@Risu-chan

transparent bubles and sounds effects are evil! XD

My scanner is pretty new since I got it at Christmas and my computer isn't a slow piece of junk so it has alot of memory for the scanning. Each image is about 8MB when I originally scan, but then I resize the image and make it greyscale so the file size get's much smaller. ^_^ Then I can just zip the files and send them off for editing.

Sometimes when I'm editing I accidently get the text bubbles mixed up...and then I have to re-do it XD Or click the 'Undo' button many times. ^^;;

i like editing the most, because scanning crashs my computer too often.. okay.. perhabs i should not scan images at 1200 dpi... *cough* that was a bad idea and ehem... huge filesize oO*
ok.. editing can be hell... transparent bubbles, twin-page images and stuff.. but i like it

translating.. ok... i know 2-3 words japanese, so translating would be like that:
typing in the japanese stuff with windows ime handwriting pad thingie into a text-file and then searching word by word in a japanese->english dictonary ... in one word? "hell" ^^"

(sweatdrop) You're going to get a REALLY REALLY skewed and incomplete picture of what's going on if you do all the translating by looking up each Japanese word in a dictionary.

Japanese isn't structured like any of the European languages, where you can get an approximate idea of what's going on from word order and the occasional word conjugation. In Japanese, both verbs and adjectives conjugate, word order is completely irrelevant, and the particles between words define the relationships between the words unless they're verbs/adjectives... this isn't an entirely accurate capsule summary of Japanese grammar (it's more complicated than that) but it'll give you the general idea.

I've been studying it for six years now, five of them independent study -- my best advice if you want to learn to translate is go out and get the best grammar book you can lay hands on. Vocabulary can be looked up; conjugation and sentence structure can't. So if you know what to do with the sentence structure, you can get the content bits to plug into it from a dictionary, but it doesn't work the other way around...

And I define "the best grammar book" as "the one most laid out in the same way you think," not "the one most recommended by college courses." ^^;; For me, my best grammar book is called Japanese Verbs and Essentials of Grammar by Rita Lampkin. It's short and written in romaji and I know several people who can't stand it. But it's written exactly the way I think, laying out the list of different possible verb endings and explaining a lot of the things you can do with each verb ending right there beside it, and you don't have to read through the entire book to find all the things you can do with "te" because they're right there in a group. Personally, I love that layout and have never found another book that uses it... and I learned more from that book than I have from the two years of college classes I've taken so far. But a friend of mine also in his second year of college Japanese thinks I've completely lost my mind, and the book of mine which he likes best is the one I like least... so find one that suits *your* style of learning. ^_^

Anyhow, good luck!

no, i never would do it that way (as mentioned above), that should only explain how helpless i would be if i would have to translate something ^^*

but thank you, i'll have a look for a good book if i have some money left over... (did i say some?)

<font color="#660033" size="1">[ March 10, 2003 11:43 AM: Message edited by: Kasai ]</font>

I try to learn japanese by a correspondence course. The grammar is really horrible IMHO. I think I can understand a tiny bit now, I have been learning for a few months. It's a pity that the japanese font isn't included in this course and I bought an extra book to learn it. But I'm so silly, I cannot even bear hiragana and katakana in my mind! [img]graemlins/cry.gif[/img]
Can you tell me a good way to learn it? [img]graemlins/angel.gif[/img]

@Lady Elanor: you think the japanese grammar is horrible? hm.. I think it's way easier to learn than a few european languages' grammar.. (now, I'm really happy that german is my mothertongue.. I'd *hate* to learn german I think ^^)
check this site out if you are going to start learning hirangana & katakana, the explanations there are quite nice [img]smile.gif[/img] at least I liked them, don't know if it suits anyone elses taste ^^;

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Hahah! Now *that's* cute! Hmm...which parts of English would be difficult? It was my first (along with Mandarin) language, so it's all natural to me.

Oh, since we're complaining about our languages here...CHINESE! I have no problems speaking it, but it's hell to write. Which insane traditionalist decided to not let there be an alphabet like every other language in this world has? We have to memorize every single character based on nothing but the way it looks, and they all look like well...Japanese Kanji. ^^ So if you think Kanji is hard, try learning nothing but Kanji for your entire language. Erk...and don't get me started on Chinese dictionaries. They're so hard to use (goes by stroke # and radical) it's better to just go "uh-huh, I'll infer the meaning of that word" instead.

Japanese grammar is amazingly easier. But then again, some fo you guys had to learn english, and I REALLY pity you for that. I don't wish having to learn this language on anybody. It makes no sense. At least japanese isn't bad. Has fewer verb tenses and only 2 irregular verbs (unless you count things like iku -> itte/itta and such). The only hard part is all the kanji, and thats not so bad, but I'm saying that only knowing about 108 of them [img]tongue.gif[/img]

-Reikou

I say that french is hell. I mean, ther is too much exeptions for everything! we were -bron- reding, speaking and writting it and we still have to take intense course to do a corretc sentence! gaaaaaah!! >.< But I'll admit chinese looks like the worse.

but I'll say that up 'till now english's my favorite language. I personnaly find it very easy. Second easier would be spanish. After that, I'm not sure ^^;

but in all, I don't think that japense looks so hard to learn.

but what -realy- sucks in language are the accents. Sometimes people have a so strong accent you just don't know what language they are talking ?__?;