Also, like ahndoruuu, it was like a return to childhood. My mindset wasn’t so concerned about understand all the words but about understand the storyline (easy with kids TV). It didn’t bother me that the words were strange, as I saw it as an adventure and when words started repeating themselves, it was like ‘hey, there’s that word again, I wonder what it could mean’. Eventually, I started associating these strange words with meanings. It was fun and kinda magically. Yes, it’s a given, that in Dutch this process is much quicker than in Japanese as it’s so much closer to English but I think it would’ve been much harder if I was focusing on the ‘meaning of words’ all the time.

Excellent advice! Khatzumoto! On Benny’s blog they were comparing children with adults, and who’s the best learners. Most people said something like, yes, adults are quicker learners but they have to put in effort to learn a language. Buttt!!! You can also learn effortless too! If you put a little effort into building your language environment.
I’m coming to the conclusion that’s this is perhaps the most important thing you can if you want to succeed in a new language.

Just following the heisig keywords, it turns out to be

Life/Living Creamをcrowdedぜる　

Just following the heisig keywords, who would have though that　生クリーム　Is “Fresh cream”　

Also 混ぜる、　The keyword is “Crowded” Right？But it really means to stir,mix。

That means, Living cream crowded　Just by keyword

Not ”Stir in the fresh cream”

I see your point, But i honestly can’t see it working for many situations, as it seems that many heisig keywords are not the most accurate to the actual meanings in most senses.

出る

Keyword is Exit, which it can mean sometimes　「出口」

But most of the time, it means something around the meaning of “Putting out”

In the morning I set my playlist With 30+ hours　Of movies, anime, and songs.　Listen to it through out the whole day　

・Shuffle of course, Want some variety 🙂

Then the next morning when I wake up, I modify it slightly then repeat.

But i always make sure my favorite episodes of ボンバーマンジェッターズ　Are on there, and never change it

They aren’t translated. I read them all the time. It’s the only thing that I find impossible to turn into Japanese. I just read them while listening to Japanese though (actually skim through them is more like it, since I don’t want to focus too much time on English).

this thing pisses

The funny thing is, you’ll find that language isn’t actually necessary to get the gist of what’s going on, in terms of character interaction at least. This also requires some skill on the part of the production. If it’s a bunch of people siting and talking without much emotion, good luck with that. But that’s a boring movie in any language.

Also, don’t automatically assume your tastes will be consistent between languages. In English, I love science fiction and crime shows and don’t really care for sitcoms. In Japanese, I’m all about sitcoms and character drama. YMMV.

Final tip: if your reading is better than your listening, Japanese subtitles are extremely useful.

From what I recall, this was kinda how I watched stuff when I was a kid. I think one important AJATT principle is to, as much as possible, mentally return to childhood. That has helped me more than anything else but it’s such a personal thing and so hard to verbalize…which is, I think, why I haven’t seen anyone else try to write about it. But the way I see it is kinda like…each new language you learn is a chance to sorta relive childhood. While your Chinese/Japanese/French/whatever self grows. Luckily your other nationalities grow a lot faster than your native one. ^^

This is why I read things that I know I can only get in Japanese. Then I don’t have to worry about wanted to read in English at least. But I like watching TV, so this is a big problem for me 🙁