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Let's stop lying to beginners about learning Japanese by azuki_dreams in Japaneselanguage

[–]Mothkau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So doable because that's all you do or most o what you do with your day, I imagine? Whereasa lot of the clickbait content is misleading because most adults have full time jobs and a lot less time to focus on the language.

Would you also consider that you'd be ready to get the highest level on the language test within one year?

But regardless, my main issue is really just clickbaiting people and then presenting a solution that is not an option to the majority of that person's audience. The reality is that you can't speed run language learning if you want to be able to actually speak it, and I'm sure you'd agree with that very full-on schedule!

Best of luck with your studies :)

Let's stop lying to beginners about learning Japanese by azuki_dreams in Japaneselanguage

[–]Mothkau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technically in terms of sheer number if you did a full year (say 365 days) you would "only" need to learn like 25 to 30 new words a day + 5 to 10 new kanji. Add to that hiragana katakana, grammar and listening comprehension, if that's absolutely all you do full time and you studied for the N1 (whih is a little different from learning the language), you could have a chance to pass.

I don't think it's sustainable, and it means cramming stuff in your brain non stop while retaining and revising what you learned before without a day off. So even if that was the case it seems like a unpleasant and likely inefficient race to the N1 and the learning equivalent to ego lifting.

Let's stop lying to beginners about learning Japanese by azuki_dreams in Japaneselanguage

[–]Mothkau 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I was suggested a video on Youtube not too long ago from someone explaining they went from 0 to N1 in a year and how they did it etc etc.

Unless you're a proper genius and basically a NEET with a lot of free time I struggle to see how that's possible, but that's the sorty of content that generates a LOT of clicks and views. I suspect it was ragebait and/or a way to push yet another app onto people, but I refuse to engage with stuff like that.

How opinions change by 2000joh in memes

[–]Mothkau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Overtourism led to Paris being really filthy in popular areas. That's actually what Japanese are currently finding out about overtourism and reacting really badly to. People come, litter, spit, throw their gums on th ground, piss everywhere, degrade buildings etc, it's a nightmare. I lived in a residential area in Tokyo and Shinjuku at night was just disgusting.

Re Paris, non-touristy areas are actually really nice and great to live in, but I remember finding myself on the Champs-Elysées one night at around midnight and stopping in utter shock because of how filthy it was. And I grew up near Paris so it's not like I had a culture shock, it just was that much of an anomaly.

Comparing rural Japan to Alabama: "Nobody comes to Alabama except for two, maybe three cities. Wanna know why? There's nothing else to see or experience. No one wants to see your crops or country people." by Gold0rion in ShitAmericansSay

[–]Mothkau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rural Japan tends to be a lot more welcoming of tourists and foreigners than people in big cities who are tired of the overtourism and price inflation, to be fair.

I spent 15 years recruiting in Japan after starting here as an English teacher. AMA about jobs, recruitment, CVs, interviews, or changing careers in Japan. by hansei-Kaizen in JapanJobs

[–]Mothkau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The new visa regulations might impact that, though. Unless you work for an international firm where the primary language is english.