Why aren't you learning Japanese and reading untranslated games?

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>>389362417
>mfw not learning japanes but still playing untranslated games

cause if its not localized first, that means its not even good
think about it, only good games gets translated, pathetic weeb shovelware stays there

>>389362590
Why did you post this disgusting 3dpd picture?

>>389362750
Must be nice being stupid

>>389362750
>if its not localized first, that means its not even good
Lol

>pathetic weeb shovelware stays there
Lol

>>389362417
Is that some Tanuki Soft my nigga?
Played Shoujo Kyouiku after watching the hentai, it was kinda disappointing nothing in the VN was like the second episode at all.

>>389362417
Fatty Kim will relegate the language to the history books by the time I'm done.

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>"wait a minute, what does that word mean again?"
>have to wait while all the blood that was in my dick flows back to my brain so i can work it out

>>389362417
>reading games

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>>389362417
毎日は日本語を勉強しています

>>389363530
where to start lad?

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Remember to always read words of encouragement to get you through the rough times!

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>>389362417
I'm struggling through Nora to Toki no Kōbō. This is game is just so fucking cute, I love it. With porn, I tried to play Musumaker, but porn doesn't really motivates me to learn, cute games do it much better for me.

>>389363530
>毎日は

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>>389362417
Where do I go after learning to read and write the katakana and hiragana characters?

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>>389363717

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>>389362417
i already had to learn english to be able to ply games, im not going through that again

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>>389363617
Micheal Thomas, Absolute Pimsleurs and Duolingo is all I've really done so far. They have built the daily routine.

I have Genki and Anki sitting there for when I stop being lazy.

All are fine starting places.

>>389362417
I'm not going to waste my time learning a dead language

>>389362417
>spend years learning dead language only to realize that the untranslated gems are ac mediocre
vs
>spend a year learning to draw your own porn
The answer is obvious.

>>389363530
Well, keep at it, I'm sure you'll improve over time.

毎日は means that someone named MAINICHI is studying. は denotes subject of the sentence.

>>389362417
I already did

>>389362417
Because kusoge is a thing and learning japanese to plow thru them would like a jap learning english to look for hidden gems in the steam greenlight section full of asset flipping shit.

Are there even worthwhile ones to play?

>>389364178
Cheers

>>389362417
>being a literal faggot weeaboo
>learning the language of a country that fucking hates you just so you can more easily understand their cartoons

Because I'm in college and have a girlfriend and only have time for tekken and smash

Because hooks+Translation Agregator is good enough

how do I learn Japanese? please help me

>>389362417
There's enough translated stuff to not make me want to learn fucking moon runes of all things.

>>389362417

It's a waste of time

>>389362417
Those aren't even games you pathetic weeb.

>>389364582
So just like video games

>>389364178
>は denotes subject of the sentence.
Never post this garbage again

>>389364178
lol

>>389364392
Protip, google translate constantly gets things wrong even to the point of the translation being the complete opposite of what the original was

>>389362417
I don't know where to start

the stickies on /int/ and /jp/ are too cluttered

>>389364648

Except it extras pathetic because VNs are a virginity-crutch.

>>389362417
the anime of this one is good enough for me

>>389362417
recently been hitting japanese history hard and almost tempted to pick up lessons but it seems so pointless ultimately.

>>389364837
Learn hiragana and katakana then move on to grammar

You are probably too lazy to actually learn though so don't bother

>>389364761
Protip: I use Agregator with 5-6 engines and check each one if it's some confusing sentence that I don't by reading just one.
And (((Google))) isn't even the one I use as primary.

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>>389362417
dude i couldn't even learn spanish

I've tried but I always give up a few days into the kanji rep grind because it's just fucking painful and I don't have the willpower to force myself to keep up with my reps for something I'm doing as a silly hobby. It doesn't help that there doesn't seem to be some easy foolproof anki thing like "learn these X characters today, lern these Y characters tomorrow, etc" that I can just force myself to follow, it's all "just go at your own pace dude lmao" which means that I'll inevitably start slacking off and lose all motivation.

