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  1. #1
    the little girl Tuskegee Airman
    How do you get to the point where you hear a foreign word and immediately understand the context in that language?
    Like, for me if I hear a Japanese word I recognize it but then translate it from English, this makes it impossible to watch anime and keep up with the dialog.
    How do you train yourself to think in the language?
  2. #2
    street_carp African Astronaut
    You need to speak the language with other people, preferably native speakers, for hundreds of hours usually before you start to follow conversations at a natural speed.

    Trying to memorise words and phrases creates the problem you're describing where you try to translate in your head all the time.
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    its just natural if your being raised in a country where multiple langguages are spoken. similar to how a something can have multiple words for it.

    we just have a hell of a lot more.
  4. #4
    Originally posted by the little girl How do you get to the point where you hear a foreign word and immediately understand the context in that language?
    Like, for me if I hear a Japanese word I recognize it but then translate it from English, this makes it impossible to watch anime and keep up with the dialog.
    How do you train yourself to think in the language?

    You "train" yourself by using it...like anything you do regularly it becomes an unconscious "act"...like riding a bike, you don't really think about it, you just do it. If you have to think about it you are not yet "trained" and need to keep getting "on the bike" till you are.
  5. #5
    Robert Mugabe African Astronaut
    Why is OP's nose so hideously big?
  6. #6
    I wonder what it's like to think in japanese
  7. #7
    Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood I wonder what it's like to think in japanese

    Same as thinking in English only with black wispy hair on your tackle region.
  8. #8
    Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood I wonder what it's like to think in japanese

    'hondaaaaaaaaAAAAAaaa, honda mitubishi suZUkiii"
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  9. #9
    the little girl Tuskegee Airman
    Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood I wonder what it's like to think in japanese

    Japanese is completely alien to English.

    The grammar is like this

    Japanese little speak

    Or

    I American am

    Or
  10. #10
    the little girl Tuskegee Airman
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Same as thinking in English only with black wispy hair on your tackle region.

    Nah you're an idiot and talking about shit you know nothing about as usual
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    Lodger Free African Astronaut
    Originally posted by the little girl How do you get to the point where you hear a foreign word and immediately understand the context in that language?
    Like, for me if I hear a Japanese word I recognize it but then translate it from English, this makes it impossible to watch anime and keep up with the dialog.
    How do you train yourself to think in the language?

    one of the things when learning a language is they suggest you watch cartoons. A Mexican friend of mine from work said he learned English watching cartoons with spanish CC turned on and American Soap Operas

    is it possible you had the CC on when watching your japan animation?
  12. #12
    Originally posted by the little girl Nah you're an idiot and talking about shit you know nothing about as usual

    How many Ginger Japs do you know?
  13. #13
    the little girl Tuskegee Airman
    Originally posted by Lodger Free one of the things when learning a language is they suggest you watch cartoons. A Mexican friend of mine from work said he learned English watching cartoons with spanish CC turned on and American Soap Operas

    is it possible you had the CC on when watching your japan animation?

    That is so fucking retarded and only a huge idiot would do that.
    For one subtitles are always a reinterpretation of the original dialog not a proper translation and two there is the difference in grammar.

    You will never learn Japanese by watching something with subtitles.
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    Originally posted by the little girl Japanese is completely alien to English.

    The grammar is like this

    Japanese little speak

    Or

    I American am

    Or

    You're trying to translate it to English...that's not the way to for it to become second nature you dumb fuck.

    lolol...do you even lift any other languages bro??
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  15. #15
    the little girl Tuskegee Airman
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson You're trying to translate it to English…that's not the way to for it to become second nature you dumb fuck.

    lolol…do you even lift any other languages bro??

    You actually are a stupid person lol
  16. #16
    the little girl Tuskegee Airman
    Nihongo ga
    Japanese

    sukoshi
    little

    Wakarimasu
    Speak/understand


    Japanese little speak

    You're a fucking idiot, as always.
  17. #17
    Originally posted by the little girl You actually are a stupid person lol

    Says the faggit who learned a dozen Jap words by watching Anime and then looking the translation up on google.

    Fucking lollocks.
  18. #18
    Originally posted by the little girl Nihongo ga
    Japanese

    Tsukoshi
    little

    Wakarimasu
    Speak/understand


    Japanese little speak

    You're a fucking idiot, as always.

    Oh look..he's translating to English again rather than learning naturally.

  19. #19
    the little girl Tuskegee Airman
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Says the faggit who learned a dozen Jap words by watching Anime and then looking the translation up on google.

    Fucking lollocks.

    Actually I use arrival sources such as tae kim's guide to Japanese, various books, blogs and videos.

    You're a dumbass trying to argue about a subject you know nothing about, like the time you tried to argue about imageboards.
  20. #20
    Originally posted by the little girl Actually I use arrival sources such as tae mom's guide to Japanese, various books, blogs and videos.

    Oh well then!..quite the expert...lololol

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