Though I must say, I recognized some words that weren't

>>84577840
Those aren't real Japanese characters in his speech bubble.

>>84578025
That's probably part of the joke. It does look like actual chicken scratch.

>>84578025
a few of the characters actually resemble hira and kata

I guess its like recognizing some japanese words in the middle of a long sentence

oh i get it

his shirt is the subtitles
just like his animes

>>84578273
That's because Ronnie doesn't actually know or understand Japanese. It's all vaguely familiar gibberish to him, much like >>84578403 says.

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>>84578985
And I misquoted, fuck.

>>84578985
>>84579003
We all make mistakes, anon. Ronnie will forgive you but you must stroke your beard 2,000 times out of penance.

>>84579349
I'm not a filthy hipster or a Muslim or a jew or omish though

>>84579403
Just a faggot who can't grow a beard.

>>84577840
That's a very big misunderstanding of Japanese you have there.

>>84578870

Yes, it's pretty good, isn't it.

>>84577840
I understood the joke far better than I should have.

>>84578025
Duh. It's not Japanese, it's moon speak.

>>84577840
That's actually a pretty clever joke

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ええと…helpu. Helpu! HELPU MEE!

>>84579611
But diagnosing "a gradient ranging from something great to something terrible" should at least be fairly correct.

>>84577840
Why doesn't Agrias just speak English, and where did her tits go?

>>84577840
What would a Japanese guy who speaks no English whatsoever be doing in America?

>>84585495
Tourism. Why would some faggot who doesn't speak Japanese go to Japan?

>>84586169
This is the one really offputting thing for me.

I really want to visit Japan someday but I'm worried I wouldn't be able to handle a country where I can't read any of the signs or anything.

>>84585495
You've never encountered a foreigner who can't speak a word of English?

I have a few times in my life, each time I was useless as fuck.

>>84586511
Japan has English signs in Tokyo and most of their major metropolitan cities.

>>84577840
why is Agrias speaking japanese, I thought she was Chinese

>>84586511
I've heard Akihabara caters to filthy western weeaboos and it's easy for an english speaker to navigate

>>84586511
If you're in the touristy sections of almost any country it's pretty easy to get around with just english. The hard part is more rural areas.

>>84586511
Japan's touristy areas will have english signs everywhere so they can cater to weeaboo fucks who spend their NEETbux on cheap "authentic" japanese trinkets.

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>>84586566

>>84586511
Just navigate by instinct. As long as you look Western, nobody is going to expect you to speak or understand any Japanese, and you can get around the city with just the spare Engrish on signs to read.

>>84585495

Evo

>>84586518

I know enough Spanish to make myself kind of useful, but I can't understand it conversationally usually because it's spoken too fast.

>>84586742

This, one of my friends from college who is a HUGE weaboo just spent her honeymoon with her husband in Japan and didn't have many problems with trying to find English translations or help.

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>>84589681
my first language is spanish and my english it's okay. in some occasions I've met people in need of translation but I just didn't gave enough fucks to help them, not even were I work.

>>84588783
I'm kind of worried about accidentally standing on the grass next to a "keep off the grass" sign or something like that, or being completely unable to operate a simple vending machine and too embarrassed to ask for help. Little things like that.

>>84589881
What the fuck do you think you have to read in order to work a vending machine?

And as for grass, just stick to places where people already are. If people are on the grass, you can probably walk there. If people aren't on the grass, you probably can't walk there. This is basic shit that remains constant in every human society.

>>84590029
I mean, like, a ticket vending machine at the train station.

>>84590126
Here:
http://www.tokyometro.jp/en/subwaymap/pdf/routemap_en.pdf

Just like every other big city metro, it's color coded.

>>84590126
You can always ask the ticket machine fairies for help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWzhHInOiaY

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>>84590126
The one thing I found odd about the train system is that I'm used to paying a single price for a ticket or, at most, one of a few prices depending on which zone you start in and which zone you arrive in. In Tokyo, each station has a fare map where you look at where you want to go from where you are and look up the price of the ticket you need to buy. Its all distance-based.

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>>84589868
>Russian or something comes into liquor store I work at
>he knows enough English to make himself understood
>think it's my time to shine, being fluent in English but never getting to use it
>mfw I couldn't help with shit, because it was my first week on the job and I didn't know enough about the different liquors he was asking about, beyond which ones we sold the most of
>mfw he kept asking whether I could understand him, since I was acting so unsure of what to answer him, and my English got worse and worse the more panicked I got about not knowing what to tell him

>>84577840
>I'm sorry, I don't speak Japanese
okay richtofen

>>84590432
that should teach you to never try

>>84590623
It certainly did. I even quit that job.

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We send enough people over there to speak English that almost everyone knows the extreme basics. It's that just a small percentage bother to stick with it fervently enough, and they make sure to put that small percentage to work in airports, hotels, and train stations to make it easier for us to fly over there and spend our dollars.

>>84586511
According to the New York Times, it was quite doable even in 1987.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/15/travel/so-you-don-t-speak-japanese.html

>Just as you decide you are hopelessly lost, a Japanese guardian angel appears at your side.

Having a translation dictionary app on phones just makes it easier.