Я восхищаюсь иностранцами, которые учат русский язык, потому что я бы никогда не начала учить русский будь я иностранцем, это очень сложный язык, вы большая молодец :>>>>
I'm so thankful for your video. You're the first person I follow or watch to show this type of way of studying. In university or elsewhere, I learned to watch videos/listening audio and transcribe ALL the vocab I didn't know and it was really really exhausting and difficult. Usually, I was so tired of these things that I didn't finish at all nor the video or the podcast. The same for flash cards and lists. That's one of the reasons I gave up my study many years ago. This year, my goal is really to get me back to my language learning, especially Japanese. And your videos, stories and all the other things help me so much to have many tips to learn and how to learn. And these ways help me much more than the ways I learned in the past. So, thank you for your video and your vlog that give many tips (but not the VR thing, I'm sorry, it's just too much money for me 😂) and help me to not feel too bad when I have just 0 motivation. (Plus, your accent is so goood. I'm French and my reading is pretty good, but not really my listening and I'm pretty surprised about myself each time I watched your video because I understood all of it without thinking much about it)
well it works both ways because I am soooo thankful for your comment!!! as a content creator, I often think multiple times during the creation of a video "what am I even doing this for?" or "it's useless and not even helpful" or a combination of both lol so I am SO glad this little vlog was helpful to you, you have no idea how that motivates me 🥹 for the vocab thing, that is something i figured out quite late with my japanese self-learning, and i realised instantly how much time i could have saved then, so with my newer languages i will NOT make the same mistake ^-^ also, about my accent and how i speak in english, you're actually not the first person to tell me how understandable i am when i speak! it's so interesting and i really wonder why that is! All in all, THANK YOU for your wonderful and thoughtful comment!!!
This is one of my favorite video formats on your channel. I love seeing your process of writing out your goals and then (more importantly) how you go about accomplishing them throughout the week. Perfection!
Thank you so much that means a lot to me!! Vlogs are not my most viewed type of content but I personally love creating them, and the more I ask myself the more I realise I actually need to keep creating them regardless of their rather unpopularity, because it gives me this feeling to closeness to you guys ❤️ and I can just be myself and show you what I’m up to without the pressure of finding the right words to explain everything…
Very inspiring video! Thank you so much! And I think I’m gonna try this vocab extraction method you’ve used on those easy Russian videos for my Japanese studies because my teacher introduced me to a similar series for Japanese beginner just recently. Since then I was actually on a search on how to usefully incorporate such immersion in my active studies. So thanks for the inspiration 🤗
i am sooo glad this could be helpful!! in fact i use this method for mandarin chinese as well now! for japanese i pretty much do the reverse: i ONLY mark up words i don't know yet, so i always end up with a list of rare or far-fetched words to revise 😅😅 please let me know how it goes for your japanese studies ♥️
Your Russian cursive is very good actually!! By the way, as a native speaker, I write m letter in English the same way as т in Russian, so it's fine☺️The point of cursive is to write faster abd more comfortable to your hand, so it's more than ok to change some elements if it's more comfortable to you.
Oh my, thank you so much for the compliment!!! I do take note about the letter m, in fact after I filmed this vlog I found pictures of cursive russian written by natives and after analysing them I realised that a lot of people were writing like you just said! Also, thank you for your last comment, because indeed I knew it was possible to mix, but I hadn't yet figured out why this whole writing system was there in the first place: since I was still a beginner at everything, writing in cursive was actually taking me longer than writing in typed letters so I was missing the point 😅😂
One way that can help you pay more attention when practicing writing letters is to just write one of each and do this for all the letters and then go back to the first letter and start a new round of only writing one of each letter. When you write many of the same letter, your brain goes into automatic mode and you stop paying attention to detail; but when you are going from one letter to a different one, your brain needs to pay more attention because it needs to do something different each time.
Russian native here. I applaud you for learning Russian. I am based in the UK, interested in French, and it will be my 4th year studying Japanese, so that is also interesting. I know it is hard to differentiate "m" in Latin-based languages from "m" (t of Russian). However, to tell you the truth, the last time I wrote this cursive letter T as small "m" (the right fashion), was in a state school in Russia. Now, as an adult, even if I write in cursive in Russian my "т" comes out as "т', only I just make it small - it still looks cursive overall. I am sure many Russian-speakers do as I do, though, yes, it is important to be able to read it. If you need any Russian lang. help or interested in learning Japanese together or check each other progress, I'll be ready to help out, too. Diana.
Hi Diana, thank you so much for your thoughtful comment, it's amazing to see we have so many languages in common! I'm so grateful for your explanation as well, honestly this is really helpful. I will definitely reach out if I can't figure out something or if I need the viewpoint of a native speaker (which I definitely will!)
