Kill Me Baby 03
Fun times on the internet lately. If SOPA passes (unlikely at this point) then even fansub sites can be taken down with just one email to the provider. That said, most of the anime itself floats around the various european networks so it would be just be inconvenient if we were ever targeted, rather than actually crippling in any way.
Still, if you are American, make your voice heard by calling your rep and tell them censorship is bad. As a Canadian I can only watch over you from my igloo while I feed my pet polar bear.
Kill me Baby 3
Completely unrelated question: How many of you are actually studying Japanese? No, watching anime doesn't count by itself.
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Also: I'm Canadian :D
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Thx for subbing this, Mazui!
Stop SOPA/PIPA!
DDL2: http://www.filesonic.com/file/u2RJyzq
in the meantime, i shall entertain myself with my polar bear.
...and I watch tons of animu
I've been studying Japanese for 8 months. I read the entire Tae Kim guide (which you suggested to someone on twitter) and it was extremely helpful. I'm also using Remembering the Kanji (50% done) and iknow.jp for vocabulary. I bought the first 3 Haganai manga and I'm reading them very slowly.
DDL1: http://www.fileserve.com/file/ZeZ5fGW
DDL2: http://www.filesonic.com/file/tbm7gIQ
Immersion is working out nicely, though.
Thanks for the ep.
I'm slowly learning Japanese using the Rosetta Stone program... Turkish was too hard to type.
I am currently studying Japanese. I'm currently a first year university student and I actually plan to study abroad somewhere in Japan for a semester during my third or fourth year. Although, I found out that doing so is surprisingly hard to set up for computer engineering majors. So, right now the plan for studying there is just to get rid of dumb required humanity and social science electives. But anyway, I study the language for about an hour a day, hoping to get up to a decent enough level to be able to study abroad there when the time comes.
To anyone interested in self learning, look up Pimsleur's audio lessons. They do wonders. It also helps *a lot* if you learn Japanese syntax and Kana from a textbook so you know how the sentences and vocalizations are formed.
I got a couple of books and a CD tutorial out of the city library. But shit was dull yo. It was all 'where is the bank' and 'Im late for my meeting'. I guess I got sick of learning Japanese for American businessmen. I mean I've never once said any of those lines in English, and I doubt they'll help me chat up a Japanese girl... the real reason why I want to learn Japanese!
To start I would recommend using Pimsleur (it give you some basic upon which you can then advance). After that you can try the old podcasts of JapanesePod101.com (old==the ones with Peter Galante); I find them very fun to listen while commuting.
For the written language... First memorize the kanas (hiragana and katakana) as they are so few of them is not an unsurmountable task. For the Kanji "The complete guide for everyday Kanji" and "Kanji ABC" are good, http://www.geocities.jp/mutasanjp/
has a lot of useful pdfs; press the link with the "1" at the left, and then scroll down to the documents in the "K" section; those are for reading practice for japanese-native 6-year-olds; quite approcheable.
Also, although the texts are very difficult, "Breaking into japacese literature" can be used to practice reading kanas, as all the kanjis are in the vocabulary listing in the same page as the text.
And that is what I can recommend.
Hope that helps :).
Anyway, it seems that there are a lot of people interested in learning jap, and not only enjoying the animu, wow!
Having anime made me good at listening skills, but my other 3 skills are still low.
I study Japanese. My comprehension skills are much better than speaking skills. I sat N1 this December, but I'm not really sure about the result, since I had to skim through a part of the reading part as the time wasn't on my side. I'll see in March. Heck, I'd like to do master's in Japan.
Also, Denpa Onna OVA (ep 13) comes out next week, will you sub it?
btw im British and whilst I have never studied Japanese i will!... eventually... tomorrow maybe... possibly
I mostly "learn" (if you can call it that) for the pleasure I get when I understand whole sentences of what they say in anime (I still totally need subs though, so keep subbing! :D )
Would be AWESOME to have some sort of "learning" fansub, where text was simultaneously in romaji and literal-english (word by word). I'm almost certain something like that would skyrocket my Javanese vocabulary, and I would still totally be able to follow the anime :)
https://tiss.tuwien.ac.at/course/educationDetails.xhtml?locale=en&windowId=50a&courseNr=015712&semester=2011W
...though we strangely never use computers^^
Also, SOPA and everything like it is stupid.
I watch subs because I don't understand everything and it's kind of a pain to have to pull out your dictionary every time someone says a word you don't know...
マズイは一番好きなグループです。続いてがんばってね。
Thanks for the episode, Mazui.
I've been studying Japanese for... Not sure how long. Not long enough for me to really do anything with it yet.
still can't speak it fluently, and only understand about 1/3 of whats going on in anime, without reading subs.
I'm in 3rd year Japanese at University, currently doing my assignment~ I'm still so far from being fluent though.
These laws allow isps to record every action you make online.
The 1st is international and probably too late to stop but eff is coming up with something. For us americans (I hate being called that now). PCFIPA only takes effect in the US and it has a chance of happening because of claims of fighting child porn so no one will question it except those who know better.
So look those up, sign a petition, go to eff.org and spread the info.
And don't stop fighting SOPA & PIPA.
Heading to Tokyo for a semester in March!
At this point I mostly watch stuff with subs just to see how things are translated by different people.
As an American, I am patiently waiting for us crazy people to stop doing crazy things. Thinking it might be faster/easier to move though.
Be proud to be American, temoi. You could have been born a barbarian.
After starting about 8 months ago, I have found it to be quite fast a process to learn to read, may the text be in any of the mostly used forms. (Actually, reading a text full of kanji is more comfortable than one with alot of long hiragana strings.)
At the moment, I can comprehend about 90% of e.g. 灼眼のシャナ light novel series with a monolingual dictionary.
Regarding education and background... I am an autodidact, self-learned, and have not touched anything else than what the internet can provide, Anki being one of the best and few tools available.
Nationality is finnish, age being 20, so no, age does not play a part in whether one can attain a high level of mastery in a given foreign language, motivation does.
-Roadi
Mediafire link please!
Thanks!