How to become fluent fast(Listening practice) - interview with Nihon no Neko 

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I think to get fluent in a language you need develop a crush on it, get obsessed, and stalk it like a creepy weirdo.

I am currently watching an anime (Usagi drop) in Animelon with Japanese subs. Whenever a dialogue comes, I pause it, I read aloud the Japanese words even if I may not know the meaning (a slow process for a beginner like me), I look up the translation of words that I didn't know before, Then I'll hit play again to hear how they pronounced the sentence (things like doush-ta, not dou-shi-ta). This gives me reading, speaking and listening practice. (I work with the Japanese translation auto scrolling in the right panel to keep my eyes away from the subs and I have subs ON in Romanji for words that go too fast in the dialogue or for me to check if my reading was correct. And English for reference. But I try to avoid looking at the subs until I am done with the slow and painful process of converting the written words into sounds. Also chose a slice of life anime just so that I could get the more natural speaking with less sci-fi made up words or historical or too polite speakings.) The process is somewhat slow and tiring for someone with no practice but it's a good way to get practice without feeling too dry.

I've been at it for little over a year now. what i've learned, is that when listening, it's important not to get too fixated on the words you don't know, you end up missing out on the context and conversation. If you miss something, just let it go. it will eventually resurface.

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I wonder how nervous your guest was to do an interview in Japanese where she’s being put on the spot for being fluent at Japanese 😂. I bet I would choke and forget words and grammar I probably say in my sleep and second guess everything I say.

Really loved the video ! I love that you’re using simple vocabulary and speaking slower than usual !

My problem when I practice Nihongo is that I freeze up and can't reply when a Japanese person talks to me after I said a sentence to them in Nihongo because I struggle to translate what the other person just said + formulate my own reply 😭 It really helps to practice conversations with an actual Japanese person. 😅

Great video, thanks! Would love to have more of this kind of interviews where people share their language learning struggle and tips!

one of the biggest things i'm noticing in common with a lot of people that have learned Japanese fluently, they all made at least 1 Japanese Native friend to help them study with or even as a language exchange partner. That and being able to travel to Japan and being surrounded by Japanese vs the learner's native language. For those of us that either live in areas that are VERY void of Japanese people or even those interested in Japan, I don't know about others, but this ends up being very difficult to accomplish and we have no choice but to take the online route. With doing that though it seems to be a lot harder to make "Japanese" friends online if you aren't interested in dating (at least from my perspective, the second I mention I have no interest in actually dating... the overall interactions become awkward and the communication stops.) The males I've tried to talk to just pretty much flat out ignore any attempts to become friends. I've personally used a lot of different sources (youtube, blogs, social media, & mobile apps) and it has drastically helped with being able to understand Japanese and better comprehending grammar differences between western and eastern languages, but this doesn't help with speaking or having the motivation to even continue learning on more of a consistent basis due to feeling like you aren't progressing. There have been a number of youtube, instagram, and twitter accounts that drastically help the solo learning process 100% (Miku, you have made it very interesting and enjoyable for sure, and I can't thank you enough, I've learned a LOT from your instagram and youtube channel) . I noticed a lot more Japanese people using Periscope and since it recently added a call-in function it helps hearing people speaking that are not trying to "help" foreigners learn so to speak and understanding casual conversation. Pretty much what I'm getting at is the best way I've noticed as an introvert, do whatever you can to stay motivated.. it's tough but the best thing to do is find something you're really passionate about (music, art, food, video games, etc) and start learning how to discuss these things in Japanese (Music and one particular online game has been my go to and it's helped DRASTICALLY). Sorry for the long wall of text, but Thank you Miku for your videos!

I have problems processing words in general, so even in English I'm always mishearing things or not hearing at all. Listening practice is extra important for me. So I was happy I could follow most of this conversation without captions.

you are my best teacher ever! somehow I understand 70% from the conversation without reading the subtitle. I studied Japanese for 2 years around 8 years ago. When I heard the words, suddenly I just knew the meaning. of course also because I watched your grammar video several times, and speak to my laptop screen as we are in the class. 本当にありがとうございます。

字幕なしでほとんど全部が分かったから嬉しいです。この動画の中で素晴らしいチップスが多いと思います。是非使ってみます！ありがとうございます！

I am learning Japanese now and I find these tips so relevant and practical.

