u/KiroHD

I know around 3000 words in Japanese and I'm curious if I should be using subtitles or not. Anytime I have subtitles on I'm constantly reading them and looking up and down at what I'm watching. Whenever I have them off, sometimes its hard to catch things but I can somewhat comprehend what is going on.

My main goals are to be conversational with people when I arrive in Japan in a few months. I have no desire to read books and study grammar heavily. Reading isn't a big factor for my language learning journey. I only know around maybe 600 kanji and I use anki to memorize them. I can write all the hiragana and katakana characters but I could probably only write 200-300 kanji just off memorization.

I also don't even plan on working in a Japanese company because of the conditions. I'm a native English speaker so I plan on doing work where I'd use English. Please let me know if I should have subtitles on or off! Maybe a good plan would to have subtitles on 25% of the time and then subtitles off 75% of the time? Please let me know if I should mainly have them off or on when it comes to improving listening skills. Maybe 1 episode with subtitles and then the next without subtitles? Or watch one episode with subtitles and rewatch the same episode without subtitles? I’ve been stressing over this when it comes to my listening skills.

I know around 3000 words in Japanese and I'm curious if I should be using subtitles or not. Anytime I have subtitles on I'm constantly reading them and looking up and down at what I'm watching. Whenever I have them off, sometimes its hard to catch things but I can somewhat comprehend what is going on.

My main goals are to be conversational with people when I arrive in Japan in a few months. I have no desire to read books and study grammar heavily. Reading isn't a big factor for my language learning journey. I only know around maybe 600 kanji and I use anki to memorize them. I can write all the hiragana and katakana characters but I could probably only write 200-300 kanji just off memorization.

I also don't even plan on working in a Japanese company because of the conditions. I'm a native English speaker so I plan on doing work where I'd use English. Please let me know if I should have subtitles on or off! Maybe a good plan would to have subtitles on 25% of the time and then subtitles off 75% of the time? Please let me know if I should mainly have them off or on when it comes to improving listening skills.

I will be attending Language school in Tokyo starting in July. I've used Gogonihon to find my school and they have been helping me throughout the way. I was curious if I should use them for finding an apartment or if I should use Gaijinpot. I read a few posts saying Gaijinpot doesn't update their listing for a while and there are a lot of hidden fees. On gaijin pot theres a section on the listing called "intial move in cost" and majority of the time its 3-5x the monthly rent which is fine. I'm wondering if that price would be way more or its a good estimate.

I've noticed Gogonihon only has a few agencies they are partnered with and Gaijin pot seems like they have way more. Finances are not a problem, i'm more concerned about the quality of the apartment and service I will be getting. Also which one would be easier to go through.