Tobberoth Wrote:Won't the import files be quite enormous? I mean, just look at a random subtitle file, it's generally several hundred lines of dialogue. Getting through just one movie would probably take you quite a while... and most of the dialogue will probably be stuff you allready understand.I just suspend the cards I don't need. It's much faster this way than cutting and pasting a thousand sound files into Anki, which is a great way to learn yet very time consuming - I've tried it.
While the program is really cool, I'm wondering if it's such a good idea to use it. To bring up Khazu, he usually says that you need to learn 10 000 sentences as fast as possible, make them count by picking out the ones you really need. Taking every line in a whole movie isn't really picking the important ones.
Without hijacking the thread for more Khatz commentary (he has his own thread going hot and heavy right now) he also said, and correctly I believe, that you need to enjoy what you're learning. I love this movie, and I'm having a great time working through the sound files. For other people, that might not be so. OK, find a movie you love. Or don't do it at all. Doesn't matter to me.
Also, for shadowing purposes, movie and TV clips have the most natural Japanese, and using sound files in anki makes this really easy. I don't shadow the main character, since she's a teenage girl, but her guy friends are fair game. It's much better than stopping and rewinding a CD, and the voices are very natural in this movie.