Could anime be used as a language learning tool?

My first practice session
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great work, very good for your first time writing hiragana! Remember that the second stroke (that goes up and down) curves slightly to the right as you go down. Remember that this came from writing with brushes, so there's a bit of a curve to a lot of the strokes in hiragana

All the stuff about long vowels will become (mostly) more clear when you wean off romaji ;)
 
If you want to print off some practice paper, there are PDFs here. That way you can try to be consistent on size and orientation from the start.
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Belkov said:
A good few years ago, I started learning Spanish. I thought I was doing quite good at it where I could at least speak simple sentences. I had went on holiday there and I was meet with either blank faces when speaking to locals or that they spoke English. I gave it trying to learn the language because if you are not living in a country where the language is spoken, there is no use for learning the language other than the saying to people that you had did.

One thing I will say is that Spanish people speak very quickly where the words at times merges together. Even though you may know Spanish words, Spanish spoke by Spanish people is almost incomprehensible. I had learned Spanish using DuoLingo which used spoken language so I was able to get used to hearing Spanish words and in doing so, it was easier to understand spoken Spanish from YouTube clips even though they were talking fast.

It is part of the immmersion part of language learning where when you hear the words you will get used to listening to it and then be able to listen to it spoken by native speakers. While I was learning Spanish I used this site SPSS Assignment Help for Sociology Students to manage my hometasks in college intime. This site is great for students. In that way, while watching Anime might not be totally helpful in learning Japanese, it will help you to listen to native Speakers and be able to pick out words and in time when your proficiency improves, will be able to communicate with them.
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Good example. I agree that it is impossible to learn a language only through anime, but in a complex of different ways of learning, watching anime, as well as films or spoken videos will give a good effect.
 
Uchiha-san, how many hiragana have you learned so far?
 
Buntaro said:
Uchiha-san, how many hiragana have you learned so far?
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I failed at studying outside of class. But I did like learn the one I posted early. I had my first japanese class. I know I am Uchiha Desu. You are Buntaro San. Hai is yes and iee is no. My 2nd class is tomorrow.
 
Uchida-san,

Let us know when you can read and write the first five hiragana!
 
Hai. I just got a new printer it took me all night to get it up and running I'm printing off study guides and flash cards now. My first five to memorize will be a, i, u, e, o. I already know the a when I see it, so it won't take long to get those memorized.
 
Uchiha-san,

After you finish creating them, send us a photo of your flash cards for the first five hiragana.
 
bentenmusume said:
Sigh...please don't cite MattvsJapan and KenCannon as authorities on learning Japanese.

They are both known scammers who ****** people into paying hundreds or thousands of dollars to pay for their Japanese courses on the basis that they are the only ones who can teach true Japanese, despite the fact that they actively misrepresent their own experiences with the language.

They both claim they learned solely through "immersion" when the fact is they both took classroom Japanese lessons in university, felt it didn't help them, then eventually watched a lot of native Japanese media and got comfortable with the language.

Well...guess what? This is what people have always been doing to learn languages.

They didn't just watch anime, etc., and then one day they were wow! automagically! fluent!

They had some basic grammar knowledge, then they supplemented this with native Japanese content, which reinforced their knowledge and gave them experience with the living language. Guess what? That's what I did too and no one is hailing me as some language learning god or throwing money at me because I'm the One True Speaker of Truth among non-native Japanese speakers.

Please, please don't buy into these two's misrepresentations of themselves, or promote them to beginning learners. It is an incredibly harmful and just simply not correct mindset.

Matt basically tries to convince people that if you don't learn Japanese exactly like he did -- for which you can pay him money for the privilege -- you are doomed to speaking horrible gaijin-speak forever and everyone will hate you. Never mind the fact that he hasn't published anything on the internet that isn't heavily curated or approved by him.

I am so tired of seeing these people who are just pretty decent Japanese learners with good PR presenting themselves as some sort of language learning god and suckering people in.

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I have more to say about this to the OP -- which I'll say when I'm thinking a bit more clearly -- but for now I agree with Majestic's post entirely.

Sorry, mdchachi, I really don't want to be antagonistic, but MattvsJapan and Ken Cannon are not positive, authentic, or trustworthy presences in the Japanese learning community, and I would rather not see their lies and scams promulgated here. Thank you.
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I don't want to freshen old wounds here, but I have listened to some of his stuff on YouTube and even looked at the refold plan. I've seen him referenced by other Japanese youtubers as a scammer one or twice, but also see a lot of sour grapes from what I can only describe are his competitors in the YouTube Japanese influencer scene. I don't have a dog in the fight, but I have looked in the past and could find no evidence of scam sites or where he asks for money etc. aside from a anki deck for refold worth $25. I don't use his particular plan, my takeaway from his channel was just immersion which is not a break through in my opinion. But now I'm curious of the what I may have not noticed or missed.
 
Uchiha-san,

You are making good progress on your hiragana. Congratulations!

Next are the K-column hiragana characters. If you want, you can watch Tomo Sensei's video, linked to below.

It's important that you do not take too long to learn hiragana. I hope you are not planning on taking six weeks to learn hiragana. Pace yourself. Watch Tomo Sensei's video (or the videos your professor gave you), stop the video after each character, write the character ten times, then move on to the next character.

Using flashcards is also a good idea. Go through your pile of flashcards. See if you can pronounce them. In the beginning and go through the cards in order. As you go through them, make two piles, the ones you get right and the ones you get wrong. Then pick up the pile of the ones you got wrong, shuffle them, and go though them all over again. When you finally get all of them right, it is time to move on to the next video of hiragana characters.


 
Uchiha-san,

I have one more idea for your flashcards. Write the number of the card on each card. This will help you put them in order quickly. At this stage of your learning, practicing them in order is a good idea. (There are 46 hiragana.)
 
あいうえお So I have learned a nifty fact all the hiragana are in the same order the a i u e o then next is KA KI KU KE KO か き く け こ going to master these tonight and start memorizing the next 5. My class is really good but its ALMOST a little to fast paced for me. Its like enough that I can grasp most of it. But I have hard time understanding the teacher sometime but then when she goes around the class and makes everyone repeat after her somewhere along the way I can pick up on most of the pronunciation. I feel like i am gettting better at it though like the words roll out easier after 5 classes then they did after 2 classes
 
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Uchiha-san,

Post a picture of your ka-ko flashcards when you get them done.

Do you have Japanese class five times a week? That means it's a five credit class. College counselors say that if we want to get an A in a class, we have to spend three hours outside of class doing homework for every one hour we spend in class. When they say 12 hours of credit is full time, they mean it!

Find someone in class you can study with. It'll be more fun and you will remember better. (Many people here on this forum have lots of ideas on how to study with a 'study-buddy'.)
 
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Buntaro said:
Uchiha-san,

Post a picture of your ka-ko flashcards when you get them done.

Do you have Japanese class five times a week? That means it's a five credit class. College counselors say that if we want to get an A in a class, we have to spend three hours outside of class doing homework for every one hour we spend in class. When they say 12 hours of credit is full time, they mean it!

Find someone in class you can study with. It'll be more fun and you will remember better.
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I have it 3 days a week for a little less than an hour.
 
so now I am upset. My school made a mistake and sold me a Japanese workbook with missing pages. So that put me behind and now I am having to double up on homework to get caught up on my work that cuts into me having time to actually study. Its messed up my rhythm I had going.
 
Konbanwa! I am studying hard right now! sa shi su se so . I did bad on my test today scored 17.5 out of 30. I am in a program that's going to get me a tutor though.
 
Hey Uchiha-san, which questions on the test were difficult for you ?
 

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