![]() Here’s the plot (from the Wikipedia page): I noticed in passing that the original Japanese was not difficult at all, and the plot was quite simple. She was listening to the original Japanese dub, and watching with Chinese subtitles. Not long ago, my wife bought a cute animated Japanese movie called Arashi no Yoru ni. I liked this idea, but I wanted to try it a slightly different way. The idea is that you start out familiar, and with enough repetition, all those lines in the movie become yours. Khatzumoto, the author of All Japanese All the Time, advocates finding a DVD you know well that has audio in the language you’re studying, getting familiar with the movie in that language, and then ripping the DVD audio. Obviously, you’ll need to be doing lots of studying as well. Load this stuff onto your iPod or whatever, and soak it in. In our world of digital media, it’s not too hard to find listening material for a language like Japanese. The key, as the name implies, is to immerse oneself in Japanese as much as possible. A while back John B introduced me to a blog called All Japanese All the Time, in which the author describes how he became fluent in Japanese while living in the States, in a relatively short amount of time.
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