Awesome, thanks for the tip. I hope the Fatal Frame 2 remake may end up released in the States too but if not I hope the same people are up to making another patch for it.
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I'm very interested in learning Japanese, mainly for games, but also because I want to visit Japan one day and rent an apartment there, soaking up the culture and living a different life than what I am used to.
as a hardcore gamer, I would love to enter a japanese arcade and just kick ass on some shmups and fighters that most Americans woulden't understand (which is partially why I emulate (^u^) ). for instance, there was a sonic the headgehog arcade game only released in japan, I love playing it, but it would be nice to understand the dialog.
I guess a question for you would be: how do you reccomend I learn japanese for cheap (or free! I have very little money... (-n-) ) How did you learn?
Id say I miss all of the Japanese GetBackers games. I want to play them without having to guess where to go. Or what to do besides fight. I only understand very little Japanese so I could just go learn more. I think I should, Kingdom Hearts 3D is in Japan right now.
Thankfully for fan translations, I've gotten to play a lot of these games.
The problem is, that with the language barrier, you don't even hear about the games you're missing, so I'm sure I've missed a lot of great ones and not known about it.
As far as learning Japanese goes (I'm attempting to, and I've found what I was looking for).
Go here and on the upper right side, click on Japanese Grammar Guide. It's a 189 page PDF on Japanese and Japanese grammar.
The difference between this and every other thing I've found, is that it teaches you Japanese the way Japanese people learn Japanese.
Genki I and II, for instance, basically cover grammar very little, and focus on teaching vocabulary, phrases, and a very limited amount of kanji, because they want to teach you to speak polite Japanese as quickly as possible, they don't want to scare people away with hiragana, katakana, and kanji (the first and only semester of Japanese I took, the sensei spent almost the entire semester teaching hiragana and katakana, 5 new symbols per week, alongside the lessons from the book. I learned both of those alphabets completely on my own time in the span of a week during the summer before that class. Another problem with these and other textbooks is that they want to teach you to say English phrases in Japanese. This is fine and all, but it's better to understand how to construct sentences and so on that it is to know a hundred different random phrases.
This guide is the a Japanese guide to Japanese grammar, and systematically builds up your understanding of it, teaching you hiragana and kanji along the way.
The trick to Japanese is, once you have a perfect understanding of the grammar, you can start memorizing vocabulary and kanji, and you already have the knowledge to put it together perfectly. Of course, you'll learn quite a bit of vocab and kanji while learning to understand grammar.
I hope this will help some people, anyone who thinks it would be too much should at least download the PDF and read the first couple of pages which are an introduction, talking about the pitfalls of Japanese textbooks and contrasting them with the approach used by this guide.
Code Age Commanders. Man, i remember when this game was announced. I couldn't wait to play it! But it never got a NA release, it was only in Japan. And probably never gonna be fan translated also =/
You are really not alone in this, sis... ^_^
She is right, really. :pwacko:
My brother is learning chinese and he says it actually helps memorizing the japanese Kanji in common. ^^;;;
Anyway, I will share a program here that is handy for both japanese and chinese characters. :-)
I actually downloaded a couple of... "Visual Novels" some time ago, but the ones having both voice and text help a lot identifying new words! :D
(too bad they are almost all "boy oriented"... :low: ... except for Strawberry Panic... :P)
That might help a lot, really. My brother bought some and is making great progress. :nod:
Oh, and the anime, of course. Me too, gezegond, although sometimes the vocabulary might be a little limited, but yeah.
Anyway, it seems I really have nothing meaningful to add to what has been said here.
I also, of course, missed some games because of the language barrier, in this case, the japanese language, but I have been learning
japanese for a while, on my own. It is hard, specially tha Kanji, so I thought that would be nice to share with you, in this thread, a
really handy program I sometimes use. If you learn only the Kana you should be pretty much okay with this one. It is called "wakan".
Here is a screenshot of the version in the "about" tab:
http://i1153.photobucket.com/albums/..._han/wak_0.png
And here are some other screenshots, showing what you can do to figure out words and those really tricky Kanji:
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Oh, did I say this program also includes Chinese too? :awesome:
Just one last thing: the program is a freeware, interestingly enough, so you can google for it and get it. :-3
(and no, I do not get a comission for showing this around... it is freeware. :PP)
My top three are Berserk (PS2), Illusion City (Sega CD), and Policenauts (Saturn). Fortunately, Policenauts has an Playstation English translation but I need those light gun segments found in the Saturn.
The Langrisser series is another I would like to play but other than Warsong I haven't been able to play them.
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