Japanese

Year 5 (Present)

• podcast 4x’d in subscribers since I stopped posting

• planning another trip to Japan

Year 4

• tried learning Korean, but lost interest because of lack of media
• continued to run my podcast, interviewed 100 people and then stopped posting
interviewed a j*v actress
• finally visited Japan again after 3-4 years since living there
• still can get around with zero problems, although it isn’t as smooth as when I was living there
• hung out with some friends back from study abroad
• got re-inspired to continue studying Japanese

Year 3

• went to language exchange meetups to use Japanese (and at various restaurants)
• harder to use Japanese in daily life except only online or at certain locations
• continued to run my podcast, interviewed 50 or so of the people I learned from and reached 1000 subscribers
actually interviewed benny lewis
interviewed peter barakan

Year 1-2

• graduated from uni, continued studying Japanese
• kept up with Anki (~1 hour per day)
• read 1 hour per day
• applied to japanese school as backup
• ended up not following through with any of them
• started a language learning podcast
interviewed matt vs japan
interviewed dogen

Year 0-1

• binge watched Terrace House, got inspired again to learn Japanese

• did 2-3 hours of Anki every day
• 4-6 hours of immersion
• every waking hour was dedicated to Japanese, watched zero content in English this year
• started applying for Japanese companies

Year -1

• visited my friend in Hokkaido who was studying abroad over the summer
• got inspired to learn Japanese