Sunny Dove Wrote:Mythis Wrote:Quote:But if you speak japanese to them, their face lights up, and they will chat like crazy. They are this way in ffxi too, tons of JPs friend me because to find an american they can communicate with is so rare
This is so true! I haven't managed to learn Japanese fluently (haha I am still waaaay off), but for FFXI I started learning some rudimentary phrases and stuff to communicate beyond the auto-translate. I made a really good friend that way; he barely spoke English and I barely spoke Japanese so we communicated in a really weird way, but we stayed in touch for years. But anyway when I first introduced myself with Japanese he was like !!!! [wall of Japanese text]. Hahaha.
I've always wanted to learn Japanese for the sole purpose of communicating with more players on FFXI. Is there a way to type using kanji? I assume you used the Latin alphabet (Romaji)?
Yeah I had to use standard Roman character keyboard, I heard there was a way on PCs to mod it so you could use kanji, but I played on PS3 and then later XBox so I was stuck with what the game gave me.
That part always struck me as very interesting: many Japanese players seemed to be able to understand my Romaji text just fine, and responded to it, but I think if someone spoke to me trying to use English words but with Japanese text, I would be even more confused. I'm curious if it's part of basic primary school education that all Japanese kids at least learn the English alphabet enough to know what each letter is supposed to symbolize.
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