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I thought about it today

Then I downloaded a Tae Kim guide to learning the language and realised I'd have to dump a shit ton of hours into this, and I am already struggling to keep up with my current backlog + new games coming out + anime.

Then I got bored with the idea.

>>389364668
>>389364757
Are you people high? That is literally what it does. If you want to go on some stupid tantrum about the difference between subject and topic ha/ga particle: I can stop you right that, because that only applies when both are present in the sentence, and linguistically speaking it creates a compound sentence (Ha marks the subject of the superordinate sentence, ga subject of the subordinate, where the superordinate usually omits the predicate).

>tfw learnt Japanese from watching anime
No need for anki or grammar guides

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>>389362417
That pic reminds me when my cousin did the same thing in my legs when I was busy playing in my GBA, she moved lewdly and everything just because she wanted to play too,thankfully, she smelled so fucking bad everyday bad , so I never got an erection.

>>389365306
You might be in for a nasty shock if you'll try to apply that knowledge to real world.

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>>389365225
You're wasting time on /v/ right now. You have the time.

>>389365225
>still watching anime
what the fuck

>>389362417
if I want to fap, I just look at the gallery in sadpanda

>>389365306
Everyone knows the language when they can follow subs.
But can you follow without them?

>>389365392
>implying I haven't already chatted with nips for a few years

>>389365456
Real world. Do you know what that means?

>>389365306
The problem is reading and (especially) writing. Japanese is a fairly easy language, it's their ass backwards writing system that makes learning it a pain.

>>389365452
I'm literally watching anime without subs while shitposting here

>>389362417
Right now I can't, since I have to start my second year in uni and I don't know if I could spend 2 hours a day or more trying to learn japanese. I'd love to though, maybe I'll try to learn Hiragana+Katakana before I start my courses

>>389365595
The you are not literally watching it.

>>389362417
BECAUSE I CANT
ITS TOO HARD

It's disappointing that Japan is the country that makes all the games because their language is so unwieldy. If only China didn't go full retard or if Korea actually made games.

>>389365408
I've been looking for that screenshot for a long ass time. Thank god you posted it

>>389365408

I was eating and I'm watching a show at the moment. Now I'm finished eating and watching this episode, I'm going to try and make some progress in Gundam Breaker, since I stopped playing it roughly this time last year midway through the second chapter.

More importantly, this takes much less concentration than studying. I haven't studied in years.

>>389365540
So real Japanese people are not real if you communicate to them through the internet?
Is 4chan not real? Are you not real?

>>389365647
>what is multitasking

>>389362417
Are you gonna pay me to learn? Because I'm gonna be honest with you I don't care about your weeb shit.

>>389362590
ROCKU ME UPPU

>>389365767
>what is having just a set of eyes

>>389365767
>Is 4chan not real? Are you not real?
I can assure you that here I can get away with saying incredible shit, nonsense, butchering of language that I would never get away with in a real life context, that is for sure. Japs themselves talk like retards most of the time online. But try talking with your anime-based knowledge of Japanese to a Japanese business partner and we'll see how well that will go for you.

I really do know what I'm talking about too. I've learned Japanese from anime well enough to waste time on 2chan and various forums, to translate tons of animes and VN's, and to think I actually know the language.

Then I had to start dealing with real world Japanese people, in person, and spend another nice two years UNLEARNING most of what I thought was right, because the reality is harsh and cruel, and Japs don't really tolerate 20 years old men talking like teenagers or worse yet, teenage girl which I'm going to be is going to be your case in anything beyond the absolute most superficial contact.

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>>389365734
I'm sure you've picked up vocab and phrases from watching anime/games before.

Heavy concentration isn't necessary for beginners, especially for people who are already familiar with it.

>>389365969
>what is peripheral vision
>what is typing without looking at the keyboard or the box I'm typing into
It's not like it takes more than a couple seconds to write or read posts

>>389366150
>what is literally reading my post instead of literally watching your anime
>using your peripheral vision to watch anime
You might as well stream your anime.

