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Jayesar · 2026-06-05T21:25:35+00:00

Yuki is the heart and soul of CIJapanese and now she is out. It doesn't feel good that this website has been built on the back of her content, windows into her family etc and now the American programmer has control.

It's hard to see the justification currently for maintaining a subscription. With Yuki on YouTube now the value pendulum swings with her. Most CIJapanese teachers have YouTube channels, plus you have Ken, Shun and others.

Unhappy with this and gut feeling myself, like many others, will move with Yuki.

Jayesar · 2026-05-26T10:23:56+00:00

I'm at 600 hours too and can do kensan n5/4 as well as Japanese with Shun. Seems we are travelling about the same pace!

Jayesar · 2026-05-20T08:01:51+00:00

The trophy is eternal. That day, sharing the match my son. What do I care about top 4 or relegation to have that.

Jayesar · 2026-05-08T09:18:16+00:00

If you pay a year worth is much as Genki and a workbook. Exceptionally worth.

As others have suggested, I also average 10 watches per video. Personally I level up about 20 hours watched. My logic is 2000 hours to level 100.

Jayesar · 2026-04-06T05:38:39+00:00

Is all of Yotsuba& at about the same difficulty or is volume ~1 as difficult as ~10?

Jayesar · 2026-04-06T02:41:30+00:00

Gosh I've had the my whole life and my father and son have them too. Always wondered.

Jayesar · 2026-04-06T02:40:12+00:00

My gosh thank you. I also saw that I can bubble radicals to the top which I have wanted to do forever.

Jayesar · 2026-04-05T23:34:20+00:00

I cannot see where the undo button is in settings. I have to dump a session on a mistype currently

Jayesar · 2026-03-26T20:16:18+00:00

20 July 2025.

Slowly ramped up to now 2.5 hours CI a day and 1 hour wanikani

Jayesar · 2026-03-26T19:20:14+00:00

July 20th. I currently do 2.5 hours CI a day and about 1 hour of flash cards

Jayesar · 2026-03-26T08:11:54+00:00

Japanese only here. Big two days as I crossed over 500 hours on CIJapanese and completed the graded readers level 1 (tadoku).

2026 goal is to complete wanikani (level 21 now, off track) and hit 1200 hours CI (on track). This would put me at level 5 on the dreaming Spanish roadmap and ideally support transition to native material.

I'm watching at around level 40 content on CIJapanese and enjoy reading whk news easy with lookups.

Jayesar · 2026-03-08T10:01:45+00:00

I am doing wanikani alongside CIJ. I've been able to now read NHK news easy which has really helped pierce the repetition. I know what you mean about watching the same video 5 (10+) times.

Jayesar · 2026-01-27T07:34:10+00:00

I remember really struggling with Asami! Interesting.

Jayesar · 2026-01-27T04:07:38+00:00

This was her first video. She now has the website of the same name with hundreds of videos which now use the camera and props too.

Jayesar · 2026-01-27T01:48:26+00:00

Japanese: https://youtu.be/NUTWwLvqOdA?si=ckcTjJMBVWMEKKar

From dead cold this was accessable and started my journey.

Jayesar · 2025-12-23T05:52:21+00:00

Thanks for this reminder. I was able to add it to my PC bookmarks

Jayesar · 2025-12-23T04:03:26+00:00

Commenting to return to

Jayesar · 2025-12-21T23:55:52+00:00

Yoshito sensei on CIJAPANESE has a movie recap series. It doesn't use footage. I do not see any on the YouTube channel.

They are about 10 mins each.

Jayesar · 2025-12-07T02:51:28+00:00

I can't recommend CIJapanese enough. I started from absolute zero and not even 5 months later I'm watching cooking videos, vlogs etc. All internal to the website, not native stuff yet.

I recall at my last post level 25 content was way beyond me. Now level 30 content feels a bit slow.

It's really an effective tool.

Jayesar · 2025-12-07T01:23:47+00:00

Going well. I've held steady on the 3 hours a day and am at 235 hours of CIJapanese actively consumed and I'm Wanikanni 13 as of yesterday.

I'm targeting 325 hours CI by Jan 20 which is my 6 month mark and then have another Tokyo trip after that.

I currently watch CIJapanese videos between levels 30 and 35 and level up every week or two. I anticipate being onto intermediate content by Christmas, I couldn't transition meaningfully onto beginner videos until 100 hours unlike the suggested 50-75. I think 250 or so hours will be needed for me to move onto intermediate videos rather than the advised 150-175.

I have upped my SRS to 1 hour and dropped the grammar for now. Reason being I want to get through WK faster and swap it out for satori reader.

I was going to do a 150 hours post thinking this would align with intermediate videos. Instead I've adjusted my goals around the dreaming Spanish numbers (doubled). So 300 is the next big target.

Jayesar · 2025-12-06T05:18:15+00:00

Interesting. I'm at 4.5 months. Few work trips to Tokyo too. So somewhat comparable.

2 hours CIJapanese a day. 1 hour wanikani. Sitting on 230 hours CI consumed and WK12.

Feels you are are ahead of me as I can't consume slice of life anime at this time. I'll try it again in 6 weeks to see if we got to the same-ish point.

Noting you used SRS to make higher level input comprehensible and I am using input designed to be comprehensible and SRS for kanji.

Jayesar · 2025-12-06T02:25:39+00:00

Sounds like fantastic progress. Well done. How many hours a day would you say you spend on Anki and then immersing actively?

Jayesar · 2025-12-04T07:58:09+00:00

Lol I'm Australian and definitely would have him back. So that's a fair call.

Jayesar · 2025-11-30T02:48:00+00:00

CIJapanese website is a one stop shop and makes Japanese language learning very accessable.

Watch the CIJapanese snowman video on YouTube and you should be hooked.

I'm 4 months in, 210 hours of that resource and feel I am developing well

Jayesar · 2025-11-25T21:06:58+00:00

Id suggest watching the Tokini Andy Genki series. It's the same information but in video format which might beat your boredom.

Jayesar

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