Especially games. even if you don’t know what something means, since you can interact with things around you, you can pretty much guess what the words mean.
I just started playing Ni no Kuni, and , apart from Shizuku’s speech, I can understand and keep up with most of what is being said, almost word for word. But yeah that dude’s Kansai-ben and super fast speech does get in the way sometimes lol.
I’m still not ready for youtubers as they speak fast as well, but I can kind of see what is going on too, especially if they put subtitles.
I’m having lots of fun and I can see words I learned yesterday being used in other contexts.
Back in my previous post about passive learning, I mentioned that I’m at n4 level since I wasn’t confident in my skills, but you can still have N3 comprehension and N4 output which is my case. I also don’t think I should have said that I’m at a certain level, when I haven’t even taken the exam lol
Still a long way to go, but I’m enjoying the journey so far. I also consolidate grammar and vocabulary with light anki sessions ( like 20 words or less) and online grammar resources just so I can review it.
In other words, things like textbooks and traditional studying methods are a really useful complimentary resource.
People have different methods and needs, so some could argue that textbooks are good and all, but even now when I’m in college studying Chinese , I feel like studying by myself is better than going to classes.
But seriously, it’s ridiculous how much more you learn when you’re having fun. Once you know the basics, even if I understand 40% , I still get a lot out of it, especially from anime that has clear pronunciation. Bonus points for anime I have already watched, it makes things to understand. and sentence mining.
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