Wanna Learn Japanese?

QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
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<div class="IPBDescription">Anime and Gaming Fans!</div> Basically, while I was on megatokyo.com, I found a site that had a little crpg that tought you the kanji. Now, it won't help you learn how to speak Japanese, but there are a lot of games in Kanji that are great games, and this has already helped me. Yay!

Here ya go.

<a href='http://lrnj.com/' target='_blank'>Slime Hunter</a>
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  • MrMojoMrMojo Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9882Members, Constellation
    I should have taken Japanese in school instead of Spanish <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • GrimmGrimm Join Date: 2003-04-13 Member: 15448Members
    Looks pretty cool, I'll have to test it out. I may actually never need to know Japanese, but it would still be pretty cool to know it just for the hell of it.
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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    Already took three years. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    I'll pass till I can download it directly into my brain...
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    high five on that one, doom.

    that or... if i meet a crazy japanese girl... hooo. spicy. /me learns if that happens.
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  • NecrosisNecrosis The Loquacious Sage Join Date: 2003-08-03 Member: 18828Members, Constellation
    I'll stick with anime and dodgy games, ta.


    Hence my cry of "Yatta ze...... OYYYYAAAAAJIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!" whenever I Xenocide.
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  • SoulSkorpionSoulSkorpion Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
    It's very hard. It also didn't say it was going to be Kanji, so I expected vocab. Got bored with it.
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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    Set the learning rate low... at default, it seems more intended to be used as a class exercise by those who already understand a good bit of Japanese.

    Additionally, some of the kana used are 'funny' translations... as far as I know, there *is* no roumaji difference between what they call 'dzu' and 'dzi', pronouncing both simply as 'ji'. Though that may have been a simple failing on my professors' part, working from a particular dialect accent. (She warned us that we may be made fun of, beforehand. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> )

    Though fear for yourself once it gets into the compounded phase, as it does not explain what small-tsu does before handing you 'atchi'. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> Similar with a number of the modifiers.
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  • ShockehShockeh If a packet drops on the web and nobody&#39;s near to see it... Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9336NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
    <a href='http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html' target='_blank'>Learn Japanese? That sounds like a GREAT idea...... not.</a>

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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    Sadly, a lot of that is very true.

    Though he did leave out a couple... the native Japanese speaker (just in the class to get free credits), the tourist (who thought it'd be a great idea, as he's visiting Japan soon), and the SF3A freak who wears giant beads and dresses like a monk to try and look like Akuma (no joke.. we had one. Though I think only me, him, and the native speaker managed to pass with aces).
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  • ShockehShockeh If a packet drops on the web and nobody&#39;s near to see it... Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9336NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
    *Shockwave takes off his beads....

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  • SoulSkorpionSoulSkorpion Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
    edited September 2003
    Meh. I'm not convinced. My own efforts in absorbing vocab from anime, song lyric translations and karate, and then attempting to retranslate stuff, results in sentences like "bananas of peels slip on we even if"; but that's pretty much right. So what if they speak like Yoda? And the "politeness levels" thing, from everything I've seen and read (anime and otherwise) isn't really that much different than tacit social politics in western society, except that it's not tacit.

    Besides, I've learned another language before.
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  • RaVeRaVe Join Date: 2003-06-20 Member: 17538Members
    edited September 2003
    Meh,if you want to learn Kanji try a bit of Cantonese first

    Most of it is very similar,but some are a bit different (Green 'Tzeng' != Blue 'Ao')

    BUt then it teaches you most of it
    Now the only thing for me to learn is tu actually speak Kanji,that's my weakspot

    I've already learned Kata and Hira,but speaking Kanji....bluh

    EDIT : Found this bit....
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->The Japanese writing system is broken down into three separate, complete, and insane, parts: Hiragana ("those squiggily letters"), Katakana ("those boxy letters") and <b>Kanji ("roughly 4 million embodiments of your worst nightmares")</b>.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Sadly,that is also true for Cantonese,so prepare for total torture if you're gonna learn either of those languages,you'll need it <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • torquetorque Join Date: 2003-08-20 Member: 20035Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    I'm half Japanese, but my parents saw fit to teach me a bit of both my 'native' languages (the other being Korean), so now I suck equally at both instead of rocking at one or the other.

    *throws things at Shockie*
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--MrMojo+Sep 8 2003, 04:04 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MrMojo @ Sep 8 2003, 04:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I should have taken Japanese in school instead of Spanish <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Yeah, I want to take Japanese or German, but to bad my school only offers Spanish.
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  • NecrosisNecrosis The Loquacious Sage Join Date: 2003-08-03 Member: 18828Members, Constellation
    *thumps foot down in horse stance*

    TENMA!....... Messatsu gou shoryuuuuuuuuuuuuken!




    IMHO you probably want to end up being born there if you want to speak the language as intended. English might be a hard language but at least it's easy to spot the difference between "hey there little girl" "hello boss".

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  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    ::kicks the utter crap out of all of you::

    MNYEH! TEH JAPANESE IS TEH BEST! AMERICANZORZ SUXORZ! MNYEH! I LIVE IN AMERICA, PUT ME IN BOX, SHIP TO JAPAN! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAyayayayayayay.............
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Shockwave+Sep 9 2003, 10:11 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Shockwave @ Sep 9 2003, 10:11 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <a href='http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html' target='_blank'>Learn Japanese? That sounds like a GREAT idea...... not.</a>

    <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    god damn..

    that was fookenilarious.
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  • KeitaroSempaiKeitaroSempai Join Date: 2003-06-04 Member: 17003Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--MrMojo+Sep 8 2003, 06:04 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MrMojo @ Sep 8 2003, 06:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I should have taken Japanese in school instead of Spanish <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I would have...IF it was offered >.>

    I took 4 years of Spanish in high school...all the way up to AP Spanish...

    ...I don't remember most of it now, and I just graduated this year! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--QuoteBegin--Zig+Sep 9 2003, 08:28 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zig @ Sep 9 2003, 08:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--Shockwave+Sep 9 2003, 10:11 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Shockwave @ Sep 9 2003, 10:11 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <a href='http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html' target='_blank'>Learn Japanese? That sounds like a GREAT idea...... not.</a>

    <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    god damn..

    that was fookenilarious. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Its also not true, whatsoever.

    Japanese, despite the fact that people have this thing about it being hard, is in fact VERY easy to learn the speaking language, and the written is only a bit harder, and really, is just the same as english, just different characters. Out of those 4000 Kanji characters, there is really only 30-50 characters used, they just keep getting recycled and put into words to help describe something where it isn't needed. Learning Japanese is quite easy, and the person that made that site should be slapped, hard.
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    them's fightin' words.
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  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    Oh ya. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • NecrosisNecrosis The Loquacious Sage Join Date: 2003-08-03 Member: 18828Members, Constellation
    Its easy to learn and pronounce, yeah, but actually using it to communicate on the public/local level will be tricky.

    Whereas english (though harder to learn) is easier to actually put into "real" use.
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  • SoulSkorpionSoulSkorpion Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
    edited September 2003
    What I don't understand is why Japanese pronounciation maps extremely well to English characters far better than English itself does, and conversely English has a multitude of different vowel sounds which don't satisfactorily fit into our character set.

    Take the English word "spite", pronounced "spyt". Now take the Japanese word "kumite", pronounced "koo mee teh". In the Hepburn system of Romanji, each letter is pronounced exactly one way no matter what, but in English the pronounciation of a particular letter is pretty much arbitrary.

    I think we need to swap character sets <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->.

    Anyway, no language is harder to learn than English. Most other languages follow their own rules.
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