JapaneseGaryBen: 3 Year AJATT Update
In this week's episode of the KoreKara Podcast, we chat with JapaneseGaryBen, a well-known AJATTer in the Japanese learning community. You may have seen his lengthy videos on YouTube documenting his progress learning Japanese each year, or his twitter account where he tweets daily about immersion and learning Japanese. It’s been about 3 years since he’s started learning Japanese, and in this episode we catch up with him to see where he’s at in his journey and how far he still wants to take it. We talk about his Japanese progress, acquiring pitch accent, meeting Japanese people, learning programming, and his plans to move to Japan.
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Outline:
0:00 Intro
4:57 How JapaneseGaryBen got into Japanese
9:08 Does he consider himself FLUENT after 3 years?
12:49 Approach with pitch accent and the importance of it
23:54 How GaryBen’s study methods have changed over time
29:09 GaryBen’s Experience talking to Japanese people
37:03 Hardest parts throughout his journey and his future goals
44:25 GaryBen’s Experiences Starting to Output
50:25 GaryBen’s Day-Job and Job Prospects in Japan
57:28 Progress with Programming and thoughts on doing JET
1:01:14 GaryBen’s Expectations for Japan
1:16:49 GaryBen’s Goals for his YouTube and Twitter
1:21:17 GaryBen’s advice for those studying Japanese
1:27:17 Outro
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