learn japanese with anime?

nicinch · newbie! Joined: Oct 14, 2004 Posts: 12

To improve japanese animes could be a good listening exercicse allthough carefull a lot of animes come up with their own particular way of speaking japanese and catch phrases. There are some foreigners in japan who speak an "anime" japanese, it can sometimes get you in very weird situations.

Anyways more light manga like love hina or boys be have a more day to day language and fairly easy to understand albeit not very exciting stories though;

LoneWolf325 · Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 9:55 pm Post subject:

learn Japanese by watching Anime...

Not going to happen. It may help you study for your class, but it's pretty useless by itself, especially if you're like me.

When I hear a non-English language that I don't understand, my brain just discards everything as if it were background noise. This is especially true if it's not short phrases, but instead constant rambling.
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BlueEdge · newbie! Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 43

haha, it sactually pretty effective, becuase inorder for one to learn a language, you must apply it on a daily basis, so lol ive learne dlike gomenasai and other random phrases ^^ll yes!

Reeder5002 · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 11:35 am Post subject:

id say a genuine intrest is whats really needed when learning a language. If u go into it half assed i can almost guarentee it'll be a lot harder to even get down the baisics. Id say if u really wanted to learn japaneese thoguh youd go to japan cause immersion is from what im told the best way to pick a language up fast.
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ragnarok_202 · newbie! Joined: Nov 03, 2004 Posts: 33 Location: Canada

Learning Japanese by watching anime is pretty useless because in the end after watching hours of anime you'll only know a few words. If you really want to learn than take lessons.

kingliyou · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 3:32 pm Post subject:

indeed, i know more japanese then your guys, but i practice it day by day

kingliyou · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 3:33 pm Post subject:

just learn by heart.....

Haryu · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject:

are you reading the subtitles just to warn you ok! the subtites are not acurate oh any way!! try bubuchacha! words are simpler there
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Haryu · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject:

are you reading the subtitles just to warn you ok! the subtites are not acurate oh any way!! try bubuchacha! words are simpler there
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neverfantasy · newbie! Joined: Dec 26, 2004 Posts: 24

haha even if we watch coutless hours of anime, we can only learn a few words i mean seriously trying to understand even the basics of the japanese language is extremely difficult just by only watching anime.

iceravent · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:30 pm Post subject:

Watching Japanese Anime does motivate my to learn Jap. but its just too stressing trying to figure the language of Jap on my on. lol Rolling Eyes

xDragonKNx · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Mar 12, 2005 Posts: 81

i'd say any anime...you'll learn from it

Kaikou · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Dec 05, 2004 Posts: 51

I've been watching anime for 12+ years and I'm still not fluent in Japanese. I know quite a bit and can usually watch a raw episode and know about 85-90% of what is said. The thing with anime is that usually they speak in a colloquial form. So if you want to learn how to speak Japanese for the sake of conversing with other Japanese people, anime might not be the best form, but if you want to learn it just to understand what is said in anime, then yeah, go for it. Learning through anime works, but it is a long drawn out process, and you pretty much end up only understanding what others say, and have difficulty in saying what you want to say.
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Vilincica · Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 6:43 am Post subject:

Actually it really isn`t that easy learning japanese ONLY from watching anime. First of all, because the structure of the sentences is much different from english and other gramaticall differences (japanese grammar is in my opinion much much easier than english, german or italian for example) The hard thing is learning to write Smile

. U can pick up words, but forming sentences may prove more difficult.
So I think U should get yourself Japanese learning viedeo or tape (I prefer video). Then U can look for things U learned in the anime and this way U really remember them. It`s good practice.
If U`re using a P2P program, U can even get things like that (learning videos, mp3, books...), maybe even torrents exist, I don`t know, Just that the options are limited. I know U can get Japanese Basic (the title of the video).
U can make notes from that if U want, and then slowly, u can start picking up things from anime too. It`s just more affective if U start with some hard basics first.
Anime I used was Fruits basket, Angelic layer, Final Fantasy Unlimited Smile

it`s all stuff suitable for children, but U dont feel completely stupid for watching it ( Fruits Basket is also one of my favourite anime)
Later I realized, FullMetal Panic was usefull too Smile

and Trigun.................. when U pick up a thing ot two, all anime will become usefull, because U realize U can understand more and more of what they`re saying.

Good Luck