Comments on: Success Story: Just Two Weeks Of AJATT Immersion Revolutionized My Japanese Speaking Life

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:55:54 +0000

Share the blow damn you!

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:31:54 +0000

hi katz it’s been bothering me this hookers thing, by hookers do you mean girls? lol

By: Shouri

Shouri — Sun, 20 May 2012 03:22:26 +0000

Better late than never right?
I’ve pretty much only searched for Japanese music in English so I’d say try that. Also depending on what genre you like, type it into Google and see what others have said,this is how I found tons of artists. I was having difficulties finding what I liked at first but then I broaden the search a bit. Now my iPod is full of J-RnB (Crystal Kay is awesome) and a bit of J-Pop. Good luck searching.

By: Totoro

Totoro — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:57:11 +0000

@フレヂィ
I LOVE SUNTORY! Do you know any other podcasts of that style? I really like this jazz style and the diversity of topics they talk about amazes me very much! Please leave a comment here!^^

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:27:59 +0000

You can just go to Youtube and start browsing random Japanese videos….that’s the quickest and easiest way.

By: Marcello Nastri

Marcello Nastri — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:11:59 +0000

After reading this article I was wondering if there was an application for android with podcasts in japanese and I think I found one…. The name is TOP Podcasts, developed by John Woo….It’s one of the firsts that apears, I didn’t try the others that apear

Thanks to this article I can listen to something else than “anime” – I don’t know if it’s called like that in English *I’m Brazilian* – all day long!
By the way I’m unable to find decent japanese music, that’s why I only watch “anime” all day long.
Can SOMEONE, ANYONE, please tell me where to find it?
Now that I’m thinking of it I’ve never searched in english and neither in japanese itself, I only searched in portuguese, can this be the problem?Or it’s dificult to find when you don’t know what to look for?

By: Kimura

Kimura — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:45:52 +0000

“without using iTunes” >_>
I’ll still look those up, see if I can find them elsewhere…

By: Chagami

Chagami — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:05:04 +0000

Thanks for the recommendations! 爆笑問題カーボーイ is actually one of my staples, I’ll definitely have to check those other two out! 🙂

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:18:48 +0000

I reccemend the Junk series. 爆笑問題カーボーイ and バナナマン are the two that I like the most. Of the two 爆笑問題カーボーイ　is the best, so funny. 日系テレンディ　is not a Junk series podcast but a good one for current technical trends in Japan. These are all free on iTunes. AJATT: 立派になりました。

By: フレヂィー

フレヂィー — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:13:40 +0000

100% agree with this. In fact, I find it better to just realize that sooner than later I’ll get to where I want to be. One thing I am very aware of is that, 1.5yr ago, I had no idea about anything Japanese relating to grammar, vocabulary, etc. And now, I look back, and am amazed at what I’ve done. Key word there is “I.” I stopped saying “oh man, that guy got it in X amount of time…” So debilitating to think that way. It’s like Khatz has pointed out before, just compare yourself against yourself.

By: フレヂィー

フレヂィー — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:09:47 +0000

Sorry, I jumped the gun w/ out realizing that you are trying nico.

By: フレヂィー

フレヂィー — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:09:09 +0000

I suggest making an account on http://www.nicovideo.jp/

It’s like YouTube on Japanese steroids! Coz’ it’s Japanese 🙂

By: フレヂィー

フレヂィー — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:07:53 +0000

I know what you mean, I just cleaned out my list and am looking for new ones. Two that always keeps me entertained are SUNTORY SATURDAY AWAITING BAR AVANTI & NIPPONちびっこランド. The latter is similar to a kids show, thinks Sesame Street-ish, but, every episode features new words and it shows visual examples, which really nails the example of usage.

By: Chagami

Chagami — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:00:31 +0000

heh, I have to agree.

Khatz: Has AJATT helped you? What’s your success story? Share.

I thought about what to say, but I couldn’t really come up with anything because on some levels I’m successful, and not on others. Like, I know the kanji and even can read some sentences, but I can’t even read a paragraph, let alone a page in a book. I came to the conclusion that there are really only two ways to define success in Japanese: 1) by being fluent, and 2) by moving in the right direction. I’m moving in the right direction, so I consider myself successful

By: Kimura

Kimura — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:28:14 +0000

Got any suggestions where I can easily get this quantity of Japanese immersion stuff, without using iTunes? I can’t use that program ever again after what it did to my music collection a few years back (long story short, a “bug”, that I doubt they want to fix, labeled ALL unwatermarked files as stolen and autodeleteable, including my large collection of game soundtracks… thank goodness for USB backups)…
The only places I know of are Japan-A-Radio (inaccessible at school due to the college firewall portblocking all audio streaming), Youtube (which I can’t find anything on without knowing what to look for, so when I’m able to use JAR at home, I write down all the song titles and albums and look them up later on YT… not very efficient, only semi-effective), and Nicovideo (same problem as Youtube, with the additional issue of KeepVid being incompatible with the Nico Player).

By: Chagami

Chagami — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:27:51 +0000

Thanks フレヂィー, but my reason for asking is that I’m looking for new podcasts to add variety to my current lineup.

By: sikieiki

sikieiki — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:47:27 +0000

Not to be a bum, but this, and other accounts of success are worthless without some sort of proof or measurement. Japanese are very eager to compliment a foreigner speaking in Japanese, regardless of how well they are.

By: フレヂィー

フレヂィー — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:56:03 +0000

Real quick,

Don’t assume that his podcasts are the key to unlocking Japanese. I’m sure if you ask Lou where he heard about the podcasts he is referring to, he might just say, “I just browsed and picked at random…”

What I am trying to say is, just get on your iTunes, change that country settings and start browsing. Quantity over quality.

~ fv

By: Chagami

Chagami — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:46:08 +0000

Lou, if you are reading this, can you mention what some of those podcasts were?

By: フレヂィー

フレヂィー — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:33:50 +0000

I can’t speak on the matter of class-work since I’ve never taken a class in Japanese. But I will say that before I found your site, I was studying on my own for about a year, and was doing okay, but then, your site came along and I started immersing in funner (I know, not a word) ways and something happened, something great. I realized that the ‘fun’ things I was doing had a lot of high-frrquency vocab, grammar, usage, etc. So, in turn, I started finally understanding what you meant by… “DON’T LEARN A LANGUAGE, GET USED TO IT!”

I am at 1yr and a half, give or take, with Japanese and am more motivated than ever. Thanks to the advice given here.

Many, Many thanks for that.

ps.
Before your site, I had about 15 anki decks… now, I have 4. Life. Easier. Success.

~ fv