Hi Ally, what is technical video drama (Japanese)? Do you have problem sleeping if you also studying languages in the evening? I study in morning, break then study in the afternoon. Evening I try to read simple Japanese children books. For words I don’t understand I will look up n update my voca list. (Yeah I know u hate list or flash cards). 😝
hello!! the technical video and the drama watching are separate: the technical video is how i call the videos i watch (intensively - meaning i look up all the vocab i don't know) on specific technical subjects such as finance, science, politics etc. The drama watching is how i call the immersion practice i do while watching drama episodes in japanese!
Russian here. I've been studying Japanese since 2022, started Korean last year and Chinese this week. It's addictive, right? Your goal is super cool, 頑張りましょう！(one day I'll go back to French too, I've studied it for 2 years at school, but it was so long ago I only remember a couple of words). I've noticed that after Japanese, I've been struggling with Korean phonetics, but since I've took up Chinese, Korean doesn't look that tough anymore
So addictive right! When you know more than 3 languages suddenly learning more languages becomes a piece of cake 😅 I had learned korean hangul for a challenge a few years ago and omg the pronunciation... i was horrible at it, I couldn't pronounce at all! good luck with reviving your french! i hope you will go back to studying it a bit 🥹 i notice so many russian words that sound exactly like french words 🥹
Hi! I just wanted to ask how accepting are the cafes and restaurants when you take out materials to study or read? Are they frowned upon? From where I am, I don't think we can freely study or read wherever we want? I feel like the society judges us for "hogging" the space. Just wanted to know if Japan is accepting, thank you!!
In Japan, a lot of people study at cafes, so it's almost like a part of the culture 😆, a very useful thing for those that love to do it. So I'm sure they don't mind.
hi both!! it actually really depends on 1) the time of the day and 2) the cafe rules! So for example, at places like McCafe or Mister Donut that don't actually allow studying/working, the staff will let you study for as long as you like during non-busy hours, but will come at your table reminding you of the rules of the cafe when busier times come around (usually between 11am and 2pm)! All cafes have their own "rules", which they usually put up on each table OR each room of the cafe - all in japanese, no english. It is always an intellectual gymnastic to think of a good strategy in terms of timing when you want to do cafe-hopping for studying haha hope that answers your question!
@@arinoyume 母国語はスペイン語です. 2nd is English. I am also learning abit of arabic recently started with the alphabet and pronunciation. i learned some of the korean hangul characters cause i thought it looked cool but havent been seriously studying it. BUT Japanese, Russian and Chinese are my favorites those i am serious about learning.
I understand!! It’s the same for me whenever I hear French spoken with an accent; it adds a nice little twist and sometimes makes the pronunciation even more beautiful imo! 😍
I just found your channel and have to say I love the vlog-style content. This has helped keep me motivated after a long break from language learning. Love your transparency and little funny moments! Looking forward to more content in the future ❤ it would be cool to see you do a community language challenge if you are interested in that! :)
Seems like you had a very productive week🎉 I love that you read a lot on topics you enjoy💙 These astronomy books seem like a lot of fun and books made for kids are so cool since they are so colorful and pleasant to look at ^^
they really are!! honestly i've been having a BLAST I am soooo proud of myself for having pushed through with my reading in japanese so that i am now able to read anything I want 🥹 my days are filled with joy that much more now ❤️❤️ it was a very productive week but like i said i sometimes have weeks that aren't as productive and in fact i really want to film one of those too!
@@arinoyume It surely would be fun to see a different perspective with less productive week as well :)) And reading in your target language at more advanced level is extremely rewarding ^^
J’adooooooore te voir switcher entre les langues au cours de la journée Je dois vraiment mettre l’accent sur la compréhension écrite et orale dans mes langues en me motivant via RU-vid, des podcasts et des articles
Je fais du code switching touttttttte la journée sans me rendre compte !!!! J’ai tellement associé une langue à chaque personne et situation en plus c’est complètement inconscient des fois 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲 je suis tellement heureuse depuis que je suis devenue multilingue tu peux pas t’imaginer !!
I have a frustrating experience. Not knowing where to begin or hitting a plateau can feel demoralizing and make it hard to hit the books and study like you know you should…Having friends from other cultures makes me more creative. In fresh ways about space and how people create their own world and environment. It is best way to connect between creative thinking and cross-cultural relationships.
It can feel EXTREMELY demoralising I completely agree! In fact, I've been there too! The trick is really to always stay consistent no matter what, and to have infaillible trust in the language acquisition process: you will get there 🥳
