It's not quite the same, tho. If you learned English based on American movies and TVs you'll sound like the average braindead, ignorant, obnoxious stereotypical American (not that I really care, most American people I've met are kinda loud and somewhat insane but they're relatively well-mannered and respectful); but if you learn British English either you'll sound fancier and uppity, maybe extravagant depending on what side of the globe you are and I personally think they sound kind of pretentious. In Japanese, the language is very vocal. And in animes it tends to sound really exaggerated if you pay close attention between a normal conversation or TV show compared to anime.
Learning Japanese by watching anime can be a fun and engaging way to learn a new language. It allows you to learn in context and hear the language being used in everyday situations. However, it's important to remember that anime may not always use formal language or proper grammar, so it's best to supplement your learning with other resources and practice speaking with native speakers.
@千本桜 that’s on the street conversation. If u wanna learn Japanese thru anime with the intention to work in Japan, do u think u can speak CASUALLY with your boss? 😂 ofcourse NOT. U start learning any language with formal sentences/speech
Learning any language is better if you can hear the language spoken frequently. Watching media is good for that. Anime is good for that if you're learning Japanese. For other languages Disney videos are good, because they are in almost any language you want. I have four DVDs of Sophia the First that are only available in Japanese.
yup, italians having learned "modern italian"(compared to dialects) thorugh dubbed movies for example, or so much of northern europe learning english the same way.
@@iota-09 Disney and a region free DVD player are kindly helping me learn Italian. Although the US edition of Don Matteo gives me Terrence Hill at his best on any region 1 player.
Very similar to learning languages through music. Singers will embellish certain words, which you may absorb whilst learning, but you will still be understood and ultimately learn to correct pronunciation etc.
@@danielantony1882true, but that happens if you *only* use songs and music for learning, and any person that's seriously learning a language is not gonna do anyways, so using music is still helpful not for learning tone, but to recognize words and training your ear!
I think it’s fine to use anime as another tool to learn Japanese, as long as it’s not your only source it can be very helpful I think! Learning languages through media, art & music is a really helpful way to do it. I recommend learning the lyrics to songs and singing along to them! In my experience it can help with pronunciation because in music the sounds of words are kind of broken down into pieces and you can approach it from the perspective of learning to copy a sound if that makes any sense.
I actually can understand a few things by hearing Japanese people talk thanks to anime, it’s still a lot of work to fully grasp sentences, so what I do is I repeat a scene a few times to grasp it.
Anime is cartoons(anime specifically is a mix of child and adult themes), English tv shows are largely adult shows so they're far more serious and less exaggerated than anime. Anime is the equivalent of learning English from tv shows made for 3 year olds.
@@toade1583 Anime is absolutely not the equivalent of tv shows made for 3 year olds in literally any capacity unless the anime actually was made for 3 year olds. The actual equivalent is like learning Spanish from a Telenovela, it's very obviously dramatic and exaggerated but if you're not legally retarded you're going to have no problem working out that that's the case and NOT speaking like that in real life.
I learned English from the tv show Top Gear back in the day as well as watching tons of NatGeo documentaries when I was 9, I didn't even try to learn, it just felt as if I naturally just started understanding the words when I was a kid, same thing is happened with Japanese language.
It’s like learning a dialect. If you practice sounding like a character, you’ll sound like a character. If you listen to more than just that dialect, it’ll shift and grow.
I've learned a load of Japanese phrases and words just by watching anime. Obviously I still can't speak Japanese but now I can understand and differentiate a lot of words and whole lines sometimes whenever I hear something in Japanese and it's been like 3 years since I've started watching anime religiously so watching a form of media really helps you a lot
I remember seeing advice for learning new languages that suggested watching children's cartoons written in the language you're studying. It's solid advice; shows for small children are usually trying to help them comprehend the language anyway. So it's slow and more simple, making it a lil easier to pick up on and understand.
