• yoo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you watched every episode with simultaneous Japanese and English captions, you technically could. Just need to focus on memorizing things and writing things down, as well as deciphering grammar.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, you would learn some things, but you’d end up speaking like cringy middle schooler. Business and daily life conversations are significantly different from anime and manga ones.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah imagine if someone learned all their English from American cartoons. Not American media, just cartoons. They’d speak weird

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          Most american cartoons are made for children and young adults at most. Anime doesn’t really have this limitation (more akin to e.g. Bojack Horseman/ Rick and Morty, but could also be a serious drama)