Context: I learn by reading and barely beginner I reckon, but can read the katakana/kanji I have encountered and definitely gotten used to kanji having meaning. (I know hiragana)
I want to improve my listening but by watching interesting shows. If I have the japanese subtitles on, I can definitely find the word boundaries in their speech because even if I read slowly, I can pick up the kanji a lot faster.
If no subtitles, I only hear the words I have truly mastered and the rest is japanese spaghetti.
Will using japanese subtitles while watching help? (maybe because I enjoy the show more, and can intuit the meaning through kanji?)
Or do you suggest, that after sometime, I turn off the subtitles at some point?
EDIT: I don’t pause at all. I enjoy the whole thing more when I watch with subtitles. I can’t read that fast, but getting a glimpse (especially the kanji) helps me to intuit what’s being said. This makes the whole thing enjoyable.
I never pause. Instead I learn words and others, through reading, I learn new words that way. Although with videos, I learn new expressions and sometimes new words (but the rate at which I learn new words is faster in reading)
by MysticalDragoneer