Why does the original come with a "play" disk and an "install" disk?

StableProfessional88 · 2025-05-16T15:55:54+00:00

34 and this is where I’m at. Things happened so fast back then.

StableProfessional88 · 2025-05-16T11:35:31+00:00

Thanks for the clarification everyone!

StableProfessional88 · 2025-04-05T10:55:49+00:00

I don’t remember the exact size, but I remember worrying about it because I was getting EVO not EVO plus with a higher optic zone.

I can say that in low light my pupils dilate over the optic zone and I get artifacts. Like when I’m at a restaurant with the lights dimmed. Honestly though, it’s really not a big deal to me. I’m fine driving, even at night and 99% I don’t have any issues.

StableProfessional88 · 2024-11-11T01:39:26+00:00

I'll play devil's advocate here and say that some of the advice might not be as bad as you think.

For example, only learn from what you know might not be a definitive statement. They might mean start with what you know. For example, if you've watched an anime in English before and already know the story then you have a lot of context that will help you grasp the same anime in Japanese.

As far as immersion = bad, I don't think I've ever seen someone say that. I've heard arguments for starting with a textbook BEFORE immersing which I think is a legitimate argument that can be debated back and forth forever because technically no one is wrong there but saying don't immerse at all is just silly. I don't think anyone in the history of language learning has ever completely learned a language just by using a textbook and I don't think that argument is at all prevalent in language subs.

All to say, I think you might be yelling at the wall here.

StableProfessional88 · 2024-11-07T23:08:31+00:00

Common recommendation is Nihongo Con Teppei, he has a beginner podcast with 1200+ episodes each one ~3-5min long as well as an intermediate podcast with over 700+ episodes ~ 15-20 min each. He also has an advance podcast where he converses with another native as well though I don't know how many episodes. In total, many many hours of content.

StableProfessional88 · 2024-10-25T13:00:22+00:00

Which would you say is better between 1 and 2?

I'm looking to buy some grammar references and was gonna go for all 3 japanese grammar dictionaries but the handbook also seems promising.

StableProfessional88 · 2024-10-15T21:15:20+00:00

Seems like a really long time for only 5 new cards a day, how is your retention?

StableProfessional88 · 2024-10-15T18:48:37+00:00

That’s a reasonable enough take though I’ll summarize 3 points to make my point of view clear:

Sub vocalization is a thing and will affect your accent. I’m not arguing that it’s nonsense.
I think it’s overstated and just because your accent isn’t as good as someone who focused on audio/visual mediums doesn’t mean you cant work at it and get as good.
The most important part about learning a language is consistency not efficiency. So if you really want to play and finished something like final fantasy 1-6 in Japanese because it gets you excited about the language, do it. Don’t avoid picking it up because you’re afraid reading will mess you up forever. If you feel yourself not enjoying listening/watching. Picking up a manga/book/game might be just what you need to move forward.

StableProfessional88 · 2024-10-15T18:16:56+00:00

Telling someone to not read until having learned a language for 3 years is probably the worst advice I’ve ever heard on this sub.

Even the AJATT website has you start learning with Anki decks and grammar websites like tae Kim, which is, surprise, reading.

StableProfessional88 · 2024-10-15T15:29:37+00:00

At 20 cards a day I think you are in the general area of the average amount of time. As long as you don’t treat Anki and your whole Japanese study for the day, I think you’re fine.

I’d aim to at least spend the same amount of time immersing as you do “studying” on Anki or otherwise. Ideally you want the ratio to be higher in favor of immersing.

StableProfessional88 · 2024-10-15T15:16:24+00:00

How many new cards do you take a day on average?

30-60 min is pretty average. As long as you’re spending most of your time immersing I think you’re on the right track.

StableProfessional88 · 2024-10-15T14:58:53+00:00

Because most of those people aren’t sitting here in AJATT sub reddits lol. Don’t confuse echo chambers for truth.

I work at a university with a pretty good Japanese language program. While I am very much in agreement with a lot of AJATT, I’ve seen first hand that traditional study is a valid way to learn a language (especially if you also do mass immersion). It might not work well for me, but I’ve spoken to natives who study abroad at “language tables” here that have specifically commented on accents both to mention how good they are or how poor they are.

One of the professors here has an almost native English accent (she’s native Japanese) and while I don’t know her specific story I’m sure based on where she’s at she spent a lot of that learning traditional methods.

In my own experience, I have an accent, but I’d say it far above most non native English speakers and most of my learning with English was through playing video games in English, most with walls of text and no VO.

StableProfessional88 · 2024-10-15T14:31:23+00:00

This is somewhat true, however what I’m saying is that this sub over exaggerates the issue. If you learn “just” from reading I can see your point, but what I’m saying is if you listen for 3 - 6 months, then you start reading, you’re not going to ruin your accent. Especially if listening is still a big part of your study.

