How to learn ANY language with Anime & Manga
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Think Anime / Manga is useless? Think again. Nothing is better for language learning.
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Hope you like the video! Anime and Manga are such powerful tools. They've changed the way I've learned languages in so many ways!
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ı have a question for you . Did you want turkish langues ?
Bahasa Indonesia lebih mudah karena mengambil banyak bahasa dari negara lain ini Link nya boleh dilihat kesamaan artinya dari negara tersebut th-cam.com/video/YHKixE59hMY/w-d-xo.html
I am sorry not English because
thoughts on the speakly app and lingo deer?
i speak 8 languages not including English . Greek,Spanish , french ,Russian , Chinese ,Japanese, Hindi , German. sorry but how many languages do you speak again
When is you app getting released?? Please reply!
The irony is I started learning Russian after hearing it in anime and only now eight or so years later, I'm beginning to learn Japanese
I'm just wondering how is your Russian?
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@@Robin-yn3zi no
@@Robin-yn3zi generalizing 🤕
@@Robin-yn3zi generalizing 🤕
This is fact because this is exactly how I learned English, literally binge read webtoon and anime
Samee
how is ur english level now
@@akramobada last year i took the test and got C1 (B2 in reading, and C2 in listening) . But i wanna try again this year
@@TheLunarLexicon how is ur speaking right now
@@TheLunarLexicon holy shit c2 in listening
Hi Ikenna! Hope u r getting better and better every day! 😁✌️🇦🇷
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Language Reactor is phenomenal. I just wish there was a dedicated website for spanish anime, that had subtitles at least.
Yessss this would change the game
I like how people critize this like:" Noooo learning Japanese by watching anime is weeaboo!" Sure the way people act in anime might not reflect reality, but language is language. My big anime period was from the age of 14 to the age of 19 and even today I can very loosely figure out what a Japanese person is saying. Never studied Japanese.
you think you can very loosely figure out what a Japanese person is saying*
A lot of people who haven't actually taken the time to try to learn Japanese tend to say the same thing, see the Dunning-Kruger effect.
@@youdamasuta4379 Okey. Very *very* loosely. It's like you only know 2 % of the words being spoken, but you know them from so many scenarios from anime that you can somehow pin-point yourself in the right direction. Point of my comment was that language is all about in-put and out-put, but firstly in-put. Anime isn't a bad starting place.
You have to go to school to learn the way characters in anime and manga speak. So you can’t *technically* learn it from manga/anime, but you can learn words and phrases. I started off watching anime and learning basic words and phrases, but you actually need to deep dive into learning apps or novels and documentaries (or anything that speaks normally) to learn the actual language. If you talk in the way anime characters talk in Japan, you’re bound to get made fun of lmao
@@rj2452 You do NOT have to go to school to learn a language, it doesn't work, or in the best case, you will learn the basics.
Watch this video to understand better : th-cam.com/video/rQtzQQ6I4LE/w-d-xo.html
@@cgmll9199 did you even read what I wrote? The way people speak in manga and anime is considerably different than actual Japanese, so much so that voice actors and manga writers go to school for it. You can learn how to speak like that from watching anime and reading manga, sure, of course, but you can’t learn actual Japanese grammar, etc from just manga and anime. Also, I know you don’t have to go to school to learn a language, I’m literally a dropped out polyglot lmao
Man, all of my broken Japanese are from anime. I can understand and speak some very basic level Japanese, but not read. I'm still memorizing all the Katakana and Hiragana atm. And yes, watching anime can help you learn Japanese but if you wanna be proficient in it, also try to watch it without subtitles sometimes it can help you understand the languages better. All of this is from my personal experience watching anime and SOMEHOW can speak and understand very basic level Japanese. Kanji is outta question atm
Don’t forget reading
i watched a bunch of content in japanese without subs
it's true, i know people with a bigger vocab than i have that can't understand spoken japanese cause they never really sat down to listen to it lmao
and reading speads up your language acquistion by A LOT
Like he said, there are plenty of people recommend to watch with the same language of sub and dub. But if that's what works for you, go for it!!
The langauge videos you make are always really inspiring, and it really feels like you understand what it's like to learn a lamguage.
