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I remember that the actual way that I learned to be fluent in English were by
watching a lot of English movies. Since, I stepped foot on Japanese anime and
I wanted to learn Japanese in the same way. Since English was a compulsory
subject I could compare and learn, but Japanese is not. How I learned English
was memorizing the fun dialogues and I want to do the same for Japanese. Since
Japanese is not so easy to pick up and having Kanji to search for is
definitely informative.

How can we get the subtitles for a specific anime? If it were lyrics it
would've been easy, but I didn't find any sites that would give subtitles of
the dialogues of anime. Are there any? If not, what can be done so that we can
learn dialogues of the anime, since songs and dialogues are definitely easier
to memorize.


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japanese-language resources
Where can we find dialogues related to anime?


Depending on how you get your anime fix...

**DVD/BD**

In my experience, while most Japanese DVDs do not have subtitles in Japanese,
some do. It is usually easier to find movies than TV series subtitled though.

**Streaming**

Online streaming services such as
[Viki](https://www.viki.com/explore?language=ja&country=japan) have some
Japanese shows with Japanese subtitles. Most of them non-animated TV dramas
though. But perhaps you can find some anime with the services available to
you. Or you could watch a TV drama based on a manga/anime... (Below a
screenshot from the [Sherlock Holmes puppet
show](https://www.viki.com/tv/27556c-sherlock-holmes-puppet-entertainment) on
Viki.)

[![Screenshot from the Sherlock Holmes puppet show on
Viki](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XfQ5D.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XfQ5D.png)

**Other online resources**

Around the millennium shift some websites offered fan translations of Japan-
only anime shows. That is, you could try to get the Japanese VHS/DVD and
follow along with the translated script. If I remember correctly at least one
of those websites had the Japanese script as well. This was before the fansubs
found a home online. Maybe something similar exists today. I am not aware of
any such resources though.


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