LogFAQs > #883261274

Yeah japanese text hilariously loads in the text box but not in the post for gamefaqs. And I mean, I think it will be harder than you might think. Okurigana+no spaces basically make it a nightmare. So much is written in kanji. It's not like there are some 100-200 basic kanji, there are like 3000! However its not as bad as it at first appears because kanji have radicals and radicals have a fixed meaning so once you learn those (of which there are like 200) it will help you decipher kanji a bit or at least make remembering them much easier.

Then each kanji has an on and kun reading that usually depends on where in a word that kanji is but not always and then some words just say fuck how the kanji are pronounced, this word isn't pronounced like anything that makes it up. In spoken dialogue many also have different inflections that are important. It's kind of hellish. THEN you have to get used to the fact that even after translating the text to english, japanese culture is just different than american culture so even translated they will be saying different stuff. Everything is incredibly indirect and roundabout in japanese compared to the fairly direct and straightfoward english but this isn't a result of the language but rather the culture. You might have seen some anime translate something like "do you like me?" "well if I had to say between whether I like you or hate you.....I don't hate you". A lot of their speech is indirect like that.

It's honestly amazing we can appreciate anime as much as we can given that the language has a different structure, alphabet, conjugations, culture, attitude, and style but I guess thats just part of its charm. Except the alphabet (well technically they have a syllabary and whatever the hell kanji counts as).
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