i also recommend watching japanese entertainers (vtubers, idols etc.), as a kid, i learned most of my japanese thru anime, but what actually improved my grammar is the amount of japanese content that i consumed later on, i watch japanese vtubers a lot and thru listening to them, and looking up the words i couldn't understand, i am not able to speak japanese casually, i also listen to a lot of japanese songs which lead me to learn a lot about japanese metaphors and stuff, i'd say learning thru anime isn't enough, but it's a good start
I learnt japanese in watching lots of media on YT and watching movies in Japanese. For the anime, it depends if you watch it with ou without subtitles. Anime are just a add to the learning. Songs and media are better. But the best way to learn the true Japanese is going to Japan. You'll learn japanese and you'll speak it every days.
Like me, XD. On a more serious note, watching anime is a good way for Japanese learning, especially for pronunciation/phonology, listening skills, etc., but not necessarily the best for grammar, as anime characters often speak informally.
@senbonzakura662 They had a point and so is yours the catch is some informal speech can be often rude to Japanese people even if you're close with them unless they're okay with. Like "Teme" is the informal of saying "You" , and you would sound like a delinquent picking up a fight.
Anime Japanese is obvious, and it’s quite literally a good way of making your Japanese acquaintances have a good laugh which, if you’re not sensitive to, is actually a fun experience 😂😂. It also helps you improve in the long run; so yea by all means learn Japanese through anime, it helps a lot!!
I know non native English speakers who learned from cartoons and action movies. As he said, when you listen to how people actually talk you’ll quickly learn how to converse properly
Matt is the entire reason im doing full immerssion now, theres like 5 % of time i listen to anything english, like this video lol its making a big difference in my comprehension in just a few weeks, i can undersrand alot more words just by passive listening the past weeks
It's also smart to watch a variety of shows so you don't get stuck in an accent. I can instantly tell if someone learned english from watching Friends because they almost always sound like one of the male characters
It's important to note that it's a useful *supplement* to learning Japanese. It shouldn't be the primary means, but rather a way to pick up on vocabulary etc as you would with watching any other media material in a foreign language you're learning
@千本桜 Really depends what your end goal is in learning the language. If you just want to watch anime without subtitles, perhaps. However most animes tend to stick to certain topics so you'll end up seeing many of the same nouns/verbs/grammar.
@千本桜 Because its purpose isn't to teach, it doesn't make it clear why the language is being used in the way that it is. For example, it doesn't explain to you why certain particles are used in certain ways, how each number varies depending on its use (ie: 一 can be いち、ひと in 一つ, いっin 一分, etc), and why things sound the way they do (ie: the rules regarding when the "u" and "i" sound are voiced or unvoiced). Relying on anime as a primary teaching source means that you will learn errors by mistake, and it's harder to unlearn an error than it is to teach the correct thing in the first place. There's also things like tone and attitude. Because the speakers in anime are characters, their dialect is exaggerated in ways to emphasise their character, so they act in ways that when used with native speakers in real life would seem unnatural at best or even rude at worst. Don't get me wrong, it is a valuable tool for learning, but it's important to have a fundamental understanding of the language so that you understand how to communicate, rather than translate. It's a subtle difference but a very important one. Equally, I (and others I know who've learned the language to very high levels of proficiency) would advise against relying on Duolingo as a primary teacher because it doesn't do a good job of explaining what it's teaching and rather than giving you the ability to understand and communicate you instead learn to translate. There's a phenomenon called the Chinese Room problem that explains this well
@@Shna_na if you asked a native speaker about a phrase in their language and whether it was correct or not they may or may not be able to give a reason for it, despite this all of them without fail will be able to tell if it's correct or not. you don't need to study these rules to gain an intuitive understanding of them, and consuming a ton of media is the best way to understand these rules naturally
People are really struggling to understand the fact that this interview might be longer than this clip and he spoke good Japanese earlier but now it's answering in English.