Well, I would expect he would understand that LOL, since he knows so many languages
I think anime is also really good because when you dub it in any language it still works because the mouths talking are only animated opening and closing, so if you don’t look too close it looks like they’re actually speaking the language of the dub. I get really bothered watching live action shows when the lips moving don’t line up with the audio, so anime is a life saver :)
I actually used conprehensible input to learn english from the start i knew a bit of english but watching reddit videos made my vocabulary wayyy bigger and started to use english more than spanish since you can express yourself more
where can i find reddit vids
@@akramobada dark fluf or rslash are good ones
@@Leo88w88 do u have discord
"Nothing with nuclear physics"
*me watching Dr Stone in korean*: "hmm yes I see"
There's an Anki add-on called Jlab that has a premade deck with thousands of anime examples, and the add-on itself let's you import full decks from thousands of other series. Definitely helps you get to the B1+ stage easier.
You're my inspiration🥰, I'm still learning Japanese, and I was hoping to learn other languages too. Good luck to you and me.
Really glad to have you back man. Looking forward to your app. You've been releasing more and more videos and you've got me motivated to learn again. I really appreciate the content you put out. It's always relevant to me and always interesting. I hope you continue to get better. Tus vídeos siempre me motivan!
When I saw ''Omnisicient Reader's Viewpoint'' in the Manhwa, and ''Dumb Husky and His White Cat Shizun'' in Manhua categories, I literally screamed. Oh gosh I'm such a weeb.
I improved my listening a lot by watching lots of animes without subtitles (English in this case)
I actually can understand the conversation in Japanese. Although talking in it is quite harder, and well... The writing is hard XD
@@N-Ice_ I'd recommend to focus only in imput skills first, and when you feel you're confortable with the language, the go for output skills, that's what I did, but speak (pronunciation) is something I don't really try to improve that much
@@aLe-be2fq well... English is my third language so I didn't fully get the whole imput output stuff :-/
@@N-Ice_ imput is basicly listening/reading and output writing/speaking
@@aLe-be2fq hmmm... I see. But the reading part is REALLY hard though :-/. It's not like I did know it won't be easy, but I speak Russian and Latvian along with English, all three have different alphabets and I know all three. But problem is that Japanese have way more to learn there, and drawing and memorizing them is different from normal one's...
I just started learning german by watching one of my favorite childhood cartoons, Pokemon!
You’re such an inspiration dude, keep doing what you do! You’re awesome!
I had an adiction for reading manhwa, I read about one thousand chapters in english, I noticed a huge improvement, thank u tower of god for taught me english xD
Webtoon translate is a life saver, i never thought I'd find hindi anime/manga content I'd actually care about!
I frickin agree i learned so much thru anime and manga at first i didnt even have any intentions to learn the language but like soon after, i realized that i could understand the language OFC I HAD TO LEARN SOME MORE WORDS AND LIKE THE BASICS its just that anime made it so much easier for me i could understand the like other words but just wanted to learn more
Oh btw i realized that i could understand it cuz like one day i was watching kinda like a japanese vid and it didnt have any subtitles but i still wanted to watch it and to my suprise I UNDERSTOOD IT
Thanks for helping us out with all your content man, I really appreciate it 🙏🏽❤
Wow thank's for sharing that advice with us. I didn't knew the Language Reactor plugin but it's worth gold! Further about the motivation part. What you are talking about there is compelling input. So the sweet spot is when the comprehensible input you consume is at the same time compelling.
Great video man. The problem i found is that the dubbed anime on netflix and the subtitles are different. Its super frustrating. If they were matched up it would make my life soooo much easier. They read off different scripts so what you hear and read are 2 different translations rendering it almost useless. Sure the dubs are good but to have the actual subs....way better
4:12
I was scrolling in the rest of youtube while listening to the video for a bit and you saying that scared the hell outta me XD
When I was a kid, I was visiting family abroad and came across Inuyasha in Spanish while skimming through the channels. (I was not in a country where Spanish was the native language, which still has me confused to this day -- all the anime and also the French 'n Canadian cartoons were in Spanish????) I loved Inuyasha, so every time I saw it on the air I'd watch it, even though I was really young and didn't know any Spanish at that time. I came out of it learning a good amount of words and now honestly can't watch the show in English or Japanese 'cause I've reprogrammed myself to think Aome (Kagome) is Latina now haha. I really enjoy Latin American Spanish dubs. They seem to be more loyal to the source material (compared to the English version) and the voice acting always seem to fit the characters.