>>389366095
Just because you couldn't tell the difference between different speaking styles doesn't mean others can't

>>389366095
So what's actually the difference when speaking to businessmen?
Everything's just impossibly formal with ancient caveats you didnt know that embarrass/offend them?

>>389366375
This isn't 2010, even /a/ tolerates streaming nowadays.

cause i cant keep routines and fail everytime i try

>>389363762
this

>>389366475
This place has gone to hell.

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>>389366475
>even /a/ tolerates streaming nowadays
No, kill yourself. CR shills are a fucking blight.

Actually im learning and i plan to play all the eushully games im missing

>>389366375
It's an older anime so the video is 480p so I just have it in an always on top window over the browser

It's not like I would miss anything if I only look at the anime every other second

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>>389366120

Yeah, but it's required at some point obviously, since otherwise learning Japanese would be easy and any of the guides bandied around on here wouldn't say stuff like "if you're going to learn Japanese you've got to put a shit ton of time and effort in otherwise you'll fail".

I can't really do that. Anything which takes a lot of effort, isn't actively fun, and isn't required for me to go on living quickly falls by the wayside. Why do you think I play videogames other than that they're easier than doing real life stuff, and fun? Any game that isn't quickly loses my interest.

Gundam's a good example. I only got back into Gundam Breaker 3 now because I played the Gundam Vs beta over the weekend. I hadn't played it before, and I'm not any good at fighting games, so I found it difficult and kept getting beaten. So I stopped playing it, and went back to Breaker because it's basically the same thing but easier.

>>389362417
I know Japanese and can speak it fluently, I just don't know where to play untranslated games.

>>389366438
I could. That does not mean I could have done it well enough, or could have trained the right one. Neither could you. But really, this is your problem, not mine. You'll eventually get really laughed out one day.

>>389366467
>So what's actually the difference when speaking to businessmen?
No, but there is a huge number of small subtle differences, starting with those you probably know (basic formalism or use of proper pronoun), to intonation and even syntax.

As my old teacher said about fifteen to twenty times each session to all of the damn kids who came in thinking they know Japanese from anime "what you said is technically right, but it's not what an actual Japanese person of your age and statute would say." It's an incredibly contextual language, driven by routines and established formalisms that you have NO idea about more than the actual grammar.

"Impossibly formal" language, which I suspect is what you think real world keigo is called, is the least of your problems. In fact keigo, unless you fuck it up VERY seriously, is where you get away with a lot more, because not even the Japs use it all that often and therefor they themselves don't quite have the ear for it.

>>389365094
That's why pre-made decks are garbage. The way to do it is to make your own deck, and key in the kanji and your mnemonics as you go.

If you're doing RtK, you can usually do about a chapter a day (for earlier chapters at least), depending on time constraints. If that takes too long, there's usually a few points during the chapter where new primitives are introduced, those are also good stopping points.

Any tips on where to learn japanesse?

>>389366647
I'm not defending it, but the days of >streaming and >vlc are long gone. It's sad but true.

>>389366928
No idea how I got a spoiler in there, but whatever

>>389362417

I am, im in a JP1 class at my local JC for fun (graduated college a year ago). I'd like to commit and use it for subtitling or localization for media companies, but I think I'd need to study abroad to really get some good language immersion. I know Hiragana/Katakana, spent the summer memorizing the characters, I just need to be quicker on the draw when reading them. But if I keep it up itll just be Kanji that trouble me. I really need to get good at conversation though

>>389366832
>Neither could you
Keep on projecting, I'm sure it will make you feel better at some point

>>389362417
>reading
>games
dumb weebs

>>389367098
>Hiragana/Katakana, spent the summer memorizing the characters
>spending more than a couple days on kana
Give up now

There's literally nothing wrong with streaming your anime

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>>389366810
10 mins a day isn't hard. And because you'll learn so fast it is actively fun. The feeling of progress at the beginning could help you get out of that rut.

