🤝 Join the KoreKara Club: https://www.skool.com/korekara 🗓️ Free Japanese Tips Weekly: https://korekara.beehiiv.com/subscribe Part two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEia7xhul6Y Check out our other videos! ► Interview with Dogen: https://bit.ly/3eUAKLJ ► Speedrunning Duolingo Japanese: https://bit.ly/3B2xd5C ► Korea 48 Hour Speedrun: https://bit.ly/3RUXAkO In this week of the KoreKara Podcast, we have a conversation with Matt from the Matt Vs Japan Youtube Channel and co-founder of the Mass Immersion Approach & Refold. With mattvsjapan, we talk about why he hasn’t moved to Japan yet, his love/hate relationship with Japan and Japanese, his ambitions for his YouTube channel and potentially Japanese media, as well as funny stories from when he was still going to college and studying Japanese. In Part 1 we talk a lot about Japan, Japanese, Japanese People, and his efforts in studying languages, whereas in Part 2 we talk a lot about the Mass Immersion Approach and where he wants to take with his company and team. Hope you guys enjoy the podcast! Glossary: 【全米で住みやすい街】 Best places to live in America まめちしき【豆知識】Trivia Facts ぼさつ【菩薩】 Bodhisattva (Meditation Term) 【バイキング】Buffet きゅうじたい【旧字体】WWII Kanji ちゅうにびょう【中二病】2nd year of junior high sickness あくたがわりゅうのすけしょう 【芥川龍之介賞】Akutagawa Prize ひまつ【飛沫】Droplet ひまつかんせん【飛沫感染】Droplet Infection はんどう【反動】Reaction 【きっかけ】Impetus, catalyst Books/Authors Mentioned: ノルウェイの森 - 春樹村上 (Norwegian Wood - Murakami Haruki) 火花 - 又吉 直樹 (Hibana - Matayo Shinaoki) Jay Rubin - Japanese - English Translator Outline: 0:00:00 Intro and Preview 0:01:27 MattvsJapan Introduction (how Matt learned Japanese) 0:05:08 Why hasn't Matt moved to Japan yet 0:14:45 Stories of going up to Japanese people 0:20:00 Is Matt really as good at Japanese as in his Youtube Videos? 0:31:00 Matt's future plan to move to Japan and his love/hate relationship with Japan 0:44:40 Matt's current room for improvement with his Japanese 0:52:00 Matt's experience dating a Japanese girl 1:05:49 Matt's social experiences with Japanese 1:14:49 Potential plans to visit Japan and collaborate with other Youtubers 1:19:47 Matt's funny experiences with Japanese classes in university 1:34:28 Matt's inner conflict with Japan 1:38:48 Outro About the KoreKara Podcast: We both studied abroad in Japan, and became fluent in Japanese after living there. Eric is originally from Taiwan and Raza is from the United States. We always get into wild discussions about our adventures in Japan. We thought people could learn something new and have some entertainment, so we created the KoreKara Podcast. We discuss everything Japan from our perspective. On the show we interview guests who have some sort of background with Japan, and that hopefully gives you guys who are living in Japan or thinking about living in Japan an inside look into what it's like. #MattVsJapan#learnjapanese #Refold