| I've seen quite a few people say they can understand anime without subtitles after ~2 years of watching subbed anime. Is this true? And is it really enough to say this 100%? I guess it depends on how much you watch, but still seems a little far fetched. Though, I guess it makes some sense due to the way anime is scripted, like overused phrases, which I've memorized. |
| you will understand words and phrases just by associating the words with the subs but you probably won't get very deep with grammar and less common words |
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| at very certain limit. you can't even learn japanese alphabeth from anime. you still need learn it from scratch. |
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| No. No you can't. Especially if your older than 13. You'll pick up single words when used on their own like "nigero" - "run/escape", "gommenasai" - '"i'm sorry", etc. But it'll be next to impossible to pick up the meaning of a whole sentence just naturally like that. |
| You can understand some words and phrases if you pay attention, but understand the language to the totality? Nope. |
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| It'll help practice and reinforce listening/comprehension if you're actively studying it via other means. Watching it will definitely help you get used to listening to Japanese and you'll have an easier time pronouncing Japanese words. This is all though, no one can absorb a language through passive means alone. |
| Enough to tentacle rape girls yes. If you are tentacle that is. |
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| Welp, I can atleast count in Japanese xD and some basic words and sentences linger.. but to actually communicate in Japanese you'd probably have to do alot more than just learn from anime xD |
| I learned enough to see some genres raw. |
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romagia said: you will understand words and phrases just by associating the words with the subs but you probably won't get very deep with grammar and less common words Yeah I wasn't even considering writing/reading, just understanding and pronunciation. Lancehot said: Watch years worth of late night anime. Go to Japan. Use the phrases you picked up from years of late night anime. Get beaten up. Success. lmao Dakrith said: It'll help practice and reinforce listening/comprehension if you're actively studying it via other means. Watching it will definitely help you get used to listening to Japanese and you'll have an easier time pronouncing Japanese words. This is all though, no one can absorb a language through passive means alone. Yeah, this is what I was thinking. |
| No. I think the most you could ever achieve is knowing when the subs are wrong, but still needing them to be able to sit down and watch an anime. |
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| Unless you watch the most generic anime in existence repeatedly, there are just way to many variables to consider. |
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| 2 letters... 2 words.. No. Hell no. I feel bad for the poor souls for who have to learn Kanji. If you need an organization which adds and reduces the number of characters in your "alphabet" nearly every year.. you are doing something wrong.. really... really.. really wrong... I'll keep my 26 english letters.. you can keep your 3 'alphabets' and over 2000 characters. |
| It depends if you are good with languages. There are people who can learn languages just by listening to it. Or learn it to a certain degree. |
| Nope, not from Anime alone. You'll be lucky to even be able to speak coherent sentences. |
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| No, but you can learn a few words not enough to carry a conversation though you need to take classes or something for that. |
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semianonymous said: kanji is not an alphabet, but an logographic system, similar to egyptian hieroglyphs2 letters... 2 words.. No. Hell no. I feel bad for the poor souls for who have to learn Kanji. If you need an organization which adds and reduces the number of characters in your "alphabet" nearly every year.. you are doing something wrong.. really... really.. really wrong... I'll keep my 26 english letters.. you can keep your 3 'alphabets' and over 2000 characters. and hiragana and katakana are similar to lower case and upper case latin alphabet |
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| Yes, it's true. I learned Japanese through hentai. |
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| No. You need someone to help you understand syntax and such things. But it can help you get used to the language. Learning Japanese is easier when you watch a lot of anime. |
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romagia said: semianonymous said: kanji is not an alphabet, but an logographic system, similar to egyptian hieroglyphs2 letters... 2 words.. No. Hell no. I feel bad for the poor souls for who have to learn Kanji. If you need an organization which adds and reduces the number of characters in your "alphabet" nearly every year.. you are doing something wrong.. really... really.. really wrong... I'll keep my 26 english letters.. you can keep your 3 'alphabets' and over 2000 characters. and hiragana and katakana are similar to lower case and upper case latin alphabet Sorry.. not sorry... but I simplified 'logographic system similiar to egyptian hieroglyphs' to alphabet. That is way too high level for the MAL forums and I'm one of em' |
romagia said: you will understand words and phrases just by associating the words with the subs but you probably won't get very deep with grammar and less common words I can vouch for this. Thanks to watching hundreds of anime, I can comprehend the gist of what’s being said in an anime (that isn’t dialogue-heavy) without reading the subtitles. However, I know absolutely nothing about Japanese grammar, characters, etc. |
| Take a damn class you filthy weeaboo |
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| No, but you might be able to learn enough to communicate a few very basic things verbally. and probably be considered very rude by a native speaker |
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| You can't. You just can't learn enough Japanese from anime. |
