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    Chinese Project Notes 4: How I Watch Movies, Or How To Make Your Own Radio Play That You’ll Actually Understand

    August 15, 2007
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    You may not know this from all my writing about drive and discipline, but I am actually a really lazy and fun-oriented guy. And that laziness shows in how I learned Japanese and in how I am learning Chinese. Here’s how I watch a movie: Get the Chinese version of a movie that I’ve seen before in a language...

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    Chinese Project Notes 3: Environment-Building + The Laddering Method Reloaded

    August 10, 2007
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    Chinese Project Notes 3: Environment-Building + The Laddering Method Reloaded

    So, the Chinese Project is going really well. I made another shopping trip to my favorite Taiwanese online bookstore. These are new members of my Chinese media collection (except for 玩具總動員/Toy Story, which is an older member): So, most of what I have are comic books and Disney/Pixar DVDs in Chinese. I also have Chinese-dubbed Powerpuff Girls, because I...

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    More On How To Watch TV and Movies–AntiMoon

    August 4, 2007
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    AntiMoon have a series of articles on input over here. Perhaps most interesting to you will be their article on how to sentence-mine a movie, since this is an idea that initially baffles a lot of people. You like this AJATT shizzle? Yeah? Share it, playa! Tweet

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    Japanese Shows with Exact Subs: The List of Honour

    June 22, 2007
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    As many of you are painfully aware, most Japanese-language movies, TV dramas and animes still have no subs on the DVDs. Foreign/Hollywood movies dubbed into Japanese generally do have subs, but these are almost never exact dialogue transcripts (at least, I have never seen one), rather they are a rewording or a paraphrasing. But why? I needed answers. So...

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