Flutterz wrote:OtakuNinja wrote:I've been studying Japanese for almost a year now (if you count all the self-study, I've studied since 2009) but I still can't read an untranslated VN. Watch an anime without subs, yes, but not a VN.
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First you have to learn how to speak the language, and as if that wasn't hard enough, you then have to learn all the kanji.
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From what I've gathered so far, it's actually a pretty easy language once you get the hang of it, the main difficulty being learning the kanji. And I know about the difficulties of learning a new language, trust me, I'm fluent in both English and Russian.
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And I don't expect to just magically learn to read, but I want to get to the level where I can read a VN with a dictionary in my hands.
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Speaking of which, I wonder how Japanese kanji dictionaries work... how do you look up a kanji that you don't know how to read?
Getting off-topic here. I'm almost done with School Days, just have a few more endings to go.
Are you a native English speaker or did you learn that too?
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I'm fluent in Swedish and English, and I understand most Danish, Norwegian and German.
You know what, I'll ask my sensei when I see her on Friday.
Flutterz wrote:Katakana are a pain >.>
I have a test on all katakana this upcoming Friday, and I Think they're fairly easy to learn. The problems are the advanced ones, like "ve" or "ti".
Auratus wrote:For now I want to understand Japanese, Malay, Russian, Arabic, Latin, Spanish, German and Chinese. arranged by priority.
I want to understand Japanese, Italian, Finnish, Spanish, Russian, Icelandic and Chinese, in that order.
ON-TOPIC: I'm currently reading Oreimo online.
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