--- title: "Black Clover & Japanese Language Immersion" date: 2023-08-15T16:49:55+02:00 tags: ["japanese", "language_learning", "sharing", "knowledge"] --- Today I wanted to share my language learning experience of Black Clover. If you're a fellow learner of the Japanese language and would like to hear some feedback on this anime, this is the post for you. I should point out that this is my first anime I ever fully watched with Japanese subtitles. And so, big thanks to [Asbplayer](https://github.com/killergerbah/asbplayer) and [Yomichan](https://foosoft.net/projects/yomichan/) for making this possible. Splendid tools for sentence mining. If you don't know what they are, in short: - Yomichan is an extension which allows you to highlight Japanese words and show you their dictionary translations (alongside also provides amazing shortcuts for adding the word directly into Anki). - Asbplayer is an extension which allows you to insert custom subtitle files into a webplayer (also provides handy shortcuts for automatically inserting audio/screenshots into Anki cards) Not only was watching anime with subtitles suddenly much easier, I could finally do real sentence mining with Anki and extract all the new words I wanted with the shortcuts that the two extensions provided. ![Asbplayer + Yomichan are based](/images/asbplayer_yomi.png) The whole experience was super fun and engaging enough to make me say "oh come on, one more episode. \*click\*" (this is especially true because at some point I even started getting the jokes) With all this said, it's totally possible that not everybody will enjoy the anime the same way as I did. Given the preferences, knowledge difference, etc. that we might have. But overall I recommend this anime to anybody who feels that they're at least N4 or better. Now, what did I get from this anime? - Roughly 200-300 new words - Listening and reading skills improved a lot - Fun --- One step closer to N1 boys. One day one day. ![\*Bro fist\*](/images/fist.gif) Wish you a great day, cheers!