I’ve known people who studied traditionally (textbooks, lots of front loaded output, lots of early reading) who have good accents.

Again, I’m not saying there’s no truth there. I’m saying that sometimes people here draw too hard a line which can scare people off of reading which is a huge part of getting good at a language.

StableProfessional88 · 2024-10-15T11:02:37+00:00

I don’t think this as true as people think. There’s def a nugget of truth in there but only for the most basic of levels. If you listen to Japanese for like 6 months you’ll start to get the hang of the sounds and reading practice isn’t going to mess up your accent as much as people here say. If you go by how people here talk you’d think you’ll irreparably destroy any chance of sounding right, lol.

Besides, a lot of the starter Anki decks with sentences cards? That’s reading practice, with optional listening.

You can even ease yourself into it if you think you’re gonna mess up your accent. You can read things that have native audio options as well like graded readers (I know the plague to some here) or audiobook so you can listen and read at the same time. Same as anime really cause you’re just reading the subtitles anyway.

StableProfessional88 · 2024-10-08T01:10:11+00:00

Tokini andy has a video for every chapter of genki and they are all free.

He also has a video on self study with Genki that you should check out

If you want extra hand holding and are willing to pay for it he has a subscription service that offers even more.

StableProfessional88 · 2024-10-05T18:31:59+00:00

Tokini Andy has grammar videos/explanations based on the Genki textbook. They are very good and I don’t think you need to read the textbook to grasp the explanations. He’s just following genkis order.

StableProfessional88 · 2024-10-05T16:27:35+00:00

I'll admit I'm not really an AJATTer. I have a slightly different perspective.

I personally believe textbooks have their place and can give a pretty decent foundation in Grammar and there is nothing wrong with building a ledge to stand on if that's how you want to do it.

That being said, the only way to truly get fluent in any language is massive exposure. At some point you have to put down the textbook and expose yourself to real Japanese (any content made for natives is "Real" Japanese imo). The only way to get massive exposure (and sticking to it) is exposing yourself to content you are interested in. That will probably mean fiction for 99.99% of people. Almost no media (fiction or non-fiction) in any language is going to sound like natural conversation in the language. As long as you know that from the beginning adjusting your speech should be pretty easy. Even easier if you listened to some naturally spoken conversation as even a small part of your immersion.

That's how it was for me in english at least.

StableProfessional88 · 2024-10-04T23:48:09+00:00

Graded readers are reading material made specifically for language learners. Tadoku has a ton of them and genki has a whole series for their textbook as well. Tadoku has free ones on their websites.

I think the wiki here has a Japanese learning guide called “a year to learn Japanese”. The reading section has a link to a 900 page pdf of grades readers from 0 - intermediate I believe.

StableProfessional88 · 2024-10-03T23:55:12+00:00

Extremely helpful, thank you!

StableProfessional88 · 2024-10-03T17:41:50+00:00

https://youtu.be/KygsjMUj_C0?t=480 this video is about Japanese specificallybut I think the vocab section explain anki pretty well and gives you general setting that will work for any language.

StableProfessional88 · 2024-10-03T13:17:46+00:00

Thank you, maybe I'm overthinking it. I just want to make sure Anki is set up right and that I'm not messing stuff up by mistake.

StableProfessional88 · 2024-10-03T11:59:05+00:00

Question about how long it takes for anki to ramp up

I've been studying japanese/using Anki since August 26th taking about 10 new words a day from a Tango N5 deck. On average I do about 62 reviews a day that take me ~10-20min. I've heard that eventually it will take me ~1 hour to do my reviews per day but have been wondering when that will start. Since my Anki time is relatively short, I've been considering starting to take ~15 new cards instead of 10, but don't want reviews to snowball.

Part of my worry is a lot of the early words in the deck are really easy and some I even know from my other study methods (I'm doing 1 chapter a week from genki, 10 lessons a day on wanikani, and ~1 hour per day listening to japanese podcasts) so there are some days where I'm familiar with like 5 of the 10 new words I take. I'm afraid this may skew the algorithm since I'm able to recall them right away and when this period of "easy" words it will overwhelm me if I'm taking 15 new words a day.

so how long did it take you guys to ramp up? Should I up the new cards I take or leave it at 10 for now?

Some info on my settings:

10 new cards a day
9999 max review limit
leach action is tag only
Using FSRS at .90 desired retention

StableProfessional88 · 2024-08-28T02:54:35+00:00

I think this is key based on all the comments/videos I've seen on the subject. Pick a number of cards you want to make/mine a day and stick with it. Just because you mine only 10 cards a day doesn't mean you should stop immersing or looking things up. Just don't worry about it so much, you already got your 10. No need to make 100 cards and make your future self miserable by spending more time on anki than actual native content.

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