hey guys so today I'm gonna be sharing
with you a simple yet extremely powerful
immersion tip which is simply creating a
new youtube account solely for immersion
now a lot of you guys probably have
already heard about this I'm definitely
not the first one to have come up with
this idea and a lot of you guys probably
just arrived at this idea on your own
but the gist of it is when you're
watching YouTube you get recommended
lots of other videos on the side and a
lot of times it's very tempting to click
on these videos now the problem is
assuming that you're a English speaker
if you're watching this video then
you're gonna probably get recommended
many English videos as you're trying to
watch target language videos for
immersion and no one has an unlimited
amount of willpower so a lot of times
you end up clicking on these videos and
going down a rabbit hole of watching
videos in English that may be
entertaining maybe educational and
enriching but they're not helping you
reach your language learning goals and
so one super effective method for
dealing with this is to create an
entirely new YouTube account and on this
YouTube account only subscribe to
youtubers who speak your target language
and only click on videos that are spoken
in your target language and if you do
this then the YouTube algorithm will
assume that you only speak that language
and all the videos that it recommends
you will be in your target language so
now you can set up this environment
where you don't have to worry about
willpower at all you can click on
anything you want you can get tempted
all you want with all the videos on the
side it you're still never leaving your
immersion bubble so it's all good and
it's all helping you move forward with
your language learning goals now I
should probably also mention that yes
it's possible that even if all you do is
subscribe target language youtubers and
watch target language videos every once
in a while you might happen to be
recommended an English video anyway but
what I found is that once I've set up
this environment I'm not very tempted to
click on the occasional English video
that pops up because I know that if I do
that's gonna be sending information to
the algorithm which I don't want it to
have I don't want it to know that I
speak English and so I have an extra
amount of motivation to steer away from
that video and only watch the target
language ones because I don't want to
mess with the algorithm that I've
already built up for myself in order to
support my immersion now in case you
don't already know this it's very easy
to set up multiple YouTube accounts with
are all connected to the same email and
once you do this you can very easily
switch between the different accounts
without having to fully log out and log
back in again and what this allows you
to do is have one account which maybe
you're gonna use for watching English
videos and a different account that
you're using just for target language
videos and if you're starting multiple
languages you can have a separate
account for each target language that
you're watching and this is actually
what I've done with Japanese and Chinese
so I have over three YouTube accounts
and this is useful because I don't want
to completely cut out English YouTube
videos from my life you know there's a
lot of really educational and an
important content in English that I want
to watch but I can manage my time more
easily because I can say okay let's say
I'm gonna spend 30 minutes a day
watching English YouTube and the rest of
my time in either Japanese or Chinese
YouTube and it's very easily to control
that because I just have to worry about
well which YouTube account am i logged
into now here are some other tips so
first of all change your location to the
country where your target language is
spoken and that way if you go to
trending you'll see all the videos that
are trending in that country and this
can be a good way to learn about your
target language culture and also just
discover new interesting content in your
target language and another tip is
consider subscribing to YouTube's
premium so this is something that of
course I was really hesitant to do for a
really long time because it's like
YouTube is already free why would I pay
money to watch it in general I don't
like to pay unnecessary money and
there's adblock when you're on the
computer right but what I found was once
I actually just kind of bit the bullet
and tried the free subscription for
YouTube premium it's really powerful on
mobile because what it allows you to do
at least on an iPhone is you can lock
your phone like exit out of the app go
into a different app or just lock your
phone and the video will keep playing in
the background so this makes it really
easy to use YouTube videos as passive
immersion or background immersion
especially if you're using long-form
content so you can basically just create
playlists of the videos that you like
while you're actively immersing on
YouTube and then just play those same
playlists back as passive immersion
while you're going about your day and
you can have a really comprehensive
emergency TUPP pretty much just with
YouTube alone and given how
why'd a variety of different types of
content you can find on YouTube in my
book YouTube is really combined with
Netflix the ultimate immersion resource
right now for almost any target language
that you can use because it takes out
all the hassle of trying to find illegal
streaming sites or download sites or
torrents or any of that and having to
deal with programs to do all this other
stuff it makes it just really simple and
straightforward and so for me I think
I'm gonna keep paying for the YouTube
premium even though it's pretty
expensive I was able to get the student
discount from the college that I used to
go to so if you can do that it gets a
little cheaper also if you pay for
YouTube premium it gets applied to your
email and so if you have multiple
YouTube accounts associated with one
email like I was talking about earlier
in this video
then the YouTube premium is gonna be
applying to all of them not just one so
that's pretty useful as well okay so
that's pretty much all I have to say in
this video trying to make a short video
for once and I'm gonna put a link in the
description that will show you how to
make new YouTube accounts associated
with a single email and I'll also put
some recommendations for my personal
favorite Japanese youtubers because I
know a lot of you guys are probably
wondering about that so yeah that's all
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next one