Do you have any more advice on finding shows with subtitles matching audio? It's a nightmare when it comes to dubbed content, and in a few languages I study the native content I can find with matching subtitles is either too advanced or uninteresting.
commenting for any recommendations someone may have
@@KG-er4zw me too 😁
@@KG-er4zw Same...I'm struggling to find Greek dubbed and subbed shows 😔
Shi- he really caught me when I looked away on the "active learning" bit 🤣
Right😂😂😂 I was not paying attention and was scrolling down
well i had arldy knew this but its nice to see someone actually explaining how and why it works :D
Hi Ikenna, I'm currently learning (Bahasa) Indonesian and reading webtoons in this language, really makes learning fun and motivational! Thank you! Its also cool to find other webtoons in other languages that don't exist in the English webtoons yet!
Watching anime hasn’t taught me how to fluently speak Japanese, but it’s made me able to say the words correctly, and not sound like a complete foreigner. So that is cool.
When I was learning english I watched Anime (Still doing it) (FMA brotherhood was the first anime I watched in english even though I can't understand everything) and now I am using Anime per imparare italiano.
The annoying thing about watching anime though in your target language is the subtitles are usually different to what is being said. I've been watching some anime in german with subtitles and half of the time what they say isn't what the subtitles are. It makes it super annoying cause your not hearing what your reading.
Passive learning is the best. I learn English ONLY from watching a bunch of TH-cam videos, TV shows and movies. My theory for how I managed to learn a whole new language from scratch to near native fluency is that I watched it all without subtitles (and i was like 7). It took me about 3 years to get to conversational fluency and one more to get to near native fluency.
Right but even learning with subtitles takes some sort of active thought.
For example, I'm a native English speaker (but know a lot of Thai because I grew up and live in Thailand, some Japanese because I'm half, and a tiny bit of Spanish). I watch a lot of anime, and usually watch it with English subtitles.
I ain't learning shit from that if I'm not putting any conscious effort into actually paying attention to what they're saying in Japanese and relating it to the subtitles.
So the better way for me to learn is the method that Ikenna described, I'm probably going to try it soon enough. Put on Japanese subtitles (pray to god it has Furigana so I can read the Kanji too) and pay attention.
can I talk to you
I watched all seasons of the Office when I first started learning Spanish, and even though I hardly understood any words I understood soo much just from expressions, tones and actions of the characters. In hindsight I should have just learned a bunch of words first before going in to it
I'm happy to see you're posting a lot again! I'm excited for your app! I tried doing flash cards for Japanese but I never put in enough time to get a good deck going so I kinda gave up on it, once your app launches I'm gonna really try and put in the work!
i am grateful
thanks to you, my parents allow me to watch anime 5 hours a day and i get to fulfill my dream of learning japanese so i can visit japan!
If I really wanted to I would've learned Japanese decades ago because Anime was something that I watched daily as a child. So this is why although I can't speak Japanese or Korean I know which one is which based on the sound because Anime and K Drama. That being said I also know how Cantonese sounds like because I've been exposed to it, my tutor used to speak Cantonese with her family and I heard it everyday for at least 5 years, and since I speak Mandarin and Hokkien I won't confuse them from each other. The point is passive learning is a huge jump if you suddenly wanted to actively learn a language. I recently did a video explaining how I progressed in Portuguese and it was significantly faster VS my Russian and my theory is that if I wanted to actively learn Japanese or Korean it would be faster than Russian (only for me) because of my years of passive input in Japanese and Korean. With Russian I needed 3 months (probably more I'm still at this point of my journey) of deliberate passive exposure to compensate for the years I had exposure with Portuguese via capoeira classes, even if I am actively learning Eu Portuguese instead of Br Portuguese. So anyway each language would be different for each person depending on their background so don't compare yourself to others.
man same idk but since i was a kid i only watch tom&jerry and some english movies and anime japanease dub,english dub and the result is I didn't even spent 1$ to tearn these languages
Thank you for finally telling me that this extension is called Language Reactor! I've seen it all over the place and nobody ever says what it's called .-.
Ones ability to learn language seems to be synonimous with not giving up when drowning in an abyss of things you don’t understand.
Thanks for being an awesome inspiration Ikenna
yes, people are SO wrong when they say anime is a waste of time.
Me: Goes to search up franglish
Ikenna: Get back on this video boy
Me: o_o
I cannot WAIT for this APP, praying to get beta access to it in the coming months >:]
I completely agree with everthing that you mentioned in this video. Thank you for sharing!
When I was already doing this but haven’t been consistent, thanks for the info Ikenna!!😄
Man you scared the hell out of me cause I was actually browsing sth on another tab while listening to the vid and then I hear you calling me out 😭😭
That’s Ourkenna. Father, stretch my hand🖐 lol
I'm learning Japanese. I've been learning it since 2015. Anime and manga are pretty much my main method of Japanese input.
