Funny that you use a Simpsons pic, since one episode clearly shows a Polybius arcade game.

In reality though, the Polybius game never existed.

I wanted to thumb you up, but then I didn't want to believe you without some kind of citation

"...I just want to see two big dudes fucking..." - vikingpizza

Thanks for the explanation! I'll keep this in mind, should I take up japanese classes!

opportunity finds the ones with dedication.

Tl;dr please for the love of god don't teach english in japan. you will get heavy workloads. you will be a throwaway. there are hundreds of people lining up to become english teachers in japan, they don't need you.

Is there an app for like, phone, for japanese ? Duolingo doesn't have it and I have some free time at school ~.~. Also, could do with PC.

Obenkyo is also good.

Memrise is pretty good
I'd also recommend Kanji Draw
It teaches you actual useful stuff, starting with basics, and goes from there

i'm using Memrise. it's free with optional premium. it has pretty neat courses for japanese.
you should start with www.memrise.com/course/12/introduction-to-japanese/

I'd have loved to learn, cept, none of my schools offered it, I ended up failing spanish and french because I HATE those languages and don't give a fuck about them, it might have been different.

I'm going to be going to college soon and thinking of dual majoring , with my second major being in japanese for the reason you put, and just so i can go abroad somewhere. Or italian, since rome is another option.

How difficult would you say learning japanese is? I've considered it for quite some time now, since I have family in Japan, but I've never really gotten into it.

I think it kind of depends. Wall of text incoming.

If you want to learn just for family, friends, whatever, it might not be too difficult
You could go for the basic structure, vocab, etc. and be pretty much fine with just picking up more through immersion
Casual conversation is a bit odd if you've learned generic polite form first, so it can be weird to pick up, but I'm like, 95% sure all you really need to do is change verb endings

But there's a different way of speaking depending on how polite you want to be
So if you wanted to learn, say, business Japanese, which I really know pretty much nothing about, good luck
Things like context and verb form, and even certain words will pretty much shuffle around entirely
Oh, and there's a different way to end verbs in writing and in speaking... And IIRC there's a masculine form for one of those ways. I forget. I always fuck that up anyway.
So, it's similar to the difference (in English) between addressing your friends or family, and your boss
You wouldn't say "Hey, what's up?" to the CEO of your company, unless he's one of those chill CEOs who tries to mingle with the peons but let's assume he isn't but you might say it to your friend in a casual setting
If I remember correctly, verbs can have a few different endings (same tense) depending on the context
That's harder to explain in English... I'm not sure there's a real equivalent
I guess the closest thing would be saying, "Yes," "Yeah," or "Yes, esteemed customer. Right away."
There's certain greetings and phrases used specifically by shopkeepers or employees to address customers politely that you might not ever really hear in casual conversation

Also particles are a real bitch
Fun example:
鈴木さんの家に行きました。ー　(I - implied) went to Mr. Suzuki's house.
鈴木さんの家で行きました。ー　I ejaculated in Mr. Suzuki's house.
に　is used to indicate movement, and で　is used for the place an action occurred.
People mixed these up all the time in my first class. Our sensei thought it was hilarious. He was super cool. First word we learned was おっぱい and he always found a way to put the phrase "bikini party" in our exams.

Overall, it's a very context-heavy language, and most of the time people tend not to really want to talk shit or hurt anyone's feelings
So even if you suck, you're doing pretty good
I should know. I suck
That's like, the most extensive explanation I can offer. I turned my brain off as soon as I got home today

Thanks for the explanation! I'll keep this in mind, should I take up japanese classes!

The language I hear is simpler than English... the writing system on the other hand....
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Well, seeing as I am fluent in English, and have a good ear for languages, it seems that all I need to do is take classes in it? I've picked up some bits and pieces from watching anime here and there, but not enough to use it in a coherent sentence - which is what I'm aiming for.
Besides, my guess is that most of the things they say in animes isn't something you'd normally use in a given every-day situation.

Sometimes I wonder if my perfect scores in English examinations, means that my brain is "full" in the language center to speak. I want to learn am not sure where to start, though I'd say it's possible, I as well have watched so much anime that I recognize words, phrases, certain expressions and such.

