Comments on: Japanese TV and My Quest to Learn Japanese http://martian.org/karen/2008/07/27/japanese-tv-and-my-quest-to-learn-japanese/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:20:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: karen http://martian.org/karen/2008/07/27/japanese-tv-and-my-quest-to-learn-japanese/comment-page-1/#comment-24346 karen Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:10:05 +0000 http://martian.org/karen/?p=552#comment-24346 We do have a cable box – I’ll have to see if I can find some things to watch with closed captions. (Marty is going to find out how we get these to display.)

I do try to buy Japanese films that have English subtitles – but since I don’t know much about Japanese cinema I rarely manage to buy anything that I end up liking enough to watch more than once.

I have bought some of the Disney films I like in Japanese and we have a bunch of Studio Ghibli films. Recently I have started to watch some cartoons like Pocket Monster – which I was surprised to like!

]]> By: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa http://martian.org/karen/2008/07/27/japanese-tv-and-my-quest-to-learn-japanese/comment-page-1/#comment-24305 Tatsuhiko Miyagawa Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:40:32 +0000 http://martian.org/karen/?p=552#comment-24305 Do you have an HDTV or a cable box that you can watch Digital channels (地デジ)? If you do, there’re some shows with closed captions available that your DTV/STB can decode. http://tv.yahoo.co.jp/vhf/tokyo/realtime.html The shows with CC are marked with the green [字] icon.

I guess the other way to learn Japanese is to watch interesting shows with English subs (not dubs obviously). I’m sure hanekomu watched lots of j-dramas with this way. subs are only available on the internets and not over the air though.

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