I used to study Spanish when I was younger but I abandoned it because I like anime more than Spanish TV.
I couldn't find any shows from Latin America that interested me. Mexican soap operas are really dumb.
I figured if I want to learn a language I have to ONLY pick media that was ORIGINALLY in my target language.
But now I realize... wait... why should that matter?
I enjoy anime in Japanese so why shouldn't I be able to enjoy it in other languages I want to learn?
when 1:09 showed up for manhua i got whiplash, Ikenna is a chad for putting THAT there omg
Before I went to Germany for the first time of my life, I watched 54 episodes of Digimon 01 for three times and then I found that I could understand German in normal speed, not just textbook speed. Then when I went to Germany, I could start to communicate in German effortlessly two weeks. (I had A2 level before that)
Now eight years have passed, I am repeating the same thing for Italian (which I started to learn a month ago and just finished all Duolingo lessons) except I use Stein Gates this time because I could find video sources for both Italian subs and dubs. I combined them together. Of course I have to manually handle the video audio sync for each video which is a pain in the ass.
I'm a Cantonese native speaker and Japanese should be easy, but I was stuck in N3 (B1) which I marginally passed and I started to have contact with the Japanese language since I was in grade 8 (now I'm 28). At the same time my German and Russian have long surpassed that level.
For Italian you can find basically any film or serie translated into it with extreme ease (and at a certain point you'll start recognising the dubbers, as they're all the same)
Ikenna! I’ve been reading manga, manwha, and manhua but I haven’t learned much, although I’ve read some really good ones such as solo leveling, beginning after the end, sword glory, and nano machine etc etc. all of which is phenomenal.
Idea is great. I used manga to learn Italian and it worked perfectly. But now I'm learning Norwegian and I can't find manga in this language. I found only few titles in paper version which are extremely expensive to buy and even more expensive to ship to my country :(
I’m try to learn Italian, could you recommend me any manga or anime?
Me learning Spanish with anime and manga since i started
Hello ikenna, hope your doing well and great job on almost hitting one million subs
I laughed about the nerd comments, since I rewatch BBC Merlin in every language I am learning. 🤣 I like to watch many shows in my target languages to go with my textbook/flashcard learning. One episode a night until I realize I am understanding the show! Yay!
Past few months, I tried a new hobby of scanlating jp twitter artist's comic (yon-koma) and It kind does help a lil bit
On the subject of rare words that you will NEVER use. I learned angioplasty (血管形成術） from Bakemonogatari the other day.
4:04 wtf "The crème de le crop" ???? xD, i'm french and i laughed so much 😂
Gut gemacht 👍🏻
Ha I had a thought about that. Glad to know that it would work.
I can’t wait to the app I’m so exited
I hope you get well soon. I cried for your health and prayed to God to cure my mentor. You are the reason I started learning Japanese 6 months ago. Love you ❤️ ❤️
where do i find mangas in japanese? fr, ive been searching for bokuben but i cant find
Please, create a video about the best anime for learning English
lol, none
i had switched tabs to look up some webtoons in Arabic and then i heard "Wait! Are you still watching? Get back on this video BOi!!"
1:52 As a Hispanic who loves Death Note, I approve this message!
Thanks dude you pushing me to learn Russian and Japanese I just want to learn them
The death note Spanish dub is amazing tbh
I've been wanting to watch Animes in Spanish but some reason I can't ever get the correct subtitles. Whenever I try to watch anything that is not originally in Spanish on Netflix or any other streaming site like Amazon Prime, I get subtitles that are a little different. Anyone else have that same problem? Also, I always try to make sure both the subtitles and voice are in Latin American Spanish, but I'm still having the same issue. Any help would be appreciated.
I've been learning Spanish and Portuguese myself and I also bumped into the same problem. The way I do it is by having native speakers make the script for the anime I like. Another option is watching shows with subtitles made by AI. Like the ones on TH-cam with subtitles. But I don't use them because they're inaccurate and missing in so many places.
You can find native speakers who would do the job with relatively low rates on freelance websites, like Upwork.
Good luck!
Oh, and most of anime are dubbed in latin american spanish anyway so I don't see the problem there.
@@user-vd6tx5vf3t Thank you.
I like how this video and TheAnimeMan's video talk about the same topic but different methods
Ikenna is awesome! Genuine polyglot that doesn't just memorize phrases.
