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05-20-2008, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by chaseme View Post
The OP's point is that anime,jdrama etc... is harmful for those who are trying to learn japanese language.
that is what i disagree. one because there are different type of learners, people like me with short attention span would probably have more success understanding anime conversation that a voice recording of japanese vocabulary. 2nd anime/drama etc... have a larger scope of conversation than any other source.
well it might be true that it would be hard or impossible to learn "proper" japanese from these media but i think its undoubtedly a helpful media.
i dont think its the anime/jdrama fault that you couldn't stop saying 'sorry' in informal Japanese in a test for Business Level Japanese.
That is not the OPs point.

The point is you cannot expect to learn Japanese from subbed anime.

There are people that think this is possible. They are wrong.

People with short attention spans are not good candidates for learning second languages.

I spent 6 hours a week in a classroom and probably double that doing homework for four years to get Japanese "fluency" but I didn't feel fluent until I had lived in Japan for a couple years.
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