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If only they would make that game =)

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Yea.... I cant read japanese

Off topic but...

Japanese is not so rough. Just practice on it for 10 minutes a day for a couple of months, and it is easy enough to read..... Unless Kanji is used.

As for the language itself, I have found it is actually one of the easiest languages to learn. It is an intimidating looking language, but it really is nothing more than a paper tiger.

You are completely mental Seek, heh.

"I can't speak Japanese!"
"It's not such a big deal, just learn it! Should only take a couple of months."

Dude, people go to university for years to learn a language. My cousin's been in Japan for three years and his understanding of the language is rudimentary, at best. It's not that easy.

Andrew, Killer Bee wrote:You are completely mental Seek, heh.

"I can't speak Japanese!"
"It's not such a big deal, just learn it! Should only take a couple of months."

Dude, people go to university for years to learn a language. My cousin's been in Japan for three years and his understanding of the language is rudimentary, at best. It's not that easy.

Reading the hiragana and katakana characters is what I meant =P

I do realize that learning a language takes quite some time. Do not worry about that, believe me, I have spent much of my life learning the other major European languages (French, Spanish, and German), but I found that I picked up the basics in Japanese much more quickly than I did any of the European languages (except the ones I already started to learn from birth).

My great Uncle was an amazing man, he learned about 7 different languages, I remember when I was little he used to try to teach me all of them as a tease.

Reading an alphabet is not the same as speaking the language. I can read Arabic phonetically, for instance, but I'm lost with the language itself.

Nev wrote:Reading an alphabet is not the same as speaking the language. I can read Arabic phonetically, for instance, but I'm lost with the language itself.

And I can talk it but not read it. They're two different languages, that's why. There are hundreds of dialects which all have come from the written (classic) language, but that's not really spoken anymore. I speak one particular dialect and have a difficult time with the others. I can understand about half of the Iraqi spoken on TV, most of the Lebanese, two-thirds of the Egyptian, parts of the Syrian and Jordanian. It's a little on the complicated side, so it's understandable that you can't understand the spoken language