Do you watch JDramas without subtitles?

kenjilina wrote:

demo hon o yomu no wa motto muzukashii.
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minna ganbatte kudasai!

What does it mean in english?

gomen nasai! i don't know how to use the quote procedure. honto ni baka da na :shamefulcry:

Andro wrote:

What does it mean in english?

reading books is harder (than watching tv )

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everyone please keep it up/persevere

I don't know enough Japanese to watch a drama without subs. I like to know what's going on.

But then someone just released "Tokyo Friends" raw on d-addicts.com with Otsuka Ai. I downloaded it and watched it and I did like it. Mostly because Otsuka Ai plays an aspiring singer and so she sings a lot in the show :)

I guess I'll just have to learn Japanese now.

I haven't tried to watch any drama unsubbed, maybe I should go download some random raw :hehe:

I usually have no problem watching unsubbed anime though.

'tokyo friends' sounds interesting.

maybe i'll grow to like her music more.

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go go osaka girl!

did watched drama without sub sometimes when i just cant help it.... i think the first one i watched without sub is the rerun of gokusen ( well, they dont sub it on japan do they? ) but i already the whole story coz i watched it on mandarin dub twice or trice already , then followed by yoshitsune on nhk and gokusen2 which i downloaded raw ... sometimes it is really hard to understand, but if u try to keep watching it over and over again, you'll get into the story line anyway and besides gesture speaks louder than words :P now am watching engine with and without soft-sub, it is fun ( at least i can test how much do i really understand ) fun way of learning japanese... coz with subtitles, i tend to look on the sub instead of listening to what the actor/actress is saying....

loris wrote:I guess i'll have to learn japanese now

isshou ni benkyou shimashou ka :woot:

yes. i do watch drama that has no esub. in japanese, i can understand it a little, (like watching an english movie) i can not understand word by word, :shakehead: but the whole story, yes. same with chinese and korean drama.

makky wrote:yes. i do watch drama that has no esub. in japanese, i can understand it a little, (like watching an english movie) i can not understand word by word, :shakehead: but the whole story, yes. same with chinese and korean drama.

nice hello kitty!

my friend is a fan, so when i was in japan recently i looked for a kitty zippo lighter for her. i found one in hankyu dep store. it was 30,000 yen! i bought her something else!!

kenjilina wrote:nice hello kitty

my friend is a fan, so when I was in japan recently i looked for a kitty zippo lighter for her. hankyu dep store. it was 30,000 yen. I bought her something else!!

yokatta! there's some1 who appreciate my kitty chan. takakunai no, lighter no koto? i think u r a such a good friend. bcoz buying a gift for a friend is some kinda sweet :bow: . why don't you visit the 100 yen shop in japan? there's a lot of stuff there. i always go there whenever i'm in japan ...for omiyage desu... :naughty:

i bought her a kimono kitty instead. last time there were limited edition kinokuniya book store kittys for sale but i ran out of time. taihen!

have seen these 100 yen shops. must go in next time.

sugoi na hontoni. ii tomodachi da na :woot: . well. you must go there...for a change!!!

I watch raw series all the time, chinese or malay subs don't really help cause I don't read those languages.

I can understand roughly 75% of a japanese dialogue...I can follow somewhat, it's still frustrating though, so fansubs are a GODSEND.

effronterie wrote:I can understand roughly 75% of a japanese dialogue... I can follow somewhat, it's still frustrating though, so fansubs are a GODSEND

sou iu tori desu.. :victory: i really want to learn nihonggo :naughty: . that's why everytime i watch japanese drama, i have a dictionary on my side.

I don't usually watch a series if it doesn't have subtitles, but now I'm making an exception for some of the RAWS that are being posted on D-addicts such as "engine" -- I've started to pick up about 1/2 of what's going on in the dialogue. =) I probably will end up watching an entire series without subs starting this season though. Hopefully I won't get too lost. :sweat:

Once I tried to watch a drama - I think it was Little Hospital - but I didn't understand almost nothing. I want to learn japanese, but first I have to find a good teacher.

In the past, I avoided watching raw files at all costs because I don't know Japanese so watching raws was pointless. But after I became more familiar with Jdramas, I start to like more and more actors/actresses. Then my addiction began. Basically, if the drama has my fav. actor in it and the storyline sounds interesting enough, I'm willing to watch it raw. Of course, that drama has to have a high probability of being subbed too (last spring dramas, I downloaded the raws for only the 3 that are being subbed: Tiger&Dragon, Engine and With Ame after a Dream).
This season, however, I can't help it. There're like 4, 5 dramas I want to watch so badly. So I just dl them and watch them raws, and secretly pray that some kind ppl would pick it up and sub it.
Btw, not being able to understand raw file dramas has motivated me to take Japanese course in Uni. So, hopefully, in the near future, I can watch the drama in Japanese audio without the English subs and still understand what the drama is about :sweat: ...

I don't.. Because I woudn't understand anything.

I watched 1 or 2 episodes of Slow Dance which is airing in SF bay area, I have absolutely NO idea what it is about.

Don' t understand at all. :(