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Originally Posted by sergiu
You don't have to translate EVERY word, I actually translated them, what I am interested in is the grammar. I can see why your way of teaching can be tiring.
I want to understand the Japanese used in that cartoon right now, not your average textbook Japanese, anyway thank you for telling me how not to learn, I will continue like this all the same, just not on this forum, I found a better one for my needs.
Thanks again.
P.S. I'm not sure how I learned English, I think with a dictionary and a lot of cartoons.
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You called yourself a noob, and you didn't mention that you had any actual interest in the program you were watching. How am I supposed to know you are only learning it for purposes of watching
that anime? You could just have said "I want to understand this anime", and it would have been far clearer. Instead I assumed that you were translating the anime just for the sake of learning Japanese. My bad.
I think your response was sour beyond necessity. You didn't say what you wanted to learn, so since you picked such a strange method, I (wrongly [and hypocritically]) assumed you to know very little about Japanese, or learning languages. Sorry about that too.
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Originally Posted by sergiu
I can see why your way of teaching can be tiring.
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However, as I said, that is not how I teach. I give proper explanations of grammar complete with irregularities and exceptions. In order to ensure one understands a certain grammar point, at least a page of writing (maybe up to 300 words) is required. Where your sentences contained about 2-3 notable grammar points each, it would be an arduous task to explain the grammar in such a way as anyone learning Japanese could understand it. The previous post was an example of the fact that, if you compress what would be 3 pages of grammar into a single forum post, it is still huge, and at hardly adequate.
I think I may have pissed you off, though it wasn't my intention. If you need help with grammar, there are some excellent books titled "A Dictionary of Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Japanese Grammar". You can quickly find grammar, and it is explained in full.