[Help] Please help me with my anime-related research study!
For a study in my AP Research class, I'm looking at the extent to which American anime fans with no formal study of Japanese acquire Japanese just by watching anime. NOTE: I need ALL kinds of watchers, whether you've seen 500 anime and watch it religiously or you barely watch once a month.
To be eligible, you must:
1. Be American
2. Watch anime primarily in sub (Japanese audio, English subtitles)
3. Have either a MyAnimeList account or some kind of typed list of the anime you've watched (ex. Notes app)
4. Have NOT formally learned Japanese by any means (NO duolingo, NO Japanese class at school - nothing)
It'll take you 10-15 minutes to complete this form, and it consists of these 4 sections:
1. Consent Section (spend a minute reading about the study & consent to it)
2. Eligibility/Demographic Section (ex. age range, gender)
3. Anime Viewing Habits (ex. avg hrs/week)
4. Short Japanese Test (listen to Japanese audio, write the meaning)
Here’s the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3XXOT-gCpNK9Ix9TO81odulKCs2W3XfuJOw7G3dJZQvqJdQ/viewform?usp=dialog
Thank you SO SO much!
To be eligible, you must:
1. Be American
2. Watch anime primarily in sub (Japanese audio, English subtitles)
3. Have either a MyAnimeList account or some kind of typed list of the anime you've watched (ex. Notes app)
4. Have NOT formally learned Japanese by any means (NO duolingo, NO Japanese class at school - nothing)
It'll take you 10-15 minutes to complete this form, and it consists of these 4 sections:
1. Consent Section (spend a minute reading about the study & consent to it)
2. Eligibility/Demographic Section (ex. age range, gender)
3. Anime Viewing Habits (ex. avg hrs/week)
4. Short Japanese Test (listen to Japanese audio, write the meaning)
Here’s the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3XXOT-gCpNK9Ix9TO81odulKCs2W3XfuJOw7G3dJZQvqJdQ/viewform?usp=dialog
Thank you SO SO much!
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Most importantly, watching anime like this is not comprehensive input. At most, a person will recognize words that are used commonly in isolation with a clear context clue providing what is shown on the screen is what is being said in Japanese and what is being translated in english.
As an anecdote, after a year of watching (i had fit your subject group at the time). I think I managed to pick up the catchphrase "かしら" from Re:Zero, "**何",** "なるほど", and the likes.
If you plan to learn Japanese, please do not depend on this. It is not only the least efficient way to learn, but depending on only this method, you will *never* learn. Among other reasons, Americans will be trying to fit their SVO subtitles to the SOV audio, to no avail.
For your research method, there is a huge range of learning methods between only watching anime with subs, and watching anime with subs while also looking up every word and learning adjacent language components of grammar. This would not be considered "formal" learning, but the difference between those two methods would make them incomparable, and it appears as you are trying to identify the effectiveness of merely watching subbed anime on language learning.