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I really liked the gba sword of mana so when they translate this we will hopefully finaly have proper (action)RPG for DSÂman i can't wait for the english version... how long does it take to learn japanese? maybe i can learn it so i don't need to wait for every game!
You can learn to read hiragana and katakana quite quickly. But if there is kanji, that will take a while longer to learn. Also, it depends on how fast you can learn languages too.
huh? is there three kinds of japanese?! omfg... i don't want to live my life just to learn japanese... but still.. it would be fun ;D
Not 3 kinds of japanese, but rather, 3 different alphabets. If you take a look at japanese, Hiragana are the characters that are fairly simplistic, and are rounded and fluid. Hiragana is used for normal japanese words and grammer things (eg. watashi WA machi NI ikimashita; the WA and the NI are grammer letters called particles). Katakana are the characters which are more rigid looking and "box-like". Katakana is used mostly for foriegn words which are not native to Japan. Katakana is nice since if you can sound out the word, you can figure out what it says (eg. Seebu = Save, Rodo = Load). Kanji are the complex characters that you see, and those involve basically memorizing each kanji and knowing the meaning (although, there are some parts to kanji that have constant meanings, but that's more advanced). Kanji are basically the same as Chinese characters, so people who know Chinese usually have an easier time with this (although similar, not the same).
If you look at the first screen shot in this thread (on the first page with the hero talking to the girl), in what the girl is saying, we have:
First letter is hiragana, second is kanji, third is hiragana, a comma, then the next four letters on this line are katakana, then two more katakana letters on the second line, followed by one hiragana, one kanji, one hiragana, two kanji, one hiragana, and on the third line, there are 5 hiragana characters, followed by an exclaimation mark.
That's just to give you an idea of what the written language of japanese is likeI hope it's not too confusinging
QUOTE(CakkuZ @ Feb 26 2006, 06:39 AM)Â
Why is it that people think this game is going to be different if/when they translate it? The game is going to be exactly the same, only in english! It's not going to turn into Secret of Mana style game play if/when they translate it, so please stop saying that