese though! TkyoSam: swearing is not cool, sorry.

sorry dude i didnt mean khatz. i've been following this method for ages now. i was responding to a persons comments below. they basically just said 'this works'....i was just seeing if that ment it worked for him? is he fluent? a lot of people put faith in things like this before actually seeing whether it really works for them. (not saying he was or not just clarifying) for example i CAN say this works because ive been doing it and it DOES! haha

Without.

haha oh yea

There are other methods

it just starts to smell- lol

awesome! I have actually started really learning kanji because i found his site. But he does make it sound like as if a language class is useless.. which is totally, well, untrue. The point of a language class is structured input. What this does is order the stuff you get in such a way that new stuff is more easily understood. Whereas 'free input' like what he promotes is rather chaotic and therefore eventually demands more attention/repetition. But you will always need free input in the end.

DRAGONBALL!!!!! i knew i recognized that song in the background! lol

wow, that's sad when your comment is removed from your own channel...

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