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| No way |
| There is no way. I have watched anime for years but the only thing about Japanese language that i could learn and remember after all of those years only some dirty words. |
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| Yeah you can learn some stuff. But that's only if you try to pay attention. You will be able to understand but nor really speak. After all these years I can pretty much watch any average slice of life/shoujo/kids anime (because they usually use simple language) without subtitles and understand almost everything. Though Japanese used in anime are quite different than actual japanese. If you want to learn the actual language and writing you should take lessnns |
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| You will know repeating word in a sentence but that's about it. You'll learn more reading a Japanese dictionary then watching Anime. |
| No. All you'll be able to pick up is a bunch of words and scripted lines that nobody uses in real life, and that will only result in you getting called out for acting like the dumb & impolite gaijin that you are. If you plan on talking to actual japanese people, then take lessons. However, if you're already taking lessons, then watching animu without subtitles or reading raw manga can be a good exercice. |
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Valkata said: It depends if you are good with languages. There are people who can learn languages just by listening to it. Or learn it to a certain degree. I met two persons whom I would consider being able to do so. Given, they'd probably also go and get themselves a dictionary and a "grammar book", and glance at both only once, but nevertheless, these two were both able to pick up languages ever so easily - very, very impressive. (and I am actually not bad at languages myself, but nowhere near them two.) It also depends on what OP meant with "emough Japanese". Duskfall said: What does age have to do with learning languages? you learn languages differently as a child. Not the structured, "school/lessons-way" you'd typically employ as a later teenager or adult. Personally I always missed that un-structured way of learning foreign languages as additional element in them structured learning courses. romagia said: and hiragana and katakana are similar to lower case and upper case latin alphabet Y'know, if you want to smartass, at least put correct information. That there is not a suitable comparison. A syllabary is not an alphabet. |
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| Weaboos level Japanese, yeah. |
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| No. You can pick up on words or phrases, and understand some pronunciation. But you can't really learn it from anime itself. |
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| No... If you try to learn Japanese through Anime and SAY you can speak Japanese from watching Anime and butcher the language then you will be branded a weeaboo. Sure you can learn a few words, and sayings, but learning the language entirely? No, you cant. That's what classes, teachers, and other sources are for. |
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Sapewloth said: No. All you'll be able to pick up is a bunch of words and scripted lines that nobody uses in real life, and that will only result in you getting called out for acting like the dumb & impolite gaijin that you are. If you plan on talking to actual japanese people, then take lessons. However, if you're already taking lessons, then watching animu without subtitles or reading raw manga can be a good exercice. You’ve got a point, but the OP specified he was talking about anime comprehension and not IRL comprehension. Cersei said: if you're a damn weeb anything is possible Wtf. How does naturally learning the words in a language from watching cartoons in said language make you a weeb? That term is grossly misused. Eucli said: Yeah you can learn some stuff. But that's only if you try to pay attention. You will be able to understand but not really speak. After all these years I can pretty much watch any average slice of life/shoujo/kids anime (because they usually use simple language) without subtitles and understand almost everything. Though Japanese used in anime are quite different than actual japanese. If you want to learn the actual language and writing you should take lessons. This. |
| I'm currently taking Japanese classes in college and I've been watching sub for about 2 years now. The only big thing that watching sub anime has helped me with is phonetics. Besides that, it's really only a few phrases/words. semianonymous said: you can keep your 3 'alphabets' and over 2000 characters. 3 writing styles total, only hiragana and katakana are alphabets; kanji are characters romagia said: hiragana and katakana are similar to lower case and upper case latin alphabet Hiragana is for japanese words, katakana is mainly for foreign words. There is no uppercase or lowercase in japanese (unless you count the smaller letters in glides as "lowercase", but I don't think that's really a thing) |
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| No, I really doubt you can obtain actual fluency. |
| It helps you to pick up certain words here and there, and a little bit with how sentences are structured in the language but if you want to full grasp the language you need to study outside of just watching subbed anime, obviously. But it is a good place to start, I suppose. |
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| No,you can't learn more than several words,phrases and sentences just by watching anime. However if you do enough research on the grammar structure and verb conjugations you might just learn enough Japanese ro actually survive in Japan. After 1+ years of watching anime and extensive research I can carry out a conversation decently enough and can also read and.write hiragana. But it also depends on how well you can grasp languages. I am also proficient in French and German so learning languages is easy for me.. |
| No |
| not sure what is "enough Japanese", but don't expect anime to be of much use when learning the language. i know some people go to Japan knowing 0 Japanese and they still manage to survive by using gps and google translate (for translating single words) |
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