My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread

(2016-05-26, 4:10 pm)ariariari Wrote:

(2016-05-26, 3:53 am)EratiK Wrote:

(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?)

You shouldn't feel bad really. Personnally I almost never watch something without subs, and while I reckon Shirokuma is one of the easiest anime out there I always end up looking up words (and sometimes a lot, especially when he does a lot of puns); it's much harder to look stuff up without subs (granted when you watch without subs understanding everything is not the goal).
    

Thanks so much (to you and everyone who said something similar).
A great example is
常勤パンダ

The main character keeps on calling one of the other panda's in the zoo that. It was only when I saw it in English subs that it clicked, I looked it up, saw that it meant "full time employment". It's now an easy card for me to get right.

Don't feel too bad. I actually watch the majority of anime with Eng subs. Ep 15 of shirokuma especially since I was so lost.

A word that bothered me in both the anime and when I read the manga was 自然体. I thought it meant "be yourself" but it really meant "natural posture or stance (esp. in judo) relaxed, open attitude" or how I'm interpreting it: "act natural". This is what Handa said to Panda when he first got the part time job at the zoo. I'm sure there are plenty of words I still don't know but this one stood out because I assumed the wrong meaning based on instinct and it failed me lol