Slowly expand it to 20 minutes, eventually an hour, going at your own pace.

People go on about how difficult or time consuming it is but like any language, it's no big deal if you just do it everyday.

>>389367235
American reading comprehension, everybody.

>>389367132
Again: you are the one who will learn this the hard way if you ever plan to use it outside of some random chatroom. Good luck with that.

>>389367256
compression makes everything look like shit, no matter how good your internet is.

>>389363530
also pretty sure it should be this should be していました。 implying you have been studying every day concurrently up till now instead of just currently studying.

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>it's a random side character rambles on in slurred kansai ben episode

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which one make the best lolis Lose or Tanuki soft?

>Working at Jap bank branch from England.
>Branch is moving back to Nip homeland
>Need to learn Nipponese and relocate to keep job.

Send help.

>>389367235

huh? if i'm planning on working in translation/localization I need to know as much as possible and know when it's culturally and formally appropriate to use both sets including kanji. Are you high?

>>389365703
>tonal language
>somehow more wieldy than Japanese

???

>>389362417
I have terrible learning skill and motivation.
Just learned how to make a basic Anki deck though, hopefully this will motivates me for months to come

>>389367597
Here's a tip
learn japanese

>>389367597
>a job
>a ticket out of the UK
>get to learn a new language and live in a far better country
lad pls

>>389367597
if you work immersed in a Japanese workplace and spend a few hours a day diligently studying it shouldn't take you more than a month or two to adapt. hands on language learning is always the best.

>>389367502
>it's a sequel takes place mostly in Okinawa and features many characters who speak in slang heavy kansai ben episode
Heh...

>>389367571
Lose lolis are way cuter, but there's only Monobeno and Maitetsu.

>>389367628
you will never ever learn it because you, like 99% of this board, barely has the motivation to talk to a girl let alone spend thousands of hours on a language

>>389367628
You won't learn any of that from just learning the kanas. All of that comes later

What are the best Japanese games that aren't translated into English?

>>389362417
Most of the good ones don't require a lot of moonrunes to understand the game mechanics, like Taiko, Puyo Puyo, and Gundam.
RPGs are a different matter, though.

>>389367424
>also pretty sure it should be this should be していました。
Not unless he was doing it ten minutes ago but suddenly stopped. Because that would be a past tense.
However I think a more natural way would be します rather than しています. I think both can fly, in theory, but present continuous in Japanese is slightly different than in English, because it generally talks about process that is happening right now, while present simple something happening repeatedly or commonly, but not going on right now, as well as double as future tense.

本語を勉強しています (without time specification) would be understood as "I'm learning Japanese) where as 本語を勉強します would be either understood as "I study Japanese" or as "Will planning to study Japanese".
However, in that sentence (correctly: 本語を毎日します, probably) as the time is specified, you don't need the present continuous anymore.

At least - I think. I have not being using my Japanese in almost a decade.

>>389365638
Kana only takes 1 week at worst, just do it my man

>>389367328

Just to give you an idea of how lazy I am, I failed my physics degree exams at the first year despite attending every lecture due to lack of studying. I got put on retakes and still didn't study enough and flunked out.

It takes me a long time to learn things, and I forget and lose interest easily. I used to draw as a hobby for years from when I was a kid, loved it. But a few years back when I realised (thanks in part to /ic/) I was shit, I looked at the amount of effort it would take to learn to draw properly and straight up dropped it. I haven't drawn more than doodles since.

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>>389362417

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eventually
working through the eva blu rays with jap subs right now.
>630 new words/grammar points in 3 episodes

>>389366814
What? Just import or download stuff

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>>389368034
>I was shit, I looked at the amount of effort it would take to learn to draw properly and straight up dropped it.

That's not being lazy, that's being a shitter.

>>389368130
ouch, what a mean loli

>>389367650
Are you tone deaf? It only has like 4-5 tones. At least it isn't clicks and whistles and every "kanji" is monosyllabic.