I had so many kids in my Japanese class using anime terms and the teacher told them not to use them because they’re actually really rude/old fashioned terms. So…idk lolol
Those children aren't fluent. That's a beginners learning class, where people want to use the 5-10 words or terms they actually learned from subbed anime. Matt discourages output until you can comprehend 95% plus of what you immerse in. I assure you, if you spend 3 years listening to anime audio and then shift to video blogs, drama, etc, you'll immediately know what is appropriate for real life and what is exaggerated in anime. Matt isn't wrong. It's exactly how he learned, and how many of us have gotten to a very high level.
I learnt Eng from grammar & text books, speech & vocab from hollywood movies, gen-Z abbreviations, phrases & slangs from yt comments, also slangs from hip-hop, drill raps. It's my 2nd language. Learning Japanese from Duolingo & Anime now 😅
Ok but what Matt doesn’t tell you is that he studied all day everyday for like 10 years, lived in Japan in high school, and studied Japanese in college. So no he didn’t just learn Japanese from anime. It’s helpful to watch anime but he’s just excluding all the things that actually taught him Japanese.
He went to japan for like 4 months. He came back with his level improving very little. He actually came home because he felt his host family was a distraction. He wanted to learn Japanese and they wanted him to get out and experience Japan, and he felt it'd be more optimal to learn it on his own at home in the US. So that's what he did, in about 2 years. Yes, he had a circle of Japanese friends in college. He had/has a Japanese girlfriend. He also did tons of shadowing and has been learning to hone his pitch accent for most of the last 5-6 years. That said, he was functionally fluent comprehension wise long before that. He was reading classical Japanese before he even really spoke to anyone. Of course, when it comes time to speak, it'll help to know Japanese people, but if you want to become fluent in comprehension, you never have to speak to a single Japanese person.
Except that he lived in Japan for less than half a year and his major didn't have anything to do with Japanese (college classes are extremely inefficient at teaching you language properly anyway). It really shouldn't be that surprising that somebody can learn a language through media alone, it's how most people who speak English as a second language learned it. Ask any European.
True, he does tent to misrepresent his journey but anime was definitely one of the things he leveraged to learn the language Until recently, it was recommended to avoid anime, so I think that's where he's coming from. You can watch anime and learn japanese it's not going to damage your japanese
No, he was in Japan, and instead of interacting with his host family and truly improving his Japanese with NATIVE SPEAKERS, he spent all day with Anki, making cards, and ate his lunch at school in the restroom, instead of making friends and TRULY interacting with Japanese people for these 6 months. He also did not just learn Japanese through anime; it was just a part of it. The grammar points and particles he uses are not learned from anime alone. Anime was just a part of the big journey, which is 10 years of studying, reading, comprehending, OUTSIDE of anime.
For those who don't know, this guy has an entire RUclips channel for teaching Japanese and was referencing Japanese he spoke from before this clip. He's cracked haha
@@daliongodmustafa7817 good example there. It is still transliterated "desu" even if you don't pronounce it that way. Also duolingo will let you use romaji as a crutch
He did, in the full interview. You want to watch things that are interesting. You might learn faster from immersing in audio used in every day life, if you are able to stomach the repetition and boredom, but that's usually a fool's errand for most. People who learn that way often have to go to Japan before they ever get to a decent level. You can get fluent in your home country if you immerse in the stuff natives do, that you find interesting. People should know this given this is how people learn English from American tv shows and media! 'Friends' is a very popular show for learning in the foreign community.
I think it's really great to become accustomed to how the language sounds, especially in beginning. Relying on only one source only tho is never recommendable imo
I have my years of anime watching experience to thank for the fact that i can decently understand spoken Japanese. Genuinely. Now, reading and speaking it is a whole separate thing but i am always in awe at how much i can actually understand in my head ❤️
It depends on what kind of anime you're watching but if you're used to watching shonen and then you go watch a Japanese tv show well it's gonna be completely different.
Also, it’s a good starting point. Just like anything else. A lot of people start learning to code by doing something adjacent to it and a lot of people learn to be handy and work with their hands by doing something adjacent. They grow beyond it but it still has a place
Full interview
ruclips.net/video/NmPFcBnwZG8/видео.html
@@doctor5768I hate ❤
I hate weebs
His Japanese was so on point, my brain autotranslated it into English.
