(2016-05-22, 5:20 pm)ariariari Wrote: So I just did something I hadn't done in a while. After watching my weekly shirokuma episode I decided to watch it with subtitles. I felt like I just didn't get enough of what was going on, and felt bad about it. (After all, it's just a kids show, right?)
Turns out that this was an *incredibly* useful exercise for me. Yeah, let's say that 1/3 of it there's no way I should have been able to understand. And that made it hard to focus on the 1/3 that should have just been challenging. I probably only got the 1/3 that was easy the first time around.
I think that I'm going to repeat this exercise when I watch another episode next weekend.
It's fine to know when to watch with subs. Hell I watched a few with subs. Episode 15 was especially hard that I watched it 3 times! Once no subs, jp subs and eng subs. It was THAT hard for me! Dx All you need to know that the episode is centered around Penguin. Despite that, a very hilarious episode
@umrafael: welcome to the N3 forums! Don't worry too much about the JLPT. This is be the first time I'll be taking the exam and since I had some experience already, I wanted to aim a bit of the high side. Initially I wanted to do N2 but a friend told me N3 would be a more attainable level for someone of my study background. That and I didn't have a lot of reading experience until recently which is essential in the higher levels.
Maybe I'm the oddball here but I actually like that the JLPT is once a year where I am (US) due to the fact I tend to be the busiest in the summer. Also I'm sure my brain would have been putty taking the July JLPT exam lol