>Learn Japanese >Play Japanese games >Uncensored, undelayed,

Jokes on you. Only the English VNs are uncensored

>>383901778
The learn japanese part.
>tfw just use machine translators

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Best decision I ever made.

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I'm stuck in JLPT3,wat do

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>every time i try to buckle down and learn something shitty always happens in my life and i drop it
>consider learning again

it'll be fine this time, r-right...

But the only Jap games worth playing are specifically aimed at western audiences. Why would I care about Highschool Simulato 3423452 or Waifu Bait shit?

>>383901778
mendokusai

>>383902202
Me too, I just want to play fucking Zero no Kiseki and Yakuza.

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>>383901778

>>383901778
>unmemefied

>~ara ~ara
>baka!
>eh?! eeehhhtooo.....

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>ok anon go learn hiragana
ez
>learn katakana
ez
>learn grammar
lmao2ez
>learn 99999999999999999 kanji :^)
I'm out

>>383901778
I learned Korean instead.

>>383902527
?

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>>383901778
>Learn Japanese
That one

>>383902538
Only a beginner complains about kanji.
>learn 2.5k kanji
EZ
>learn 20k+ vocab before you can do anything without a dictionary
Now that's the time consuming part.

>>383901986
More like the play games part.
>tfw just watch lets plays

>Spend years learning a language
>play game 6 months early
>OP: 'TIME SAVE!'

>>383901778
The play indie gook games part. Every worthy games are already translated and uncensored patch exist.

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I'm on Day 53

I'd say I have about 200 Kanji at Read / Write and I've started learning some grammar.

Should I keep going learning more Kanji or start focusing more on building sentences?

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>>383901778
>want to play games unmemefied
>realize it was even more memefied in the original

>>383903550
>it's okay when japan does it!

>>383903394
>comparing the glorious original version to some botched translation censored by SJWs

>>383901986
It's not even that bad of a language to learn, Kanji's the only really tough part.

>Lapse for a 45 days after the start of a new job
>Forget 18 months worth of vocab and kanji
I don't have an image that adequately expresses how badly I want to shoot myself

How long would it take me to get to where I can read JP Monster Hunter games and understand it? Not necessarily write it myself.

>>383903550
Nice meme

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>>383903550

>>383903648
6 months.

>>383903592
>they aren't memes they're just identical expressions that are used ad-infinitum by these character archetypes so you know what archetype they are!

>>383903492
Focus on some grammar and vocab, Kanji's easier to remember when you have the vocabulary to associate with it already.

>>383903618
>glorious original version
EEEEHHHHH ONIICHAN HONTO NI KAWAII DESU KAAAAAA? SUBARASHIIIIIIII YOOOOOOOOOOO

ashi o hiraite boku ni misete

>>383901778
Because you're still playing Japanese games

>>383903816
Why are you acting like a bumbling retard though?

>>383901778
Most good stuff gets translated eventually

>>383901778
alright niggers, tell me how to learn japanese then
how did you do it?

>>383903624
>90% of the language is the only really tough part

>>383903316
>>learn 20k+ vocab before you can do anything without a dictionary
It's suffering, endless suffering.

>>383903550
how can I unlearn japanese

>>383903946
Reading translations is the equivalent to eating shit.

>>383904084
I meant listening, speaking, and grammar aren't that bad. Besides, 90% of the written characters=/=90% of all sentences.

>>383903630
Honestly, it will come back to you quickly.

>learn japanese
If I'm going to learn a dead language it's going to be Aramaic.

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>wanting to learn a language that will make you sound like a complete sperg every time you try to speak it

>>383901778
Don't want to waste my time learning moonrunes, much rather learn a language that maybe i will actually use in real life. Implying i have a real life

>>383903316
>learning kanji separate from vocab
wew

>>383901912
this. OP is a faggot

Day 30 here. I know djt has their cornucopia that I'm poking through, and I do have a jap copy of Yotsuba and a couple neko no Dayan books, but any other suggestions for some good beginner things i can struggle through with a dictionary? I find it more fun and rewarding to learn practically even if it's harder and more time consuming.

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STOP FUCKING CALLING ME AN EOP

>>383904273
>If I'm going to learn a dead language
Japanese has more speakers worldwide than German and just a little less than Russian.