☠️😂😂
exactly what i was thinking 😂😂
the real multilingual😂
For those who didn't understand, probably they spoke japanese either in full video or out of frame
@@kazakhjojo nah, it's like in attack on titan when everyone from different country speaks the same language
I learnt English through games and films. I don't sound like a videogame character, It's justa me, gio- whoohoo!
You dropped this👑
It's not quite the same, tho. If you learned English based on American movies and TVs you'll sound like the average braindead, ignorant, obnoxious stereotypical American (not that I really care, most American people I've met are kinda loud and somewhat insane but they're relatively well-mannered and respectful); but if you learn British English either you'll sound fancier and uppity, maybe extravagant depending on what side of the globe you are and I personally think they sound kind of pretentious.
In Japanese, the language is very vocal. And in animes it tends to sound really exaggerated if you pay close attention between a normal conversation or TV show compared to anime.
@@niceboi6364 The only japanese word I know is yamete kudasai, but I'm not sure what it means.
@@gio3061 please stop it (not always a negative thing)
🤣🤣 good one
His Japanese is so natural it sounds English
There was more to this interview, but I thought the same thing😂
hahahaha@@IBooDoopI
I heard him in Arabic 😮
I heard him I Scots Gaelic 😮
At least tell us what Sugoi means 😮
He sounds so normal that even I can understand him and I can only speak English
Same his Japanese is so good
That I learned to speak Japanese just watching him that's why this comment is in Japanese
Laughing in Japanese 😂😂
yeah he watch dubbed anime no wonder his english is real good
This made me lol
😂😂😂😂
Clearly this guy learned Japanese by watching English dubs.
Haha you got me there 😂
That is literally what the video is about
@@LLD999 read it again
he speaks japanese.
Comment of the day lmao
Bro was reading the subtitles in his mind outloud 💀
His Japanese anime sounds so natural that I understand every word
Learning Japanese by watching anime can be a fun and engaging way to learn a new language. It allows you to learn in context and hear the language being used in everyday situations. However, it's important to remember that anime may not always use formal language or proper grammar, so it's best to supplement your learning with other resources and practice speaking with native speakers.
@千本桜 that’s on the street conversation. If u wanna learn Japanese thru anime with the intention to work in Japan, do u think u can speak CASUALLY with your boss? 😂 ofcourse NOT. U start learning any language with formal sentences/speech
That looks exactly like a ChatGPT reply.
@千本桜 huh and before that? do u still think with your japanese learning thru anime can get u a job?? lmao. YOUR thinking is illogical.
Anime literally has polite situations and Keigo, you just need to focus on that and supplement with RUclips.
@@azote339holy shit that’s what i was gonna say
His Japanese is so transcendent that even I, with zero Japanese skills, can understand him perfectly.
Learning any language is better if you can hear the language spoken frequently. Watching media is good for that.
Anime is good for that if you're learning Japanese. For other languages Disney videos are good, because they are in almost any language you want.
I have four DVDs of Sophia the First that are only available in Japanese.
yup, italians having learned "modern italian"(compared to dialects) thorugh dubbed movies for example, or so much of northern europe learning english the same way.
@@iota-09
Disney and a region free DVD player are kindly helping me learn Italian.
Although the US edition of Don Matteo gives me Terrence Hill at his best on any region 1 player.
To be honest I wouldn't recommend anime, Id recommend something like Terrace House as the conversations are natural real people conversations.
"subarashi"
I know we all read it in an anime voice
Veldora:D
Ya got me 😅
Haha yup
I shorten it to 素敵
I just say 素晴
Learning Japanese through anime and Mandarin and Korean through dramas has honestly helped alot- it makes the learning process so much more engaging
Motivation. 💯
Very similar to learning languages through music. Singers will embellish certain words, which you may absorb whilst learning, but you will still be understood and ultimately learn to correct pronunciation etc.
