r/ajatt

Hey guys, I was wondering about what you guys' immersion are like.

I usually do active immersion, but after about 2 podcasts I'd be too tired to continue for the rest of the day. How do you guys log so much immersion hours like a lot of people claim to do 3 hours of immersion per day whereas I would usually only be able to do like 1 hour of content.

When you guys say get a lot of input, how do you not get tired as after each podcast, there will 100% be more new words at the next podcast as they're discussing different topics and whatnot. How do I not get tired and keep immersing??

Also I feel like non active immersion is a waste of time thus everytime I immerse I'd pause and note down the word that I don't know (not all but at least 80% of it, assuming the 20% are just niche unimportant words to me).

Any advice from you guys will be appreciated thanks!!

What i do is go on sites like yahoo, nhk news and print a paper copy of any news i like. Then as I read i underline with a pen the words i do not know. One of the reasons for using paper you'll understand in the next paragraph.

Anyway i go through the entire article once, underlying the words i don't know without looking them up. Then I start reading again, this time looking up for the definition in the dictionary. Now the tedious part: when you get to a word youbdont know (which you underlined) write the word in a piece of paper followed by the definition (this is very important and huge for memory retention).

Now here is where Claude AI comes in. I take a picture of the article with the underlined words and ask the AI to make an anki deck only with the underlined words, the japanese word in the front and in the back the translation, hiragana and the full sentence from the article (to give the context).I guess you could also do the japanese sentence in the front but I prefer the other way around.

It will create a txt file, you then go to anki and do import and you can import the txt file. Done

One could argue that making the anki cards yourself would help remember the vocab even further. The problem is that it took me 1 hour to finish a fairly difficult article about politics with 600 characters and not doing anki prevents me from getting burned out. Writing down the words and their definitions is enough for good retention imo

Hey guys, recently I've been adding about 20 new words per day from podcasts. I know a lot of people like to do sentence mining with i + 1 words as their anki but I feel like if I do this I'm memorizing the sentence instead if the words so I tend to stick to vocab cards instead.

I noticed that right now my Anki retention rate is slowly decreasing as I add more cards which is to be expected, however right now my mature cards retentionr rate is somehow 100% but my young cards are at 63.5% with 70% max on a really good day. However it's been awhile since I've had a 70% and is now constantly in the mid to low 60%, do I have to stop adding cards for a bit and focus on my now cards or is this normal and adding cards should'nt be a problem? Thanks!

Hello all, I started immersion learning a while ago but stopped for several years and pretty much left the language learning community. Recently, I started learning again and am looking for some of the tools I used to use, but I can’t remember their names anymore.

Specifically, there was this one Anki addon I used to use, which basically worked out whether a sentence was i+1 for you or not. It would look at all the words present in your deck and add them to a sort of known words list. Then I would create a deck using subs2srs, and this add-on would delete all cards which contained words that I already knew, and would filter this deck looking for cards on which I knew all words except one, thus allowing me to very efficiently find all the i + 1 sentences in an episode*.

However, I can’t remember what this addon was called. I have a feeling it was created by MIA which no longer exists, and I hope they haven’t deleted it and replaced it with paywalled products of some sort. Does anyone know what plug on I’m talking about and whether it still exists?

*Of course, the same word can have multiple meanings which slip through the cracks of this addon. It’s a crude tool but useful for beginner-intermediate stages.

Anki Note Type

Just finished up kaishi 1.5k and want to start sentence mining. Just here to ask if anyone has any recommendations on how the note type should look going from migaku over to anki. Or should I just use the original default format? Thanks

What are your thoughts on using AI to create example sentences for SRS reviews? I am learning Cantonese through ajatt method and it can be difficult to make sentence cards for words I find because spoken cantonese subtitles are hard to come by. Using AI to make example sentences has been helpful. What are your thoughts? Is the risk of inaccuracy not worth it?

okay so basically i've been watching a few videos about immersion learning for japanese and i still dont really get it. like i understand the fundamental principles and concept, but i dont really get how it's supposed to be applied in practice. like, how do you immerse when you don't understand basically anything? im watching this guy that says to just immerse even if you dont understand much, but like... how?? im basically only interested in reading manga and light novels in japanese, so do i just read my favorite ln/vn/manga in japanese? i know hiragana/katakana and like 10 kanji--am i just supposed to translate every word of every sentence? cause from what im understanding immersion learning means you jump into immersion after learning basic vocab and grammar (which im working on) while just doing stuff like anki on the side (currently working through taishi 1.5k cuz i prefer it to core 2k/6k)? or am i supposed to make anki cards of every new word? cuz then im just gonna put literally everything into a card lol. anyways, some help would be much appreciated for my poor autistic brain lol