Dress Up?

Visual Novel Community Archive, 2000-2009
#21
quote:
Originally posted by tkira13:
Doh! I was afraid you were going to say that, but thanks! Know any good sites to learn? I've just started myself, but while I'm learning conversational japanese, the umm... unique... vocabulary of these games I have no clue where to learn from...

Heh, well, sometimes you just need to find someone who speaks the language to learn those words. [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]

Hmm, don't know any sites myself. Peter Payne-san's website has some pointers. And I know some of the others have recommended a few sites here and there. You might want to do a quick search through the BBS, or you could wait till someone with a better memory than me puts up a link or two.

#22

Just for the record:

When I ordered NJStar for displaying japanese characters on my Win98, I ordered it in a bundle with the japanese wordprocessor NJWin. This wordprocessor contains a dictionary that contains most of these words.

[This message has been edited by Unicorn (edited 06-10-2003).]

#23
quote:
Originally posted by tkira13:
Doh! I was afraid you were going to say that, but thanks!

Yeah, it'd truly be a pity if none fo those ever gets released here... [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/frown.gif[/img].

quote:
Know any good sites to learn?

Well, I started my own journey to the japanese language here: http://japanese.about.com/c/esntl.htm?PM=ss10_japanese . It teaches the hiragana, katakana, some grammar and a number of Kanji and might be a good place to start at [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]. I'd also recommend you to get JWPce or NJWin that Unicorn suggested, Both of them are word proccessors and is a great help when palying a bishoujop game! However, a word of warning reagard the word processor: don't depend too much on them. You see, the danger about using those (a anger that I quite recently realized that I'm in), and translating a lot of words and kanji, is that you may easily forget them just as soon as you've translated them, unless you've got a very good memory, so put some work into memorizing the words you learn from the word processor!

quote:
I've just started myself, but while I'm learning conversational japanese, the umm... unique... vocabulary of these games I have no clue where to learn from...

[img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img]. The "dirty words" you mean? Well, some of us could probably tell you about them, at least some of them, if you ask [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/wink.gif[/img]

#24

Thanks so much for the pointers guys! I guess learning a new language will be full of “character-building” goodness anyway. =)

#25

There are also a couple of foreign language books out there, that teach the “real” Japanese. The everyday street lingo. Although, not everyday, I looked through one of those books, and I gotta tell you, you just know some of those phrases hardly, if ever, get used.

#26