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Awesome. I've only been studying Japanese about a month myself. So, are you saying that you started studying Japanese before watching anime?

where?:P

http://www.japanesepod101.com is my favorite so far

yes it's like that!

jejejejee in fact i started watching anime 'cuz it could improve my habilities at japanese!

then i got all sort of freaked after seeing first season of jioku shoujo... and started watching more and more anime!

Interesting. I've never heard of someone starting to watch anime because they were learning Japanese. It's always the other way around. Oh well, that just shows you that there are even more reasons to watch anime.

yeah! and you? like most of the others? watching anime, then learning japanese?

Anime kinda happened at that same exact time of learning Japanese for me. I joined my School's Anime club when I started school along with Japanese class. And after I moved I started watching anime online.

I started watching anime first, then I became interested in Japan, and finally, the language.

im currently learning Japanese not for just those reasons though.

Mind sharing your other reasons?

Woow! have never heard of someone who has started one with each other! yeeah, tell us, well if you do can!

the worst is when you understand that in some moments the subs are obviously lame,but can't reject them, as you won't get full idea of speaking stuff without them
it's exactly my case i began studying Japanese in autumn, as went to university, so now i can understand about 1/3 of stuff they are speaking about,but it's not enough for watching raw anime T_T

Uh-huh. It's so annoying when some people take too much liberty with the dialogue. But then again, I can't complain since I'm not anywhere near fluent yet.

True, but when you know that the subs are wrong, that's when you can feel accomplished ^^

sometimes it's really so^^
but still have a lot of things to learn, and time when i will be able to watch raw anime is pretty far, and may be it's not very polite of me to complain about subs and people who make them, but just think that if one gets down to make subs he should do it perfectly or not to do at all
that's why lately try to find subs of teams who are really good in it

Well, I cannot say I fully understand or even understand most of it, but still, I have to watch RAW from time to time (Lately, for example, Soul Eater, subs come out just so late). So I know quite a lot of "anime" vocabulary and also many verbs (and some formes, like -tai), question words and stuff, and that helps me to understand it well enough when it doesn't come to complicated dialoges/monologes.
I haven't studied it seriously yet, I'm planning starting next year (it's my first year in the university, math there is just so tough I cannot find any more time), but I made quite a few attemps to study it myself, I know hiragana, most of the katakana (although kanji is problematic, I'm trying to learn and remember but for now not more than 10-20) and some basics about structure of the sentence and stuff.
Plus I learn most of the songs by hard as I listen almost to japanese music only, from anime. And as I pay attention to lyrics and check them, I learn many words that way) That's kinda my way of learning, at least I know I won't forget any of them any time soon, as they're connected with memories (best way to learn any language). But it's not much anyway)

And about other languages, I think spanish isn't that bad) I haven't studied it, but I can read some texts understanding most of it since I'm studying french and italian (this one by myself) and they're really similiar to spanish, aspecially italian)
Plus I'm studying german for a year now... Not to mention I had to learn english as well)
Btw, what other languages you plan to/are studying already?

I know some words and phrases. I can't speek fluently in japanese, but I would like to learn this language in future.

I hope I will be able to one day.

I can only make out some words here and there. I just might know a slight idea about what's going on...it depends on the anime though.

I prefer to watch my anime in Japanese with English subtitles. I think it's better that way. Just like I prefer to eat my Chinese food with chopsticks rather than a fork. The food just tatstes better that way. LOL.

I know how to greet my husband when he comes in from work in the proper Japanese fashion as well as to say grace in Japanese. LOL It's loads of fun.

When I said grace for my parents in Japanese for my parents my dad was like "whatever". LOL.