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Can somebody give me a site where I can learn to read Japanese or something like that, please? There are so many Mangas out there that I want to read that have not been translated.... PLEASE HELP THIS HOPELESS MANGA FAN IN NEED!!!

I would just learn all of the characters, run them through a translator like Babel Fish then try to make sense of whatever you got in the end. Therre are sits where you can pay actual people to translate text. Manga doesn't have THAT much dialogue, so it probably wouldn't be very expensive. Just a thought.

Um, I just wanna learn how to basically read Japanese Manga.

Fireproof wrote:I would just learn all of the characters, run them through a translator like Babel Fish then try to make sense of whatever you got in the end. Therre are sits where you can pay actual people to translate text. Manga doesn't have THAT much dialogue, so it probably wouldn't be very expensive. Just a thought.

WHOA, coolio! Can you give me a link or something?

http://www.altavista.com/babelfish
They have a character keyboard to enter the Japanese characters, but remember, they go up to down, right column to left column, and the text boxes go from top to bottom, right to left.

ss
to
um
fe
f

Is the same as "some stuff."

I hope this helps.

Here is a site I found very helpful http://www.kanjisite.com/

Learning a second language isn't easy. You really need to get lessons. Not only to learn the kanji, but sentence structure. It could take a couple of years before you can read manga confidently.

www.thejapanesepage.com will help. look for Japanese Step By Step by Gene Nishi at Borders. it will help you learn quickly, but you have to be willing to devote a lot of effort.

Cool site Pangryst!
LOL yea I think we all would like to learn Japanese easy, but it is a hrad and complicated language, and you most likeley will have to take lessons til you get to a point where it would be easy to read.
Good luck though! I would love to learn one day too ^^

the best site out there to learn japanese at is http://www.yesjapan.com. i give this site out alot and people complain because you have to pay, but you are really getting your money's worth. all the other sites out there just aren't all that great. they either have poor grammar examples or just don't teach it at all. i've been using this site for 9 months now and i could have never learned as much as i have from any other place. also, you can't just learn to read the language, you are going to have to learn the language itself. i don't know if you will be able to just run the characters through babelfish either. because manga aren't just written in kana, they are also written in kanji and you would have to learn the readings for those. i haven't found babelfish to be very reliable either. seriously though, check out http://www.yesjapan.com. if you seriously want to learn the language, it's the place to go. and it's only $12.95/month. better than a free site you aren't going to learn from or lots of money on books that are poorly written.

Cool! Thanks Sldr!
btw like your icon ^^
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I'll be happy to jus tlearn to speak it. If I ever get the cash for those Pumlsier tapes. . .*sigh* If you figure out a good way to learn written Japanese without taking lessons from a school, tell me about it, k?

I posted about that... there are some great books that will really help, I already posted about Japanese Step By Step on this thread. also look for the Easy Kana Workbook series; it will really help you learn to write and recognize the characters.