White Guy Speaks Perfect Japanese from watching Anime. Here's how he did it.

Imagine Learning. English From. Watching Movies. Starring Christopher. Walken.🎥🎞️🍿🤨

Wow. I never knew Alex Honnold is also a master of Japanese! ASD is a heckuva thing.

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I've also learned the japanese just by watching the anime and i sound like a native . I haven't studied japanese even for a second due to which i'm unable to read and write even one letter of hiragana or katakana. If you wanna interview me then just let me know.

Bro binged on so much Japanese and its media, he’s awakened his latent abilities and evolved physically. He earned his eyes, the universal phenotype that is a dead giveaway that you’re Asian.

Average me learning Russian:

AYO what is Georgian language doing there

The thing I’m not understanding is how he read novels without already having a handle on the language. Maybe I haven’t gotten to that part yet….haha😂

Extra tip re: flash cards

There are a lot of pre-made decks for a large number of anime, manga, visual novels, JDramas, and movies, if you look around, and an SRS can filter out the ones you've already learned previously.

This lets you learn a lot of the specific vocab before watching, so that you can just pause and look up words you can't remember, but not nearly as frequently (and the flash card's already made and in your deck, so that interruption's shorter). Much more fun, for me at least, not to be pulled out of the story as often nor for as long.

It’s helpful, but I literally don’t know how to write any kanji💀💀💀just started my higher placement uni course and I’m screwed

white guy 😭

When Matt speaks English he opens his mouth and moves his teeth but when speaking Japanese he barely opens his mouth

I mastered Spanish in the same manner. I was an American working for IBM in Latin America. I spoke perfect Spanish but never tried to sound like them. Keeping my accent was key.

a few years ago i started studying english but stopped in the middle of the process, so i started learning japonese even when my english is very begginer, in this moment i notice that my level in english would to influence straight my japonese apprenticeship then i search for a new routine to improve my english, and here i'm learning kind of japonese stuff in english video, i'm very pround of it, even kwon that i'm in the start line

Bro painted his eyes green in the thumbnail to make sure hes not mistaken for muslim or half asian lol

Best language learning video there is, thank you!

This might be the single most useful video I have ever watched. Thank you.

The best learning book I found to learn a language was BERLITZ.

Her Japanese is great, but not perfect. A Japanese person would still recognise a foreigner was speaking.

Been watching anime a long time and I havent learned a single word so far xD

what does skin color have to do with this?

Lmao. But how do you memorize everything with Anki if you don’t know anything at first? Do you have to pause the show every second?

I dont understand how you can learn from watching shows that you dont understand or how you can even read a book in a language if you cannot understand any of it.

Do you just translate each word as you read? Do you pause every second to translate?

Ive seen plenty of subbed anime but it hasn't done anything for me.

Anki sounds cool but Im curious if you can use sound for hearing the words in addition to reading, otherwise it sounds like missing an important aspect of the practice.


Also he says how he did 6-8 hours a day to learn in 2-3 years and that 2-3 hours a day would take 5-10 years Thats pretty discouraging cuz im lucky if i get 15 minutes a day of practice.

I’ve hear about „that“ polish guy… 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

How did he enjoy watching anime for 2 years and didnt understand at all what they were saying

Bro slowly but surely losin his English

Everyone thinks it's always supposed to be so-and-so and I, but it's true that "I" is not always the correct option! Teachers drilled it into our heads so now when it IS supposed to be "me", people say "I", as in "between you and me"- it's not "between you and I" ! Drives me nuts when people use i when it should be me 😅

Step 1: be smart af and language oriented already

I learned Spanish through the sort of immersion being discussed here, but I don't really see how that could happen with Japanese. With Spanish, I started from a mostly-forgotten high school baseline by reading very, very slowly through stories I already knew, looking up words as needed, but with Japanese the writing system is incredibly complex, to the point where I wouldn't even know how to type a word to look it up in a dictionary or grab an English translation.

Kinda like learning music, singing.

I consume a lot of english speaking content, I listened to Englsih rock bands for as long as I remember, I speak english, I lived in the UK for 13 years, and still, my accent is far away from the native speakers. Not sure if his method is the only answer. Probably he has practiced a lot. I mean a looot.

What if we find anime painfully boring to watch?

I'm a native Japanese who studies English. Matt was talking about his Japanese learning experience and tips, but I thought it also applied to English learners! I've been in Australia for almost 6 years but I still sound like a fobby... I had lost motivation studying English but you inspired me again! Thank you for this interview and your video!

How do you actually learn to read kanji just by konsuming ? using books to learn the language by just consuming them sounds kinda fake as you would need to learn to read first and I really doubt you could do it just by watching movies oO?

So Duolingo won't cut it?
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Basically how I learned English

It helps that Japan has so much great content. I’m learning Indonesian, it’s not the worst but they don’t have the same level of pop culture of Japan.

Does someone know where is this accent from ? 😮

Krashen: Comprehensible Meaningful Input. And, Context is King!

Worth it learning Japanese for so long

In portuguese we have similar things about the way our pitch and lenght if silables.

I was 11 years old when my family migrated to Australia. I had zero English. Was fluent within 3 months. I was the only foreign child at my school. You learn quickly when you can't respond to your classmates teasing you for being unable to speak the language.🥺☺️

Plot twist : he is a neurodivergent otaku

I basically do everything he said with English!!

I absolute love the subtle cut to Limitless...