If I immerse 8-10 hours active a day with 2-3 hours passive all listening what stage is expected

[bronze scroll]

Just curious because for this upcoming year I will have alot of time to spend on Japanese so I was wondering if I follow all of refolds advice except reading, what stage could I expect in a year I kinda started today but will be officially fully start tomorrow. Also time wise that was not accounting 2 hrs max spent on Anki

[warm yoke]

That's a severe schedule that I think very few people would successfully pull off but if you did I think you'd be 3B to 4

[inland creek]

I wouldn't say 4

but probably 3

but this question is extremely hypothetical because what you're talking about isn't as easy to do as you may think

You should try crawling before you think about sprinting

in other words, try immersing for an hour a day first

[bitter wagon]

read Midnight's immersion journal, he did around 14 hours of active immersion per day

improved very fast

[faint dirge]

where would one find this because a google of "midnight's immersion journal" turns up very unrelated queries

[bitter wagon]

from:真夜中#3463 in:immersion-journal

Search this in this server

[faint dirge]

ah, thanks

[bitter wagon]

あいつがただのアニメを見るのではない

He isn't a common anime watcher

[edgy nexus]

I don't think 4, I did more or less that when I was in Taiwan and when I left I was probably a stage 3 after 1 year with mandarin

I read for an hour and a bit in the morning, had 3 hours of Chinese class, hour of homework, 2 hours of free flow immersion, Anki and spent about 2-3 hours hanging out with friends most days

I think if you have a lot of time to spent my main advice would be try to mix it up as much as possible to Keep things fresh, a mistake I made before is if I had say 4 hours I would spent the entire time say watching TV dramas with soft subs and lookups because it felt the most useful (reading aside because I always did that in the mornings) but then later I found myself not wanting to immerse because I was getting bored of watching TV, not bored of the language.

So when I treated my TL like English it made everything way easier to spend more time, it's not "I'm bored of Japanese" but rather "I'm bored of this anime so I'm going to watch YouTube or play video games for a bit" or even go for a run and stick a podcast on

TLDR I would recommend:

1 - doing the energy high activities earlier in the day (reading/Anki)
2 - mix it up to keep things interesting
3 - As Shiki mentioned start small and slowly build up over time if you're finding it hard to sustain, these things snowball over time
4 - mixing in passing listening with exercise makes it a lot more enjoyable for me

[grave pollen]

hes an anomaly. no use in comparing yourself with said person. i still don't believe that they did 14 hours of active a day. the average human brain can handle more than like 6-7 without the rest being whitenoise.

[bitter wagon]

Currently he is very busy, but he is still addicted to immersion. He is like SwirlyEnigma now, abusing of both active and passive.

[edgy nexus]

I think it entirely depends on your level, for someone who is advnced 14 hours a day is managable if you have no other priorities (big if though), as a beginner I think it would make your head burst or you would just feel tired and fall asleep