Japanese Lisp Manga

Saw a link for this Japanese Lisp manga over at reddit and decided to go check it out.

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Learning Japanese

I decided to learn Japanese a while ago, but never really got around to doing so. Then I heard that the Genki books were pretty good for those aspiring to learn the language, which resulted in my purchasing of them.

I got the Textbook 1, Workbook 1, Answer Key, and Student CD 1. The latter two items were added on since I would be self-learning it and they seemed useful.

An insert in the textbook says going through the material should take roughly 200 hours for the 23 lessons. Seems like I have to somehow make time to go through a lesson a week.

So when I was in high school, they didn’t offer Japanese courses at my school. This resulted in me continuing from my 1 year in Spanish courses in middle school to have taken a total of 4 years in Spanish (3 in high school). Then the school decides to expand its horizons and offer Japanese courses the year after I graduate. I still can’t believe it. At least I learned Spanish, although I would have preferred Japanese.

Anyways, anyone else learning or want to learn Japanese? It’s always useful to add more languages to your repertoire.

Translation Party!

This isn’t a party but Saber is having fun!

My brother the other day told me about a website called Translation Party.

You simply enter an English phrase, and it then translates it back and forth between English and Japanese until an equilibrium is found. The fun factor in this are the warped phrases you can get from the repeated translations.

Examples:

Reltair has no time to watch anime.

Anime is godly.

The translations are done with Google’s translation engine. Quite a neat concept, I should have thought of it!

What amusing/interesting translation parties can you get?

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