Learning through music is a bit ridiculous cuz you have to figure out the normal tone, accent, pitch accent, and intonation. Anime is way more tame.
@@danielantony1882true, but that happens if you *only* use songs and music for learning, and any person that's seriously learning a language is not gonna do anyways, so using music is still helpful not for learning tone, but to recognize words and training your ear!
I think it’s fine to use anime as another tool to learn Japanese, as long as it’s not your only source it can be very helpful I think! Learning languages through media, art & music is a really helpful way to do it. I recommend learning the lyrics to songs and singing along to them! In my experience it can help with pronunciation because in music the sounds of words are kind of broken down into pieces and you can approach it from the perspective of learning to copy a sound if that makes any sense.
I actually can understand a few things by hearing Japanese people talk thanks to anime, it’s still a lot of work to fully grasp sentences, so what I do is I repeat a scene a few times to grasp it.
字幕で見たことあるの
Bro learned japanese through dubbed anime 😂
I saw the full vid and he's very fluent so I believe him fr
I learnt English through tv so it’s not a bad method to learn
Live action TV and anime are very different things.
you're comparing real people with fictional character that do not speak or act like normal human beings idiot
Anime is cartoons(anime specifically is a mix of child and adult themes), English tv shows are largely adult shows so they're far more serious and less exaggerated than anime.
Anime is the equivalent of learning English from tv shows made for 3 year olds.
@@toade1583 Anime is absolutely not the equivalent of tv shows made for 3 year olds in literally any capacity unless the anime actually was made for 3 year olds.
The actual equivalent is like learning Spanish from a Telenovela, it's very obviously dramatic and exaggerated but if you're not legally retarded you're going to have no problem working out that that's the case and NOT speaking like that in real life.
I learned English from the tv show Top Gear back in the day as well as watching tons of NatGeo documentaries when I was 9, I didn't even try to learn, it just felt as if I naturally just started understanding the words when I was a kid, same thing is happened with Japanese language.
It’s like learning a dialect. If you practice sounding like a character, you’ll sound like a character. If you listen to more than just that dialect, it’ll shift and grow.
His japanese is so good that even non-japanese speakers can understand him
i learnt my english through media, and hopefully japanese too, so i feel like it helps a LOT since it keeps you engaged in your learning journey
his japanese is so good I didn't even need subtitles
“My Japanese is pretty natural, right?”
I for a fat second thought I was understanding the language until I realized it was in English 😂.
he does have natural japanese though
I've learned a load of Japanese phrases and words just by watching anime. Obviously I still can't speak Japanese but now I can understand and differentiate a lot of words and whole lines sometimes whenever I hear something in Japanese and it's been like 3 years since I've started watching anime religiously so watching a form of media really helps you a lot
I remember seeing advice for learning new languages that suggested watching children's cartoons written in the language you're studying. It's solid advice; shows for small children are usually trying to help them comprehend the language anyway. So it's slow and more simple, making it a lil easier to pick up on and understand.
i also recommend watching japanese entertainers (vtubers, idols etc.), as a kid, i learned most of my japanese thru anime, but what actually improved my grammar is the amount of japanese content that i consumed later on, i watch japanese vtubers a lot and thru listening to them, and looking up the words i couldn't understand, i am not able to speak japanese casually, i also listen to a lot of japanese songs which lead me to learn a lot about japanese metaphors and stuff, i'd say learning thru anime isn't enough, but it's a good start
I learnt japanese in watching lots of media on YT and watching movies in Japanese.
For the anime, it depends if you watch it with ou without subtitles.
Anime are just a add to the learning.
Songs and media are better. But the best way to learn the true Japanese is going to Japan.
You'll learn japanese and you'll speak it every days.
Looks like I found a way to finally learn Japanese!!😊😅
Like me, XD.
On a more serious note, watching anime is a good way for Japanese learning, especially for pronunciation/phonology, listening skills, etc., but not necessarily the best for grammar, as anime characters often speak informally.
