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Originally Posted by yuriyuri
I see what you are saying but, it does depend on what you watch and what you read etc.
If you stick to only watching Pokemon and reading Naruto of course you will miss out on a lot.
If however you actually broaden your reading/watching/listening materials and even go out of your way to speak with natives in the target language, then of course you can pick up everything that you would learn in a class anyway.
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That's not my point. I'm saying that you miss out on a lot of things by thinking, that it only takes a few TV shows and some basic reading to learn the language. There is a reason why some people study this for many years.. AND.. if you talk to natives of the language, it's not actually self-teaching ; D Also, natives don't think about how they speak their language - they just speak it. So your theory doesn't really hold water in my opinion..
I'd say it would only work if you ACTUALLY got your hands on grammar books, how-to Kanji/hiragana/katakana etc. Japanese (and any eastern Asian language) is not something you 'just' decide to learn, because you think you have the flair for any European language. Heck, if I wanted to, I'd probably be able to teach myself any European language - because they're easy for me, as I'm European myself. But the ground base for European languages (Latin, old Germanian languages etc.) are not to be compared to Japanese, Chinese, Korean or anything like it.
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Originally Posted by Sitron
I understand German perfectly fine. I watch tv-shows dubbed in German evbery single day and I understand everything. I taught myself vocab by translating articles and books. And the pronunciation I learned by watching tv shows.
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And no one ever corrected your translations?
I find that very hard to believe.. And dude, I understand pretty much ANYTHING in German said or written to me - but I still have a hard time figuring out the grammar. Translating articles and books doesn't do much unless you have a book or a programme that teaches you the grammar from end to other. There are SO many grammatical issues with the German language. What language is your mother tongue?