r/ajatt

Popular YouTube channels often produce a lot of high-quality videos.

I made a website that collects popular Japanese YouTube channels, including many channels with over 1 million subscribers, mainly for channel discovery.

There’s a lot of good Japanese content there that can also work well for Japanese immersion.

If you’re learning Japanese through YouTube, you can use it to find some channels you might enjoy watching.

If you know any good Japanese channels, feel free to recommend them too. I can add them to the site.

https://www.y2-reader.com/en/explore?sourceLanguage=ja&themeGroupId=ja%3Ahumanities&tagId=ja%3Aryogakucho

For me personally, it’s now just a blur of when the jump actually happened between an intermediate and advanced stage happened. I just remember something I wish I done earlier before I started (Output) was heavy, mental shadowing. This basically means starting the process of your brain putting together, Japanese grammar and speaking correctly. When you do this, you’re correcting subconsciously your pitch accent and correcting mistakes that are fully preventable for when you start speaking. This definitely sucks especially because you went through the effort of one to two years. Fully listening to native content then come to find out you have the speaking skills of a toddler.

Don’t get me wrong YOU WILL MAKE A LOT of grammar mistakes regardless. This is just something I wish I knew before I started speaking. Granted some people are just fine with not speaking. For some odd reason. I just hope this helps someone in someway.

Feel free to drop any advice for intermediate or just something you wish you knew beforehand.