Learn Japanese from anime in only 5 minutes a day! 1337!
03. Jun, 2007
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You TOO can learn Japanese from anime in only 5 minutes a day! WRONG. If you think you can learn Japanese from anime, you have been sorely misguided. Perhaps it is a genetic defect. Perhaps your parents drank a lot before you were born. Maybe you’ve been disillusioned by anime conventions. Or it could be that anime-induced isolation has cut you off from the real world for just a little bit too long. Whatever gave you the impression that you could learn Japanese from anime is sadly wrong. You CAN’T. No buts about it. I’ve seen way too many people who’ve thought it could be done. I’ve often see way too many people on youtube who still think it can be done. People who don’t know better idolize them as gods and follow in their footsteps. I don’t want you to go out and make that mistake. It’s time you knew the truth. Click through and watch the video to find out more…
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At first I thought 'yay, I'll learn Japanese by watching anime!' But not too long after, I realised that anime couldn't get me much further than 'konnichiwa', 'ohaiyou', 'baka' and 'moshi moshi'. So I started to take real lessons (well, real, at least they teach you something :P MyJapaneseCoach for NDS taught me kana in 2 days :D And I'm also learning to make simple sentences)
You can also find countless of online communities for japanese-learning people. If you want to learn japanese, get involved with others, you won't be able to learn it on your own.
That is the way to go!
It's back-to-front! You learn Japanese to enjoy Anime (As english dubs usually suck!)… you don't watch Anime to learn Japanese. Besides the english sub's are usually so poorly done that any words you could make out are used incorrectly. Half an hour with flash cards would teach you more japanese than a month of watching anime. So please please people, do it the right way round! Anime is one of the reward to learning Japanese!
Piece!
I've started watching one of my old favorite TV shows in Japanese w/o subtitles, and I understand about 65% of it (mostly due to lack of listening skills and lack of vocabulary, but I'm working on both!). It's fun and it will definately help my listening, but it's not my only tool.
I learn through anime only. I only look up Japanese stuff only. No ENGLISH. That's to help me learn both understanding and reading. Everytime there's a Japanese video sometimes there's kanjis I keep repeating those kanjis as I keep seeing them thereby understanding them more. I truly believe we can learn Japanese through anime it takes hours of listening to actually get it. It also helps weirdly Japanese stuff is sooo much more cooler then english. English is just boring I'm sorry I don't want to look up hannah montanna, America, and anyhting else. It's BORING. I want to play Japanese games, brag to everybody, and be fluent to live in Japan. What does your dream mean to you that's the question everybody should say? To speak in Japanese, brag to everybody you learn japanese. Start your dream right now do whatever works for you. Look up statistic and AT LEAST TRY. No one has really tried to learn Japanese through anime without subtittles. How cna you say that you guys haven't even try. I sit on my butt everyday at home looking up Japanese stuff for fun. It now has become 2nd nature to ME. M English has started to get boring. If I continue this for like 2 years I will learn the language. It's a beautiful language with a beautiful culture with great food. That is my future and I hope that everybody can accomplish it like I will do.
Wakatta~!
what koichi meant is japanese language is distinguished from anime's version. as we know, those is anime's contain lots of bad words & lack respect to elders. so, they don't want outsiders learn from anime. (Japanese are well mannered than haku-jin).
So, they didn't want us to learn Japanese LANGUAGE but also MANNERS. that is what we called CULTURE. so that we wouldn't use mean / impolite words when we talk in Japanese.
p/s: I'm sorry if I get you wrong~!
If someone does learn from anime like me I truly believe the culture will sink in. No it has to sink in if I'm learning from anime. It is a tool that nobody believes that they should ever use at all. It really is a great tool that I use everyday. Besides that I really don't believe that everybody should stop doubting it. It's getting on my nerves at the very least. The culture will sink in I just know it. Japanese is mainly the only thing I know and the only thing I believe I will pursue in due time. Everybody should just try it. Just freaking try it without any subtittles or anything in Japanese for that matter.
