Mandarin Monkey Podcast

#30 - Matt Vs Japan | The Learner Journals With Tom

Jul 13, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
How Much Time Do You Spend on Japanese?
01:47 • 3min
3
How Did You Learn Japanese?
04:46 • 2min
4
How Much Japanese Did You Speak?
06:38 • 2min
5
I'm a Polyglot, I've Spoken to a Multi-Hinge People, I Love the Culture
08:35 • 2min
6
How Did You Not Get Frustrated Rewatching Shows?
10:37 • 2min
7
How Much Do You Understand When You Learn Japanese in Class?
12:15 • 2min
8
Active Immersion Versus Passive Immersion
14:04 • 2min
9
Active Listening and Passive Listening
15:47 • 2min
10
How Do You Learn Japanese Languages?
17:34 • 2min
11
How Do You Use a Japanese to English Dictionary?
19:31 • 2min
12
How Much Time Did You Spend Building These Decks?
21:28 • 2min
13
How to Learn Japanese Phonetic Writing Systems
23:20 • 2min
14
How to Learn Japanese in 10 Years?
25:04 • 2min
15
Can You Get a Native Level Japanese in Two Weeks?
26:43 • 5min
16
Did You Have a Bad Experience in Japan?
31:19 • 2min
17
How Much Credence Do You Put on Reading When Learning a Language?
33:14 • 2min
18
How Long Did It Take You to Finish a Novel in Four Months?
35:08 • 2min
19
Why You Shouldn't Read if You Want to Grow Vocabulary
36:39 • 2min
20
Is There Any Output in the Universe?
38:26 • 2min
21
You Shouldn't Count Them, Right?
40:51 • 2min
22
Is Your Level of Language a Natural Language?
42:22 • 2min
23
Are You Interested in Japanese Dramas?
43:58 • 2min
24
Is There a Difference Between Mandarin and Mandarin?
45:39 • 2min
25
Is This Year Four by the Way, Year Five?
47:10 • 2min
26
What Happens When You Get Better?
48:54 • 3min
27
How Did You Learn English?
51:45 • 2min
28
Is There Anything You Can Do About It?
53:39 • 3min
29
Learning Japanese With Immersion
56:10 • 2min
30
The Most Common 2000 Words in Japanese
58:01 • 2min
31
How Many Individual Words Can I Pick Out?
59:33 • 3min
32
Learn the Most Common 2000 Words
01:02:37 • 3min
33
How Did You Live Your Life?
01:05:39 • 2min
34
Is There Any Value in Studying the Language?
01:07:45 • 3min
35
Is Your Pitch Accent a Mistake?
01:10:45 • 2min
36
Your Biggest Influence in Your Journey So Far?
01:12:44 • 2min
37
The Input Hypothesis
01:14:25 • 3min