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Originally Posted by MAIcrosoft not that easily. youll have to remember much more characters (kanji lol) with Japanese. Korean is just an alphabet of 24 letters (its like learning english again lol), and they all have "1 sound" (i mean consonants vowels) instead of japanese where even some kanji are a whole word [; |
The great thing about Japanese and being online is you can cheat. There are plenty of great machine translation resources that
clearly will never cut it if you expect to "put in a sentence and get gud english lol", but are
fantastic if you're at the "I don't know this word / what kanji is this?" stage. Said machines also spit out kana for kanji :3
WWWJDIC and Rikai are both pretty good - i.e. they give me what I want 95% of the time, minus hilarious errors in katakana phrases. Of course, errors like that mean there's no substitute for experience with the language. (I doubt WWWJDIC will ever have phrases like 萌えツボ.)