learn japanese with anime?

celas · Conscript Joined: Nov 13, 2004 Posts: 179 Location: AZIA

what i'm saying is that it also heplps! Smile

se7en · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 12:34 am Post subject:

i don think tat u can really learn the grammars tru watching anime ... as they said ... u need to take a japanese language course ... or juz go to japan and stay there for months Laughing

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celas · Conscript Joined: Nov 13, 2004 Posts: 179 Location: AZIA

well I said it ca only help.......at least a little Sad

gatekeeperbs · newbie! Joined: Jul 17, 2004 Posts: 47

i tried learning jap once... never suceeded...

DrJackal · Jikan Samurai Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 979

Best way to learn japanese is to buy self-teaching books, go to japanese classes where there is a japanese tutor or go live in japan.

Tomwa · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Aug 13, 2004 Posts: 52

I lived in japan for a while. Was actually born there. Anime doesn't really help...you pick up a few catch phrases and some vocab, but that's not going to help you read or write it. Not to mention grammar. In years since living in Japan I hardly find Japanese computer programs helpful..most the time I'll just see an object or word and sort of go "ah HA! now I remember" when if someone asked me on the street I'd just blink at them. I'd say if you really want to learn take classes get and instructor and force yourself to use it (or go to japan where you'd have to)

Craze · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 52

Heh, I've been trying to pick up a little Japanese by watching tons of anime, but, yeah, it's pretty hard and sometimes misleading. I am getting a little, though, cuz i use logical deduction from subtitle to subtitle to figure out if that's what they're actually saying...cuz sometimes subtitlers will use the context of the situation to fill in the blanks, but the actual words may be something different entirely, and occasionally there's a better translation if you really think about it. You just gotta be smart about it....

Hah, but i need some reason lessons if i want to get more than a few catchphrases and a nominal vocabulary. Darn you Nihongo and your different syntax, i swear if the syntax weren't so tipsy (well, compared to English, anyway) i could figure it out much more easily....*grumbles*

DogPyro · newbie! Joined: Dec 05, 2004 Posts: 11

learning kanji sucks as well.. majorly

vandread_pyoro · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 8:44 am Post subject:

well, i can only get a very few Japanese vocab from watching anime.
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Slickness · newbie! Joined: Dec 24, 2004 Posts: 11

just keep watching different anime and eventualy u will learn jap in couple years

EMP666 · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Dec 25, 2004 Posts: 59

i belive that to learn jap you can't just go to japan and learn it when your ther :p, to learn this language you need (this is just my opinion)
- a few years of dedicated sefstudie to get things strait
- or take classes for like a year and dedicate yourself to studie hard at home
- and then you you sould go to japan and get someone that speaks english and hang out with him alot (speaking jap but if you don't know somthing so he can explain in english)

AcidicDragon · newbie! Joined: Jul 29, 2004 Posts: 13

how long does it take to learn japanese?

DrJackal · Jikan Samurai Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 979

To learn fluent japanese (reading + writing aswell) it takes a couple of years.

EMP666 · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Dec 25, 2004 Posts: 59

i have a friend that studies japanies at at the unisversity and they studie is all year long and stuff and it takes 3 years to complete the program but even then they don't speak it fluently you realy need to first studie it and to realy learn to speak it go to japan for quite some time to get the hang of it

san_adam · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 50

I think environment matters, so probably if I were to study Japanese, I'd go to Japan and study there, hehe.