I guess he was in a unique situation in that he only did input for a number of years, and it was almost full time. MATT VS JAOAN HOW TO WATCH JAPANESE TV FULL

I know there are many videos of people who are following his methods, but I can't find any where someone has made that same claim.

In fact, most of them have either given up (not posted for months/years), or have uploaded videos saying how things are going slower than they expected (their reason usually being that they haven't been able to put in the time required). Have any of you tried something similar and had the same result Matt had? I only ask because I've kind of done the same thing (although not for even close to the number of hours Matt did) and I'm trying to figure out if output (if not fluent, in some form) will eventually come naturally with time without much deliberate practice, which I know would be frustrating/hard work to me. I've had a pretty similar experience with learning English. I started learning English when I was around 11 years old in school, and was pretty terrible at it. We didn't have any opportunity for output, it was basically all self-study.

Then a neighbor introduced some manga to me, though she only had English series. So that summer holiday I stayed at home reading some English language manga I only half understood for 4 to 8 hours a day, which gave me quite a lot of input. MATT VS JAOAN HOW TO WATCH JAPANESE TV FULL.

Matt vs japan how to watch japanese tv