Me pasa esto pero con los dramas coreanos. Ahora que estoy aprendiendo coreano, voy a obligarme a ver los dramas con subtítulos en coreano.
suerte, yo estoy estudiando Japonés y estoy planeando verme algún anime en Japonés todo!
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I feel like the more languages Ikenna learns, the more powerful he gets. Like Saitama or professor X.
4:11 I went off tab to look something up
lmaooo ikenna how did you know i looked away
The fact that I was scrolling through Amazon finding a children’s book in spanish when you said “are you still watching?” That was hilarious 😳 😆 (I’ve heard from multiple places that children’s books are a great place to start.)
Praying for you dude. Thanks for the content. From the PNW.
Praying is useless
@@fanaticofmetal nope
@@ItsameAlex yep
This is how I learned english. I just watched a lot of jacksepticeye when I was six. Now I’m pretty much fruent!
OMG why tf did I not think about memorizing the common words and make flash cards out of them? Like- ty for that plan
Good video ikenna 🙏
I’m mad I actually switched to the Crunchyroll app with TH-cam still going in background and rit then he said ‘are you still watching? Get back over here’
Was like oh shit aight I’m back.
BRO, at 4:13 exactly, i briefly took my eyes of the video to see what my family was doing and i just hear "Are you still watching???" 😆
Been watching anime a lot lately and with no Japanese learning from apps or anything like that, from the top of my head I know words like:
tomodachi = friend
ohayo(gozaimasu) = good morning
gomen(asai) *or* sumimasen = I'm sorry *or* sorry
mina = everyone
watashino = mine *or* my
watashiwa = I (as in 'myself')
hai *or* iya = Yes
iiya = No
And put together sentences with these words, like:
gomenasai, mina: I'm really sorry, everyone.
watashino tomodachi: My friend.
ohayogozaimasu, mina: Good morning, everyone.
I can also read a lot of hiragana and katakana from Japanese subtitles,
like all of the basic singular vowels, a, i, u, e, o, from hiragana and katakana.
I know how to pronounce any with Dakuon as well.
So, anime DEFINITELY does something.
"Mina" generally means "Guys" not everyone, it can also mean "People".
@@fanaticofmetal Okay, thanks for the tip
@@timerchOfficialyt ignore them, you're not wrong, they're also right but wrong in saying you're incorrect. jisho org is a good site for this stuff
@@pioneershark2230 It's fine, they may have learnt it a different way. Japanese to English subtitles have always been a mile off in most animes, anyway.
Awesome video, like always! Currently leanring Dutch, yk you should never stop grinding.
Learnt English and sadly have becomen rusty in my Spanish and Russian. Forgot like 90% cuz i cant use it lmao.
So yeah currently know German, English and am learning dutch
Veel succes!
@@Ramboldt :)
4:11 How did he know??
I fucking jumped when you say "ARE YOU STILL WATCHING" bcs I was doing some other work and I'm like "OH FUCK OH SHIT OK SORRY, yeah where were we yeah turning on the english subtitles won't work yeah yeah..." amazing video as always Ikenna
why was that so perfectly timed. i focused on my other monitor for like 1min and i get called out for not paying attention
I'm trying to learn Japanese for 2022 I tried a long time ago but I gave up I hope that this will help me on my journey and if it were possible I'd lend some me of to you hope you get better real soon!
awesome! I appreciate this amazing advice!
I just like watching anime in japanese, some of them in english or german, and any other cartoon i might watch it in whatever language. meanly portuguese because im getting serious in portuguese watching adventure time in portuguese
Hi!!!!!!!thank you for the amazing tips on how to learn new languages, i cant wait to start learning!!!
my motivation for learning japanese is to be able to understand anime & manga, so that's what I do
I was literally just getting distracted and then you pointed that out lmao that scared me so much
Thank you for your content. I learned something new again :)
4:13 omg, i'd literally just opened another tab. Seriously freaked me out
I generally take liek 3-4 days of studying basic grammar and vocab, then inputs 24/7 and Google translate to be sure I got the right meaning if a specific word or to see if the sentences I produce in the target language make sense (doesn't work with every language tho cuz Google translate suck)
Hey, franglais est une langue that has an amazing amount of beauty. If I see you in vr chat someday i'll speak it et vous ne pouriez rien faire Ikenna. You can't stop me monsieur >:D
"Nota de la muerte." Such an amazing name.
4:10 that was so funny because I was actually distracted by something else on my phone... Sorry, master
hahahahahahha