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Course · 15 days

Anime Japanese

The fast, casual, deliberately stylised speech of anime, and which parts of it are safe to copy.

A day is marked done when you pass its quiz at the end: get 5 of its 8 questions right. Miss it and you can take the quiz again straight away.

Unit 1 · Hearing what is actually said

Day 1Why anime Japanese sounds differentStylised speech, and why copying it backfiresDay 2The contractions you have to hearThe sounds that swallow whole wordsDay 3Sentence-ending particlesThe little words that carry the feelingDay 4Pronouns, and what they tell youおれ, ぼく, わたし, あたし and the restPaid plan · coming soonDay 5Role languageHow a character's speech tells you who they arePaid plan · coming soon

Unit 2 · The words that carry a scene

Day 6Reacting and exclaimingThe shouts that fill half the dialoguePaid plan · coming soonDay 7Effort, fighting and resolveThe vocabulary of the shōnen scenePaid plan · coming soonDay 8Feelings and confessionsHow anime says what it feelsPaid plan · coming soonDay 9School animeThe setting half of all anime sharesPaid plan · coming soonDay 10Everyday scenesHome, food and phones, as anime does themPaid plan · coming soon

Unit 3 · Using anime to actually learn

Day 11Subtitles, used properlyThree passes, and what each is forPaid plan · coming soonDay 12Choosing a show for your levelGenre by difficulty, and the no-subtitles mythPaid plan · coming soonDay 13Shadowing and sentence miningTurning an episode into practicePaid plan · coming soonDay 14What not to copyAnime lines that would land badly in real lifePaid plan · coming soonDay 15Your listening planReview, and what to watch nextPaid plan · coming soon