Need to learn Japanese ASAP for Famicom games

[atheistgod1999]

So I currently have an NES front-loader, but I want to get an AV Famicom (or a brand new Analogue NT ) so I can buy multicarts because I don't care about collecting, just about being able to play the game with the original hardware. Other reasons are because it has exclusives and Castlevania 3 has more sound channels on the Famicom.

One problem: I DON'T KNOW ANY FUCKING JAPANESE!!!!!! D: ALL I KNOW IS AMERICAN ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!!!

Any super fast ways to learn Japanese? People say I acquire skills pretty fast, and I'm only 15, so I guess my brain might pick things up faster? Help I need to learn this language RIGHT NOW!!! I also want to watch animu like One Piece and Dragonball without subtitles!!!

[atheistgod1999]

BUMP (Seriously, I need help!!)

[Drake]

no

[Skykid]

There's something very embarrassing about all this.

You won't need to learn Japanese to play Castlevania 3 or any other action game for that matter. If you're RPG crazy it's an option, but keep in mind many of the best unreleased games have been fan translated into English already.

If you just want to learn a language for the love, by all means do it - but not for 'Animu' for God's sake (One Piece is in English anyway, or at least fan subtitled).

[atheistgod1999]

I'm a fan of RPGs, FYI.

[Skykid]

I'm a fan of RPGs, FYI.

There are some notable FC RPGs but the best of them began a generation after. Also, like most manga, there are fan translations available for many of the best unreleased titles.

If you dig the obscure, then learning the language will help.

It's not easy. Learning languages is goddamned hard, takes time and dedication.

[cave hermit]

Ok, here's what you do:

1. Go online and order the following:
-Vocaloid body pillow
-A katana
-10 pounds of pocky (Matcha flavored if possible)
-Wall scroll

2. Hang the wall scroll (over a window if possible to block natural sunlight) and katana in your room.

3. Make sure you have a computer with internet access, your 10 pounds of pocky, and your body pillow waifu in your room. Then lock yourself in.

4. You must not leave your room for any reason until the transformation is complete. The outside world is dead to you.

5. For the next 6 months, you must do nothing but aimlessly browse the internet, play video games (only ones of Japanese origin obviously, with subs if applicable), and binge watch anime (again, subs if possible).

6. You must cuddle your pillow waifu at all times.

7. If you watch porn, it must be hentai. No disgusting 3d pig girls. Only pure 2d waifus.

8. You must not eat anything for the next six months but the Pocky you bought earlier.

If you follow these steps properly, after the 6 months are up you'll be Japanese!

[cicada88]

move to Japan and live outside of a major city

[Shepardus]

Go online and order the following:
-Vocaloid body pillow
-A katana
-10 pounds of pocky (Matcha flavored if possible)
-Wall scroll

Don't forget the shurikens, how do you expect someone to become a true Japanese ninja without shurikens? Also, I've heard adding Nendoroids to the mix speeds up the transformation process.

In all seriousness, though, learning a language takes time especially if you want to do it well. There isn't some sort of magical method that will transfer the knowledge and practice to your brain "RIGHT NOW." Believe me, if there were, you would have heard of it by now because everyone would be using it and it would be revolutionary.

[Domino]

This tread is about to be weeb trollin.

[cave hermit]

Hey I'm a weeaboo too so it's ok, I got my privileges

[ACSeraph]

I'll forgive your weeaboo-ism since you are only 15 and give you a serious answer.

The fast way to learn Japanese is to stay focused on the slow way, and not spend the next ten years wasting your time looking for quick, easy ways out. Learning Japanese properly is simply time consuming, and at 15 your brain no longer acquires language naturally in the same way a pre-schooler would.

This means you have to study, learn the writing systems, learn grammar, learn thousands of words of vocabulary. My only real advice to you is learn patience, and start studying kanji from the beginning if you don't want to end up as a well spoken illiterate. Also don't try to imitate the way anime characters speak or you will sound like a goddamn idiot.

If your only reason is games and anime though, I don't think you will be able to stick with it. But it's not necessarily a bad reason to try it out, you may find more reasons to stick with it as you study over the years and mature a bit.

[BryanM]

Need to acquire creepy girlfriend with $0 upkeep and an improbable bosum.

(Seriously, I need help!!)

[BryanM]

Also I don't want to go outside or spend more than 8 minutes on this. Got other irons in the fire, gnome what I'm saying?

[BareKnuckleRoo]

In all seriousness, has anyone had any experience with Rosetta Stone? What's it like for this sort of thing? It's not as expensive as a tutor would be but it's still a definite investment which makes me suspect you get what you pay for and it'd be a good way to learn the basics.

[drauch]

"People say I acquire skills pretty fast."

Learn a new forum.

[Skykid]

In all seriousness, has anyone had any experience with Rosetta Stone? What's it like for this sort of thing? It's not as expensive as a tutor would be but it's still a definite investment which makes me suspect you get what you pay for and it'd be a good way to learn the basics.

Rip it off.

Even if I said it's the best PC language software I've used, it's still just 'ok'. I've been using it for Mandarin on rare occasion but I've learned a lot more just asking people "how do I say" and "does this sentence make sense".

