[takikura]

Hi frostschutz

Originally Posted by frostschutz

Subtitles are false friends... they don't always match what's being said and they distract you from listening.

I know that often subtitles are different from what are said in films, especially those available on the Internet.
I watch three movies each weekend, having diner with wine. With most of films I sleep during the latter half of them.

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.

I have many movie scenario books which transcribe precisely what are said in films. I intend to use these books for training my ears by watching these films without subtitles, as you suggested, when I retire and have more time.

My favorite 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.

I agree that Leo dictionary is excellent. I can find almost any words which I can not find on other German-English dictionaries.

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.

I have lots of Denshi Jisho (Electric dictionaries). They are installed on my PC and tablets and viewed with EPWING viewers.

If you want to get in touch with Japanese learners from Germany, try http://www.japanisch-netzwerk.de

I did not know about this site. I will try to read the site with a help of Google translator.

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...

I have installed the Anki apps on my PC and my tablet. I really should start using them. I assume the Japanese language is extremely difficult for German people to learn. I read long time ago an article on a magazine on languages, saying Japanese and German are the first and the last languages when languages are listed in the oder of how sentences are affected by contexts they are in.

takikura