I’m thinking of using anki premade anime decks for immersion. Here are my reasons
\- I’m basically just watching the anime but optimized
\- Can flip the card to see the translation of the entire sentence
\- Idle time is cut out, such as time lapses where no Japanese is happening
\- Convenience as I don’t have to keep pausing an anime
I cannot think of any cons. Is my thinking correct, or am I missing/misunderstanding something?
(I intend to only do animes ive already watched)
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One of the key aspects of immersion (that I felt while learning English) was realizing the power of context, along with being able to see how an expression is used in different situations.
I’m curious as to whether this applies in Japanese learning, and how viable OP’s premade deck idea would be. I’m kind of feeling the deck OP described is just memorizing sentences rather than actual immersion per se, but I could be very wrong about this.
> I’m basically just watching the anime but optimized
Reading a script is technically just watching the movie by this logic. You’re quite off the mark. You’ve got a focus on “cutting out idle time”, so I’m assuming you’re trying to learn Japanese as efficiently/fast as possible. Unfortunately learning needs ‘idle time’- your brain needs to process stuff. This is why we don’t speak without breaks – we need to breathe and the listener needs to process. Plus, as much as we like to say anime doesn’t reflect how people actually speak, it does show how the language is used in conversation. That’s not wasted knowledge
If you took the script of the anime and familiarised yourself with it through anki, when you watch the episode you’d be able to turn read comprehension into listening comprehension, a skill I wish I’d worked on earlier. I’ve found priming myself with unknown vocabulary before reading a text/watching something makes it much less likely that I need to stop and look it up later.
The anime decks were made to be used **alongside** anime, not as a replacement. You’re losing a lot if you try save time
What you are missing out on is that things like looking up vocabulary and using example sentences is just… studying. Studying is good and all and you showed why that’s good so go ahead and do that but that is just separate from the whole “immersion” discussion.
> I cannot think of any cons
Are you actually watching anything still or just quizing yourself on vocab from the script in anki? If the later, I’d say a con is it sounds really boring compared to actually watching something.
The biggest cons seem to be that you lose the context for the scenes (just because “no Japanese” is happening doesn’t mean a scene doesn’t advance the story) and that it’s probably much less enjoyable than just watching a show.
Would you find this enjoyable? I wouldn’t. I watch anime for the animation, the music, the directing.
I use animecard to make anki decks from anime I watch. It’s slow but it works for me. I first watch the episode all the way through with english subtitles to undertand what’s happening. I then play it again with japanese subtitles and start mining sentences and words to Anki. 2nd time will be pausing a lot.
But when I’m doing my anki exercises and I see the screenshot + audio of the anime, it helps a lot in recall.
Try “jpdb.io”. Like anki but built around the idea of pre-learning decks for immersion.
Theres a structured approach that someone compiled that is something like this. It follows tae Kim’s Grammar book and gradually exposes you to lessons by taking various examples from different animes. This one: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/911122782
I’m halfway through the deck and feel like this is a good way to learn
I feel like going through a full episode via cards isn’t exactly immersion