I have been immersing on netflix 1 or so hours a day. My Japanese is over 3000 words now and immersing is more enjoyable now i can somewhat follow what’s going on. I want to increase my hours but I’m scared of running out of interesting content on netflix. I know there’s youtube but it doesn’t have proper subs most the time.
I am watching one piece but that’s not going to last more than 400 hours. That’s fine if I’m doing like one hour a day but not if I’m doing 4. Lots of animes are just like 12 episodes per season of 23 mins per episode. I need to immerse for a few years to learn the language. It would probably get really boring to have nothing new to watch.
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Cringe 3000 words enjoyer. Go to 6000 then we can talk
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Try Crunchyroll, there’s a free version with commercials. The paid version is cheaper than Netflix as well.
My man actually thinks One Piece is not long enough.
You can also always rewatch a series you like to learn more.
Also hours of anime on netflix is very different from hours of anime you would watch on netflix. I’d take a look and see what shows you would actually watch and then find the amount of time that way.
[https://animelon.com/](https://animelon.com/)
This website has a fairly sizeable collection of anime with an option to turn off subtitles, or have them in Japanese instead. If you’re okay with outright piracy, you could always torrent mkv files of whatever shows you want to watch.
If you get a vpn pretty much all of japans netflix has subtitles and thousands of hours of anime
What a poorly worded post. Your asking for anime recommendations, its not that deep. Just ask what are some interesting anime in X genre giving examples of some stuff you like.
Homie out here asking “what is the precise number of viewing hours available 🤓”
Here is the issue with using anime to learn Japanese:
1) Subtitles are excellent and all for 1 to 1 translation words like “drink” or “cat”, but there are plenty of words in Japanese that have a cultural context that is not 100% translatable to English.
2) To save space in manga, artists use extremely informal Japanese to get the point across in the least amount of words. When it comes to anime, most use manga like a script, meaning that the words, phrases, and sentences you are learning are likely things that would come across as very rude, condescending, and/or make people uneasy with your informality.
3) Manga and Anime use trope words specific to their stories to make characters or stories special, like a catchphrase. These are not used in normal conversation in Japan and to use them would likely confuse or fluster someone trying to understand what you want to say. But the subtitles will just “translate” it.
You don’t have to learn Keigo, but you do need at least learn formal Japanese to have any chance of using Japanese respectfully with cultural understanding.
Watching the same thing over and over can actually help your language learning a lot. Think of how little kids love to read the same book over and over. It’s fun to go back and watch something you saw when your language level was lower and see how much more you understand. You don’t have to always be watching something new.
Once you run out of interesting content on Netflix you’re probably not going to need subtitles and can just watch on any anime site.
Not going to last more than 400 hours :0
You need to be rewatching if you want the immersion to be efficient. Favorite episodes should be rewatched many times
Also, there’s tons of dramas for you to watch, as well as films.
You are putting the cart so far ahead of the horse that it isn’t even funny.
Guess what? Some of us learned Japanese to fluency before the internet existed. “Interesting content” was literally whatever books or sketchily-dubbed videos found their way to me.
Now, in the internet age, you will literally never run out of Japanese content to watch. It is literally a click or button-press or whatever away.
Japan as a culture and Japanese as a language has existed for literally over a thousand years. Just freaking watch what you want to watch and read what you want to read and if you literally get to the point where you feel like you have consumed every single Japanese piece of media that has ever existed, I guess we can talk again.
Until this…just reap the riches, bro. I (and probably everyone who is reading this) literally has no idea what you’re worring about.
>I am watching one piece but that’s not going to last more than 400 hours.
Good one.
But honestly, Netflix has nearly infinite amounts of anime. More stuff gets added every month than can reasonably be watched. Also thousands of hours of movies, TV dramas, and documentaries. “Not enough content” will never be the thing that prevents you from getting input.