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aysaraburrub
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19 December 2010 at 11:17am | IP Logged 
I'm sure a lot of you here know about the TV method. Right now I'm trying to learn
Japanese using the TV method, but since I can't watch TV for more than an hour or two
at most, I thought I needed something else to make up for that. So I started to listen
to Podcasts in Japanese, podcasts for native speakers, not the type of podcasts that
teach you the language. So I ended up watching an hour or two of Japanese dramas, plus
maybe another two hours of only listening every day.

Is it enough to give me that basic understanding of the language? as the TV method
stresses the fact that you have to listen and "see" what the characters are doing. But
with podcasts you can only hear them speak, without much knowledge about the topic
discussed or situation where these dialogs take place. So what do you think about this
strategy?

BTW, I'm trying to use these "unconventional" yet "natural" ways, because I've tried
learning languages from course books before and I found it boring and the dialogs are irrelevant most of the time.

So what do you guys think?
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slucido
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19 December 2010 at 12:58pm | IP Logged 
If you keep doing this, I think you will learn the language without any problem.
KEEP doing.


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luhmann
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20 December 2010 at 11:44pm | IP Logged 
I watch 2-4 hours of Mandarin TV series a day, but feel not make me very little good if it were not backed up by by my other learning activities (basically srs'ing vocabulary, and listening to language-learning podcasts). Studying makes television a lot more rewarding.
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ANK47
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21 December 2010 at 8:05am | IP Logged 
OP, I believe that massive amounts of audio input will eventually teach you the language. The podcast, even though you aren't getting visual information, will still help you even at the beginner level because it gives your brain an opportunity to internalize the rhythm of the language, things like where 1 word ends and another word begins, the types of things that CAN be words in the language, and many many more aspects of language. We don't know how the brain learns language, but a lot of exposure along with a desire to learn the language and communicate will work for you. I don't think you should entirely swear off of any kind of reference material though. If you hear a word a lot in the TV shows or podcast, look it up if you want to. Audio input is more important than "book learnin'" though.

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Arekkusu
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Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto
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21 December 2010 at 1:56pm | IP Logged 
Japanese being a more opaque language -- unlike Spanish or French, where hearing a word is sometimes
enough to understand it -- I feel that TV alone may not cut it. This might work better from an intermediate
level. And even then, the level of involvement needed is still high: you need to pay close attention and write
down and look up words you encounter.


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