Comments on: How to Learn Japanese Without Really Doing Anything

By: miguelitopumpum

miguelitopumpum — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 22:59:00 +0000

Ive been doing passive learning, and with that im trying to translate Captain Tsubasa for Nes, a lot of work.

By: TheSilverShinobi

TheSilverShinobi — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:30:00 +0000

Well, I’m technically a beginner, but I watched both Battle Royale and Battle Royale II: Requiem without English subtitles, and I actually managed to to figure things out and piece them together. I think I’ll do pretty good in Japanese, and now I am going to go and study!

By: Hans Spijker

Hans Spijker — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:23:00 +0000

For me, Game Center CX is ‘the’ Japanese show to watch without subtitles. Passive and active studying is the way to go, although, for me, watching Japanese television shows sometimes feels like active learning (if I don’t know a word or kanji, I go look for it on the internet and I try hard to understand the Japanese sentences, which makes me pause and rewind videos a lot of times.)

By: Michelle10000

Michelle10000 — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:52:00 +0000

I Want to learn japanese, so badly. but i get confused with their writing, like that hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. I Watch japanese shows too such as ” Hana yori dango ” ” Smile ” ect.. i Also Listen to some music.

By: Dan Postica

Dan Postica — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 05:55:00 +0000

I really don’t think that Active learning is boring, I learn Japanese at the Japan Foundation in my country and to be right it is very fun, with culture classes , peoples that think just like you and Japanese peoples that teaches you, It is fun , This summer is boring just because we don’t have lessons in summer.

By: theblueknightgarcia

theblueknightgarcia — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:58:00 +0000

lets see ive been trying to teach myself Japanese since 05 by watching anime in Japanese with subs or listening to jpop/jrock or watching sailor moon musicals with sub and recently now that I have more time ive been watching jdramas like my first jdrama was mendol ikemen idol that’s how I got into no3b then watch majisuka gakuen and that help with me loving AKB48 of course with subs dow I still understood some words without reading subs . I also have been listening to hatsune miku to high and mighty color to no3b and recently AKB48 and I actually recently got all of AKB48 singles and ive been watching on daily motion and youtube random AKBINGO and sometimes it came with subs and I for some odd reason I started to understand what they were saying and I could like easily pronounce some of the words used… now I have also their concerts which also helps a lot ive also been teaching my nephew jovi Japanese just some words and he watches AKBINGO and let me tell that kid has been absorbing all I tell him and what he hears he reapeats like he can even named some akb48 members like he can point out and say mariko or rena I also put the akb48 pv for him and he can easily sing along by using acouple of words …I think that the fact that I have someone around that watches or listens to Japanese with me helps a lot even if he just 2 years old I exposed him to hatsune miku then it was sentai and then it was gangnam style but that one is irrelevant and last it was AKB48 he is very intelligent I been teaching him our native language which is Spanish and also English and now Japanese… my mother says that learning as many languages as you can will help a lot with getting amazing life oppurtunities which is true but recently I been well down cause I was about to give up on learning Japanese but now that I read your article I want to keep going so thanks a lot!!! though I have acouple of questions like : whats the best book out there for learning Japanese?, I wanna buy katana and hiragana cue cards is jlist the best place to buy them or should I get them from somewhere else?, I have some japanes video game but they are mostly hatsune miku project diva which are fun but you know they bore me after awhile so heres my last question I wanna get a dating sim a Japanese one and I come to love AKB48 and well Im thinking of getting their new game AKB1/149 Renai Sousenkyo now my question is do you think getting it will help with understanding the language more?