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Realism (Offline)
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03-11-2011, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by lucagalbu View Post
But for example in hunterxhunter the main character Gon refers to himself as "ore wa" and that is not so polite...
Of course they won't use polite dialogue all the time. The would result in something very unnatural. They have to speak regular Japanese that people use. So they switch back and forth all the time, you just have to know when they're using them.

And it doesn't even depend on the situation. They will use polite and normal Japanese whenever they feel like it. You never know.

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Originally Posted by lucagalbu View Post

So it's not a good job learning how to speak (intonation, accents, rhythm etc...) by watching anime?
I think you should learn to understand first. Just imitate what Japanese people say. But if you can't understand even 10% of what they say...how can you speak? So just imitate, don't try to make up your own stuff. You can speak as well as you want...but if you can't understand what the other person is saying...then it's just useless.

If you can effortlessly understand 100% of an anime, talk show, drama, news...whatever...then you will speak. And you will be fluent.

Last edited by Realism : 03-12-2011 at 12:47 AM.
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