3/27/2023 0 Comments My reading mangaoAnime just happens to be a bit more egregious. The rest is panning shots, establishing shots, action shots, reaction shots, effects shots, transition shots, and often literally just a closeup of people’s feet or the back of their heads while walking! That isn’t specific to just anime, but to television/movies in general. Less than 1/3 of the running time of the average anime contains dialogue. Over a long period of time, I’ve come to realize that it’s actually not very efficient. Just a quick glance at some vocabulary.Īnime is definitely great in that it forces you to keep pace with the spoken dialogue/narration, but… I flipflop from that into passive mode and just let the things I don’t know pass over.īefore I do any immersion, I briefly glance at a vocab sheet. I’m not a huge fan of staying in intensive mode (looking everything up as you go). Personally, I don’t use Anki, so I agree with the posters who have said to not worry about remembering things - let the reading itself be your SRS. This is why so many people recommend Yotsubato! - the language in that manga is about as basic as you can get without getting so kiddie that you can’t stay interested.įinally, I would say that quantity sometimes outweighs quality, though you can alternate between the two - in other words, alternate between extensive reading - where you commit to not picking up a dictionary and live with being unclear on some words and grammar - and intensive reading, where you don’t go to the next page until you’ve looked up every word you don’t know. Scale back the difficulty until you are reading something that is doable for you, in terms of grammar, vocabulary and kanji. I have spent a lot of money on manga that I realized too late I wasn’t really into. Make sure the manga is super interesting to you! Motivation to keep reading is key. I have had similar problems trying to get started with manga - the recommendations of other posters are all good advice: do you forget words you’ve seen in manga before? Get a setup that makes it easy to add those words to an SRS so you can practice them.Īlso, if you’re literally flipping back and forth in a paper dictionary I highly recommend switching to electronic, lookups are a ton faster.are all the colloquial speech contractions and omissions confusing you? Work on those specifically.do you have such a small vocabulary you don’t recognise many words even in slice-of-life type manga? Maybe find an SRS you like and do some work on a starter vocab deck.are you short on grammar so that even when you know or look up all the words you don’t really know the sentence’s meaning? Try more textbook study, or bunpro, or whatever.I think if you’re feeling like you’re guessing every sentence it’s worth looking at what in particular is causing issues so you can focus on that, e.g.: There’s nothing wrong with preferring a more structured learning path. ![]() Some people are happy diving in early and making guesses left and right some people prefer to have a bit more understanding first. Right now I’m reading Blue Giant and I had no real prior exposure to Touhoku ben so I’m getting experience with a new dialect and musical vocabulary I didn’t know before.īut most importantly, make sure you are actually enjoying both the process and what you are reading. But one thing I will say is make sure to diversify your reading as you will pick up different speech patterns, dialect, vocab, etc. So just find something you really enjoy and stick with that series. ![]() Then I picked up Detective Conan and I was OBSESSED. The material they gave us for reading practice honestly made me give credence to simulation theory, or wonder if I was in purgatory. Case in point, I went to a school in Japan for a year and a half. I personally find if I’m interested in the story/subject of what I’m tackling, new stuff I come across sticks with me better. New grammar? Learn it! New vocab? Flash card or Anki! But most importantly, make sure you are actually enjoying both the process and what you are reading. In my opinion you know you’re reading it effectively if you are retaining what you read.
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