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In a few months I'm going to be reaching 5 years of learning Japanese and since getting started, I've gotten around 3600 hours of Japanese exposure (~1700 hours of Anki, ~1700 hours of immersion, ~200 hours of other study sources), meaning that I've been exposed to Japanese an average of 2 hours per day since getting started.
However, I've had very little output (aka speaking or writing) practice during the entire 5 years (less than 100 hours in total). In this video I'd like to demonstrate what my Japanese output became like after nearly 5 years of ~2 hours a day input based learning and very little output practice. From here on I'm going to be slowly doing output practice on hopefully a daily basis for years to come, and I'm looking forward to seeing how much my Japanese will improve.

You can find more details about my Japanese learning journey thus far through my yearly update series:    • I Learned Japanese 1 Hour a Day for 6...  
The 5 year update is soon to come!

MUSIC:
甘茶の音楽工房 - technomics1
甘茶の音楽工房 - 月夜のフクロウ
https://amachamusic.chagasi.com/index...
Vanilla - Golden
Vanilla - Summer
(The outro song is the outro of Vanilla - Summer in the bandcamp version)
https://vanillabeats.bandcamp.com/tra...

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro & context
1:55 italki introduction
2:10 Teachers I took lessons with this time
3:00 Promo link
3:12 Format of this video + unedited version
4:00 Lesson 1: SoSo
19:35 Lesson 1 conclusion
20:07 Lesson 2: Shimizu Kenshiro
34:00 Lesson 2 conclusion and final thoughts
35:50 Outro

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