Does anyone learn Japanese using Anime with no subtitles or do you use subtitles? - Feed Post by Ghosts
Does anyone learn Japanese using Anime with no subtitles or do you use subtitles?
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Depends on the anime. Some I can understand perfectly without subs, but others, more complex or adult ones, I watch with japanese subs.
@beee_17 Where do you get the anime without subs or with Japanese subs? I just can found anime with eng subs only....- Torrents, mostly (a community called nyaa). Although I do believe there are some (legal) streaming websites which let you watch without subs, like Hulu.
And for the subs, I just get them on this awesome website kitsuneko.net. Most of the times the timing of the subtitles is off, but thats really easy to fix with a software called Aegisub :) 
Yeah but nyaa doesn't work for torrents i've tried utorrent says it doesn't work because of an error I use Hulu and cover up the subs but i want to switch to raw anime soon
I learn with subtitles- Thank you guys..I will check out those websites :)
- Nevermine got it too work thank you
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Crunchyroll.com you can right-click the video and disable the subtitles for virtually every anime on the site! ;-)- Yeah but it doesn't delete hard coded subs tbh
- I didn't think there were many anime with hard coded subs on Crunchyroll. But I just noticed that the earlier episodes of One Piece have hard coded subs. The episodes in the current season have soft subs though. The original series of Naruto has hard subs too, but Shippuuden has so subs from the start.
I did say "virtually all" because I knew there were some anime with hard subs (usually older stuff, like Flame Of Recca, although Great Teacher Onizuka has soft subs... so not necessarily the case), but I still don't think it's that common. In any case, One Piece isn't even available on Crunchyroll for the UK, and neither is the original Naruto series anymore, so this hardly affects me. ;_; 
Thank you! This all was helpful!
I don't use subtitles. It helps you a lot when it comes to listening.
And i recommend to watch documentaries and bulletins if you don't like movies or series, not only your listening will increase but vocabulary as well. Oh well, reading stuff is important too. If you don't feel secure, begin with stuff which contains furigana and when you're feeling confident, continue your readings without furigana.
That's all- Even though I mentioned about doing it, I've only watched a very small number of episodes without the subtitles myself.
I watch anime because I enjoy it, not primarily for the purpose of learning or practising any Japanese. I care about understanding what all the characters are saying and I don't to miss anything being said.
However, one thing I actually do a lot is LISTEN to the anime rather than watch it. I play the video on my phone using a video app which allows you to turn the screen off. I only do this for anime series I've already watched though—Cowboy Bebop, Maisson Ikkoku, Great Teacher Onizuka, Nichijou, Azumanga Daioh... I highly recommend this as a method to pracise Japanese listening skill.
When you watch an anime episode you haven't seen before and have the subtitles turned off, you end up concentrating only on the picture and trying to figure out from that what is happening. I think most of the audio is ignored almost as much as if you were watching with subtitles, because you focus too hard on the picture instead.
However, with listening to an anime episode you've already watched before and without any picture at all, this way you focus entirely on the audio, trying to figure out what is going on from what is being said and creating an image in your head of what you can remember seeing when you watched it. ^^ 
It depends if you're learning vocabulary and sentence formation or not. Subtitles aren't absolute. A lot of the times they use American slang and words that are similar to the words in Japanese because not every word can be exactly translated or wouldn't make sense in English. Subs and dubs lack Japanese authenticity. However, if you're learning to achieve better pronunciation and fluent communicative skills, anime is one of the most fun ways of language immersion.
there's a really good website for this, you have to pay for the premium content though, but I'd say it's worth it. www.japanesevideocast.com
