It was amazing having the legend ToKini Andy on the podcast this week. Be sure to show him some love! By the way our special cameo guest told us if this video gets 500 likes, he'll be back. So you know what to do KoreKara Squad! And if you're in the market for good vibes be sure to check out our discord server: discord.gg/korekara Outline: 0:00 Intro (ft. Special Guest) 1:15 How ToKini Andy Became the Genki Guy 3:29 How ToKini Andy Got Good at Japanese 7:49 Andy's Outlook on Making Mistakes 9:51 Andy's Experience as a Homeroom Teacher in Japan 12:46 ToKini Andy's Experience with the JLPT 14:26 What Value Andy Puts on Anki 16:28 Why Having a Japanese Girlfriend Helps with Japanese 23:30 Dogen's Secret REVEALED 26:48 ToKini Andy's Burnout with Japanese 34:22 ToKini Andy's IMPORTANT KoreKara Message 38:44 Outro (ft. Special Guest)
this man is the real deal as a teacher! i used to watch his videos back when i was using genki before getting into immersion. big part of my foundation with learning japanese🤝
Thanks for having me on guys! I had a great time talking to you, and hope we can do something like it again some time. And, OH MY GOD IT'S BILL! Edit: I completely forgot about Dogen's secret. I'm literally laughing my ass off over here. haha Edit Edit: BILL approves of me! My life is now complete.
Hey Sakura! Wow thank you so much for your kind words. Right from the beginning, we wanted to create a place where anyone can come and feel happy. So to see your comment really just means so much to us personally and motivates us to keep bringing more content. Once again, thank you so much.
Really insightful discussion of dating and language learning. Might be worth publishing that clip as a separate video because it's real talk that a lot of people would relate to or be interested in.
That's pretty interesting about spouses with different languages. I'm a Taiwanese-American, and my wife is Chinese. I actually speak Mandarin in the home and my wife, after spending almost 15 years here now speaks pretty fluent everyday American-English. Her slang is actually better than her formal American because our workplace tends to have younger people. I grew up speaking a little bit of Mandarin in the house, but my language skills didn't really improve until 1. I took simplified Chinese in college for two years, and 2. marrying my wife. My Chinese is actually way better than from when I was a little kid growing up.
@@KoreKaraPodcast Im actually new to your channel. You guys seem very sincere, also bringing some new freshness to the language community. I meant Andy and myself know of each other’s existence through covering Japanese books. :) Light
Tokini Andy is the reason why I was able to finish genki I and II, and be able to actually talk and read a lot in japanese in 6 months from zero. I can't be more grateful
Andy talking about his ADHD without saying ADHD 😂 I am too, bro. Japanese is my current interest - we’ll see how far I get before I find my next interest in 3 months.
I have a Japanese wife, and I live in Japan. My Japanese sucks. So, a Japanese gf or bf does not help, unless they can't speak your native and/or has no interest in your language. So ,it is not a silver bullet. lol
Still frightens my that somebody is able to speak fluently after 1-2 years. I'm learning for a year, and i'm not even near speaking anything meaningful. even after learning each day 1-2 hours.
You lnow i want to join all these patrions, but if i were paying for every one of my fav peoples patrion id be broke af... not sure where ill get the best bang for my buck
Would you say Quizlet is like Anki? I personally used Quizlet for studying German for years in school. So I am used to it and was wondering if they were pretty similar : )
I identified with Andy so much when he said he burns out easily. I wish I didn't burn out so easily but for some reason I either bore easily or I have a high need for novelty.
Im not even learning japanese but this shit is like therapy, I should be doing Spanish immersion rn but this is like a warm blanket over my body god bless, the way you guys laugh together is so funny SO GOOD gawd damn
I got burnt out on anki and going back to it gives me anxiety, so I have been messing with Wanikani for a couple months now and it’s making me start to fall in love with SRS again. I know I’d benefit a lot going back to anki but I really need to change how I go about making cards. What I have in mind is only making cards for words that I have already 90 percent acquired. Which, a lot of people will say yeah duh that’s what you’re supposed to do but for me at least I think that involves reading the same manga volume a couple times through till the words start to stick. Because before I’d see a word I didn’t know, look up the definition, throw it into anki not really having learned it then just repeatedly tried to cram words I really didn’t aquire yet into my head.
@@KoreKaraPodcast I’ll try that out! I think another thing I’ll try is to not be so strict with having only kanji on the front of the card. Because I would hear a word, not be familiar with the kanji, and throw it on anki and basically try to brute force information into my head that way for half an hour to an hour. Some people can do that. I cannot. So I either need to find a way to phase in the kanji over time, or rely on the fact that Wanikani will eventually get me there with the kanji and outside of that I just need to learn words.
