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Post by regalsin on Sept 30, 2010 14:48:02 GMT -5
If you want to learn Japanese, that is dead easy compared to learning Chinese.
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Post by Raison D'etritus on Oct 23, 2010 7:10:49 GMT -5
How in the name of all things furry has this not been made available in English???
This seems like something that would have been brought over professionally. Unless it's a real bitch to hack, I don't see how nobody's picked it up for fanslation. ... ... [nudges Wyrdwad and Floofly]
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Post by sushi on Oct 23, 2010 8:56:54 GMT -5
To embed: Simply highlight video URL and click on the YouTube button, underneath the Bold button.
And yes, both LoXs are too damn unappreciated. But to translate the second game, they'd have to get through the first, which judging by the soundtrack is pretty darn long for a PCE game. Atleast we can enjoy the soundtracks. I should recommend LoX II OST, purely for Disc 2. Very un-Falcom, but nice orchestral redbook audio.
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Post by Raison D'etritus on Oct 23, 2010 10:10:21 GMT -5
Thank you my seaweed wrapped wasabi dipped friend! That was. . . surprisingly easy. (maybe if I'd ever taken the time to LOOk at the "tag" options, I'd've figured it out on me own. And realized that there's an italicize function. . . Really earning points toward that "Idiot Savant" title. hee hee) And while I don't know too much about the first game, I read somewhere that the sequel's quite short. Like 10-15 hours tops. And the first looks dated enough that I personally wouldn't mind skipping it. Hell, I'm tempted to just play through without understanding most of it, as is.
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Post by schlagwerk on Oct 23, 2010 14:42:17 GMT -5
Ugh the first LoX. Yeah the overhead sections are horribly dated. That platforming parts aren't too bad, but not too exciting either. The main reason I'd want to skip it is it has more pointless running back and forth than Ys I & Napishtim could ever dream of. Together
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Oct 23, 2010 15:17:49 GMT -5
Hey~ it's Legend of Xanarules! I don't honestly think the backtracking is that bad, though I'm playing the EGG version so it could be the turbo feature making life easier. The music is just AWESOME though! I do wish we had it and LoXII in English. Maybe someday, it'll happen. PSP revival, anyone?!
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Post by regalsin on Oct 24, 2010 9:16:02 GMT -5
A wh come on, I was playing this game the other, day. Also the first game is actually better then you think.
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Oct 25, 2010 7:18:43 GMT -5
Regis speaks the truth!
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Post by gnosis301 on Oct 26, 2010 12:48:00 GMT -5
Regis speaks the truth! Wait...what?
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Post by schlagwerk on Oct 26, 2010 14:26:36 GMT -5
he's talking about regislan, obviously aaand now I think unsavory has dyslexia
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Post by Tigershard on Jan 31, 2011 11:01:37 GMT -5
Hey guys, I'm glad I found this thread. I recently started hunting for games that would help me study. I've been learning Japanese for 2 years at a community college (only 2 hours a week, plus 2-3 hours a week studying). I took the JLPT5 test in Dec and am waiting anxiously for my results! I just ordered Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Tales of Hearts, and a Professor Layton game from CDJapan on clearance: www.cdjapan.co.jp/rcms/offers/video_game_sales.htmlI'm not much of a Zelda fan but I read that you can touch the kanji in dialog on the lower screen and it will pop up the hiragana. Sounds like a good way to learn. I am curious how people actually memorize the kanji. In class I encounter so many new words every week and so many new kanji I can't remember them all. I always look up words if I don't know them, but I may not encounter that word/kanji again for a few weeks and then completely forget it. Unless I do the whole process of drawing it repeatedly, it doesn't stick. It is kind of hard to prioritize because I have kanji in our text book to learn but I am also trying to learn the kanji for the next JLPT and it doesn't overlap very well.
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Post by Raison D'etritus on Feb 2, 2011 2:34:59 GMT -5
I actually had the same problem; memorizing both simultaneously. I found I can memorize 50 kanji a day without bothering with pronunciations, but learning pronunciations fucks everything up (I ultimately put off the kanji to focus on vocab, but I have no JLPT lined up).
You may want to check out James W. Heisig's Remembering the Kanji Vol. 1-3. 1 is all Joyo, 2 I believe deals with pronunciations/combinations, and 3 has about 1200 more popular kanji.
The books use mnemonics to stimulate memory with little anecdotes and such, which evidently works for a lot of people. The second half of vol. 1 tapers off half way through though and just tells you to use previous formulae to create your own mnemonics.
And I can personally attest to the fact that left brained people with a primarily logical based memory function will get little to no use out of the right brain stimuli (they'll just distract and annoy you). Most people learn better with right brain stimuli, however, so you might get some use out of it.
I personally don't think the books are worth the money, but you might be able to find them at a library, or as a downloadable e-book.
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