In the end, I still have lost interest in learning Japanese

Some of you surely remember how I wanted to quit a few weeks ago, but despite small shot of motivation, here I am again.

The reason I’m quitting Japanese is that I want to have more time for learning German, a language that is more important in my life due to Germany neighboring Czechia.

Though although my journey ends here, I still have learned a lot that will help me in my German learning. That is the importance of immersion. I don’t know why, but in the Japanese community it’s more popular than in other languages. Without learning Japanese, I would maybe never find about SRS and the method of immersion.

Good luck guys with your Japanese journeys.

In case anyone would want to keep in touch with me, just ask and I will share my email in the DMs.

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Good luck with your German learning journey.

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Lots of weebs with strong technical backgrounds.

- a weeb with a strong technical background

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I think another reason being the channel Matt vs Japan why immersion is so popular in the Japanese community.

Huh? Am I understanding you wrong? I learned multiple languages inside and outside of school settings, and everybody always raved about the importance of immersion. They just packaged it differently, especially in school, where it was about reading books and news and stuff (we had to read the vatican news every week in latin :sweat_smile:), writing with your penpals, multiple language exchange vacations, watching movies, analizing sketches, singing along songs. So at least in school, there was lots of immersion by week one with nicely curated native materials (maybe language learning is different from country by country). And most language learning forums for other languages always had huge recommendation seeking threads. I don’t feel immersion is bigger in japanese learning communities than in others. It might feel like that, though, cause everybody is sharing what anime they watch or what manga they read, while other countries don’t offer this vast amount of easy accessable media. I gave up on learning finish, cause I wasn’t finding enough easy accessable material.

Or was it about SRS? That should have been covered in school, too. I still remember us crafting small vocab boxes with SRS a few decades ago :sweat_smile: My kids preferred online tools for that, but it was definetly covered in school. Honestly textbooks for school should come with a free SRS tool, since everybody here went to digital schoolbooks anyway

Anyway, giving up on a language, especially if you already have a few under your belt is quite normal. You can only spread yourself out so much. My French learning is on hiatus (I used to be B2 back in the days) until natively finally adds french support ^^ It was so hard finding nice books, and basically impossible to find some nice french series I’d enjoy. Nowadays my japanese listening comprehension is way above my french one, but I can read most french books fluidly without look ups.

Haaaaaahhhh, language learning is a tough but fun journey, glad you’ll keep up the good work woth learning German :slight_smile:

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If you are still a1 or a2 at German I really recommend those guys: https://languages-on-fire.com/
I’ve bought full French deck and now starting speedruning it. French deck has 5500 cards, on German deck, on the website it says it consists of more than 2000 cards.

From the French deck I can say it is really good quality with native audio and i+1 sentence.

Btw they have first 250 cards of that deck on Anki: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1698672280

Basically the closest thing to bunpro for other languages I’ve seen

In my experience it’s more like “how will it help me” from everyone, it’s something new and revolutionary for most people I’ve seen

tech bro signing in o7

Honestly, I find the systems designed to aid language learning to be the most interesting part. I just happen to be learning Japanese.

Really? Seems different from my experience, then. I could imagine people learning their first language and doing so outside of school (like in many english speaking countries, where learning a foreign language is more of a fancy option instead of something you have to do your entire school life) hearing about immersion or SRS for the first time. Makes sense, when it’s their first language. But that’s not the case for @Mathias_Tichota.

Not that it matters much, it’s just a thing you should learn with your first real language learning experience (so not something like duolingo for a month). I was more concerned about how someone who already learned a few languages didn’t know about that. We need better onboarding for new language learners :sweat_smile:

Im Austrian and to form it quickly, warum lebe ich hier.
Die Sprache ist ahh and the grama is also hell, so Im hoping while learning japanese, I can flex around type shi

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In my country, there’s just little to no focus put on immersion. Sometimes there are small stories in the schoolbooks, but more focus is put on rote memorization. Not even SRS is mentioned.

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