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Originally Posted by takikura
But I speak broken English and have enormous difficulty of understanding films in English without helps of subtitles.
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Subtitles are false friends... they don't always match what's being said and they distract you from listening. If you can turn the subtitles off (on a DVD etc.), watch the movie twice, first time with subtitles so you understand the story, second time without so you can concentrate on the spoken language. I do this for Japanese and it helps me a lot.
It doesn't help at all with speaking though. The only way to speak is to speak; I use English all day and I can watch movies without subtitles, but I never get the chance speak... so my spoken English is a bad joke...
My favourite English/German dictionary is
http://dict.leo.org and for Japanese it's
http://www.wadoku.de but it's utterly useless for German->Japanese. In Japan if you need a German dictionary you'd probably just get yourself a Denshi Jisho but unfortunately there don't seem to be any that combine this with eReader capabilities.
If you want to get in touch with Japanese learners from Germany, try
http://www.japanisch-netzwerk.de
I can definitely recommend Anki for studying vocabulary or even whole sentences... it's a great software. Without it I'd have given up on Japanese a long time ago...