As far as languages go, it is very much Linqua Franca tier.
Also, it sets you up for an easy time learning Chinese which does make English look like a dead language in comparison by the number of speakers and future prospects.

>>383904679
>Japanese has more speakers worldwide than German and just a little less than Russian.
Source?

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I have about 3000+ words matured according to anki but I haven't really bothered with grammar or reading yet.
An hour of flashcards a day is easy because I can just do them on my phone as I 通勤 to my 仕事. Actually focused, non-structured learning? That's hard. I can find a million ways to procrastinate.

>>383904202
Learning foreign languages is the equivalent to watching your wife fuck another man.

>>383904805
Why are you learning vocab if you're not going to use it?

>>383901778
But NoA is now working with NoJ to ensure that all games have no content that isn't approved for wholesome Christian eyes during development. There is no safe haven, learning Japanese was a waste of time.

>>383904805
>have about 3000+ words matured according to anki but I haven't really bothered with grammar or reading yet.

What the fuck?

>>383903913
Because that's what Japanese voice acting sounds like

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>>383904786
>Source?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers

Also, I fucked up on the comparison with Russia, that must have been natives only.

Simply put, German is a complete meme language in comparison. Especially considering that you can get by working any IT related job in Germany as an English speaker and will never consume German media.
It's a no-brainer.

>>383904805
How? I'm not even at 100 mature, and I'm already itching to actually read something.

>>383904679
>As far as languages go, it is very much Linqua Franca tier.
An assload of people speak Japanese because there's an 127 million of them. That doesn't make it lingua franca. Lingua franca is the bridging language, not the language the only Nips and weebs speak. English is lingua franca, Greek used to be lingua franca, Japanese is not.

>>383904786
He's just comparing the populations of Russia and Japan. 144 million to 127.

This thread reeks of /jp/ autism
Go away no one likes you

>>383904805

>I have about 3000+ words matured according to anki but I haven't really bothered with grammar or reading yet.

W-what

Are you planning on reading dictionaries and nothing else?

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>>383901778
Ironically all of your grandparents thought to themselves: Atleast we are not speaking German and Japanese after the war

>>383901778
>unmemefied
Do you think jap games don't have memes?

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>>383905113
I'm actually pretty shocked Japanese is in the top ten. I'm mostly learning it so I can read obscure masturbatory material and one day attend AKGarden or Wonfes as a circle. And maybe get a job with Koto

>>383902232
This. Last month I started drilling kanji seriously along with getting more exercise. Then I got sick and spent this last week so fucked I could barely think.

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>>383905238
I guess Japan won the culture war since I want to learn it.

>>383905140
>Lingua franca is the bridging language, not the language the only Nips and weebs speak.

You're forgetting a shitload of people in Eastern and South Eastern Asia as a whole who tend to take it as their 2nd foreign language since working in Japan is a very favorable proposition to them (you're going to slave yourself no matter the country in that part of the world, except Japanese will actually pay you accordingly). Heck, if you ask them about gaijin, they'll more than likely start talking about the Chinese and Koreans, not whites who are about as rare as unicorns.

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>>383904898
>>383904952
>>383905128
I need to knuckle down and study at some point so I can start reading beginner material, but it's difficulty because of my schedule. 20 new words a day is simple enough on my commute to work, but you need time (which I lack) for more complicated topics like grammar.

>>383905113
>portuguese 6th
UMA DELÍCIA huehuehuehuehue

>>383905113
So basically the only reason Chinese is so big is because there's a lot of Chinese people?

>>383905238
>Ironically all of your grandparents thought to themselves

Joke's on you, my grandgrandparents were on the Axis side of war.

>>383905464
Take the 30 minutes you would have spent reviewing flash cards and spend it reading one page of Tae Kim's guide instead.

>>383905464
There's a tae kim phone app too. And Duolingo just added jap and has a phone app. I haven't started tae kim yet because my brain aches after an hour of anki and duolingo, but I know that's the standard. I also have a hard copy of genki at home, but I agree with you on that point that it's easier and more convenient to find five minutes on the phone at work or whatever.