@senbonzakura662 They had a point and so is yours the catch is some informal speech can be often rude to Japanese people even if you're close with them unless they're okay with. Like "Teme" is the informal of saying "You" , and you would sound like a delinquent picking up a fight.
@千本桜 Since August 2017.
@@pauloazuela8488 Who the fuck uses Temee for a friend? That's unnatural even in Anime.
I hate to break it to you but 50% of Anime characters speak Formally.
@@danielantony1882 Yes, but only 50 or half.
Out of million words he chose Sugoi 😂 the man of culture indeed
Japanese talk like the Samurai John Belushi on Saturday Night Live
Anime Japanese is obvious, and it’s quite literally a good way of making your Japanese acquaintances have a good laugh which, if you’re not sensitive to, is actually a fun experience 😂😂. It also helps you improve in the long run; so yea by all means learn Japanese through anime, it helps a lot!!
Very good points here
Its like someone learning English by watching cartoons, same English just with cartoon expressions
This man wasn’t having the condescension
Then japanese people dont speak "datte bayo" in the end of your phrases???
*blow mind*
Joking
I know non native English speakers who learned from cartoons and action movies. As he said, when you listen to how people actually talk you’ll quickly learn how to converse properly
Matt is the entire reason im doing full immerssion now, theres like 5 % of time i listen to anything english, like this video lol its making a big difference in my comprehension in just a few weeks, i can undersrand alot more words just by passive listening the past weeks
same here. Matt transformed my Japanese study, the progress I've made since I discovered him is nuts
What a guy sounding like a anime japonese would say
It's also smart to watch a variety of shows so you don't get stuck in an accent. I can instantly tell if someone learned english from watching Friends because they almost always sound like one of the male characters
😅😅😅 FRIENDS ,
oh thats hilarious.
I love it when japanese student has an American twang or sounds like their Aussie English teacher 😅
It's important to note that it's a useful *supplement* to learning Japanese. It shouldn't be the primary means, but rather a way to pick up on vocabulary etc as you would with watching any other media material in a foreign language you're learning
@千本桜 Really depends what your end goal is in learning the language. If you just want to watch anime without subtitles, perhaps. However most animes tend to stick to certain topics so you'll end up seeing many of the same nouns/verbs/grammar.
@千本桜 Because its purpose isn't to teach, it doesn't make it clear why the language is being used in the way that it is. For example, it doesn't explain to you why certain particles are used in certain ways, how each number varies depending on its use (ie: 一 can be いち、ひと in 一つ, いっin 一分, etc), and why things sound the way they do (ie: the rules regarding when the "u" and "i" sound are voiced or unvoiced). Relying on anime as a primary teaching source means that you will learn errors by mistake, and it's harder to unlearn an error than it is to teach the correct thing in the first place. There's also things like tone and attitude. Because the speakers in anime are characters, their dialect is exaggerated in ways to emphasise their character, so they act in ways that when used with native speakers in real life would seem unnatural at best or even rude at worst.
Don't get me wrong, it is a valuable tool for learning, but it's important to have a fundamental understanding of the language so that you understand how to communicate, rather than translate. It's a subtle difference but a very important one. Equally, I (and others I know who've learned the language to very high levels of proficiency) would advise against relying on Duolingo as a primary teacher because it doesn't do a good job of explaining what it's teaching and rather than giving you the ability to understand and communicate you instead learn to translate. There's a phenomenon called the Chinese Room problem that explains this well
@@Shna_na if you asked a native speaker about a phrase in their language and whether it was correct or not they may or may not be able to give a reason for it, despite this all of them without fail will be able to tell if it's correct or not. you don't need to study these rules to gain an intuitive understanding of them, and consuming a ton of media is the best way to understand these rules naturally
False and u wouldnt pass an n1 reading test so idk why ur really talking
@@DiaryofaninjaI literally live and work in Japan but go off I guess
From start to finish, I was waiting for him to say “Onii-chan!!”