>>389367863

I never said I was learning to them as a means of mastery, its just a base step. Im currently taking classes and if they go well, by the time im conversational in the next year or two id ideally like to plan a work trip to Japan and maybe teach ESL students at a university there. My friend did that in Korea to pay for Law School

>>389367847
>projecting this hard
You say that as if learning languages is hard. Not everyone is as pathetic as you are

>>389368130
Good her her. Get that American trash "food" outta there.

>>389368359
hotdogs are a german food lad

>>389368317
Most Japanese classes are really slow and only really useful for practicing speaking. Whatever you would learn in 2 years of classes you could learn in a couple months of studying on your own

I tried to learn but I got way to focused on Kanji reps and not enough on grammar. I dropped it after I passed the JLPTN5 because I had other things to focus on at the time and I was getting frustrated having to look up every other words when I was trying to read actual stuff.
I kind of want to start again but most of the VN I wanted to read are getting translated anyway.

>>389368259
That's just it. I don't know where to download stuff and I don't feel like actually buying anything.

>>389366881
Talking about Anki, is there a way to edit cards from a deck in AnkiDroid? Probably me just being retarded but I didn't found it

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>>389362417
Because my backlog is already huge. I don't want to multiply it by 100.

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>>389363530
私は時間がないので、バスで日本語を勉強しています、アンキと色々なアップをつかいます。

I'll never make it this way, I need to stop wasting my time here, after genki I'm leaning on printing Tobira and after Tobira if I'm not at the level to read untranslated VNs I'll just stop studying japanese.

>>389368618
>he actually wasted money on taking N5

>>389368601

Yeah but I don't have many friends who speak Japanese, plus I get financial aid for my classes so its free, so no reason not to try them. Not only that but I'm already in talks with my current professor about potential study abroad plans. I'm 25 and pretty committed to the prospect. If it doesn't work it doesn't work but I'm trying as best as I can for now. Learning a language and gaining true cultural understanding isn't a race, it takes time

>>389368618
I gave up on learning kanji specifically a while ago and focus completely on recognition. The JLPT tests as fart as I understand only care about recognition anyways and everyone has phones to look up kanji if they really need to.

>>389368637
Nyaa, AnimeSharing. Hell, I got iM@S 1 and Live for You! from Xbox360ISO forum.

>>389368818
>アップ
アプリ

>>389368281
Yep. Even I learned to draw and I'm a huge fucking failure.

>start learning
>learn kana
>learn a little bit of grammar
>want to practice on baby manga with furigana and shit but can't because shit vocab
>learn a little bit of vocab
>want to practice but find it hard because shit grammar
>learn a bit more grammar
>shit vocab
>learn a bit more vocab
>shit grammar
How do you balance these two?

>>389362417
I 出来ない.

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Silly loli.

>>389368826
I'm not telling you to drop your classes, I'm telling you to study on your own outside of the classes if you actually want to learn Japanese

>>389368824
>>389368874
I took it because it got me some required language credits in college, I know it isn't actually worth anything.

>>389369000
thanks, I fucking hate katakana with all of my life, shit like Ice Cream in katakana just makes me want to die.

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>>389368281

Lazy, shitter, whatever. That's what I am. I even bought that book about drawing on the right side of the brain that /ic/ raves/raved about, and I couldn't even be bothered to do most of the exercises in it.

I can't even play strategy games or fighting games, because they take a lot of thought or practice to improve at and I don't enjoy that.

>>389369034
Through class or alone?

>>389369068
Watch 10000 hours of anime and you don't need any grammar guides or vocab grinding

>>389369034
post your work

>>389369225
Somehow 10000 hours doesn't seem very efficient.

>>389369357
That's 10000 hours spent on entertainment with the benefit of learning Japanese

So where do I start?

日本語でのゲームがやりたくて一生懸命日本語を勉強してかなり出来るようになっても結局あんまりゲームをやらない僕

>>389369434
What if I haven't spent those 10000 hours already and I don't have 10000 hours to spend anymore?

>>389369187
agreed.
guess what ブザー means

>>389362417
Keep masturbating to loli.