>>383905113
Since Japan doesn't have anything to offer but media that would Japanese the meme language.

>>383901778
What the fuck. This is the original image? Good find, my dude. I always assumed I couldn't learn Japanese, but now it looks like I can.

>>383905645
Duolingo is pretty mediocre afaik

>>383905603
>you'll hardly ever have to read katakana in "real life"
That's blatantly false

>>383905603
>somebody took the time to write all that bullshit

>>383905764
It is, but the point is that it takes no more time or wherewithal than anki's flash cards a day. It's absolutely better than nothing and will give you the basics of grammar. With that much vocab and duolingo done, he could at least stumble his way through lots of books with broken jap.

>>383905238

That logic is so utterly retarded it actually got to me for a moment, good job

>>383905913
t. know-it-all
>>383905981
t. anime freak

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>learn japanese
>play japanese games
>most of them don't even have porn in them
>just pages of reading about waifus and maybe a kiss at the end

>>383905407
Going by your own statistics that accounts for a whopping 1 million people. Even so, they're all just immigrants trying to work in the land of the rising sun. An Indian who doesn't know Japanese is going to have better luck trying to converse with a Jap in English than in Japanese, that is what lingua franca is about.

>>383905645
>Duolingo
I downloaded their shitty app just to give it a try (since the PC platform takes so long to develop for apparently) and even with minuscule understanding of the language I just tested out of half of it in 20 minutes. Not to mention, furigana and vocab are mixed so you either have to sit through a ton of lessons on stuff you should already know or miss a few key words that will be in later lessons.

>>383901778
>japanese game
>uncensored

Nice meme.

>>383905464
I learned the same way, although I didn't do the full 6k. Just start reading VNs, or any game that you can run through a text hooker (emulators sometimes struggle with this). You will pick up the basic grammar pretty quickly now that you don't have to check every new word in a dictionary.

As others have said, Tae Kim and the equivalents are useful, but I found it hard to study grammar in isolation. It's better to just read and look things up when you get confused.

>>383901778
I'm gonna start learning nihongo soon, where should I start? I don't want to not know what I should do, it will frustrate me.

>>383906064
If you want porn then play eroge dummy.

>learn japanese to play high school simulator 6000 because that's all japan makes
Seriously why?

>>383906124
I'm planning on doing that very thing this weekend. Can you recommend a good text hooker? And by that, you mean something like KanjiTomo, right?

Is there any thing like a phone app that allows you to take pictures of kanji and attempts to translate it that way? I bought a couple hard copies of books to give me some motivation, but it's going to be a loooooong time before I can read 吾輩は猫である even with a dictionary in hand.

>>383906119
Yeah. Japanese games can be just as cucked as their American counterparts thanks to the goddamn CERO ratings. Only instead of censoring the fan-service, they censor the gore (see MGSV and RE7).

>>383906075
>An Indian who doesn't know Japanese is going to have better luck trying to converse with a Jap in English than in Japanese

Except not.
True for the major cities/tourist hubs, but he'd be fucked anywhere else.

It's just like France in that regard. I have heard numerous stories of English lang. teachers being sent on trips there because "Well, we don't have enough French lang. teachers and besides, everyone speaks English!" and ending up completely isolated from the world, having to rely on internet to get them and the kids with them anywhere at all.

>>383906335
I'm learning it to play musumaker, which is daughter prostitute raising simulator #7 since I've already played through 1-6.

>>383905603
>you'll hardly use hiragana in real life
>except for all the adjectives, particles, verbs, etc

トップ ケック

>>383906326
If I wanted to play eroge I wouldn't have needed to learn japanese in the first place.
All the writing in eroge is fucking TRASH, I'd rather just flip through the CG set.

learning Japanese is counterproductive considering China is the next superpower

>>383901778
Learning Japanese might be fun.
Where do i start?

>>383906152
Kanadrill.

>>383906440
>To
>Pu
>Ke
>Ku

You cheeky motherfucker

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>learning Japanese
That's the crux my man.
Also, I'm still trying to figure out if I want to learn Japanese or something more useful. Then again what would be a useful language to learn?
German will soon be obsolete.
French has no use
Took enough Spanish in HS

What is good?