I truly believe Anime will help me learn the language. I watch anime for 2 reasons only. 1. It's enjoyable 2. It's not boring plus I can do more I've learned alot from anime and it hasn't even been a month since I've started. I went on vacation for like 2 weeks and was lazy for one week. Japanese has to be it's own reward. It doesn't have to be boring you can do stuff already in Japanese you like. Like the food? Then just eat their food at a local Japanese resturant. Like thier animations but can't understand them? Watch them without SUBTITTLES. Like their video games? Buy them import them. Like their culture? Throw a little Japanese in your room it helps at least for motivation. See where this is going. People do what feels what works no matter what. It's okay to like whatever you just have to be serious about it. That's like. If your going to learn from anime you have to be hardcore about it.
I watch anime and love it. I like reading manga, translated. Although it might be useful later on (it might, I don't know, I'm not there yet) — you know, when you can actually read most necessary kanji, it might help to increase your reading speed / context comprehension — otherwise, I have found manga completely useless as a learning aid so far. Although it's fun to notice how you pick up sentences you didn't before in anime, they're really just about as useless.
hey that's cool i love anime and manga. I have read all of my friends manga and now I am asking another friend if I can borrow some of her books. Also I am learning Japanese so ask me any thing and I will tell you.
hey that's cool i love anime and manga. I have read all of my friends manga and now I am asking another friend if I can borrow some of her books. Also I am learning Japanese so ask me any thing and I will tell you.
YOU CAN LEARN JAPANESE BY WATCHING ANIME AND READING MANGA!
How easy it will be depends on what you watch and read and how you do it. If you do right, it will be a fun ride.
1. Choose shows with an easy plot and realistic setting like those World Masterpiece Theatre animes, e.g. “Porfy no nagai tabi”.
This (50+ episode) show for example is about a boy who travels across Europe to look for his lost sister. Every episode he meets someone new and tells his sob story. Because reoccuring moments like this you'll be able to understand a lot after a while.
More suitable shows are: all WMT series (as mentioned),Nils no fushigi na tabi, Tanoshii mumin ikka, Taiyou no ko Esteban, Aishite naito, Miyuki, Atashin'chi,…
2. NO SUBTITLES EVER! At first it may not please you to watch an episode of 24 minutes and only understand “ohayou”, “arigatou” and “itadakimasu”. But after a while you'll start to pick up on more words, phrases and ultimately on complete (albeit) short sentences.
3. WATCH ONLY ONE EPISODE OF A SHOW PER DAY AND IF DOESN'T BORE YOU, WATCH IT TWICE.
This way your brain will have it easier to process the data and the repetition of certain words every day will write them deeper in your memory.
Instead of watching the episode twice, you can use a programme to extract the audio and listen to it on the go. It will be like a radio drama. But because you watched it before and therefore remember the plot, it will train your listening comprehension.
4. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THINGS THAT BORE YOU!
You will definitely get more from shows you like, shows that intrigue you.
I learned English, Italian and Spanish without effort by watching shows I liked and reading comics. Now I'm repeating the experiment with Japanese and Czech.
I see nothing wrong with learning a language from videos. I know alot of people that learn English by watching English Dubbed Anime. Why can't English people learn Japanese through Subbed Anime?
I see nothing wrong with learning a language from videos. I know alot of people that learn English by watching English Dubbed Anime. Why can't English people learn Japanese through Subbed Anime?
I think that using anime for learning Japanese can be more effective if you keep an eye on what it is that you're watching – steer away from most Shounen stuff (and probably the majority of Shoujo) and try with a variety of more Seinen based series, though I still wouldn't promote using it as your sole language learning tool… Especially not for people who need to cut back on their anime fixes.
I am learning Korean not my animae not by textbooks but my friend is Korean so he is teaching me i can pronounce “you piss me off” perfectly and i can say “bitch” xD that's gonna come in handy….
I am learning Korean not my animae not by textbooks but my friend is Korean so he is teaching me i can pronounce “you piss me off” perfectly and i can say “bitch” xD that's gonna come in handy….
I love anime, and I did figure out a few words in Japanese from anime, but it hasn't helped much. I don't even know what Naruto is saying and I've heard him say that phrase so many times! I've heard that it means “believe it”, but that's just what the team of dubbers say. I've been learning how to read in hiragana, but I have now idea what they say. Maybe I should learn the language first then try to read in it. lol.
how you gonna sit up here and say don't use anime as a way to learn Japanese but yet your about to try and teach. Obviously you already know how to speak the language h, how about you share the knowledge. i myself love anime and want to learn Japanese. Ive learned stuff from it but not enough. but anyways some parts of the video was pretty funny. i happen to like Naruto too