There’s a YouTube video I really want to watch that’s entirely in Japanese. The only subtitle options are Japanese and auto-translated English (which sucks). I want to watch it for the content, but I also really want to use it to improve my listening comprehension, so I don’t want to rely on the auto translations.
I would say I’m sorta between beginner and intermediate level? Been studying for months now, on book 3 of JFZ and level 4 of WK. know hiragana,katakana, and some kanji. Watching the first couple minutes of the video I did understand a good bit of it, maybe like 60%?
I’m wondering how to tackle this. Should I watch the video without any translations, and stop when I come across a word or phrase I don’t know, then turn on translations/use google to see if I can figure it out? Should I wait until my Japanese is better before trying to watch the video? Or just watch it with translations and passively try to absorb it?
This is the video btw https://youtu.be/JqDe-vKpex4?si=H2HSLkQnM4TN7Ahy
by Chianie