I know this guy!! Love his video with xiaoma!
What’s his @?
@@danielnaorr Matt vs Japan
People are really struggling to understand the fact that this interview might be longer than this clip and he spoke good Japanese earlier but now it's answering in English.
Its a joke man
@@lil_pep3309not a joke for everyone man. some people have no clue
@@lil_pep3309 that 20 people made
Hell yeah! Matt vs. Japan!
"That's a nice answer"
"Domoarigatou onii-chan kawaii desu~"
That’s the problem. Some people can’t recalibrate and adjust the way they speak 😂😂😂
I had so many kids in my Japanese class using anime terms and the teacher told them not to use them because they’re actually really rude/old fashioned terms. So…idk lolol
Those children aren't fluent. That's a beginners learning class, where people want to use the 5-10 words or terms they actually learned from subbed anime. Matt discourages output until you can comprehend 95% plus of what you immerse in. I assure you, if you spend 3 years listening to anime audio and then shift to video blogs, drama, etc, you'll immediately know what is appropriate for real life and what is exaggerated in anime. Matt isn't wrong. It's exactly how he learned, and how many of us have gotten to a very high level.
Instantly thought of Matt vs. Japan then realized he was actually being interviewed
I learnt Eng from grammar & text books, speech & vocab from hollywood movies, gen-Z abbreviations, phrases & slangs from yt comments, also slangs from hip-hop, drill raps. It's my 2nd language.
Learning Japanese from Duolingo & Anime now 😅
Ok but what Matt doesn’t tell you is that he studied all day everyday for like 10 years, lived in Japan in high school, and studied Japanese in college. So no he didn’t just learn Japanese from anime. It’s helpful to watch anime but he’s just excluding all the things that actually taught him Japanese.
He went to japan for like 4 months. He came back with his level improving very little. He actually came home because he felt his host family was a distraction. He wanted to learn Japanese and they wanted him to get out and experience Japan, and he felt it'd be more optimal to learn it on his own at home in the US. So that's what he did, in about 2 years.
Yes, he had a circle of Japanese friends in college. He had/has a Japanese girlfriend. He also did tons of shadowing and has been learning to hone his pitch accent for most of the last 5-6 years. That said, he was functionally fluent comprehension wise long before that. He was reading classical Japanese before he even really spoke to anyone. Of course, when it comes time to speak, it'll help to know Japanese people, but if you want to become fluent in comprehension, you never have to speak to a single Japanese person.
Except that he lived in Japan for less than half a year and his major didn't have anything to do with Japanese (college classes are extremely inefficient at teaching you language properly anyway).
It really shouldn't be that surprising that somebody can learn a language through media alone, it's how most people who speak English as a second language learned it. Ask any European.
True, he does tent to misrepresent his journey but anime was definitely one of the things he leveraged to learn the language
Until recently, it was recommended to avoid anime, so I think that's where he's coming from. You can watch anime and learn japanese it's not going to damage your japanese
No, he was in Japan, and instead of interacting with his host family and truly improving his Japanese with NATIVE SPEAKERS, he spent all day with Anki, making cards, and ate his lunch at school in the restroom, instead of making friends and TRULY interacting with Japanese people for these 6 months. He also did not just learn Japanese through anime; it was just a part of it. The grammar points and particles he uses are not learned from anime alone. Anime was just a part of the big journey, which is 10 years of studying, reading, comprehending, OUTSIDE of anime.
he spent his time in japan watching anime and doing anki rather than actually interacting with people, so he kinda did mostly learn from anime
For those who don't know, this guy has an entire RUclips channel for teaching Japanese and was referencing Japanese he spoke from before this clip. He's cracked haha
its like learning english through ru pauls drag race
The dialogues in genki are not real life stuff too, but they help you to get into the stuff
And my man explained it all in ENGLISH 😊
Duolingo! I be watching anime fvck around and know a whole sentence
Hey! Watch your language🤣🤣
Duolingo is 90% trash
@@ericmckinley7985 wait a min…..dare des ka?
