Learning Japanese: 7,000 Hours Later (ft. Stevijs3)
This week we talked to Stevijs3 AKA Stevi, who has studied a staggering 7,000 hours of Japanese in just a period of 3 years. He tracked every minute he spent studying the language in an extensive excel sheet, including Anki reps, pages read, and even a level up system he designed to gamify learning Japanese. In part one of this conversation we dive in to his exact Japanese study methods, philosophy, and progress. Subscribe to catch part 2!
Outline:
0:00 Preview
0:58 Stevi Intro
2:11 How Stevi Transformed a Gaming Addiction into Learning Japanese
4:42 Stevi's Insane Japanese Study Tracking System
8:53 Stevi's Japanese Methodology and Philosophy
12:40 Stevi's Thoughts On RTK (Remembering The Kanji)
16:05 Should Input Be Comprehensible?
18:45 How Stevi Balances His Time Learning Japanese (With 2 Jobs)
21:33 Dealing with Periods of Low Motivation
25:49 Getting ADDICTED to Japanese
28:20 Preventing Burnout with 4 Hours Of Japanese a Day
34:10 Outro (How Good Is Stevi's Japanese?)
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