littlegreengirl wrote:

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Watch anime all you want, it's bound not to be realistic at all and you will learn no relevant and/or useful japanese from it.

I don't really agree with this statement-- watching any visual media is a good way to pick up new words or colloquialisms that wouldn't often be taught in books, and also promotes a more natural way of speaking. Granted, copying cartoon characters is not advisable-- you wouldn't try to speak like Spongebob, for instance, but the dialogue is still solid. I've learned a couple of languages in the past, and I find watching kids movies and cartoons to be particularly good, since the dialogue is focused mostly at a younger person's level, making it easier to follow.

That said, you'd already need to know a fair bit of Japanese to do this-- translations are always going to be the reader's interpretation. Even statements as simple as "sou [desu] ka" are translated as anything from "oh yeah?" to "really?" to "you sure about that?" depending on the context. In longer sentences, even repeating verbatim what the characters said could be incorrect.

Noctis, I would suggest watching slice of life animes, if you're interested in that sort of thing, since they don't go off talking about space ships or weapons or anything like that. It's probably the closest thing you'll get to real life dialogue in an anime (though you'd have to have some particularly odd friends to benefit completely).