Are you starting to learn japanese from watching anime? Nope. |
| Picked up alot of phrases and words so far. Not sure I can get round the sentence structure. Went through the phase of looking into private tutoring a while back, just a lack of money prevented that. |
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| just basic words and phrases |
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| I've often wondered if you could learn japanese from watching anime, but as for me no. I have taken thought to learning it someday I love the way the language sounds and would be so cool to watch raw episodes :D |
| Yeah. xD It's not all that different from Mandarin [ my native language ] in certain aspects so I've caught on to some phrases, and when I watch raw videos I can understand about 75% of it from context clues and knowing words/phrases. xD |
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| Learned a few words, but nothing everyone who's watched anime doesn't know |
Zukin-Man said: Haven't really tried to learn anything, but I've learned a few simple words and phrases. Nothing even close to conversational. This |
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| I'm learning Japanese at school and there's a good number of words I've learnt from anime. But my school focuses on teaching us formal Japanese so half the stuff I learn in anime I can't use in class. |
| No, just recognizing a word here and there. |
| You can't really learn Japanese from watching anime, you may pick up a few words that will be easier to remember as a result but don't dare try and speak the same way as an anime character does haha. As someone said earlier it is not representative of how actual Japanese people would communicate. It did spark my interest in the language though and I started taking extra curricular Japanese classes at University as a result. :) |
| Yea,I do learn some word and phrases ,but really learn?.....umm....well,not really :(( Those Sentences are SOOOO puzzly for me @_@ like they get in from one ear and leave from the other Ugg.....Stupid Memory of mines ><;;; *looks at his TV smiling stupidly to their words |
| Not really, I'm learning Japanese through study. :v I am picking up casual slang and insults, though. Not the best thing to pepper into daily conversation, huh? |
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| I pick up a few phrases and words but it is far from being enough to talk to japanese person xD |
| In the past 5 months, I have learned quite a lot of Japanese from anime, at least enough to make a rough TL of a raw for myself (still with some guesswork though), as long as it's not a very complicated show. I'm still not good enough to actually have a long conversation though. But that's just me, I do learn languages easier this way, I also learned English via video games and movies. There are some good points of learning from anime, as you learn more about different forms of speech than from learning via Japanese lessons, which most of the time will only cover the formal speech (at least all that I know of). |
| Yes! I learned many words and basic grammar only through watching anime. I have also done a 2 week long intensive course at our university for getting better knowlegde of the grammar. Because I don´t actually speak I am still slow, but I do understand quite a lot by now and can do simple conversations. I think I am at least able to stay alive in japan without major problems. I learned kana and know about 60 kanji and some more which I can´t write but understand. I really love the language and hope to improve more in the future. I am watching anime for only 8 months so of course I can´t say I am good, but I understand how the language works and I think I have some talent for it. |
| Lol ....... i use google Translate. |
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| For those of you learning Japanese at the moment through class, is it hard ? |
TheBastid said: KaizokuBeatle said: As someone said earlier it is not representative of how actual Japanese people would communicate. It did spark my interest in the language though and I started taking extra curricular Japanese classes at University as a result. :) This is one of the BIGGEST MYTHS out there. That anime isn't representative of how real people talk. One of the biggest myths. In any field of medium, 70-90% of the language used is pretty much the same. With the rest 10-30% being specialized vernacular or "slang". Like a science textbook, if you have ever read a science textbook. Maybe 30% of the scientific vocab you won't use in a real conversation. However, the sentences, the structure, the rest of the 70% of language used is just common English that you use every single day. The same is with comic books, you look at a Batman comic, with the exception of 10% of the vernacular, the rest of the 90% is how you would talk in real Life. A huge misconception is people saying like how Naruto is cliche, shallow, and doesn't use real Japanese. In fact, Naruto, out of all the anime I've seen, uses some of the most complex speech I've heard. They not only use advanced vocab, but they incorporate a lot of Bhuddist/sacrilegious scripts, dialogue, and a lot of military vocabulary that are just, in my opinion, very, VERY useful in learning Japanese. All the だってばよ！