Forum - View topicAny tips for watching subs?
|
Goto page Previous 1, 2 |
| Author | Message | ||
|---|---|---|---|
|
誤称
Posts: 549 |
|
||
|
The way I started watching subs is unusual. I watched a lot of foreign language live action movies. Anything by Kurosawa will lend itself well to watching and doing a test of how well you can handle watching and reading at the same time.
Another question to ask: are you naturally a multitasker? Some people aren't. If you can't read a book and watch tv at the same time, you might have a harder time of watching subbed anime than say someone who can.... And its amazing how much context you'll start to pick up and how little actual reading you will do after you start watching anime subbed. You start to pick up words and understand them the same way you do that cousin who kinda mumbles funny.... |
|||
|
|||
EricJ
 Posts: 876 |
|
||
|
It's not a question of what titles to watch first--
It's a matter of auto-programming your left and right brain to hear Japanese while seeing English...Like that old optical illusion, where you see "Red" written in blue, and "Green" written in yellow, and they ask you what word you just saw. It's easy to watch Seven Samurai in Japanese w/subs (heck, it's easy to watch Seven Samurai or Throne of Blood, period  ), since it's so historically and culturally Japanese, it would sound ridiculous with a Godzilla-style English dub. Samurais naturally should speak Japanese, and after a while, you find yourself reading the words in your head with the same Japanese inflection--The sub may say "What??", but you read it with the same upswing as "NA-ni ga?"
Me, I like to watch all my Blu-rays of any movie with the English subs on, since I try to keep the volume low, and sometimes don't hear the good lines over my popcorn. That's become a good way to naturally program both-brain Eye-Ear Coordination. And when I get an anime on disk, I'll usually watch it once out of the box, so I turn on the dub to hear how it sounds, but leave the original Sub track on to check accuracy. If you MUST watch dubs, try using the Sub tracks as training wheels, it won't take long to get the hang of it. |
|||
|
|||
|
dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
|
||
That's actually extremely easy to do. Before I watched Crest of the Stars I viewed everything exclusively in dub form. But the dub of that show was so bad I had to change over to the sub not even half-way through the first episode. By the time I'd finished the third episode I'd already gotten fully used to reading the English subtitles while listening to the Japanese. It's not a matter of programming yourself, and more a test of just getting over the initial psychological hurdle and letting your brain adapt and learn on its own. Before you know it you'll be hooked on fansubs like me, LOL. |
|||
|
|||
yuna49
 Posts: 3804 |
|
||
|
I'll add the suggestion that you start off with some shows that have fairly simple dialogs. This may sound like a silly suggestion, but I'd recommend starting with something like Chi's Sweet Home. Most of the show has simple conversations and a cute, easy-to-follow story. At three minutes per episode, you can watch a few episodes and quit when you tire of reading the subs.
At the other end of the spectrum you have really densely written shows like Mouryou no Hako or Hyouge Mono. These are the kind of shows that require attentive viewing/reading and should only be taken on when you're alert. Bakemonogatari is another example of a very demanding show to watch with subs. Unfortunately Aniplex did not help with this since the R1 release has no dubbing. I've been watching subtitled movies all my life, and subtitled anime intensively for about half-a-dozen years now, and I still find shows like these difficult to watch if I'm not at full alertness. |
|||
|
|||
|
誤称
Posts: 549 |
|
||
|
I'm not sure how Bakemonogatari would be able to be properly dubbed anyways. You'll spend a good portion of the first episode reading anyways. Just go full bore and enjoy the ride!
|
|||
|
|||
walw6pK4Alo
 Posts: 9322 |
|
||
|
I don't remember any trouble when I started watching subs, I didn't even notice any real difference. Actually, you tend not to notice subs unless you think about it manually, then it's kind of annoying to wait until you get that you're supposed to read subconsciously. On top of anime, watching foreign films with subtitles is definitely no issue, unless they have improperly timed subs. Like, the subtitles will either linger on the screen too long, not long enough, or start before or after the dialog is spoken. You never think about it watching casually, but impeccable timing is crucial.
The language switch aside, it's about learning to speed read and using rapid eye movements from the bottom to the middle of the picture. If you watch anime long enough, even on home video, chances are you're going to encounter sub-only titles. Start with Das Boot. Actually, I watch pretty much everything with subtitles tracks on, as I tend to watch things at 1.2-1.5x speed. |
|||
|
|||
dragon695
 Posts: 1377 Location: Clemson, SC |
|
||
Or any NisiO show. |
|||
|
|||
DuskyPredator
 Posts: 15523 Location: Brisbane, Australia |
|
||
|
The thing is Teekyuu is hard enough to understand when you are pausing at each sentence.
|
|||
|
|||
EireformContinent
 Posts: 977 Location: Łódź/Poland (The Promised Land) |
|
||
|
Two pages about thing that more than half of the world do on the daily basis. Just pick up what seems interesting and watch it.
P.S Excel Saga hard to follow? |
|||
|
|||
poonk
 Posts: 1490 Location: In the Library with Philip |
|
||
|
|||
|
|||
Kruszer
 Posts: 7988 Location: Minnesota, USA |
|
||
|
Interest is indeed important. I've found myself far less likely to work up the motivation to watch a show that is only available subtitled-only versus a dubbed show. It's just less of a hassle and faster without all the pausing involved. Thus if a show is borderline the language options might influence whether I continue or drop it.
Subbed, yes, because they talk a mile a minute so sentences disappear before you can finish reading them. |
|||
|
|||
|
EireformContinent
Posts: 977 Location: Łódź/Poland (The Promised Land) |
|
||
|
It wasn't anything special when I watched it some years ago, even if that was one of my first anime to be watched with English subs. But I guess that I'm just to watching subtitled shows.
|
|||
|
|||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group