Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.248.240.148-20170908201845/@comment-4010415-20180321223241

Arkantos95 wrote: Which really doesn't make sense, considering her whole plan was to use the relic to keep the tribe safe. But then in the finale, like most of Raven's character, that was tossed aside in favor of a cheap emotional moment and completely unearned moral victory. Er... I'm pretty sure her goal was to keep the Relic out of Salem's hands while simultaneously using it to her tribe's advantage, and the only reason it got "tossed aside" is because Yang pointed out to her that having the Relic would mean being targeted directly by Salem. She might have also not trusted it in Ozpin's hands, but when Yang convinced her that Salem would be after her tribe, she decided that would be worse than Ozpin having it.

Deadlyblossom wrote:

Why I'd rather watch in Japanese?

First of all, I want to learn Japanese. That's really not a good way to learn Japanese. 1. I'm pretty certain that the subtitles will not actually say exactly what the characters are saying in Japanese. The subtitles might say the original English dialogue, when I know for a fact that the Japanese dub actually changed some of the lines. For example, in Volume 3 Episode 1, when talking to Emerald, Ruby's Japanese dialogue has her say "party", when she never said "party" in the English version. And, in Volume 3, Ruby's line of "Break a leg, sis!" got changed to something like "Do your best", thus completely losing the pun. If the subtitles don't say the original Englihs lines, then they'll say an approximation of the Japanese dialogue. The reason for this is because a true, exact translation from Japanese to English is really awkward and clunky, so people who write English subtitles for Japanese audio tend to change it a little bit to flow better in English. So you're not really reading exactly what they're truly saying. 2. In order to properly learn a language, you need to learn the grammar rules, not just some words and sentences. I don't know Japanese, but I've learned some Mexican-dialect Spanish, so I'll use that as an example. One example of a grammar rule in Spanish is that you put an adjective after the noun you're describing. Like, if you want to say "The yellow cat", you'll say "El gato amarillo" (The cat yellow). Another is that verbs have different suffixes depending on who you're talking about or what tense you're using. Honestly, I only got to learn present tense enough to memorize it. If a verb ends in "ar", then the suffixes in present tense are If I watched Mexican soap operas with English subtitles, I wouldn't truly learn Spanish from it. You won't truly learn Japanese from watching RWBY in Japanese with English subtitles.
 * o = when referring to myself (For example, "hablo" = "I speak")
 * as = "you" singular (You're talking to one person. "hablas" = "you speak")
 * a = he/she/it
 * amos = we
 * ais = "you" plural (You're talking to multiple people. "hablais" = "you all speak")
 * an = they