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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
I feel like I shouldn't watch LWA unless I try to learn Japanese.
Also, how's the round robin going?
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayComing along, hopefully. I got it late the other night and will hopefully get my chapter done over the weekend (if not before since I'll hopefully get out of work early today).
I could have started it last night I suppose, but since The BFG is out I thought I would get that out of the way instead.
Well, so did I otherwise I wouldn't have been half as excited.
I had much the same experience with Fantastic Mr. Fox, which I didn't see until recently. It seems like more people are familiar with the movie than with the book, but I grew up on that darn book and its Food Porn.
I don't speak Japanese, but I do speak a bit of Mandarin Chinese. It is definitely difficult. You have to learn a completely different writing system (and the pronunciation is completely separate. You can read fluent Chinese but not be able to speak a word, and vice versa) It's also hard because, since it shares no roots with English, you don't have any cognates helping you along.
I remember learning in a geopolitics class that the Mandarin language is one of the reasons that China is an authoritarian country. Pictorial language systems like Mandarin that are really, really hard to learn tend to mean that things get concentrated with a higher ruling class. Similarly in Egypt when you had the hieroglyphs, along with a second Egyptian language meant more for the masses (which is how we translated the Rosetta Stone).
Then again, that teacher also thinks that the Treaty of Versailles led to WWII and he also recommended "Hitler's Pope," so I may have to take that with a grain of salt.
edited 1st Jul '16 9:45:55 AM by Pannic
I once heard someone describe learning Japanese as learning a language made by someone who doesn't know how language works.
This song needs more love.I actually did learn Japanese in college (and I would definitely rather do that than fight a bear, to take Marston's statement literally), but I had an advantage in that I watch subtitled anime frequently, and did so before I took the class, so I get regular practice at hearing the language spoken. I still have difficulty with kanji, but I can read pretty much anything aimed at younger readers (where it's either just in kana (the syllable writing) or has kanji with furigana over it) and it's gotten to the point that I've been able to watch some kids' anime like Pretty Cure and Pokemon without subtitles at all and it's been understandable to me. I've even played some of the Pokemon games in Japanese, too. What helps me, then, is that because of my love of anime, I've kept up on practicing reading and listening to the language.
But that's just my personal experience, and I can understand it if other people find learning new languages to be too difficult or intimidating, especially one that uses a different alphabet system.
edited 1st Jul '16 10:25:00 AM by Rainbow
From my understanding, the Treaty of Versailles gets overstated. Mainly because Keynes wrote a book about how it'd ruin the economy and lead to another war. Well, the German economy tanked and a war happened, so people figured Keynes was right... but they didn't quite happen for the reasons that Keynes said they'd happen.
I would rather fight a bear than learn chinese, in part because I'd probably win against the bear. Japanese, on the other hand, is a language I might actually try to learn sometime.
Roald Dahl. The author whose adaptations simply never fail. I liked fox and matilda. Only ever read Matilda and Chocolate Factory. Matilda was a very good book.
Matilda is my favorite book of all time. I've read the book at least 20 times, seen the movie, and the Broadway musical. My avatar was Matilda until recently.
I've read the entire Roald Dahl canon and am really excited for the movie, but I don't know if I'll see it in theaters. I hate movie theaters, so I only go if it's a movie I really want to see
edited 1st Jul '16 5:39:02 PM by Cailleach
But my actual awnser is that you'll miss out on a ton of great anime if you refuse to watch the subs or dubs and instead try to learn japanese first.
Why? It's not like they're going to stop existing in the next year or two.
I dunno if you have Netflix but if you do you can watch LWA on Netflix (this is Little Witch Academia we're talking about, right?) in Japanese with subtitles.
There's lots of anime on Netflix. The problem is that I don't speak Japanese.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayMy point is that subtitles and english dubs exist for a reason. Trying to learn japanese before watching anime is going to take forever. What's next, are you going to refuse to read manga until you've learnt the japanese language in writing too? Cause that'll probably be even harder then trying to learn spoken japanese language.

I watched LWA way back when there was only the one episode. I remember liking it pretty well. The poison witch was great.
And the magic rainbow laser is a force of purification. Using it against someone already good, like the mane six, would temporarily remove their petty flaws and make them nicer than they already are.