![]() ![]() In other words, it’s very easy to understand the gist of anime without subtitles even if you possess very limited Japanese. The context and visuals convey so much nuance that the actual spoken dialogue become periphery to one’s understanding of the story. So was her claim to being able to understand anime without subtitles just an empty boast? At first, I thought so, but when I started to watch anime raw I understood. It turned out she only understood a few words here and there. I played the audio of an anime episode without the visuals and asked her to translate the lines for me. That really took me aback at the time, since I assumed you needed to be fluent in order to understand what people were saying in another language. When I was just beginning to learn Japanese, one of my classmates proudly claimed to me that she could understand anime without subtitles.
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