/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>21438174
it demonstrates that matt has the integrity to fairly judge his idols. you don't understand that matt LOVED khatz. moreover to this day matt is honest about not being native level.

so he's probably being honest when assessing his own progress.

>>21438155
i think he was being honest because he criticized khatz for claiming fluency after a mere 18 months. so this means matt is self-aware.

>>21437765
he did AJATT off of khatz's side, not matt's

>>21420234
To be fair, Matt does say that incomprehensible input it useless as opposed to Khatz
We also don't know how closely this dude actually followed MIA, looking at this display I find it hard to believe that he spent much time with anything Japanese at all
He could also have some kind of mental illness

>>21409943
>we know ajatters overwhelmingly suck ass
matt, khatz, nick, ben gary, asian ben, britvsjapan, thejapancode, yoga, etc.

sorry, but the track record for ajatt speaks for itself. list 3 people on djt who have gotten to that level. JUST 3. you can't.

the way i see it is like this
khatz: nihonjesus
matt: the antichrist
me and qm: the messiah

btw ur list made me realize khatz is the real villain in all this

hes the 1 who started churning out third rate nihongoers like matt

matts been at it for like hwat 7 years and hes still not even close to where khatz was when he launched ajatt? lmfao

>>21358004
All Matt (and Khatz, for that matter) is doing is repeating what's on the Antimoon site. You may as well just quickly read that instead.

https://www.antimoon.com/how/howtolearn.htm

>>21351530
>he's basically a motivational speaker
No, that was Khatz. About 50% of the AJATT table of contents is motivational and deprogramming articles.

Matt doesn't really do anything like that and compensates for it with elitist rhetoric aimed at insecure weeaboos ("other gaijin will look like ants to you", and so on).

>>21337880
I guess I was wrong on that, I thought somebody linked it one here and it was Keyword to Kanji. Keep in mind matt and khatz both did it the heisig way. Khatz literally says lazy kanji is his experiment. So I'd rather do rtk the right way, and the way they both did it anyways.

>>21324008
>What is immersion?
In the AJATT/MIA sense, exposing yourself to Japanese every waking hour (and optionally while you're asleep as well).

There's active immersion, where you're watching an anime, reading an LN, or whatever else, and actually paying attention to it and trying to understand the language, and then there's passive immersion where you just have something playing in the background while you're not really paying any deliberate attention to it with the idea (hope) being that your brain will pick stuff up from it.

On top of that, you're supposed to switch everything over that you possibly can in your life to Japanese (e.g. the language setting for your electronic devices).

>Also what is AJATT really?
An acronym for All Japanese All The Time.

>Listening to stuff and reading stuff and making sentence cards
It's basically the above described immersion + making (10,000) sentence cards to help you memorize vocabulary. AJATT is also known as the 10,000 sentence method because of this. On top of that, there's also a lazy form of RTK thrown in there based around recognition rather than production, and I think as well Khatz (AJATT originator) says not to study grammar at all.

>while trying not to cry?
Khatz's whole philosophy was basically the opposite of the impression Matt gives off. Khatz repeatedly tries to make the point on his site that you can learn Japanese simply as a by-product of having fun, and that if anything you're reading or listening to isn't fun for you then you shouldn't hesitate to drop it and find something else. Meanwhile, I don't think I've ever heard Matt use the word "fun" even once in reference to his offshoot (MIA).

>>21322936
>and Khatz never stops hammering into you the message that if something isn't fun, drop it.
that's why matt dropped like 50 books halfway through

>>21322886
>Y: There have been some books that I've actually been into.
>M: Yeah, a few. Maybe like one or two.
What the fuck.

It's actually probably a good thing that Matt branched off and made a separate thing from AJATT because his mindset and message is the polar opposite of Khatz's. I remember reading through the AJATT site and Khatz never stops hammering into you the message that if something isn't fun, drop it.

I'm actually left thinking after watching that that AJATT wouldn't get anywhere near as much hate as it does here if not for its connection to Matt and the people associated with him.

>>21305063
Someone leaked Nuke's Tango decks long before Matt's versions got leaked.

>>21305077
Nothing really. AJATT tells people they shouldn't read about grammar and should just mine the sentences from Tae Kim and SRS them instead instead. The problem with mining Tae Kim (besides it being a tedious, boring nightmare) is that the sentences aren't what Matt wrongly refers to as "i+1" (i.e. they don't introduce only one new word per sentence - some dump several on you all at once). That's where the Tango decks come in since they provide "i+1 sentences" (incremental sentences), so if you buy into the "don't read a grammar guide" AJATT bullshit then using the pre-made Tango decks is a better option than manually mining all ~800 of Tae Kim's example sentences.

It's worth noting that Matt got this Tango deck idea from one of his Patreons, which is to say he got it from one of those non-fluent people he's always telling everyone they shouldn't listen to. Matt in the past has actually said that he thinks it's a good idea to read about grammar, and it's known that he not only took classes but also read Tae Kim, so he didn't do anything like what his Patreon proposed when he was learning and doesn't have any evidence that it works or is a good idea. It's also known that Khatz didn't take his own advice about not reading about grammar either.

well, mia website and matt's youtube channel organizes the ajatt method. because the ajatt website is godawful and you have to read countless khatz le im so quirky blogs to begin to understand what you should be doing.

what if jamal was actually khatz, there is an article khatz wrote specifically saying how great it is to listen to japanese rap

quiz is probably matt

>>21211420
he already said somethin about doin em on his phone with earbuds or somethin hes just a hole in his sweater from bein the khatz successor matt dreamed of bein but couldnt live up to cuz he didnt like anime enough

>>21210543
I know they stress having Japanese playing in the background 24/7 in addition to active listening (eg. watching an anime). Matt has occasionally told his audience that active listening is far more important than passive, but I've heard both Matt and Khatz stress passive listening so much that I think he's just given the wrong impression to most of his audience.

>>21204943
>Not a single read only or sentence card shitter has been able to compete with me.
matt, brit, khatz, patrick, yoga, ben, gary ben, nick, etc. would dominate you

>>21168907
Based anon who posted this. I'm on 27 so far and damn these things are pretty indepth. You can see where matt is stealing anything about pitch from. Dogen and khatz are the only two 先生 you ever need.

>>21142667
matt already destroyed khatz' garbage pitch accent in his previous video

>>21136196
more like she and matt are both stealing the ideas that khatz stole from the antimoon guys.

>>/jp/thread/S21013624#p21017973

>>21124653
Matt pre-charges his patreons (ie you get charged as soon as you sub, unlike Khatz where he charges you on the next 1st of the month), so if he releases another Q&A within this month, you'll still have access to it even if you unsubbed today (because you already paid on the 1st of April, for the whole month of April).

people who became reasonably good at japanese

khatz: got divorced, withdrew from the world
matt: miserable asshole, hates himself and his life
dolly: absolutely batshit insane

is the japanese language like some sort of mind virus that destroys people?