I can understand about 95% of the Japanese in the video...but still cannot speak that fluent and so well.....but I would practise more and speak out more. Miku Sensei's materials are definitely very helpful!! Thank you!!!

本当に役に立つデプスでしたありがとうございますI will take it

Very helpful! Even though i could only make out about 3-4 words a sentence, I was able to follow long what you two were talking about in general!

I'm too terrified to make my own sentence, that i type in google translate in japanese to english just to make sure i'm making sense... Some japanese i've talked to said my japanese is fine but, i'm sure they're being nice. 😝

great stuff. understood 95%

Thank you so much for this video 🥰 I love it

I’ve learned a lot of tips on how to study and memorize japanese language. 本当にありがとうございます。

Such intelligent women! 🌷

It was a very insightful interview.

A really helpful video! ありがとうございます！

私も日本語を勉強しているウクライナ人んだけど、ダリアさんの素晴らしい日本語は私に本当にやる気を起こさせました。このインタビューをありがとございます！

This is very helpful. ありがとう先生

とても面白かったです、先生。本当にありがとうございました。

This video gives lot ideas to speak japanese. Thankyou

very helpful.thanks

教えてくれて本当にありがとうございます。

Love love love this style of video! このビデオを作ってくれてありがとうございました！🎶🙆🏻‍♂️

Awesome I understand most of this. I need to learn more Japanese soon...

Very useful tips 👍🏼👍🏼

正直に、よく分かられて、嬉しかったです！面白かったですよ！二年前日本語勉強し始めて、もちろん、ダリアさんよりまだ上手ではないんですが、教えたチップの中にもう自分でしてるチップが多くて、びっくりしてよかったです！先生、ありがとう！

こんにちはミク先生。このビデオを初めて観て、後でネコさんに聞こえます。Something really hit home with me about word recognition, speech and how the brain reacts to new sounds. Great video. 2人ともどうもうありがとございます。

Great video. I don’t have the problem of remembering vocabulary. But using it? Impossible. I basically understood the first 10 minutes of this video without a hitch. Will listen again to the remainder later. Some great tips. Interesting that we are talking got not to read aloud in our native schooling because it slows us down.

Thank you mikusensei I’ve got a lot of tips

Congratulations to my compatriot. And I am happy for her success.

素敵なチャンネルです💪🏻 拝見させていただきます

It's interesting that I can hear her accent, I thought I would only be able to recognize it in other languages. :D it seems more prominent in Japanese than in English.

Thanks for this video! While listening to this video I found myself pausing and respoding to your questions too. I think this will help me if I am asked those questions in the future. Do you by any chance have a video just asking questions in Japanase? I think it can be good practice for me to be able to answer faster and clearer. I think questions about feelings, goals, reasons to something would be good to articulate a good answer.

すごい! ありがとう 🙏

Some really good tips, thank you. I've been learning japanese for 4 months now and can understand most of it here if I focus but speaking is very hard for me because I don't know any japanese friends and am too shy for Italki or Hellotalk. So I will use these tips here from now on.

Miku Sensei....I have an idea for a new method. I call it "4 Lines"...You get native Japanese speakers to translate Japanese video (reality TV, 1 on 1 interviews, documentaries, etc Terrace House is a good example). On the same screen have 4 textual lines. Top line...Japanese with furigana. Second line...Romanji. Third line...Literal English translation (awkward but it shows vocabulary and sentence structure). Fourth line...Practical English translation. Right now most video services only offer Japanese or English subtitles, but never at the same time.

とても良い会話して、嬉しい😂😆😊

Arigatou sensei. MOTIVATION!

very nice videos nice effort !! keep going thumps up

日本語をもう二年間勉強しまして７０パーセントぐらいを分かりましたから何か嬉しいですね。十月から本物の日本語授業があるからついにアウトプットを練習しますね。来年日本に行くつもりでその前にもっと上手になりたいんだ！

