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Dutchygamer

So yeah, I try to get into Japanese a bit for reasons I will not tell (yet). Short said: I took an image with Japanese text, and try to translate said text to English. I recognize the basic Hiragana and Katakana characters, but I quickly run into problems with the more difficult characters. I tried looking on the interwebs, but I only find information about the basic characters which I already recognize. As the text is part of an image, I also can't simply throw it in Google Translate. Is there some way to figure out what a character means?

FurryQueen · General **Also Known As**: Fen **Joined**: 24 Jul 2010

Find someone who actually knows Japanese or improve your google-fu.

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 2:02 pm Post subject:

Guess I'll go for option 2 then (as expected).

The-Light · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:52 am Post subject:

Google translate can input text by the use of pen tablets(handwriting) not sure if it works well with Japanese...

If it's a fanart image or just a screenie from a series you can try to google it, and see if a link ends up on yandre.re they put translation notes on some of the texts there.

p.s. didn't know you're learning Japanese too, although i could've guessed(anime fan...). Oh, and don't think i could translate it, maybe i can translate about 20 words if i hear them...

Bittah Commander · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 4:28 pm Post subject:

Here you go; get learning Razz

However, given that you'd need to learn at least 2000 different Kanji characters to become able to read Japanese fluidly, I'd personally give up and stick to Hiragana and Katakana...

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 4:36 pm Post subject:

@The-Light: I want to give it a try myself instead of finding a translation someone else made #Tongue

I'll see if Google Translate can be useful to me.
@Bittah: Cheers, I'll see if it can help Smile

Bu7loos · Commander **Joined**: 27 Jul 2011

Great I am Learning japense too Very Happy

, I am about to finish Hiragana and Katakana and start with Kanji soon.

Anyways here is a Word Text File (Forget which site that I downloaded it from but I think its in the file it self) It contains all characters you need to learn (About 2048) tho they are somewhat badly organized and does-not have the English to Japanese (Use a dictionary or Google translator to learn how to say it and hear it in English) Writing but it still has the English meaning of the characters.

Edit: Just don't give half way throw #Tongue

Japense Chatecters.rtf

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 2:35 pm Post subject:

Bu7loos, you are amazing. I was looking for such a thing Smile

Bu7loos · Commander **Joined**: 27 Jul 2011

Bump oi dutchy hows you progress #Tongue

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 5:07 pm Post subject:

Bu7loos wrote:

Bump oi dutchy hows you progress #Tongue

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Pff, haven't touched it anymore I'm afraid. The reasons I wanted to learn some more was because I went to Japan, but I didn't do much for it. Maybe some day I will find the time to look into it more #Tongue

RatsInTheWalls · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 5:39 pm Post subject:

So did you go to Japan? Got some used panties from a used panties machine?

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 8:13 pm Post subject:

RatsInTheWalls wrote:

So did you go to Japan? Got some used panties from a used panties machine?

Nope, but wouldn't be surprised if there was one in Akihabara (aka anime madness district).