>>389369507
Then you should give up on learning Japanese

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>>389369493
>get money to play games
>end up not playing to get more money
>learn japanese to play games
>end up not playing to learn other shit

life is suffering.

>>389369640
Somehow I doubt the only way to learn the language is spending 10000 hours watching cartoons.

>>389369551
absolutely clueless

buzaa?

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やれやれ、日本語が難しです…

>>389369471
Learn Hiragana and Katakana, go through Genki or some other grammar book.

>>389369731
私たち

>>389369110

Oh yeah, I know. I have some material that I listen to and a friend of mine who learned it as a second language said to play some simple games like Pokemon or games I'm familiar with that have JP versions so I can increase my reading proficiency

Thanks for the advice

>>389369832
は

>>389369834
I suggest checking djt on /int/ or /jp/. Lots of people learning Japanese there

>>389369730
It means buzzer because two nukes weren't enough.

>>389369930
王様

>>389369930
王

>>389369551
buzzer ofc

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>>389370053
>>389370049
>>389369930
>>389369832

>>389369218
Alone. Too much of a failure to go to a class.
>>389369320
Phoneposting. Could get something from the draw booru, but it's probably going to be an old drawing.

>>389369970

Will do, thanks friendo

>>389370187
Is there some app like anki or whatever so I can do my reps on the train?

>>389370276
There's an anki app and you can always do your reps on their website too

how do i learn japanese

>>389370187
Does the stuff on /ic/ helps or do you have other methods?

>>389370049
>>389370053
や糞、ニガー

>>389370486
Kill yourself and be reborn Japanese

>>389370486
How do I play videogames

>>389370682
Loomis didn't help for shit, but Hampton was a life saver.
Make sure you learn to draw from your shoulder/elbow. The first couple of weeks are gonna suck but it's worth it.

>>389370870
How do I kill myself?

>>389362417
lazy, unmotivated brainlet

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>this thread

>>389363861
That meme is youtube tier now.

Starting now. Wish me luck faggots.

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>>389371332
This happens to every /jp/ meme, it languishes in irrelevance for four or five years, crossposters steadily shilling it on other boards, until it gets rehosted on some 'Funniest otaku memes!' facebook pages, the hooks of mainstream culture dig into it, and it is assimilated into the fold of teenaged pseudo-comedy.

When I come home from work why would I want to be doing more work?

>>389371617
Enjoy quitting before you even know the kana, retard-san.

>>389371034
I struggled through Loomis, so cool anon. Thanks for the tip

>>389371751
Thanks, pole smoker.

>>389371617
頑張れ、アノンさま!

>>389371280
Is it so wrong wanting to masturbate to more stuff that cast one particular seiyuu?

>>389371751

I thought it was supposed to be easy to learn Japanese

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The prospect of learning a new language is depressing because I'm an English language author. I enjoy being good at writing. If I swap to Japanese I'm gonna be bad at it for at least eight or ten years.

If you're going to be monolingual it's ideal that it be in English, anyway.
Plus machine translation is getting very close to 1:1. Probably not very many of you realize how good it is right now. I challenge you to go to the Russian-language wikipedia, choose a featured article, and feed it through Google Translate. The result could often be something that was natively written in English except for one or two errors. I will follow up with an example from the current front page of the Russian wikipedia.

Spending thousands of hours learning a language when digital babelfish is soon to be a reality is unwise.

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>>389372682
Here's an example of current machine translation's quality. This is an article from the front page of ru.wikipedia.org fed directly into Google Translate with no modifications.

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>>389371924
>>389371924
I won't let you down!

内部射精の喜び

>learning a dying language
yeah let me just go learn swedish and german while I'm at it

Too hard, too much effort, takes too long to do, of limited use when there's still a bunch of stuff that is in my own language that I've yet to play

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>>389362417
Because I'm busy translating them instead

>>389373107
Enjoy those fuhrerboo autistic simulators, faggot

>>389362417
I am, and planning to study abroad this summer

>>389373263
This art makes me angry. Shinji's mouth is an inch away from his ear. More importantly, Asuka has on some kind of doe eyes open mouthed generic anime expression instead of an irate or embarrassed glare. Her hand also isn't properly resting on the curvature of her glute, it appears to be grasping air.

