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alexxxela
alexxxela
Would this be in addition to your native language? If so, Japanese, French, and Indonesian
Alicorn
Alicorn
Japanese, Latin and German.
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RetrogamerMax
No. Your native language doesn't have to count. I have seen you alexxxela alexxxela write in Kanji or something else. Is Japanese or Indonesian your native language? Cause if so, that's very cool. I would love to learn Japanese. Spanish and French mostly because that's my heritage as I'm half Mexican and part French. Plus my dad is Mexican and I live around a lot of them so it would be very useful to learn Spanish.
alexxxela
alexxxela
My native language is English, but I am studying Japanese. You may notice I have some Japanese in my bio, but it simply says "I am studying Japanese"
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RetrogamerMax
Is Kanji hard? Because I really do want to learn how to write in Japanese as well since there are a number of games I want to import and play from Japan and I want to understand what I'm reading.
alexxxela
alexxxela
There are over 2000 kanji to learn, so yeah, it's pretty hard. I can read a few but I can't write them yet. Some games you may have the option to pick whether the text is in kana or kanji, or it may have small kana written over the kanji, but this is usually a feature only found in games targeted for kids or family friendly
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RetrogamerMax
Like, my favorite video game series is Ganbare Goemon/Mystical Ninja and we only got 4 games here in the west while in Japan they got over 30 games. I have already imported and finished a couple of the Super Famicom games and in RAW Japanese without knowing the language, but I want to play through them all and 100% each one someday.
alexxxela
alexxxela
I don't know too much about Ganbare Goemon, but I think that game will probably only have kanji available.
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RetrogamerMax
Yep, officially. But fans have already made English fan translation patches for the Famicom, Super Famicom and PS1 games.
Alicorn
Alicorn
I prefer Kanji over writing it out in hiragana. Kanji makes the sentence less confusing.
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StoicPhantom
I'm a fair ways into learning my second language (Japanese) and I probably would like to learn Latin and Russian or Italian for the other two.

R RetrogamerMax Check out the Remembering the Kanji series by James Heisig. It's what I used and I learned over 2000 in a couple of months. I'd also recommend http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.co...panese-on-your-own-having-fun-and-to-fluency/ as a learning method too. You don't necessarily have to literally be all Japanese all the time (unless you want to), but it is pretty good for getting into native materials like anime/manga/video games pretty quickly.
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