I’ve already watched the whole anime, and I just ordered the manga (in japanese), I also ordered a dictionary to help with any words I don’t know, should I also order a grammer book or a Genki or something, or is a dictionary enough? (I can already read hiragana and katakana mostly with ease, and the dictionary has them if I forget any, and One Piece obviously has furigana so kanji won’t be too difficult)
And also any tips for making this easier or faster would help a lot. (hopefully on the cheaper side)
Edit: To clarify I was not planning on only using the anime and manga to learn Japanese (The title was very misleading I realize) but rather whether I would be able to read the manga with only the dictionary. (I will study Japanese thoroughly in the future but I’m not currently in a position to do that, but I wanted to read and watch One Piece in the original)
And I do know that this is insanity to even try.
Looking at the replies I suppose I will probably purchase a grammar book.
Update:
The first volume and the dictionary just arrived.
Flipping through I can already understand about 60-70% of it and the grammar doesn’t seem too complicated, plus with the pictures I can understand another 10% or so just from the drawings. (facial expressions etc…) And just from saying the words aloud, I can understand the onomatopoeias, and a lot of the words/sentences are very similar to those of anime, so my brain just kinda clicks and understands.
I haven’t started really digging in so I don’t have much to say about it, but based on this, should I still order a grammar book and/or a lesson book?
Something that I realized I haven’t mentioned is that I thoroughly studied Latin in high school. (Almost entirely textbook study) I also learned Italian (to like B2-ish) in a summer. (Mostly textbook study, but I watched a couple dozen movies to ease myself along) I have also been watching a few anime without subtitles though I can only understand about half of what they say. Don’t know if this changes anything, but just a little bit of background information.
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