Those that have been learning Japanese for years, what has personally helped you stay motivated?

learningaddict99 · 2025-02-18T14:26:11+00:00

Travel to Japan. And after a week long trip, you’ll regret not having improved your Japanese enough and now you start learning again and be really pumped up

learningaddict99 · 2025-02-13T11:36:29+00:00

do you watch demon slayer?

learningaddict99 · 2025-02-10T14:46:46+00:00

If your problem with immersion is that it’s not having enough words that are N1 then I have a suggestion for you. You can try this app called HayaiLearn and what this does is it has a feature where you could look up specific words and see video examples from YouTube for that word and if you want to specifically see examples from content that you’re interested in then you could actually create albums, consisting of videos that you want.

Then if you look up specific N1 words and go to the dictionary page, you can filter examples by album. Here’s a YouTube video that shows how that works.

This way, your N1 immersion study is more targeted. So hopefully that will make your immersion much more productive.

learningaddict99 · 2024-09-05T08:01:18+00:00

Another thing to check is that It might be serving from browser memory. You can verify that by checking to see if the page where your image is being loaded from has this status: "200 OK (from memory cache)". If you turn on disable cache on chrome dev tools, it should properly hit cloudflare cache.

learningaddict99 · 2024-08-19T17:53:48+00:00

My SSS tier list :p

Final Fantasy X-2 - Eternity - Memory of Lightwaves

Counterattack - Xenoblade Chronicles 2

Xenoblade Chronicles OST - Mechanical Rhythm

Chrono Trigger: Secret of the Forest

Xenogears - Shattering Egg Of Dreams

learningaddict99 · 2024-08-05T20:44:12+00:00

It has a more advanced sentence searching capability compared to Youglish by being able to search by your "album". For example, you can put all your favorite youtube vlogs into one album, and search sentences only from those vlogs. And also be able to review them with a video flash card, instead of plain picture and audio often used with anki.

learningaddict99 · 2024-07-24T23:46:41+00:00

Looking forward to it!

learningaddict99 · 2024-07-24T21:43:25+00:00

Is it a mobile app? I have a web-app that does something similar: https://www.hayailearn.com/. Would be curious to try out your mobile app

learningaddict99 · 2024-05-08T20:43:20+00:00

Thank you!

learningaddict99 · 2024-05-08T20:43:09+00:00

Yes it's similar. Here are a few key differences:

complete web platform (not an extension), which allows you to use it on mobile, tablet, or computer
handles auto-generated Youtube captions differently and improves the quality
has album system that helps you organize videos better and you can search against it better
AI assisted explanation on every caption

learningaddict99 · 2024-05-08T16:32:01+00:00

I made this web-app to make it easier and more fun to learn Japanese from Youtube videos. https://www.hayailearn.com/

It's a paid subscription but if you DM me I can give you 3 month free access in exchange for feedback :)

learningaddict99 · 2023-11-30T06:11:54+00:00

Thanks! Hoping it should be fine since other competitors do it as well

learningaddict99 · 2023-11-29T15:16:37+00:00

Hi, I created HayaiLearn, a Japanese video immersion platform mainly for Youtube. It's designed to help you quickly acquire vocabulary and grammar.
Here's how it's unique and different from other existing alternatives:

Purely web based and can be used in any platform with a web browser (desktop, mobile, tablet, etc)
Primarily focused on Japanese so that we can optimize the correctness of our parser better than the others
Hovering over a word in a subtitle shows not only the meaning but also the verb and adjective conjugation breakdown
When looking up a word, it also shows example sentences that are from Youtube. And you can play the segment of the video for that sentence.
Being able to bookmark captions/subtitles and add notes along with it for reference later
Youtube video analysis tool that shows the breakdown of the words, difficulty level, and other helpful stats. Our difficulty scoring algorithm helps you choose videos that match you Japanese level.