Rosetta Stone takes a weird throw you in the river without a paddle approach - what they call immersive learning. For example they teach you some simple stuff by repetition and then on lesson three spike you with something it's impossible for you to answer. Then later that thing is kneaded into a different aspect of the tutorial and suddenly you think back and say "oh that's what that meant".

Essentially, this makes it worthwhile and encouraging to return back to earlier lessons to see how much better you have become, but also leaves you frustrated and lost at other times. It is very long and comprehensive though, so I would recommend it I suppose.

What wouldn't recommend is learning Japanese unless you're an absolute geek weeaboo diehard who can't live without reading manga and games most people don't care about; it's a language with no prospects in business unless you're really lucky to A: break into a completely fucked economy, and B: break out of your 'gaijin' racial bonds and be assimilated into the ranks of a Japanese workplace that doesn't involve teaching English.

If B ever happens you might as well commit suicide, too, because life as you knew it is over.

[Pretas]

If B ever happens you might as well commit suicide, too, because life as you knew it is over.

GaijinPunch and Tim Rogers are both still with us. Of course, they ended up fleeing back to the States.

Skeptical of Tim's claims that he ever worked in the offices of a high-ranking JP firm, though. Guy's a professional bullshitter, and his JRPG habit would have no doubt clashed with it.

[drauch]

What wouldn't recommend is learning Japanese unless you're an absolute geek weeaboo diehard who can't live without reading manga and games most people don't care about.

Only reason I do. I'm like a stay at home Mom, but without the kids.

[Squire Grooktook]

Aren't most Nes rpg's kinda awful though

[Rob]

What wouldn't recommend is learning Japanese unless...

Here's a bad attitude.

If you like the language, study it, but you aren't going to get far without a lot of effort. I wish I could learn languages like they were Firefox extensions.

Aren't most Nes rpg's kinda awful though

And written in baby talk. Who wants to learn Japanese and read clumps of hiragana with a few spaces?

Play real games (shumps), read books. ;(

[MintyTheCat]

In all seriousness, has anyone had any experience with Rosetta Stone? What's it like for this sort of thing? It's not as expensive as a tutor would be but it's still a definite investment which makes me suspect you get what you pay for and it'd be a good way to learn the basics.

Nope - again a quick fix. Learn ANY language the normal way: study, soak it up by placing yourself if you can in a country that uses that language a lot, make mistakes, learn from them, ask native speakers many questions and never give up.

To this day I can still read and write hiragana. I learned when I was 18 and practised daily. I have not used Japanese for a long time but pick it up when I am around people who speak Japanese.

I live in Germany but did not study German at high school. I found German very hard going the first time but decided to not let it get me so went back for more once I had graduated

A couple of weeks back I was asked for directions by five older Spanish ladies who only spoke Spanish. Once I had asked them which language they spoke I could give them directions.

I agree, Videogames may be a gateway to learning something such as a language but to limit yourself is pointless.

Also, and it has to be said: learning Japanese may help you score a Japanese girlfriend but it will take more effort than that to maintain her I say this as I often find people learn it just to score

[MintyTheCat]

...but I've learned a lot more just asking people "how do I say" and "does this sentence make sense".

Yes - exactly. Ask a native, try it out and make mistakes. Get used to throwing things that are wrong out once you know WHY they are wrong and incorrect.

I am always asking people in Germany if something can be said a certain way and this bit by bit attitude is the slow but sure way that ACSeraph raised.

[Drake]

be born japanese

[Necronopticous]

This is a weird thread, but since I've been seriously studying Japanese for over two years now I thought I'd pop in. This is the first time in my life I've ever tried to learn another language and it is far and away the most difficult thing I've ever tried to do. There are no shortcuts, and the only fast (not easy) way is complete and absolute immersion which is impossible for most people.

[mvsfan]

i think if you just want to learn a language to play games its kind of a waste. there should be some other reason to learn it. if you just want to play games, learn how to use an Ips patch.

[KAI]

Chinpo, manko, unko, that's all the japanese you need to know these days.

[Rob]

Teehee.

[MintyTheCat]

manko

The one word my first Japanese GF would never teach me - that didn't stop me though

[Lobinden]

Ok, here's what you do:

1. Go online and order the following:
-Vocaloid body pillow
-A katana
-10 pounds of pocky (Matcha flavored if possible)
-Wall scroll

2. Hang the wall scroll (over a window if possible to block natural sunlight) and katana in your room.

3. Make sure you have a computer with internet access, your 10 pounds of pocky, and your body pillow waifu in your room. Then lock yourself in.

4. You must not leave your room for any reason until the transformation is complete. The outside world is dead to you.

5. For the next 6 months, you must do nothing but aimlessly browse the internet, play video games (only ones of Japanese origin obviously, with subs if applicable), and binge watch anime (again, subs if possible).

6. You must cuddle your pillow waifu at all times.

7. If you watch porn, it must be hentai. No disgusting 3d pig girls. Only pure 2d waifus.

8. You must not eat anything for the next six months but the Pocky you bought earlier.

If you follow these steps properly, after the 6 months are up you'll be Japanese!

Don't forget, you have to use your glorious nipponese onahole, and marathon naruto!