Question for multilingual fags

1. 2021-01-21 at 9:21 AM UTC

   #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. 2021-01-21 at 9:39 AM UTC

   #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.
3. 2021-01-21 at 1:37 PM UTC

   #3
   

   vindicktive vinny Black Hole
   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. 2021-01-21 at 2:47 PM UTC

   #4
   

   Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

   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. 2021-01-21 at 2:49 PM UTC

   #5
   

   Robert Mugabe African Astronaut
   Why is OP's nose so hideously big?
6. 2021-01-21 at 3:45 PM UTC

   #6
   

   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
   I wonder what it's like to think in japanese
7. 2021-01-21 at 3:46 PM UTC

   #7
   

   Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

   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. 2021-01-21 at 3:47 PM UTC

   #8
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   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. 2021-01-21 at 3:48 PM UTC

   #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. 2021-01-21 at 3:49 PM UTC

    #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
11. 2021-01-21 at 3:49 PM UTC

    #11
    

    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. 2021-01-21 at 3:52 PM UTC

    #12
    

    Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

    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. 2021-01-21 at 3:52 PM UTC

    #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.
14. 2021-01-21 at 3:53 PM UTC

    #14
    

    Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

    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. 2021-01-21 at 3:56 PM UTC

    #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. 2021-01-21 at 3:57 PM UTC

    #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. 2021-01-21 at 3:58 PM UTC

    #17
    

    Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

    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. 2021-01-21 at 3:59 PM UTC

    #18
    

    Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

    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. 2021-01-21 at 3:59 PM UTC

    #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. 2021-01-21 at 4:01 PM UTC

    #20
    

    Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

    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