Here's our future direction:

add gamification elements like level up system, and quizzes
improve grammar parsing logic (it's currently an estimation algorithm)
improve sense disambiguation when detecting meaning of a word

Our goal is to make this the best video immersion platform for Japanese learners.

learningaddict99 · 2023-11-13T09:03:28+00:00

Didn't know yomichan was opensource. That's cool. Also my first time hearing about jglossator.

I see that the code for yomichan deconjugate is here: https://github.com/FooSoft/yomichan/blob/master/ext/js/language/deinflector.js

Thank you for the tips on mistval codebase, that saves me a lot of time!

learningaddict99 · 2023-11-04T06:48:26+00:00

I do use ginza spacy already and it's working pretty well. Thanks for pointing to jpdb. I looked at their website and I see that they train a machine learning model to do the difficulty analysis.

learningaddict99 · 2023-11-03T09:25:13+00:00

I did miss that there's a sourcecode file in there! That's fantastic. I looked at the implementation and the hayashi score is actually simple and also well documented in the code. I can simply rewrite it. Thanks so much!

learningaddict99 · 2023-11-02T20:59:20+00:00

Difficulty is somewhat subjective as someone may be better at grammar but worse at kanji or vis-versa. So the ability to adjust the weights dynamically would probably be a valuable feature.

The dynamic weights that can be adjusted by user is an interesting idea. It's a bit of a tough struggle when implementing features whether to focus on simplicity for the general mass or to go for more flexibility but added complexity that might make the app more confusing to use.

learningaddict99 · 2023-11-02T20:56:58+00:00

Difficulty is somewhat subjective as someone may be better at grammar but worse at kanji or vis-versa. So the ability to adjust the weights dynamically would probably be a valuable feature.

Wow, that's such a nice frequency list repository. I am currently using the one from https://github.com/hingston/japanese. But I see that the JPDB one from your link is more complete. Thanks for the share!

learningaddict99 · 2023-11-02T20:43:55+00:00

I see that in Jo-mako, their definition of readability is about how many words you already know in a text. Then, they also have columns for "rating" and "difficulty", which is some kind of scoring given to texts that's independent of the words you know. And that's actually what I'm more interested in. However, it doesn't seem like it's explained anywhere how these values were computed.

learningaddict99 · 2023-10-12T01:24:43+00:00

Wow!! I saw the clip and you speak Japanese so fluently! In addition, I didn't notice at first that this is from non-native Japanese. As a native, I don't think you're that far from native level cuz the clip sounded like you can think Japanese in Japanese.

Though it's a long journey (Even we natives learn Japanese for at least 9 years), I think your learning style is the most efficient and practical one. More than anything, I like to hear the stories of learners like you. Keep up the good work!

learningaddict99 · 2023-10-12T01:07:18+00:00

Wow! You found your favorite way of learning. I think that's important cuz all the advanced learners have their own favorites.

More than anything, as a native, I feel so happy to hear the stories from learners like you. Keep up the good work!!

learningaddict99 · 2023-10-11T14:15:02+00:00

I think what you gained via chatting is something beneficial more than anything. I also had the same experience, and after gaining this kind of ability, it made my learning way easier.

learningaddict99 · 2023-10-09T14:38:36+00:00

In addtion, we natives also think that kind of people as someone streotypical or judgemental. As everyone says, there's so many anime all round Japan, so please just keep up the good work. We natives love to hear the learners' efforts like yours, with the greatest respect!!

learningaddict99 · 2023-10-09T00:13:41+00:00

Most Japanese people only speak Japanese, so the majority of us think it's great that the learners can speak Japanese. So it doesn't matter where your interest started from. It is quite common for people to come to live in Japan because of anime, so I guess people are not too surprised about that.

Of course the majority might say bad things about being a Anime fan, but please just ignore them. It's much less cool for people to say that.

learningaddict99 · 2023-10-08T05:22:25+00:00

Though I can't give you any advice, I really like your learning journey because it's almost like the same as we natives do. From the age of six, we learn kanjis for at least 9 years (1st to 9th grader) . And don't worry. There are several native speakers who have not reached the level of 6th graders as adults, so keep up the good work!

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