@@daliongodmustafa7817 good example there. It is still transliterated "desu" even if you don't pronounce it that way. Also duolingo will let you use romaji as a crutch
@@daliongodmustafa7817 duolingo moment
He's right mkay, I learnt a lot of spoken English by watching South Park and I don't sound like any of the characters.
I don't know about sounding natural, but he definitely sounds defensive😬😂
the crossover I waited for
Reminded me of the "Kierou" joke from the trash taste podcast 😆
It’s pretty much just the tone of voice you use that differentiates it
He doesn't sound like an anime character. He is an anime character already
he didn't answer the question about efficiency 😂
He did, in the full interview. You want to watch things that are interesting. You might learn faster from immersing in audio used in every day life, if you are able to stomach the repetition and boredom, but that's usually a fool's errand for most. People who learn that way often have to go to Japan before they ever get to a decent level.
You can get fluent in your home country if you immerse in the stuff natives do, that you find interesting. People should know this given this is how people learn English from American tv shows and media! 'Friends' is a very popular show for learning in the foreign community.
I think it's really great to become accustomed to how the language sounds, especially in beginning. Relying on only one source only tho is never recommendable imo
Recalibration is underrated in his speech. To acclimate and put together the pieces is a big tip that I feel is an amazing way of explaining.
Learning Japanese through anime is like learning English through soap operas. It works but you gotta go there to learn it for real
damn i was looking to sound like an 80's shounen protag on some hokuto no ken shit
"I did it therefore it's true" lol nah
I have my years of anime watching experience to thank for the fact that i can decently understand spoken Japanese. Genuinely. Now, reading and speaking it is a whole separate thing but i am always in awe at how much i can actually understand in my head ❤️
I learned English through RUclips like most people, "Okay time to do an unboxing on my PR packages🤪"
-Do I sound lika an anime character?
-Nah..
-Ho ho
“right?”
Bro is fluent in Japanese and yapanese
The way I see it is like if a non English speaker tried to learn English from watching looney toons
Anime Japanese has just the performative enunciations like in theater shows
It depends on what kind of anime you're watching but if you're used to watching shonen and then you go watch a Japanese tv show well it's gonna be completely different.
Learning Japanese takes thousands of hours so you will inevitably watch a large variety of anime and media.
this man got me thinking I understood japanese for a second.
I learn Japanese from anime, now i sounds like "KONO DIOOOOOOOOOO DAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" damm idk how to go back now
I think the main concern is level of politeness in your speech, not necessarily the vocabulary
Diffrence between anatawa and omaywa
SugoIIIIII in anime tone
Local : must be some foreign weibooo
He sounds so good that i can understanding everything without subtitles and for some reason he's speaking two language at the same time
with anime the character's voices are more dramatic but it's still the language
"Like zOmGahhHh my Japanese is soooo sugoiii"
ok, I'll now proceeds to say "yare yare daze" with a disappointed face to every Japanese I see
Loving the yellow jumper man
I didn't realize someone could go so into depth on explaining what a voice actor is
Also, it’s a good starting point. Just like anything else. A lot of people start learning to code by doing something adjacent to it and a lot of people learn to be handy and work with their hands by doing something adjacent. They grow beyond it but it still has a place
Me as a half japanese person when someone speaks in japanese they always sounded to me an anime character
His Japanese is so natural I understand it without any idea about japanese language. LOL
When he speaks japanese "Yare Yare Daze"
Of course you don't hear normal Japanese people walking around saying baka
I kind of think it’d be cool to sound as much like an anime character as possible.
Finally a realist man ❤ Handsome too
One time a couple of my friends told me I talk like an anime protagonist lmao
Maybe invest more time in more slice of life shows.
My mom who's korean learned english entirely by watching the show Friends over and over again lmao
His Japanese is so good he started speaking in subtitles
Forrizzle. This was a perfect explanation!
Real japanese just sounds much more relaxed and less intense than it does in anime
he's coping with his anime addiction