The End to my Core Japanese Studies - Finishing My 4 1/2 Month 6000 Word Backlog Grind! - Read Desc.
This was the final step I considered needing to be done to say that I'm happy with the amount of Japanese I know, to feel confident in my ability to progress to speaking, to more actively searching for a job, and relax my study pace overall. I am familiar with or will very soon be familiar with 17758 words + 776 soon to be studied words, have a very effective system for quickly acquiring even more words, I know all beginner-advanced grammar (as far as I know), can recognize 3004 kanji, and can write 1184 kanji. I feel this is a good end point. I just need to iron out my listening at little bit, keep letting my vocab. system play out, keep chipping away at written kanji (which isn't super necessary), and get started on pitch accent and outputting speech. In this stream I don't make mention of all this as it felt sort of abstract at the time and hard to put into words why I felt I was done so I just focused on this last objective which is explained below:
So perviously I had a vocabulary acquisition system I was doing where I was simply collecting words in the software Anki then using a flagging process to determine which words appeared more frequently that I was getting wrong as I read new material and was just worried about studying those words. Eventually though I decided this system was not fast and effective enough and I decided to put all these gathered words through a new vocabulary familiarity system I was working on and actively making changes to. I then at the beginning of February 2025 (after catergorizing thousands of words in Anki as familiar and not familiar) ended up with a number of 11444 familiar words and started the true grinding from there to make familiar the remaining 6000 words I had recorded but not efficiently studied.
Extra Note: Originally I thought it was a 5000 word grind but after looking more closely at my progress records it was over a 6000 word grind! (goodness!) And I did it in 4 1/2 months not 5 months. This correction is mostly for myself so when I look back on this video I have a more accurate record of my studies but also for anyone who cares that might be confused by the numbers I mention in the stream as they differ from the title.
I am looking for a job. If you have an offer please email me at: [email protected]
Discord Server (for studying only): / discord
MyAnimeList: https://myanimelist.net/profile/Ayano...
Gaming Channel: / @ansonii123-imakegamingvideos
Chapters:
0:00 Various Anime Vocab.
38:35 FINISHING THE BACKLOG (Konosuba)
2:06:57 Be Back Soon
2:29:13 Various Anime Vocab.
2:49:21 Kanji Recognition
2:52:43 SpyxFamily Vocab.
3:01:52 Jujutsu Kaisen Vocab.
Frequently Asked Questions:
・How long have you been studying?
I studied very slowly and casually for 3 years focusing mainly on learning to write kanji, basic grammar, and basic vocabulary however these past 4 1/2 years I've spent a ton of time on Japanese and figuring out how to acquire and retain the massive amount of vocabulary needed to understand the language while building a database for Japanese in the software Anki.
・Where can I download your Anki decks?
I have not uploaded my Anki decks anywhere that they'd be available for download but I'm open to the idea. I'm not sure how I'd want to go about this though. Also, before releasing them in any way there is a lot of tidying-up I'd want to do first which would take a lot of time. I'll keep this idea in mind.
・Why do you study Japanese?
I study Japanese because I love the media and culture and because I think Japanese is a great vehicle to learning new information in general since it has kanji which are pictures I can use to learn new words and concepts and it has a very easy pronunciation system. I hope to find a full-time career using Japanese in the future.
・What JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) level are you?
I have no idea since I have very little interest in the JLPT tests as a measurement of how good one is at Japanese. I have never taken one of these tests before but I may take them in the future either just for fun or because I need to in order to get a job.
・Where do you live?
I live in New York in the United States
・What resources do you recommend?
The books I recommend can be seen on the shelf behind me. They are listed below. I also recommend when just starting as a beginner you use a standard Japanese textbook that teaches in lessons such as Genki, Tae Kim, etc. in conjunction with the grammar dictionaries.
-All About Particles by Naoko Chino (learning particles)
-Remembering the Kanji by James Heisig (learning to recognize kanji by key term but does not teach readings which you should use vocabulary to learn)
-A Dictionary of Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Japanese Grammar by Seichi Makino and Michio Tsutsui (get additional explanations and lots of example sentences for grammar points)