>>383905464
>>383905602
>>383905645
get Obenkyo in the play store.
It comes with Tae Kim, Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji, grammar, particles,etc.
It's a very packed app.

>>383906668
Russian
Esperanto
Latin

>>383906467
So you apparently don't like games not having ero in them, but when they do you say fuck that and just look at the cg. I really don't even get what you're complaining about.

>>383903550
Name 5 (four) games that do this.

>>383906152
>where should I start?

Learn kana. Required for just about any guide or dictionary out there.

Then it's up to you and what you prefer. Generally the same shit applies that applied to you learning English if you're one of us non-Anglos. Immersion with the language teaches you the main shit but you can't learn stuff by it alone so going through the grammar alongside it is required.
Once you're able to navigate basic shit, it's CYOA.

>>383906814
Show me a well written eroge then

>kind of understand grammar
>learning kanji day by day
>vocabulary is a nightmare
my head literally hurts when trying to memorize words

>>383906668
Chinese will probably be the most useful language in the world in a few decades. Arabic might be worth the time as well.

>>383906668
English is literally the only useful language in the world. If you're going to learn a new language you should learn one that actually interests you instead of one that's "useful". Just pick the one you like the most.

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>>383901778
>Japanese games
>uncensored

>>383905113
>My language has more speakers than japanese, german and russian.
HUEHHUEHUEHUEEUHE
I should learn german tho. Im an engineer by career.

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>>383906874
Yu-no

>>383905407
Trad. Chinese was always the lingua franca from asia. Inclusing japan in the past.

>>383906898
>my head literally hurts when trying to memorize words

>Desperately trying to keep the basic words in memory.
>Shit like front, back, left, right.
>Always forget "back・うしろ" in about an hour.
>Watch anime, someone shouts 後ろ!
>I_know_that_word.JPEG
>No problem ever recalling it ever again, complete with the dramatic shout.

This shit is literally Learning English 2.0: Kanji Boogaloo

>>383906858
>Persona 3
>Persona 4
>Persona 5
>Persona 6

>>383904217
stop posting.

>>383906787
But anon, I have an iPhone

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>>383906874

>>383906874
I'm not sure why you're suddenly focused on writing but to answer your question, ボクの彼女はガテン系.
Second, back to what I was asking you, what games are you even playing? As I said, if you want gameplay and porn then play eroge from alicesoft, eushally, dual/ninetail, or whatever. You aren't expecting mainstream japanese games to have explicit sex in them are you?

>>383906406
>True for the major cities/tourist hubs, but he'd be fucked anywhere else.
You missed the point. I said he'd have better luck. They teach English in Jap schools regardless if nobody actually learns. India used to be a British colony. That's not to say that both can speak English, but if they were to attempt to converse together in the same language immediately after meeting then their best bet would be in English.
127 million Japanese speakers all endemic to Japan aren't lingua franca to anyway. The 450 million English speakers endemic to their own countries wouldn't make them lingua franca on their own, just like how the 1 billion Mandarin speakers are all dirty Chinese and all contained in China. It's the fact that figures for ESL range from 450 million to 1 billion and it's your best bet as a language to try and converse with someone if neither of you speak the same language.

>>383905603

Holy shit, haven't seen that one in a while.

>been using ATLAS all this time
>find out Google has overhauled its translation system
>try it out yesterday
>learning Japanese is literally obsolete now thanks to google translate

>>383906668
Learn Greek.

>>383901778
>replace shitty english memes with shitty Japanese memes.

You can learn (basic) Japanese with Duolingo now, so there's really no excuse.

>>383904560
Day 2661 here. Aho-girl is the first manga I managed to bumble my way through. I really enjoy terrible people screaming at eachother comedy. Pretty hype about the anime.

>>383907389
what, google translate is good now for entire sentences?

>>383904560
Dragon Ball

>>383907219
I had, but thankfully your reply has convinced me to change my ways.

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>>383907468
>2661 days
>Have only read 1 Magna

N-nani?

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Japanese memes folded over 1000 times are simply better than our cheap fast gaijin memes

>>383907389
>learning Japanese is literally obsolete now thanks to google translate

wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww( ´艸｀)

And you know this because you... Oh right, you don't speak Japanese, but you just know it's translating shit correctly. Because Google Translate is so great.

