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2021-01-21 at 9:21 AM UTCHow 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? -
2021-01-21 at 9:39 AM UTCYou 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. -
2021-01-21 at 1:37 PM UTCits 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. -
2021-01-21 at 2:47 PM UTC
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. -
2021-01-21 at 2:49 PM UTCWhy is OP's nose so hideously big?
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2021-01-21 at 3:45 PM UTCI wonder what it's like to think in japanese
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2021-01-21 at 3:46 PM UTC
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2021-01-21 at 3:47 PM UTC
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2021-01-21 at 3:48 PM UTC
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2021-01-21 at 3:49 PM UTC
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2021-01-21 at 3:49 PM UTC
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? -
2021-01-21 at 3:52 PM UTC
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2021-01-21 at 3:52 PM UTC
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. -
2021-01-21 at 3:53 PM UTC
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?? -
2021-01-21 at 3:56 PM UTC
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2021-01-21 at 3:57 PM UTCNihongo ga
Japanese
sukoshi
little
Wakarimasu
Speak/understand
Japanese little speak
You're a fucking idiot, as always. -
2021-01-21 at 3:58 PM UTC
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2021-01-21 at 3:59 PM UTC
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2021-01-21 at 3:59 PM UTC
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. -
2021-01-21 at 4:01 PM UTC