My dream is to be able to understand Japanese enough to watch an anime or Japanese movie without subtitles, and understand everything. I think that would mean that I understand enough to hold a complex conversation, or be able to travel Japan and understand everyone who talks to me. I also think that would help me understand the culture better, because I would be viewing it in the original way it was created, in Japanese. This way I'd be interpreting the ideas based on their Japanese meanings, not English meanings.
I also want to watch Japanese game shows.
Japanese game shows -- what I've seen of them -- are really crazy strange! :P Of course, I think American ones are, too.
ReplyDelete日本のテレビはへんだですね。でも、アメリカのテレビもへんだですよ。
(Japanese TV is strange, isn't it? But American TV is strange, too!)
が私はわかります。
(But, I understand.)
One day, I want to read Japanese history textbooks. I've always wanted to see how other countries tell the stories of the past.
I want to be able to understand enough Japanese to watch Japanese movies too. Last week I tried to watch an interview with Yo-Yo Ma because it had something very important to me in it, but I could not understand because the voice-over was in Japanese. : ( I had to ask the TA before the Japanese lab work to translate it for me. I hope to be able to understand things like that eventually on my own.
ReplyDeleteI definitely understand about wanting to be able to watch Japanese game shows- they are awesome and so entertaining, although I never have any idea what the rules are or what is going on.
ReplyDeleteThats always my dream too when I study a language. I finally reached that point in spanish where I can watch a movie without subtitles and understand it. I also really hope to one day hit that point in Japanese!
ReplyDeleteSo artsy and cultural, wanting to understand Japanese film and anime! Yes learning how to understand Japanese would help a lot when watching those hilarious (and sometimes really crazily futile) game shows. One day hopefully we can watch and laugh over them together without any trouble!
ReplyDeleteはじめまして。
ReplyDeleteI'm studying for similar reasons. I have always wanted to play video games direct from Japan without the translations. I am eager to find out how different they are! I have a lot more to learn though...