2012-12-21, 06:50 AM
Polantaris Wrote:Because you can learn by doing. If learn base hiragana and katakana, as well as recognizing common words and the like, it's actually really not that hard to at least be able to work your way around most things.
Yeah, if you want to experience the story and such first hand, you'll have to learn the language or wait for it in a version with a language you know, but other than that people make it seem far harder than it is to play JP MMOs. I think the concept of symbols instead of letters freaks people out far too easily.
Now while [MENTION=2150]Link[/MENTION]; is far better at Japanese than I am (or probably ever will be), and he could be more helpful than I, I can definitely say for a fact that it's not impossible to learn at least basics from playing MMOs. He talks to JP players a lot to hone his own skills too, so it's possible to do that as well. All it takes is some patience (Don't expect to learn it overnight), common sense, and a lot of memorization if nothing else.
Just my two cents on the subject.
I should look into this, eh? Japanese is a language that I like but you are right that I am one of those people who gets freaked out at symbols, haha (Chinese and I do not agree at all)! At the very least it'll distract me from the sadness that is MSEA because I expect things to go to all hell by Tempest instead of getting better.