and all that nonsense really only makes up 10% of the entire dialogue of the show. And plus, you can just take whatever Naruto's saying, change the だってばよ！ to です、and well....there you go....it becomes normal Japanese. Well I do agree with pretty much everything you said actually. It's kind of obvious that they are going to use common everyday Japanese in the shows but to a English viewer of anime recognising the slang and specialised vocabulary may not be obvious. You mention だってばよ！which is very often used at the end of Naruto's sentences but to an average watched with no/little knowledge of Japanese may interpret in some way and think it is normal. Also, will an average watcher even know です means lol ? I did say you would learn a good few words watching anime, but relying solely on anime to learn will only develop bad habits. I'm not saying anime is detrimental to your learning lol. For the record, I also do not think Naruto is cliche, shallow or uses fake Japanese (is that even possible? lol). |
| i have, yeah! |
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| Just a couple small things really. Titles like chan and sama, a few phrases, but not like I try to learn japanese from it... nor do I want to |
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NemesisXIV said: For those of you learning Japanese at the moment through class, is it hard ? Not really, it is very easy to pick up the basic conversational skills. The sentence structure is quite simple once you get used to it. Hard parts come in when you want to learn to read and write. Learning the 2 phonetic alphabets, Hiragana and Katakana, is quite simple and straightforward. Learning the 2000+ Kanji will take you years haha. I haven't even started touching Kanji yet. I also find it a much more interesting language than say Spanish or French (although they are probably more useful, I guess I get sick of that masculine and feminine crap lol). If you want to learn, go for it but try get classes. :) |
| A little. I understand some japanese words. |
| im havent really tried but ive started to learn a bit of the language ^^ i hope i can eventually take lessons to become fluent!!! |
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| You can't learn the language just from watching anime but if you're taking Japanese lessons then it definitely helps to watch IN ADDITION to actually taking lessons mostly because you can hear conversations and reinforce what you're learning. |
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| Same as everyone else. Just bits and pieces. I know enough to sort of understand an untranslated episode, but that's about itl. No idea with moonrunes. |
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| I never planned to learn it but I've picked up a few phrases and I know kana (did it for fun) but no kanji. |
| Barely learnt shit lol. Still can't read fucking Moon runes. |
| Lol Moon runes. Hm, I took Japanese lesson after getting hooked onto anime and falling for the language, so I have the basics hira and kana down. Now I sort of grasp new vocabs and kanjis as I go along. Having proper Japanese lessons really helps for anyone who wants to be fluent in the language one day. I know I do (: |
| I 'm picking up words here and there |
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Sora__J said: A little. I understand some japanese words. Same here . |
| Absolutely not. But now I can differentiate Japonese and Chinese. lol |
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| Absolutely not. But now I can differentiate Japanese and Chinese. lol |
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| After watching so much anime, I've learnt quite a few words, like one or two word phrases, and would one day love to fully learn the language as I love japanese culture. I think it should be easy that Mandarin is my second language so I can understand kanji fairy easy lol, except they're all in traditional and I can't read trad, and I can't pronounce the kanji in Japanese. I can in chinese though hah. Btw Japanese kanji IS pretty much Chinese lol, all the characters that have more than 3 strokes and look fairy complicated compared to hiragana and katakana |
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| I'm actually learning quite a lot, can understand conversations to some extent. |
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| I can speak a little Japanese... In some ways, Japanese is as same as Chinese,so I can learn it easyly. |
| Learned a couple things from watching anime. Can't speak a conversation still. But still learning from books. |
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| I know hai and baka and sayonara but other than that i cant think of many. |
| I've memorized some catch frases and along with my sister have learned some suffixes and use them now also just picked up some words i thought sounded interesting |
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| Well yeah : D I guess I could say it really does. I already once finished an anime series without having any english subs with me and just by watching them speak and do the actions I could somehow understand them : D And now I'm in half of learning the language *A* |
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