I feel like before I started learning and when I barely learnt any, my brain would just sort of ignore the content of what was being spoken and allow me to focus on getting the dialogue from the subtitles.
Now, I don't know enough japanese to understand things without subtitles, but I know enough that I can understand some of it and my brain picks up on that. Sometimes I find that now I'll "lose focus" on the subtitles and refocus onto the spoken dialogue, especially if there's a span of lines where I can understand generally what's being said. This makes me only understand part of what is said when something I don't understand (most things) is said and I have to rewind.
Has anyone else experienced a similar thing?
by Zuracchibi