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Aug. 4th, 2005 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickIt's over eighty and really quite sticky out. I think we need some rain.
I have recovered the technique (it's complicated and not something I do all the time, so I have to re-learn how to do it every damn time) for stripping the audio track off of commercial anime episodes for use as "language listening practice" cds while I'm driving around in my car. I understand that there is probably more benefit to official listening practice CDs but damn it, that stuff's expensive and, er, boring.
Anyway, language listening practice from stuff I've seen before gives me context, which is helpful when I'm out driving around in my car and listening. I do better with the dialogue when there's no visual to go with it, and as a bonus side note, I've discovered that some anime translate quite well to audio-drama-ization while others don't make the leap very well. I'm sure that this is just the sort of thing all ya'll have been burning with desire (they have a cream for that, I hear) to know about, so I'm sharing...
Hikaru no Go makes very nice audio dramas. It's a talky sort of anime and it translates well to an audio medium. The leads are also clear and easy for me to hear.
Prince of Tennis does not make wonderful audio dramas. There's rather a lot of tennis going on, which makes for big sections of time with fight music and no dialogue. I have to be careful what episodes of PoT I use because some of them just aren't fun to listen to.
Revolutionary Girl Utena would probably make pretty decent audio dramas if it weren't for the fact that I can't hear the dialogue. They talk too fast or they use words I don't have or some damn thing. It's beyond me right now, to the point where I can't even follow the damn storylines. It's not the speakers -- Utena is done by the same person who voices Hikaru (above) and she sounds pretty much the same in both of 'em.
Gundam Wing has too much fighting to be all that enjoyable. There aren't a lot of talky episodes in that.
I'm thinking I want to do Cowboy Bebop, which I have... that might be nice to listen to and the musical soundtrack is spectacularly entertaining for when there's no talking.
I'm currently burning WK episodes because, well, because. I can like it if I want to. It's not a complicated show, so I can probably remember enough of the plots to follow along. We'll see how it does. I'm quite familiar with the voices and I don't mind listening to them.
I'm not sure how well Tylor would work well as audio drama and Trigun is difficult because freaking Wolfwood speaks in Kansai Ben, a dialect of Japanese that does hellishly confusing things with verbs and negation. Let's not go there. Saiyuki has lots of fighting, which is annoying, and while I really do have the hots for Seki Toshihiko (plays the lead character, surly monk Sanzou), the man talks too freaking fast.
Yami no Matsuei might be doable...and Fushigi Yuugi might also work if I'm careful about what I pick. I do have a limited tolerance for people hollering Tamahome, though, so I'd have to watch that. Fruits Basket won't work because what'sherface (Tomoe?) talks too fucking quietly for me to hear over traffic.
I have recovered the technique (it's complicated and not something I do all the time, so I have to re-learn how to do it every damn time) for stripping the audio track off of commercial anime episodes for use as "language listening practice" cds while I'm driving around in my car. I understand that there is probably more benefit to official listening practice CDs but damn it, that stuff's expensive and, er, boring.
Anyway, language listening practice from stuff I've seen before gives me context, which is helpful when I'm out driving around in my car and listening. I do better with the dialogue when there's no visual to go with it, and as a bonus side note, I've discovered that some anime translate quite well to audio-drama-ization while others don't make the leap very well. I'm sure that this is just the sort of thing all ya'll have been burning with desire (they have a cream for that, I hear) to know about, so I'm sharing...
Hikaru no Go makes very nice audio dramas. It's a talky sort of anime and it translates well to an audio medium. The leads are also clear and easy for me to hear.
Prince of Tennis does not make wonderful audio dramas. There's rather a lot of tennis going on, which makes for big sections of time with fight music and no dialogue. I have to be careful what episodes of PoT I use because some of them just aren't fun to listen to.
Revolutionary Girl Utena would probably make pretty decent audio dramas if it weren't for the fact that I can't hear the dialogue. They talk too fast or they use words I don't have or some damn thing. It's beyond me right now, to the point where I can't even follow the damn storylines. It's not the speakers -- Utena is done by the same person who voices Hikaru (above) and she sounds pretty much the same in both of 'em.
Gundam Wing has too much fighting to be all that enjoyable. There aren't a lot of talky episodes in that.
I'm thinking I want to do Cowboy Bebop, which I have... that might be nice to listen to and the musical soundtrack is spectacularly entertaining for when there's no talking.
I'm currently burning WK episodes because, well, because. I can like it if I want to. It's not a complicated show, so I can probably remember enough of the plots to follow along. We'll see how it does. I'm quite familiar with the voices and I don't mind listening to them.
I'm not sure how well Tylor would work well as audio drama and Trigun is difficult because freaking Wolfwood speaks in Kansai Ben, a dialect of Japanese that does hellishly confusing things with verbs and negation. Let's not go there. Saiyuki has lots of fighting, which is annoying, and while I really do have the hots for Seki Toshihiko (plays the lead character, surly monk Sanzou), the man talks too freaking fast.
Yami no Matsuei might be doable...and Fushigi Yuugi might also work if I'm careful about what I pick. I do have a limited tolerance for people hollering Tamahome, though, so I'd have to watch that. Fruits Basket won't work because what'sherface (Tomoe?) talks too fucking quietly for me to hear over traffic.
