Japanese in a Year: 1 Month Progress | Vlog #5 

So I would suggest to you, because this was a HUGE confidence booster to me despite being an incredibly minor thing (And probably developing bad habits with it). I would switch all your Umm's and Uhh's to the Japanese equivalents. "あの" (Ano) and ”えと" (Eto). This way you can take a moment to think, but you are breaking your Japanese streak either.

wow knowing 植物 at your stage is quite impressive! I think I was in year 2 when I learned that kanji and word together

Wooow! You are sugoi!!! I'm Japanese living in Hawaii :) My husband doesn't speak japanese at all so I wanted to teach him but I didn't know how... your videos encouraged me!! Thanks!!!

I am on week 3 and I memorized hiragana and katakana You know all of this stuff in 1 month? You’re much faster at learning than me

I think you are doing great so far. It's very interesting to see your progress. Btw, to jump on the ヘア vs. かみ discussion: I see ヘア only used in combinations with other foreign loan words, such as ヘアドライヤー.

Man..that is AWESOME! I'm really surprised to see your progress so far. Like it! Keep it going,bro! this is really motivate me :D

I really like that you're learning the kanji for each word as you go, I think that makes it much easier later on as you can make a lot of connections between words that way. There's always some that are oddballs that throw you, but generally it's worth it.

Just a note, buildings are much more commonly ビル than 建物.

Awesome dude! I hope you'll stay motivated even after the first year :D it's a life long wonderful experience. (just like any other language). 楽しかったです。

hey man this is great! keep it up!

Resource suggestions: Tofugu.com Jisho.org Tae Kim's Grammar Guide Italki HelloTalk NHK New Easy James Heisig's Remembering the Kanji 6th Edition Anki Memrise Genki I And more. The internet holds endless resources to help you. Enjoy the learning process as I am doing currently.

I know i'm late to this, but i just realised how far behind I am, currently I'm on month 6 and i barely remember these words and I didn't even know like 25% of them

You are making amazing progress. There are a lot of good simple words there to expand on and begin to make sentences once you get some grammar as well. Good move learning script from the start with Japanese the spelling in kana at least is regular with the sound so it helps heaps with pronunciation if you learn how to read kana early. I never focused on Kanji for a year or　so but, I think I knew a good few hundred by then anyway. So getting stuck in to Kanji early is impressive. Watch the long and short sounds though because your trying to speak slowly and clearly you have held some sounds long (とり tori sounded more like とうり）which can change the meaning with some words. 頑張ってください

You're doing awesome. This is so interesting.

Woah ! How did you learn 200 kanji in two weeks?

wow! nice after 1 month i'm trying to learn Japanese - but not working at it as hard as you!

Keisatsu in the video

Oh wow, you're really doing great ! Your pronunciation sounds good overall, your 'r/l' sounds legit (I'm not Japanese, just a fellow language learner, started in January 2017 too) Also, an important question: do you worry at all about pitch accent when you learn vocabulary ? Or do you just try to mimic the audio as closely as possible so that you learn it "naturally" ?

nice video, good luck.

Hello fellow New Yorker. Keep up the good work!

Came from reddit. I would say New York is more of a 都市（To-shi) than a 町（Machi) which should be used for smaller settlements. 頑張ってね。

hey man! very nice! so many words and 漢字 in just 1 month!? すごく早い！ I've got a rather unpleasant question. Here we go. how do you count how many 漢字 you know? What I mean is... Let's take 大 as an example. when do you add 大 to the "know" list. when you know how to write it? When you learn at least 1 reading? when you know all the reading? when you can use it? I ask this, because it's hard for me to check off kanji off a list as known. I feel I never really know any of them, cause I stamble across new readings and meanings all the time for each one I've studied and thought I new already. Most probably it's just me overthinking though. I can't remember how was my "English learning curve" to compare either.

テーブル and サラダ are a few errors, but good job on your progress. YesJapan is a good resource to learn from and Memrise for flashcards. Both free to use.

Impressive progress for a month! 頑張って下さい！：－）

Also, how are you studying vocab?

May I ask where you are learning this from?

Awesome progress! One thing I think you should work on is your pronunciation of the /u/ sound. You're pronouncing it with rounded lips as it would be in English, Italian and French. In Japanese the lips are somewhat pressed together, but not rounded.

How much money are you willing to spend on learning? It is a big accomplishment to master a language without spending any money and that is my goal. I utilize the internet and PDF files, but I'm the type of person who prefers physical copies so I can't help myself from buying books from time to time. I was just wondering because I'm planning on buying a Genki textbook (even though I have an online copy lol) Excellent progress in your first month; If you would like the Genki for when you start learning grammar, I could send you a download link. I'm just skimming and going over the grammar sections. It's really easy to understand :)

You have really so good progress! As I understood u're studying by your own, right? What are u going to do with grammar? Will you go to classes or will you ask someone to explain grammar for you?

3:35 , Did you try saying about something your right side ? Perhaps , most Japanese call that "オブジェ" . Object→オブジェクト→オブジェ.（Cut クト）. It's casual style Japanese. Or "芸術 作品（げいじゅつ さくひん）". It's formal style. "Art Work" is using in English ? Thank you.がんばってください。

The word for hair is kami and it can also mean paper or god.

Is saying otoko or onna rude compared to otoko no hito?

haha I like わかりません one.

1 year, Maybe you can get N3 if you try hard!

And one more. Noise is nearly "騒音 そうおん". 音 おと is ummmmmm Sound ?

すごい

wow i am comparing with yourself because i had done my almost 20 days of japanese learning..i know most of those word.

Too many "englishified" japanese I think. Like teburu instead of tsukue.