This is the kind of CG which was pumped out by a salaryman who had to google the characters ten minutes before he was scheduled to start drawing.

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I already know japanese and do

>>389373927
How does it feel to be good at Math and drawing making millions on Patreon?

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>>389371617
use this

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>>389362417
I am. Not because of games though, but because cartoons aimed at little girls usually don't get fansubbed or picked up by companies that horriblesubs steal from.

>>389372682
>russian
Now do the same with a Japanese site and it's full of mistakes

>>389374835
I don't have the data to prove it on hand, but Japanese-English machine translation is about 2-3 years behind every other flow of machine translation. So that's expected.

>>389372801
But Russian is not Japanese

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>>389374835
>>389375063

I can't find one with Japanese, though I have seen one in the past. Anyway, It'll be there soon is my point. Sooner than you will become fluent in Japanese.

>>389375506
Interesting that the French-English neural translation is so good. Now I wanna read some French wikipedia.

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What if there's nothing I really want to read in Japanese?

I looked at >>389374517 and when it said "go through the grammar guide while reading" I thought, "reading what?"

I think that might be the main issue - I can't think of anything that I might want to read that isn't already in English.

>>389374517
Holy shit.
You're a good guy. Anon. And your Waifu is cool too.

>>389375664
Did you read what it said?
>Things you like.

For me I just read things I liked like pokemon, phoenix wright and so-on.
I re-read them again in japanese and since I knew them I wasn't as lost, as well as manga, LNs and so on.
Now I just develop my own taste and read.

>>389362417
i wanna protect this loli

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>>389362775
>>389362937
>implying this isn't 100% true

>Haha Dies Irae is literally untranslatable, a true masterpiece
>gets translated
>turns out it's just 50 hours of edgy chuunishit

>>389370486
>>389363782

see>>389374517

>>389376086
It was heavily butchered down language wise they had to re-write tons of stuff.
That said its still garbage that's just hard to read.

Nobody actually sits like that irl pretty sure it's not comfortable in the slightest

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>>389373697
Yes.

Maybe you'd approve more of the last project I was part of.

>>389375926

But if I've already read them in English why would I want to read them again? In another language that's harder to understand?

>>389376557
Yeah that's okay.
You do preserve honoraries, right? Unless you're translating enterprise software or something?

>>389362417
My backlog is large enough as it is.

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>>389367571
>which one make the best lolis Lose or Tanuki soft?
Shiritsu Sakuranbo Shougakkou

>>389376820
Honorifics? It depends. I'm kind of torn on it. Some I translate, some I just omit.

I've made a start on reading a visual novel but it's torture so far. Managed to play through Dragon Quest XI easily enough though which was my goal.

>>389376967
Some translation philosophy here: you're there to facilitate understanding and combat ambiguity.

These two things are at odds. To make the audience understand, you must translate. But every time you translate, ambiguity (or, difference from the origin script) is introduced.

If your audience understands what honorifics mean, it's ideal to leave them alone. If you're translating tax software aimed at middle aged men who have no idea what 'san' means, go ahead and translate it.

>>389377283
Yeah, I thought about that with this Eva game. Particularly in regards to itadakimasu and gochisousama. Wasn't sure what to translate them as, or even if to translate them, since Evangelion somewhat mandates a degree of weebness.

>>389375506
>implying it will ever actually be accurate

>>389377475
It will. Like I said, go run Russian, French or German wikipedia articles through Google Translate. The result might as well have been written in English to start with.

Three years ago the result was just as janky and inaccurate as current Japanese machine translation is.

>>389377729
French and German were never that bad

>>389377729
Those languages work well because they are similiar to English. Japanese changes a lot depending on context and is completely different from English. Then add a bit of slang and the translator shits the bed