Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Japanese Subtitles + Learning With Texts = Productive Drama Watching (?)

Hey fellow Japanese drama watchers who are also studying Japanese. Wouldn't you like to watch Japanese dramas and study at the same time? Sure, you can delude yourself into believing that simply enjoying what you can and glazing over what you can't understand is helpful, but we'll get nowhere like that! Then again, pausing every time an unknown word comes on so you can notate and decode it kills the fun of drama-watching. Kills it dead. Like, with a rock... or something. Like, with a stone...

Yeah! Kung Pow reference!


Well, if you get some Japanese subtitles (or better yet, the script) and put it into Learning With Texts, you can simply follow along as you go. With regular subtitles, you have to pause and look up kanji. Boring! With subtitles+LWT, you'll get minimal pausing time! The word is right there, and with a click you can get its definition and save it for later perusal. (Imagine the previous paragraph in an infomercial guy voice.)

Yeah! Learning!
You can get Japanese subs here. You can get Japanese dramas using something like Keyhole TV or whatever floats your boat.

No comments:

Post a Comment