Matt vs. Japan / Matt MIA

@mattvsjapan

MIA co-founder. Red-pilling gaijin across the globe. If you have questions, I do Q&As vids here:

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    Many people have pointed out the issue with the hashtag (irrelevant stuff comes up).... So from now on, let's use !!

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  2. If you’re a regular viewer of my videos, the content of my newest video shouldn’t be very surprising. That said, I think the section on how to utilize native speaker feedback will be useful even for long time viewers.

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  3. Just saw an article titled "How to get past the intermediate language learning plateau" and couldn't help but roll my eyes..... the answer is simple: just keep going.

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  4. Former NHK announcer reads out obscene rap lyrics.... genius

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  5. Jan 18

    Video where I discuss learning kanji with

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  6. As someone in the comment section of my room tour video said, it's the "end of an era".

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  7. New dictionary MIA dictionary from is so useful. Makes the process of making cards a lot faster. One of the best things as well is the ability to look up words on the fly increadibly easy from anywhere on your PC (even offline):

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  8. A final room tour before I move!

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  9. What I looked like after staying up 30+ hours to finish the Christmas release. Also, what my mom bought me at the dollar store when I asked her to get me a Santa hat.

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  10. Merry Christmas guys!!

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  12. Implications for language acquisition (LA): 1) Corny fiction makes for incredibly comprehensible input, which is ideal for the early stages of LA 2) Corny fiction doesn't reflect real-life social dynamics, which is detrimental to the later stages of LA

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  13. Many learners report being frustrated that they can't understand things they "should be able to understand". These sorts of expectations are arbitrary and unhelpful. If you don't understand something, then your current level isn't enough to understand it. Bottom line.

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  14. Watch this if you want to feel like a wuss. They're talking about doing 400~600 Anki reviews every morning. Then they start learning new cards lol

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  15. Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." Applied to language learning: JLPT prep books destroy the JLPT's capability of measuring people's Japanese ability.

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  16. How to make your passive immersion up to 100% more efficient (literally!)

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  17. A lot of people have been asking me how my Mandarin studies are going. They're going great! If you want to hear the details, I've talked about it at length in the last few Patreon Q&A's (search "Mandarin" or "Chinese"):

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  18. What do you know, the Chinese title is a straightforward translation of the original, while the Japanese title is COMPLETELY different: "A single habit that grows with compound interest". Japanese translators take the whole "translation is creation" thing a little too seriously..

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  19. It's better to continually consume new input, in order to provide your brain with as much i+1 input as possible. If you take some random passage and study it to death, most of it won't actually be i+1, so you won't actually be able to acquire it.

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  20. Just to be clear, I think that oftentimes some repetition can be very useful. I'm mostly saying that intensely studying very small chunks of language can "feel" very productive, but not that much of it is likely to transfer to general ability.

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  21. For example, watching the same episode 10 times will lead to the "feeling of improvement", since you'll understand it very well after the 10th time. But, how much of that is simply you memorizing that specific episode?

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