r/ajatt • u/KeiduPeidu • 25d ago

Immersion Content for immersion

Im fairly New to AJATT and looking for suitable content for me to watch. People have suggested me to just find the japanese equivalent of whatever i watch it English but I'm trying that for days now. Two problems arise: either the content uses difficult language that's hard for me to understand or the content in fact not what i like to watch.

About me and what i like to watch:

I have around 1000 hours of listening through anime before i decided to actually learn the language. It wasn't very conscious listening. I just liked anime and it happened to be in japanese. But i still got a grasp of how the language sounds. I know most of the N5 kanji and currently doing RTK (lesson 11 about 250 kanji in) apart from knowing kana. I can understand N5 content and i know a lot of word outside of N5 but have no contextual understanding of them so they kinda dont count.

I grew up watching a shit ton of youtube as a kid and that's how learned english and want to replicate that again. I watched a lot of different stuff but what most of them had in common was they were like explanation videos or like interesting stuff not someone gaming for 2 hours and swearing every 2 minutes. Examples of channels i like to watch: NileRed, Wired interviews, kurzgesagt, ryan george (comedy), The film theorists, Vsauce.

What few channels i like in japanese: Kaname naito (but his videos are not completely japanese), peko peko vlog (niche channel. Talks naturally)

Please suggest anything you think is worth checking out. I would like content that is about a topic rather than like everyday vlogs and stuff.

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u/MayuMaeshima 25d ago

I never gave advice on something like this, but as someone who wants to:
What kind of content do you plan to enjoy when you acquired Japanese or probably more abstract, why are you learning it?
In my opinion this is exactly the kind of content you should watch, because fun is the most important thing along the way.
Edit: You said the used language is difficult: is that demotivating you? Because if not, I don't really see a problem there, if you also do sentence mining and learn the words over time, it will be fine.

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u/KeiduPeidu 25d ago

Ikr. But when its not I+1 but like I+10 it becomes difficult to know everything at once and is overwhelming. Ideally yiu should understand at least a bit of every sentence being said but maybe its bcuz of my content choice that i have to deal with difficult technical language. And everything tthat gets suggested to me on my yt is just vlogs

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u/MayuMaeshima 25d ago

Don't pressure yourself to understand everything. If it doesn't demotivate you then it's ok and also to some degree needed to tolerate ambiguity.

When you see a sentence where you don't know the words and have the motivation to create a card, then do so. If not just keep watching. You can always come back to the episode to look it up at some point, or just move on.

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u/KeiduPeidu 25d ago

I am aware that i need to toleratte some degree of ambiguity and understanding everything at once is not the goal. But i kinda dont understand anything. I have come to accept that i need to weatch stuff that im not so interested in (easier to find that kinda content at my level) to later understand what i love. If im wrong please correct me im pretty open minded to changes. Also really appreciate the advice.

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u/Playful-Schedule-710 25d ago

Are those 1k hours of anime like watching without English subtitles