Use it on a language you understand you idiot. It's still broken as shit and have all the fun in the world trying to explain all the puns and wordplays these guys love to pieces to it.

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>>383907598
Nothing tops our use of grafics cat.

>Download 2k/6k deck earlier this year
>10 new cards per day
>After a while I have 350-400 cards due every day
>Takes way too long to complete so I reduce the amount of new cards to 1/day
>Still have about 300/day
How do I become less shit at this?

>>383907509
Yes and no. It gives a much higher readability rate than Atlas, and it does actually give complete sentences, unlike atlas where it most of the time gives you vague words in near random order and you form the sentences from that.
But google fucks the pronouns hard for some reason, it's almost the opposite pronoun each time. But I just use Atlas or context to supplement that.

>>383907582
He said first, not only.

>Learn English, German and Norwegian
>Get job opportunities all around Europe

>>383908068
>Get job opportunities all around Europe
>Have to live in Europe

>>383908068
>spending time on a language, not for yourself, but so that other richer people who didn't waste their time learning them can use you
you're literally a slave

>>383908068
>Speak English
>get job opportunities all around Europe

>>383907308
Rance was good I guess

>>383907320
I'm not the original guy you replied to, I was just wondering because when I played some eroge they all had needless padding and were extremely boring apart from sex
I actually think most serious VNs would be better without sex sine it adds little to the value apart from fap material.

>>383908068
>Europe
with the muslims? No thanks

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>>383901778
>Learning the language of the losers

>>383908408
This is what Japanese think of you.

>i dunno man, maybe i should learn a more useful language
You already speak english, literally every other language is less useful. Just learn what you enjoy, otherwise you'll never have the dedication to follow through past the basics.

>>383908503
Gaijins don't go blowing up places and causing terrorism attacks.

>>383908562
Not yet
also muslims are gaijin

>>383908470
Gee MacArthur you slob get your hands out of your pockets!

>>383908562
If you move to Europe you're not at any higher risk of dying from terrorism than in US. What you don't like is living with them, hence the similarity.

>>383905540
Yes.

>>383904847
Not learning other languages is the equivalent of marrying the first woman you meet that you're not related to, and never looking at another one.

>>383905407
You're better off learning chinese as a lingua-franca in the east. Although if you know English, that's just as good.

>>383908470
>Two Japanese officials sign the official surrender.
>One of them throws the pen overboard as he's leaving the ship.
>The other keeps it and passes it over to his kids.
>When asked why, he says, "To remind me to prepare properly before jumping into things."
>That one ultra-commando who never got the message of surrender and successfully sabotaged Phillipino soldiers until 19...74.

Military nation ranking:
France > Germany > Japan > The rest, with USA somewhere close to the top.

In less than 10 years we'll have perfect real time translators.

I can wait

>>383902538
>tfw kanji is EZ for me but connecting grammar and vocab is pure agony and suffering

>>383909042
>You're better off learning chinese

Chinese could be neat but I'm going with Japanese as it has a good number of uncanny similarities with my native language (now that's the real useless and dying out territory).

Chinese would be most likely easier but considering I'm most likely never going to live in an English, Chinese or Japanese-speaking country, my only real use for foreign languages is the media and that's where Japan dominates China heavily and will for quite a while still. Worst come to worst, Japanese will dub the good Chinese stuff, and there's really no competition for their VAs no matter where on Earth you look.

>>383908562
but they do scribble graffiti on bus seats. same thing, as far as JPN is concerned.

>>383909491
I'm going to learn Japanese too, but that's just because of the kind of media I consume.
There's a very nice article about the cultural growth in Japan.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100403090055/http://www.time.com/time/asia/2003/cool_japan/story.html

>>383906363
>Can you recommend a good text hooker
I use Chiitrans Lite. It should work automatically with older VNs. For new VNs and emulators you would have to look up guides.

>Is there any thing like a phone app that allows you to take pictures of kanji and attempts to translate it that way?
That's OCR, which I don't know much about. Paper books are pretty hard to deal with. Whenever I read an interview or something on paper, I just look up kanji by radical on Jisho. But that would be annoying for a full novel.