In fact, that alone helps me ignore the localization in subs, I also notice the mixed English used and how the translator changes certain things. Also how everyone seems to talk in 3rd person, and how they mention the name before what they talk about. Very strange indeed, but if there's any hope in learning a new language (and being monolingual), its in something you've had a lot of exposure to. anime isn't much, but it's something. The writing on the otherhand.....

Yes, I agree with you on this. But the things is, I'm not monolingual - I speak fluent danish, fluent english and coherent german as well - but as you say, the writing on the other hand... Oh God, my grammar in German ist scheisse, and the fact that you have to learn another written language is probably what discourages me the most.

Well then it shouldn't be that hard.
I was screwed when I wasn't taught by my parents anything other than english, their poor english mind you

Good to know. I can tell you that the way I learned to understand, not so much as speak, but that comes all by itself, was by watching a lot of german translated cartoons as a kid. The reason being that it was the only cartoon channels we had on the TV in my home at that time.

understand german, that is

I heard it's easier than Chinese.

Wanting to play games not available in U.S.- primary reason for learning so much Japanese.

Cruel fate? Stationed in Korea for 3 years. Pretty much conversationally fluent.

if that's the case, why don't people like you just translate it for others. that will help make sure that your market doesn't get oversaturated.

Everyone else said it way better than I could
It's a bitch
It's just a total bitch
Kanji sucks and trying to puzzle out the context of a context-heavy language that you don't speak natively sucks worse

You don't understand how ridiculously frustrating it actually is to translate Japanese to English. I'm completely fluent in Japanese, but translating is a huge pain in the ass because you need to carry over the original meaning without making your English sentence sound like ass, which is a lot more difficult and time-consuming than it sounds.

I want to know what the thing you said does not exist in english is.
I fully believe there are ways to convey meaning other than traditional "the sky is blue"

There are so many Cyclone comics that need translating! Something freaky is happening to those magical girls and we may never know what it is!

i speak two languages
i can tell you, it's like that when you're "fluent" in two languages, but you don't know them inside out yet.
once you get really good at it, you'll translate between them fluently.

The difficulty of the task does differ from language to language. I'm fluent in Russian, and I can say for a fact that translating from Russian to English is very easy (and vice versa), though there are many languages where it becomes extremely frustrating.
Thing is, languages like Russian can be translated almost word for word sometimes. They come from a similar origin, and share many words.

I don't speak Japanese but, considering it's not one of the languages of Latin origin, I'd assume that it's pretty difficult to translate it to English since the languages are so different.

idk, i usually screenshot why i block people, but i have no screenshot of you

how i know: i speak english on a daily basis
as in several hours a day

since my mother joined the technological revolution (got a PC and a smartphone) i've had to spend a considerable amount of time translating.
this means making sentences that sound just fine in english, sound just fine in our language as well.

which in the beginning was a pain in the ass, but eventually became second-hand

I speak 3 fluently, two of them I've spoken since I was like 4 or something (I dunno at what age kids start speaking, is it 2? 3?) . Translating between English and Afrikaans is already a pain in the ass, but it's fine because the grammar structure is similar. English and Japanese have completely different grammar structures, which makes it really fucking frustrating, especially when you have to translate half-sentences.

yeah
the trick is to translate meaning, not words.

My biggest issue is in cases like "Anata no koto ga... (suki)"

In English, that would be "I like you, but with "like" ommitted because the character dies or something. How am I supposed to translate something like this?

well the translation would effectively be "I like y..."

while the word that is cut off is a different one, it has the same effect.
because the point isn't that the person they say it to, can't imagine what they were about to say, but that they didn't get to finish the sentence.

if it is absloutely imperative that the exact word is the one cut out, the scene has to be altered, a simple cough fixes it easily:
"i *cough* you..." (ded)

but think of all the internet points you'll get

Are you good enough to watch a series unsubbed?

It really depends how basic it is to be honest
I'd say I know survival / lewd Japanese
So if it's about general everyday stuff or dicks, probably

I took 4 years of Japanese so that I could go visit Japan with one of my friends who took Japanese with me, but they all either dropped out or forgot it.

awww