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Hey all, I’ve been using textfugu/various resources to study Japanese for a little while now and one of the things I think would be super beneficial is the whole immersion concept. So one of the things I’ve been trying to find but have had zero luck with so far is finding Japanese dubbed TV shows, either online or somewhere I could order the dvds. Unfortunately I can’t say I’m really into anime so I’ve been trying to find either The Simpsons or Friends dubbed over. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks
I know it’s not as interesting as The Simpsons or Friends, but you could download a program called ‘LiveStation’ and and watch live Japanese TV. The only thing I can seem to get is The Shop Channel right now, which I do have to say, is a bit interesting.
In my experience, livestation is useless and resorted back to keyhole.
You should go for some podcasts as well :) just have it running in the background while you are doing other stuff – even though you are not focusing on listening and can’t understand much then you will still pick pronounciation and other things up :D
Blu-Ray dics from Japan should work in American Blu-Ray players. You can find some on http://www.yesasia.com. Like the movie “Inception”, is dubbed in both English and Japanese. You should be able to find T.V. shows from America dubbed in Japanese with Blu-Ray dics as well.
Thanks Edgar! I actually was going to add that site as I found it last night after my post. I was able to find some of the shows I was looking for on there luckily, also even though some dvd’s are labelled as region 2 they can still be played on a PC using players like VLC. Thanks again
Again, an old TextFugu thread comes up on a quest for Japanese learning materials.
Has anyone had any luck finding English shows dubbed in Japanese? Like the OP suggested, I wouldn’t mind watching Friends in Japanese (I’d be able to enjoy watching it more, already knowing the story). It would probably be damn expensive to buy the actual DVDs; even if not I’d still like to watch a few episodes first to see if I’d even like it. YouTube only seems to have a handful of clips.
What kinds of search terms would be useful for searching for these on Japanese Google? Anything equivalent to “watch [show xyz] online” or “stream [show xyz]“? There are so many of these kinds of sites for English shows, so surely they have Japanese equivalents, right? Or perhaps Japanese equivalents to the *ahem* bay of scurvy sea dogs?
Here’s one. http://www.hulu.jp/
I think you have to pay for it though, and you have to use a Japanese proxy to get it to work…
I don’t know if there are any lists for these, but I’ve learned some Blu-rays will have “secret” audio tracks. I guess some menu designers think showing too many options not many people will use will create a bothersome experience, because they’ll sometimes list different language options depending on what menu language your player is set to show. The U.S. release of Star Wars The Clone Wars TV series, for instance, shows options like English Spanish French on the English menu, but set the player itself to show the Japanese menu and the audio options will be Japanese and English.
@Joshua: Nice advice but I’ve no idea how to change player settings to show any other hidden languages like that haha.
Apart from this (probably) small handful of Blu-Rays that have hidden language options, it sucks how *most* games/movies sold in Europe (speaking of the UK, specifically), only have French, Spanish, Italian, and/or German language options as standard (sometimes Dutch and I think I’ve seen Norwegian before); Japanese language options are really scarce on media here. The only game sold here I’ve ever found to have Japanese language audio (and *subtitles* too, which is about as good as it gets!) is Sonic Adventure 2: Battle for the Gamecube – one of my favourite games so was awesome to find those settings.
Yeah, similar or more limited in the U.S. A few months ago I looked at all my Blu-rays’ packaging to see which ones had Japanese options, and it was disappointingly few. Not counting the ones that were Japanese in origin, maybe 2%? That’s before I discovered some have it hidden, but no way did I go checking through my entire library for that. Perhaps most surprised to find the option there for Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I think the only game I’ve got I’m conscious of having the option for is Xenoblade, though I know there are more out there.
I don’t know if this is allowed here, but I would like to suggest something: You want to watch TV? You want to watch TV in Japanese? Maybe, you want to study these shows in your Anki decK. Maybe you would like some subtitles in Japanese to go along with this deck? Oh, you want english subtitles alongside your Japanese subtitles? Well…this is all possible.
I used to do this heavily, and then eventually (through my stubbornness rather than actual skill level being high enough) went to straight Japanese, no English.
I don’t have all the handy links, but there is plenty already well documented instructions from NukeMarine on kanji.koohii.com
The main resource is http://www.d-addicts.com/
Here you can get the TV Shows, Jsubs and EngSubs.Why watch a show that was made for an English audience where the jokes and translations don’t work 10% when you can watch a Japanese show where everything is 完璧.
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