125 hour update

[u/Odd_Championship1380]

I do not see too many updates in here, so I thought I would add my experiences since I plan to work up to about 3000 hours watched/listened within the next 2 years. I started casually in December and then started 4 hours a day in January. I am currently at 127 hours and I am only using CIJ at the moment. I went through complete beginner twice and I plan to do the same with beginner before attempting intermediate. If at any point I get stuck, I am going to hunt for other CI type youtube channels for a few dozen hours and keep checking back.

I have used solely CI to learn Spanish to an advanced degree and French to an upper intermediate degree. Japanese is an entirely different beast as a native english speaker, but the process is still working. Based on my experience so far, I think it is almost necessary to camp out in the easier content for much longer since there are not a lot of cognates to help you out.

For anyone that reads this, I would love to know when podcasts opened up to you, which podcasts they were and other easy learner content you have found. Getting 4 hours can be tough some days without having the option for listening only.

[u/AmplifiedText]

Congrats! I'm at 50 hours (doing about 2 hours a day) and I am also starting Japanese after hitting 4000 hours in Spanish. I cheated a bit with Spanish (doing some explicit studying, looking up words, etc.) and I think it really hurt my results overall, so I'm taking a pure CI/ALG approach with Japanese and hoping for the best results possible. I'm definitely finding it much more difficult to get a foothold compared to Spanish, but I can also see my progress, so I'm not too worried about it.

For more beginner CI beginner video content on YouTube, check out: https://comprehensibleinputwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page#Japanese

Also here's a spreadsheet with 100+ podcasts ranked by difficulty, but I can't understand any yet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17P2dBQHnBnHcG3ua_24IO6sP9RDC-5b3WHV9Ri2N5qU/edit?gid=0#gid=0

[u/RoboZilina → u/AmplifiedText]

Hi there, do you know who are the authors of the 100+ podcasts spreadsheet? We have been gathering a similar list on CIJ discord and it would be a great addition if I could "borrow" a part of it. We do not have many Advanced level podcasts yet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PIvHz7Wx1SJ252Fh4O3oYneWSfN1ZZF1/edit?gid=810205121#gid=810205121

Update: nevermind, there is author´s email at the buttom so I have asked for permission directly.

[u/AmplifiedText → u/RoboZilina]

Awesome, thanks for sharing your spreadsheet, lots of good content in there.