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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4965 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1393 of 1702 29 May 2014 at 7:35am | IP Logged | ||
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If I say えと and あの a lot will that make my Japanese sound better?
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| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4654 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 1394 of 1702 29 May 2014 at 10:57am | IP Logged | ||
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They sound a whole lot better than "uuhm" and moments of silence, I guess.
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4965 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1395 of 1702 29 May 2014 at 7:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Moments of silence are bad? Hmm. I'm afraid if I start saying them then I'll turn into one or those people who
say えと every other word. I often stop and think and it would probably just come out. Often. I guess I might as well. I'm probably saying ummm anyway. *edit* It's just weird consciously saying umm on purpose. Edited by kraemder on 29 May 2014 at 7:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5763 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 1396 of 1702 29 May 2014 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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I used to try using えと to buy time in conversation, but I'd find too often that I'd run out of the と bit before thinking of something better to say! Ummm is so much easier to extend, but doesn't sound very Japanese!
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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4446 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 1397 of 1702 30 May 2014 at 6:06pm | IP Logged | ||
I watched the first episode of Fairy Tale and found it quite confusing: constant references to things that had obviously happened before. Then I realised I'd just watched the first episode of Season 2 :-) I must remember to pay more attention to context in the future! I'll try out the real first episode later on. I didn't realise that crunchyroll lets you watch for free in SD. That's good for me as I'm only watching for the language - the pictures are just there to provide a backdrop and to help me understand, so I don't need HD. The ads cropped up about once at the beginning and twice during a 24m episode so that's acceptable (probably about the same as the streaming sites, except the ads on crunchyroll are shorter and, so far, always identical). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4965 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1398 of 1702 30 May 2014 at 6:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Glad crunchy is working out. Hope you like fairy tail when you get around to watching the 1st episode. About
13 shows in though you'll have to got to a streaming site or netflix because they don't have the license for the 2nd season or something. I think they'll be showing it later but not now. Netflix seems to have grown up though so you can watch anime with or without subs. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4446 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 1399 of 1702 30 May 2014 at 6:38pm | IP Logged | ||
Do you mean you might stop logging or you might give up Japanese entirely? I know that I'm willing to watch almost anything in Japanese just for the practice, but I got the impression that you enjoy manga and anime ... won't you keep those up? Anyway, surely you'll carry on and take the N1 :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4965 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1400 of 1702 30 May 2014 at 7:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was thinking it might follow the same path that German did. In other words I'd reach a point where I stop
studying and just watch anime for example or read something if I feel like it. But stop consciously trying to improve Japanese specifically. However, watching anime last night I think I'm not as close to that level than I was thinking. And Japanese is different from German. I only use German if I buy a German book. I'm addicted to watching anime almost everyday. I suspect that is going to make me want to reach a really good level of understanding after all ;(. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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