About

Hi, I’m Faizan, and this is the Fazon Nexus. It’s my public notebook for learning Japanese through immersion.

Instead of working through textbooks, I learn by watching and listening to native content: let’s plays, VTuber streams, podcasts, and whatever else looks interesting. My particular obsession is Kansai-ben, so a lot of what I watch is chosen for the dialect as much as the content.

Along the way I’ve ended up building (or at least wrangling) a lot of tooling to support the process, transcribing videos, generating subtitles, mining sentences into Anki decks, condensing hours of streams into passive-listening audio. Some of what I write here is me documenting those experiments: what worked, what broke, and what was a complete waste of an afternoon. I’ll also be providing general updates on how my Japanese is going, especially if I feel as if I’ve hit a big milestone

Before Japanese took over, my main hobby was computer graphics, and I haven’t quite let go and, as a result, this site doubles as a WebGL playground (that’s what the triangle on the home page is about). Eventually I want to build interactive tools for visualising immersion progress which will live here too.

What to expect

• Immersion logs: what I’m watching and how it’s going
• Tool experiments: transcription models, OCR, subtitle workflows, Anki pipelines, etc.
• Content reviews: recommendations (and warnings) from my watch history
• WebGL experiments: because old habits die hard

If any of that sounds useful, stick around. Here’s an RSS feed for the articles.