♪ I Think I'm Learning Japanese ♪ (w/Loretta Scott AKA KemushiChan)

YouTuber KemushiChan, AKA Loretta Scott, shares lessons from her 20-year Japanese Odyssey, including her cheat codes and advice about the "genki plateau," specifically how to avoid falling from it to your death.

Ollie recommends a cruise line that would benefit from a minimum wage hike... or would it? It would still be minimum.
 
Join Bobby in a last minute review of the Japanese River Cruise Academy's entrance exam, so you don't get absolutely keelhauled by it again this year.

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

The Launch of the World's first social media powered river cruise, and the continued decline of {redacted}How Loretta is experiencing the state of emergency in Tokyo and how it doesn't meet ANYONE's definition of an "emergency"Why a lot of Japanese people aren't complying with the suggested restrictions the way they did the first time aroundHow we take issue with how the Western media misportrays Japan and then IMMEDIATELY assume the portrayal of America is accurateBobby going back to the totally pointless but effective LOOKING TV covid precautionsOllie's foray into YouTube which has been met with nothing but positive receptions... so farHow Loretta feels about the new generations of Japan-related social media up and comersBobby and Loretta compare how they use YouTube now with "back in the day" when they were both "gurus"Who STILL wants to get YouTube notifications from BobbyOur first JBRC Press Club segment, on the dimming hopes for the Tokyo OlympicsLoretta's experience sharing her language learning journey and guiding her audience along on their ownThe ridiculous complaint commenters have about Loretta's Japanese studiesWhat motivates her to keep studying when she feels fed upThe benefits Ollie sees to "cramming the hours in"The role of YouTube as a Japanese resourceHow Loretta's opinion on the importance of book based study has changedHow classroom based and test based studying was much much more effective for all of our writing skillsThe magic of being able to use a language versus the magic of NOT understanding a languageThe most common thing that she sees her audience struggling withAssessing how far you really NEED to progress with the language and whyThe fact that some people might NOT want to be in front of the camera? WHHHHAAAAT?How trying to learn a language in a vacuum Why everyone should be entitled to learn any language they want to learnWho really DOES have a confidence issue with how they rate their own language abilityHow just putting your head down and barreling through while making a bunch of mistakes can make you seem more fluent than going slow and picking and choosing wordsWhat cause those times when you really feel defeated as a language learnerLanguage "cheat codes" and how to fill in the gaps to make you seem more competent and buy more timeLoretta's insight into her husband's language learning and how it was a different dynamic than her YouTubing

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Topics discussed on the extras range from:

How Bobby and Ollie have both hired Loretta for different online language products in the past and how we've all largely forgotten most of our past, which either speaks to the sheer volume of STUFF we've done, or to how inconsequential said stuff has beenHow putting out content creates "serendipity" in Ollie's wordsWhat Ollie wasted his time on instead of YouTubeThe Early Days of JVlogging on YouTube, and how we used to be able to build our channelsHow Jvloggers interacted with each other and WHY, including how sometimes it wasn't as wholesome as it seemedWho Loretta used to watch and what motivated her to start JvloggingBehind the scenes of how YouTube works and the multifaceted reasons for why people want to do itHow to game the algorithms and produce videos that earn viewsHow YouTube has gotten "harder"How Bobby's poor production values have come back into VogueHow 100k Subscribers from 5 years ago is worth jack sh*t todayThe worst comments we've gotten on YouTubeJBRC's FIRST EVER GENUINE HATEMAILA commonality between YouTube and Comedy, in that mimicking the most popular content almost never works for people just starting out, and why that isMaking things clickableWhat Loretta thinks is the NUMBER ONE THING you should preemptively put in the "block list" for your commentsThe cheat codes for language and how they don't necessarily work across all situations

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Content links

Ollie's first YouTube video. 100 Language Hacks 

Social Media Links:

Loretta Scott: Twitter | YouTube | Instagram

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Bobby Judo: Twitter | Instagram | YouTube

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