I just let other webs translate it for me lmao

>>383909464
It's the opposite for me. The way grammar works, with the character saying what the word before it is in the sentence makes grammar easy for me - it's just learning the vocab that I'm struggling with. Once I learn what the word actually means, then I realize that I can't recognize the kanji, just the anki flash card. It's like i'm studying the answers to the test and am not actually learning.

I love it when people who don't know Japanese claim it's easy to learn Japanese. Becoming fluent in a language takes YEARS of intense study as well as spending significant time in the country where it is spoken natively practicing communication. There is a reason why you haven't done it.

>>383901778
>unmemefied
false, you'll get a shitton of memes you dont understand because nips love their memes

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I just need motivation to finally complete the grammar guide, kanji grinding is okay.

>>383910021
No one's saying you can realistically pass for a native in 2 moths or bullshit like that.

Some languages are easier than others, though.
English being one of the easiest ones around. If you removed the French cum left on their lips when pronouncing shit, it would downright look like something made by a computer.

Japanese has a fuckton of English loanwords, strict and not all that complicated inclension system. Almost no tenses to speak of. And best of all, the phonetics match up easily with Western languages, unlike all the other ching-chong get the tone wrong and tell me to fuck your own mother bullshit that is present from Korea to Vietnam.

>>383905238
>Ironically all of your grandparents thought to themselves
It's probably great grandparents for most posters, at this point. Hell, if not even great great grandparents... I'm in my mid-thirties and my grandfather was only a teen when he came to the states in '47.

Extending your logic, a lot of us probably shouldn't have learned english either. My ancestors who fought against cromwell would probably be rolling over in their graves.

>>383902597
>chex mix letters
clearly the easiest, hell it was designed to be learned by idiots

>>383910402
>English being one of the easiest ones around.
English isn't one of the easiest, it's such a bother if you don't learn it as your first because it's a complete mess of a language.

>>383910527
You Irish savages can only learn civilisation under the boot of a greater one.

>>383910624
English has really easy grammar though.
Just some of the rules can be hard to remember.

>>383905540
>So basically the only reason Chinese is so big is because there's a lot of Chinese people?
Well, that, plus the country is a superpower so all the people in its orbit now have to learn chinese, too, if they want to compete. Mandarin is probably the best additional language to learn if you're talking pure utility.

>>383903630
just go through it and it will be stored there

>>383910402
>English being one of the easiest ones around
If you're Dutch, maybe. Coming from an English native speaker though this language is like the Imperial measurement system, it's a fucking mess in comparison to what most of mainland Europe uses.

>>383909456
except if you really want to understand japanese you have to grock with how jap words code for different lumps of ideas than the words in your language do. An easy example is ちる (chiru), which basically means fall, but you're supposed to picture how flower petals fall from cherry and plum trees and they use it for dying a lot. Or how they divide up three different words for "eat" that really only differ in the amount of contempt felt toward the subject (and there are a lot more specific words for "eat" on top of that).

What I'm trying to say is that converting anything well written between Japanese and English in either direction results in a bland "good enough" end result, or something that's similar to the original but stands really on the merit of its own original writing. There will always be by necessity changes to some nuance and details, and sometimes you can't know when those changes will bite you in the ass later.

tldr: even human level ai translation can only get to "good enough," 'cause of culture and stuff, learn more languages eop.

>>383901778
Site called Kanji Damage, it really made choking down 1000s of gookyrunes easy

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>>383910719

>>383909127
That story is always good.

>>383910719
>You Irish savages can only learn civilisation under the boot of a greater one.
Funny, the japanese in '41 said the same thing.

>>383910961
The Lord Protector was the greatest thing to happen to the British Isles.

>>383910908
>What I'm trying to say is that converting anything well written between Japanese and English in either direction results in a bland "good enough" end result
That's true for most translations. If the subject is bland to begin with it's fine (eg instruction manual) but if it's multi-layered then good translations can be nearly impossible. You need a second book of footnotes to get across most translations of good literature.

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Is pic related a good book?