Great tips! when I first began learning Japanese in college, I am a Spanish and English native speaker, I began by trying to process the Japanese grammar and phonics using English. I mean, it made sense! right? the resources used were in English, so I was using English to learn Japanese. I failed really bad, my grades were at around the lower grade scale. Then! one day, I was reviewing the Japanese kana, and realized that Japanese phonetically was like Spanish, they sounded similar! that my brain made a connection. I then switched over to using Spanish, and the grammar and particles made so much sense! I began to write in Spanish first and then I would "translate" it into Japanese. I would bring these notes and showed it to my Japanese professor. And they were amazed that I was able to use particles a lot better, compared to how I was using them in the past. My Japanese professor told me to keep on doing what I was doing. I continued, my grades went to the higher range. That was close to 15 years ago, I stopped learning Japanese. But...stuff was still in my brain. Just this year, I began to relearn Japanese and everything is coming back. I went to a Japanese community center and I am paying to take Japanese language classes. It is worth the money! because I really want to get a 3rd language under my belt. :) Anyways, what Daria said about being lucky when it comes to knowing Russian before Japanese, and in a way her ears and mind were ready to receive and process Japanese input, is totally on the "nose!" I went through that as well with Japanese and Spanish sharing the same phonetic sounds. I can hear a Japanese word or someone speaking in Japanese, and I can tell when it is Japanese. I can then take what they said and use it myself. Then I look at the dictionary and read the meaning and repeat it, processing it in my brain. If there's a complex grammar, I tend to translate a whole Japanese grammar point into Spanish and it pretty much cements that grammar point in my brain with its correct usage. This what happens when one already knows 2 languages, and is going towards learning another language. Our brains work really differently, when it comes to learning more languages.

I really like your channel

ありがとうございました

いい動画、学んだことができます！

Nice video 😃and she is polite and fluent 😊

Very interesting interview) and good test for me). One thing that helps me a lot is to write new words. I don't mean type them, I mean write them with a pen or pencil. Specifically in the case of Japanese, it is a way to combine kanji learning and pronunciation with vocab learning.

So for these listening practices it would be helpful to also have the japanese subtitles.

I remember meeting you in venice California.

damn i understand a lot of this. over 50%. maybe even 75%. usually when i watch anime or something it always feels like 30%. it’s honestly tripping me out, i don’t think i’ve ever understood so much japanese consecutively.

どうもありがとうございます！！

Oh wow thank you so much Miku! I got to tell you that this video helped me a lot! As a first year student, I got to meet Japanese friends before corona, and now it's a bit more 難しい for writing but especially listening/speaking. And my motivation has to come back of course!!! I should watch this more times :D

ありがとうみく

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i hope i can be fluent as her😍😍😍

In my former university in the USA where I graduated, there are some Japanese students and professors. I know a Japanese student in my major biotechnology who graduated from the university and she got married with an American there, and now they have a little daughter. I also make friends with a Korean-Japanese guy and some Japanese exchange students there, but mainly I spoke English with them. However, I also learned some Japanese from them. My dad is a medical doctor in Vietnam and he usually goes to Japan for medical conferences. I also enjoy watching programs on NHK. Well, and now I’ve finished my 1st year in my graduate school in Japan. I’m trying to learn and speak Japanese everyday 😊I enjoy Detective Conan, Doraemon and Dragon Balls when I was a child, they’re really famous in Vietnam, and currently I’m watching Kamakura dono no 13 nin aka The 13 Lords of the Shogun 😊

I am happy I don’t need to turn on the subtitles

Also, conversationexchange.com is a great way to practice with a native speaker and help them with whatever language you speak that they would like to learn

Nice video, I was able to get most of it, (I was using auto generated Japanese subtitles)!! Thank you very much

Arigatougozaimasu 😍

いいね、ダリアさんはたくさん霊感がある! このチャンネルが最高だ!!

One question I have is, when learning new vocabulary, how many new words did you find to be good for you to learn in a given time period? For example: 10 new vocabulary words in per week? 10 vocabulary words every 2 weeks? I'm still figuring out what is comfortable for me, but I wonder what other people have noticed for themselves.

I have studied Japanese for 2 years. I can undestand almost everything in this video, but I can't make a simple conversation. I'm trying to find Japanese friends...

