/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>40781685
>should I be pausing constantly every line and looking up most words and sentences?
yes this should be the meat of your immersion time and it's where you learn the most, just make sure you don't try to understand *everything* because some sentences will be just beyond your current skill level with no chance of getting it - so be ready to move on if you don't understand after looking everything up and trying for a minute or two
since constantly pausing can get very tiring, what i did early one was to have one series that i watch "intensively" as described with pausing and looking up, and one "burner" series that i would just leaving running, which i could watch while eating or once i was tired of pausing all the time
you definitely learn more when pausing and looking stuff up but there's also value in just letting a show running and taking in japanese at a natural speed