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Hello I have been looking all over the internet for good sites that provide free J-dramas without subs. Does anybody have any recommendations?
~アーロンhttp://www.d-addicts.com/forum/torrents.php
even if they have subs, they’re usually soft subs and you can turn em off.
Preferably not torrents? I have a bad experience with them and they slow my computer down way too much.
~アーロンProtip: If torrents slow down your computer then you’re doing it wrong.
If you don’t want torrents then you’re really out of luck unless you want to spend hundreds on a streaming service. (Like I have. lol)
You could also just be patient and use NIJI when it comes back up at the end of the maintenance period.
Well I have a site that offers free Japanese dramas http://www.gooddrama.net/drama-shows#japanese-drama.
So I know I can find shows I want to watch for free..
It just is subbed so I am looking for a version without subs.
Also I should clarify torrents don’t slow down my computer they slow down my internet which I share with 5 people.
~アーロンYou could be a leech and limit your upload speed to like 1kb/s or something!
On a serious note if you don’t want subtitles because you don’t want to be reading English and having it distract you from the Japanese audio, you could try Chinese subtitles (assuming you don’t know Chinese) and try youku: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODkxNzU2ODg=.html here’s a link to 野ブタをプロデュース (the top right lists the rest of the episodes as well)
But would’t that make me associate the Japanese words with the Chinese Subtitles?
~アーロン*Wouldn’t grr I’m tired..
~アーロンIf you don’t make sense of it, it is easier to ignore. Well… I mean you can still use the hanzi there to pick up meanings of some words if you are familiar with kanji, but I think for the most part you wouldn’t really be building an association with it.
Ultimately I feel it is fine so long as you’re not also learning Chinese (or already know it), English subtitles are bad in the sense that they make you pay more attention to them than the audio. If you can make more sense of the audio than you can the subtitles, then you shouldn’t really have that problem. The few series I couldn’t find with no subtitles (tended to just torrent), I’ve watched with Chinese subtitles instead and I think that it worked fairly well.
Not sure what you’re into, but I really like the one I linked to above and recommend it. Admittedly the audio is a bit poor — but it is good enough to understand.
… Cover over the bottom edge of your screen, so you can’t see the subtitles?
You can find some on Crunchy Roll, last time I checked. Right click the video, and click to turn off subtitles. I know anime lets you turn it off, so I’m sure that dramas will let you too. And the best part? It’s free for an account. It will offer you a paid membership, but just sign up for the free one. :) Hope that helped!
Awesome thanks all for your input!
~アーロン
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