Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5559 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 1 of 7 03 January 2013 at 7:06am | IP Logged |
Can anyone recommend a good website for Japanese TV programmes that's accessible from the US?
Rather than just provide live streaming, the website needs to store programmes for at least a few weeks, so that I can return to them in my studies. I'm particularly looking for realistic colloquial contemporary dialogue, so fun series and modern dramas would be ideal.
Any tips or suggestions greatly appreciated... @u@
Edited by Teango on 03 January 2013 at 7:15am
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Kounotori Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5347 days ago 136 posts - 264 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Russian Studies: Mandarin
| Message 2 of 7 03 January 2013 at 10:36pm | IP Logged |
Well, there's Aznv TV. Just google it.
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kagemusha Newbie United States Joined 4927 days ago 35 posts - 42 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 3 of 7 04 January 2013 at 3:53am | IP Logged |
Dramacrazy.net
Animecrazy.net
hulu.com Has some Japanese shows.
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cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6128 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish
| Message 4 of 7 04 January 2013 at 4:50am | IP Logged |
http://www.jptv24.com/
The free version of this site has only one channel, but the video quality is good. If you get a test pattern check the time.
Oops, but wait, reading again, this is streaming. It doesn't have stored programs. I think the main legal site for Japanese TV in the USA is crunchyroll.com -- but this is mostly anime. I sometimes find it frustrating figuring out exactly what is free and what is paid on crunchyroll though.
Edited by cathrynm on 04 January 2013 at 5:37am
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5559 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 5 of 7 05 January 2013 at 10:45am | IP Logged |
Thanks to everyone for all the great links!! I've started watching a detective series called "Monsters" over on Dramacrazy.net and am enjoying it so far (although I only pick out a few words at best of course). Please keep your suggestions rolling in... :)
It seems like the bulk of the programmes I've found so far are either anime, period dramas that remind me of my trip to Edo Wonderland, or clearly targeted at a teenage girl market. ;) Ideally, I'm on the lookout for a series where I can imitate the speech patterns and voice of a normal modern adult Japanese guy, and which might be more oriented towards a male or at least mixed audience. Any ideas for a drama series along these lines?
Edited by Teango on 05 January 2013 at 10:48am
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Axystos Pentaglot Newbie Antarctica Joined 6836 days ago 20 posts - 43 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French, Russian Studies: Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Japanese, Czech, Polish
| Message 6 of 7 05 January 2013 at 1:04pm | IP Logged |
I don't know about male of mixed audience, but I've always liked the series called "Love Shuffle", because unlike most series that I couldn't even bear to watch until the end, this story has a couple of interesting plot twists. At least in my opinion it does. :)
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howtwosavealif3 Newbie United States Joined 4489 days ago 16 posts - 19 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 7 of 7 05 January 2013 at 3:22pm | IP Logged |
http://waraoyo.seesaa.net/
here's a site for talk-variety shows. they're more useful for common/colloquial language than dramas itihnk but it also depends on what situations you're interested in. there's so many video sites for japanese media. just search 無料動画 トークバラエティ or douga + name of the talkvariety show or the drama or whateveer. I find talk/variety shows the most fun and interesting. I personally just search by shows bc i'm mad behind on them. though there are some really good dramas too.
here's my j-dramas reviews:
https://choronghi.wordpress.com/?s=reviews
OH AND i wanted to share this:
http://tsukinofune.tumblr.com/day/2012/12/08
so in this there's 2 posts with this warai conbi doing their thing with A TRANSCRIPT! so watch it before the video gets removed or download the video off keepvid.com and enjoy.
other videos are hliarious like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MhjiA JTLVtA I love kae-uta bangumis.
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a drama i saw with lots of twists was watashi tachi no kyoukasho. i recommend it.
Edited by howtwosavealif3 on 05 January 2013 at 4:14pm
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