The Real Reason You Can't Speak Japanese Yet

There are a lot of misconceptions about the role that speaking plays in learning Japanese, so I decided to yap about it Things Mentioned in the Video ➣ Pitch Accent Perception https://kotu.io/tests/pitchAccent/minimalPairs ➣ Dogen's Public Phonetics Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxMXdmBM9wPvsySiMoBzgh8d68xqKz1YP ➣ VRChat https://hello.vrchat.com/ ➣Shadowing https://www.audacityteam.org/ Outline 0:00 Misconceptions 2:41 Building Natural Speech 5:14 When to Start Speaking? 6:52 Silent Period 9:30 Language isn't Math 11:13 About Corrections 12:12 Pronunciation 15:18 Pitch Accent 18:14 About Reading 18:58 Preparing to Speak 21:21 Written Output 22:22 Spoken Output 23:42 Shadowing 24:29 Interaction Between Input and Output 25:14 Consistency 27:28 Conclusion #italki #Japanese #trenton