>>383901778

>前の全二日に日本語で読んだ

疲れた。休息の日が要る。俺の日本語はまずいかもしれないけど。

>>383909491
>the good Chinese stuff
Well joked friend

>>383911235
The Lord Reagent was the best thing to happen to Dunwall

>>383911456
There's this cartoon Chinese are making that Japanese themselves point to when they want to shit on modern anime because it both looks beautiful and has a great story to boot.
Already has a Japanese dub if you're interested.
>狐妖小红娘, or in Jap: 縁結びの妖狐ちゃん

>>383911519
The Irish have been too busy blowing each other up like savages over the past hundred years to know how to run a country properly. You needed someone like Cromwell.

>>383910402
You don't know Japanese. You have no fucking clue how easy or hard it is to learn. Impressing your friends with knowing how to say 2 things doesn't mean you know the intricacies of speaking a language.

>>383911810
But it looks like shit and the first two episodes, at least, were fucking awful.

>>383901778
Why would I want to play Japanese """games"""?

>>383911235
>The Lord Protector was the greatest thing to happen to the British Isles.
Don't agree and it's not the point. Ambitious idealists with a casual disregard for human life are going to be a bit contentious at the best of times (and history is littered with them).

What I was refuting was dopey shit like >>383905238 that's essentially saying, "our ancestors fought in the past, so we should also fight, and our descendants should fight, forever." The past being bad is not an excuse to not try and improve the future.

>>383911810
> Fox Spirit Matchmaker
O boy
Let me guess, the matchmaker is going to fall in love with a client

>>383908068

Better start learning Arabic.

How long would it take me to understand all 7000+ cards in the Japanese, untranslated version of Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V Tag Force Special and the Monster Hunter games (namely, XX)?

I don't speak Japanese, let alone read it. How do I start?

>>383912250
Go live in Japan.

>>383912250
Try and befriend a Japanese person to teach you Japanese in return you can teach them english. This is really the only true way to learn the language easily. Classes and books won't get you anywhere.

What should I major in University to be able to get a job in Japan? My family wants me to move over there with them.

>>383912261
You do realise that replying to it at all is just as bad, right? Simply because you call it bait and then break your link doesn't mean you're better when you're still replying it it.

>>383912250

>How long would it take me to understand all 7000+ cards in the Japanese, untranslated version of Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V Tag Force Special and the Monster Hunter games (namely, XX)?

Haven't played either of those, so I can't say, but from my experiences, the language in cards usually isn't all that rough. It's going to be a while, though.

>I don't speak Japanese, let alone read it. How do I start?

Realkana for kana

Then

Core 6k anki deck for vocabulary
Tae Kim/Genki for grammar

After finishing the grammar guide, start reading. A lot of people will point you to Yotsuba, but I'd personally suggest reading a VN that interests you with a text hooker. It's easier to look things up that way.

The rikaisama addon is also a must for Japanese learners.

>>383912675
Become an English teacher. Like every other foreigner in Japan.

>>383912942

Oh, also, Dictionary of Japanese Grammar (all three volumes). Have that on hand when you read, and be prepared to spend a lot of time in it. You might also want to go over the DoJG anki deck.

Why are you trying to learn Japanese language?
There must be no clever reason.

>>383913228

Videogames

>>383913012
I'm korean/Japanese though. I don't think they want Asian looking people as English teachers.

>>383907598
So all of their memes are cats...cause you know considered acceptable food? Is this why we got banana guy?

>>383913228
see >>383905374

>>383912942
>>383913138
What about this book? It's supposed to cover all the key points of the grammar.
>>383911413

>>383913345

Haven't read it. I can only tell you that Tae Kim worked fine for me, and that other people recommend Genki.

>>383913402
Well, I'm not the guy you were talking to, but thanks for the suggestions, dude.

>>383913280
Just stay in America or whatever the fuck you're from. Get a non-meme degree, get a well paying job, and visit Japan on your vacations. Don't move there unless you have a damn good reason to.

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>>383913345
>>383913717
I recommend "Japanese the Manga Way." It's very intuitive.

>>383914554
My parents are divorced. From America. Living with my father at the moment since I was about 6. I really like America though, there is a certain sense of freedom and self individuality here that is not present in Japan. Although I really want to go live with my mother, sisters, and other relatives.