What's up with out right study'ers as opposed of not really studying in school at all???@George Brown 3

This is going to sound super negative, but hear me out. I’m so excited that you consider that lady fluent. I noticed a few grammatical mistakes she made off the bat. I often get so afraid to make small mistakes, like Japanese people would judge me and hate me for it. They’ve never (visibly) done that to me, but it’s still a fear of mine. This makes me feel like Japanese people are a lot more open and excited that foreigners are making an effort to speak Japanese

onnano hito no tomodashi ga hoshii desu. nihongo no hanaseru you ni kaiwa no renshuu o shitai desu. ❤️

So clear and not over done,subarashi I write poetry --I like some nihongo no poems they are so atmospheric they inspire me to learn more Nihongo..Sozeki is my favourite writer -so much feeling and understanding his works move me even in English translations.He makes me want to paint I wish I could read him in Nihongo.u r a great support in my struggle to learn.

I dont understand all the words, but i definitely can hear her japanese with a little European accent.

Simple video for practice your japanese language

Twitterでよく新しい単語を使ってみますけど多分ペンで書いたほうがいいですね。最近、例文の動画を作ってみようと思っています。それに、DiscordとかTelegramなど日本語で話すけど、私が起きているの間に日本人は寝ます（笑）。 教えてくれてありがとうございます！

Miku San no Nihongo wa wakariyasui da to omoimasu . Video o mitara dandan jyouzu Ku naritai desu😊

Brazil watching 2019 ?

I'm a pretty fast learner it only took me a day to memorize all the hiragana characters I'm now going to katakana

So... Do regular conversations like these usually only use n4-n5 stuff?

What's different between "とか" and "とき"?? ありがとうございます

Which app should I use to get Japanese?

@miku sensei. Is her Japanese as good as your English?

She lives in Charlotte? That's where I live! I would LOVE to know where there are meet ups so i can practice!

I could understand most of it. But cannot speak.Can you tell me how to remember vocabulary?

Request dialogue with Osaka ben >_

I can confirm that for a Russian listener, phonetics of Japanese is pleasant and easy to listen, while English sounds somewhat alien, difficult.

In conclusion, output is more effective than input.

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多分私はみくさんのすべてのビデオを見終わったら、彼女のチャンネルをサブスクライブします！

Say hello to Daria

I watched the entire video and was able to understand probably 以上75% however I somehow forgot the words "sagasu" and "oboeru" which I knew way, way before actively studying Japanese, I dunno what's wrong with my brain? 😫

I was repeating stuff through the video lol, actually been doing that lately while watching anime. Some times this or that word sticks or it keeps being repeated and I try to say the word and try to match the cadance, I know that animes aren't the best sources to learn, but I think they're good enough for vocabulary at least. In my own case, I've been very slowly learning Japanese, but in a chaotic way, never truly "starting from scratch" and just starting the basics, I know some grammar, but never went properly into it. I'm a bit to busy with "life", I do mean to eventually start properly learning. Atm it's just a lot of listening and repeating. I have been watching a lot of youtubers like you to try to pick up some things, with youtubers I do notice they use "real Japanese", meaning that it's language I can use. I never realized the importance of saying the words yourself, I do admit at times I try to pronounce this or that Japanese word and ...I just can't at first, but repeating it and just trying I eventually get it right. Some words I have heard plenty of times to be able to pronounce them close to perfectly. I will try to say words out loud more now. After I do start to learn Japanese properly, I do think the next step will be to search for Japanese people in the area, meet-up IRL and or just online, I actually have tried some basic conversations with Japanese people and some went pretty ok lol, though I was lucky that they usually spoke some english, we both learned & practiced. I think I actually need to start writing words I know and aim for more words and also aim for more difficult words.

I heard なくて a lot - wondering how it was used in context

What is doushta?

I have one year followin you and some other channels and watchin anime series and movies Now i can write japanese report 😂😂😂❤

I understand almost everything O-O I can speak japanese (n4 level) But I still need to improve like this huhuhu. I need to prepare for my job interview.

日本語で話しとるロシア人は恰好ええっすよな～　あしやのチャネルもたまに観ちゃってるわ。。アメリカ人なのに他の白人との日本語共通語で喋りたいな～(笑)　ミクさんはrtk記憶方法についてご存知ですかな～ 俺は日本存在は四年目やけど、断然役に立った事があの漢字の覚え方記憶方法や。日本語興味ある人に教えて下さいね。

How can I get fluent in California?