LanguageSponge
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Hi everyone,
I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post this or whether it's appropriate to post this anywhere, but I have been wondering recently about users who play the game in Japanese, particularly if they are not natives of the language. Moderators, if this thread is in the wrong place, or indeed if it isn't appropriate, please move it.
As my nick suggests, I am very into studying languages - I speak a number of languages to varying degrees of fluency and therefore understand just how difficult it is and how much time and effort it takes. Japanese is a very different language to my native languages of English and Welsh, which would make it quite difficult, at least initially, for me to learn Japanese - it has three alphabets (or four if you count Romanji) and the grammar is altogether quite different.
So finally I get to my point - How many of you who play Pokémon in Japanese as foreigners can understand it well? Did you learn Japanese and then begin to play the game, or do you learn (or perhaps just muddle through?) the language while playing the game? I've been curious about this for quite some time so it'd be great to read your responses. Also as a sort of secondary question, if I buy a foreign Pokémon cartridge, perhaps from France or Germany, would it play on my UK DS? I apologise for my technical ignorance :]
Thanks,
LanguageSponge
I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post this or whether it's appropriate to post this anywhere, but I have been wondering recently about users who play the game in Japanese, particularly if they are not natives of the language. Moderators, if this thread is in the wrong place, or indeed if it isn't appropriate, please move it.
As my nick suggests, I am very into studying languages - I speak a number of languages to varying degrees of fluency and therefore understand just how difficult it is and how much time and effort it takes. Japanese is a very different language to my native languages of English and Welsh, which would make it quite difficult, at least initially, for me to learn Japanese - it has three alphabets (or four if you count Romanji) and the grammar is altogether quite different.
So finally I get to my point - How many of you who play Pokémon in Japanese as foreigners can understand it well? Did you learn Japanese and then begin to play the game, or do you learn (or perhaps just muddle through?) the language while playing the game? I've been curious about this for quite some time so it'd be great to read your responses. Also as a sort of secondary question, if I buy a foreign Pokémon cartridge, perhaps from France or Germany, would it play on my UK DS? I apologise for my technical ignorance :]
Thanks,
LanguageSponge