How do you decide what is important enough to look up and what isn’t while immersing in games?

I’m trying to immerse to learn vocab. I have been doing anki for months now and it’s not really helping me. I don’t think it’s sticking for the same reasons I struggle with text books or “sit and listen” lectures. My main aim for learning the langage is reading manga and playing games to experiance the original dialogue.

 

I’ve started with a game (Tales of Phantasia X Japan only PSP version) as it’s been on my “want to play list” for many years. The problem I’m having is I’m having to check a game script + yomitan constantly. I know I don’t have to look it up but most games I like are RPGs and I don’t know if what they are saying could be potentially relevant to the story which makes me feel like I need to check just incase.

 

How do you guys cope with this? Do you have a rule or such you follow to stop yourself from checking each bit of dialogue?

by GivingItMyBest

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