ディスる and subs2srs

ディスる
On Sundays I watch the show on the top of the variety feed, whatever it is. If I didn't I'd end up watching the same shows every week. Sometimes it isn't very interesting, since it's all entertainment and the main object is to either shock you or get a laugh out of you. But sometimes you learn some interesting things. For example, I learned the word ディスる while watching スクール革命. It comes from the English "diss", of course. Now I can talk about people dissing other people in Japanese. Although does anyone use "diss" in English that often nowadays?

subs2srs

I came across this on /r/languagelearning.

"subs2srs allows you to create import files for Anki or other Spaced Repetition Systems (SRS) based on your favorite foreign language movies and TV shows to aid in the language learning process.
This utility will parse through subtitle files, extract the dialog and timing information and then use that information to generate audio clips, snapshots and video clips for each line of dialog."

 Although you can do the same kind of thing on LWT, this is less time-intensive. If you have both the English and Japanese subtitles, they can be matched and processed at the same time into one card. Pretty cool!

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.

"Learning with Texts" (or, another way to study that I will probably slack off on once again)

Looking up and flashcard-izing kanji in your Japanese reading passages just became loads easier, but probably not easy enough for me to spend time doing it. I need that time to stare pointlessly into space and the depths of the internet, damn it!

I jest, I jest. I've just started using this Learning with Texts thing and it looks pretty cool so far. Honestly, all the instructions for setting it up kind of had me grumbling, but despite all the unzipping and file renaming (we learn to do that in middle school anyway, right, my generation?) it actually wasn't that daunting. Here's the set up...

Yes, I'm watching a show called Rooftop Prince. Don't judge me!

And here's what it looks like when you use it to edit sentences:

As you can see I've just added one of those passages from Asymptote. When you see a word you don't know, you can click on it, tell the program where it ends, and get the definition in the next window. I set my dictionaries for Denshi Jisho and Yahoo Jisho. All I have to do is put the info I want into the top right hand box (the translation, etc). You can also set whether you know or are learning the word. All of this information can later be exported into Anki decks (Right? I haven't done it yet myself).

It's like what I strive to do over two days in two clicks!

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet.

EDIT:

Here's how I set up my Japanese preferences...

And if you're using the EasyPHP method, you might have trouble if you use the link to 127.0.0.1:8887 that's on the site. I had to get to it through the EasyPHP program itself like so:

open it in your notification area (it's the little e down there)...

click on the icon on the left of the window and select 'Local Web' from the drop-down menu...

and voila! Your LWT home page should pop up in your browser!