I just had to take a quick aside to share this interesting article: 100 most essential words in anime. It's a list of commonly used phrases in anime and if you've already watched a few fansubs you may find you recognise them!
When you start learning Japanese, at some point you will feel frustration at how little you know. You may feel it an impossible task to get to a point where you can understand native speech and converse in it yourself. This article gives a nice little boost to help combat that.
You will see a lot of these words cropping up time and again while watching anime - and now you know what they mean! They'll provide a good stepping stone to learning more words as they're used in context with the ones you know. You'll be able to pick out more words because you already know some of them.
If you're a bit further on and/or watch a lot of anime, you may know a lot of these already, but it's still a particularly interesting read. Especially the note on pronouns - it explains why I hear male vocalists singing 'kimi wo'* a lot. ;)
*(kimi - A form of 'you', used by a guy speaking to his girlfriend)
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