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didn't find the right boards for this

but anyone (well someone who might be aware of it yet) can tell me if Japan's gonna get a localised version of SWG ? if the game will be in japanese allowing japanese characters and stuff or will it remain in english.

cause I'm considering joining japan/asia servers but I have the regular english game (as anyone else)

Fully Localized Star Wars Galaxies Headed for Japan

It's a little complicated to just "pick up" the written language. Kana isn't too complicated (Hiragana, Katakana, and Romaji), but when you have some 30,000 Kanji characters, both with an On and Kun reading (some with multiples of each).. you'll find yourself hunting down a dictionary and Kanji reference books more often than you'd ever care to. Than again, I've never seen a MMORPG in Japanese, so I'm not sure how they would impliment Kanji. *shrug* Would be cool though.

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Arcane571 wrote:
Fully Localized Star Wars Galaxies Headed for Japan

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Anyone else find it interesting that it is with EA, not with Sony? Is it a sign of displeasure???

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Ka-oan wrote:
It's a little complicated to just "pick up" the written language. Kana isn't too complicated (Hiragana, Katakana, and Romaji), but when you have some 30,000 Kanji characters, both with an On and Kun reading (some with multiples of each).. you'll find yourself hunting down a dictionary and Kanji reference books more often than you'd ever care to. Than again, I've never seen a MMORPG in Japanese, so I'm not sure how they would impliment Kanji. *shrug* Would be cool though.

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well there are officially, 2000 kanjis, at least the most common ones, you can start to read things after you know about 500/600 kanjis wich is quite good already for a non japanese. Roma ji are the characters we're using right now, and katakana/hiragana take like a few days to learn.

and well "fully localised uh ?" u think there's a chance we could get the japanese characters set to download someday ? don't want to buy another box :'(

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YamadaMan wrote:

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Ka-oan wrote:
It's a little complicated to just "pick up" the written language. Kana isn't too complicated (Hiragana, Katakana, and Romaji), but when you have some 30,000 Kanji characters, both with an On and Kun reading (some with multiples of each).. you'll find yourself hunting down a dictionary and Kanji reference books more often than you'd ever care to. Than again, I've never seen a MMORPG in Japanese, so I'm not sure how they would impliment Kanji. *shrug* Would be cool though.

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well there are officially, 2000 kanjis, at least the most common ones, you can start to read things after you know about 500/600 kanjis wich is quite good already for a non japanese. Roma ji are the characters we're using right now, and katakana/hiragana take like a few days to learn.

and well "fully localised uh ?" u think there's a chance we could get the japanese characters set to download someday ? don't want to buy another box :'(

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I was told 3,000 commonly used Kanji with a whopping 30,000-ish total (many of which commonly find themselves being used in print publications for older readers and proper nouns) when I studied the language. *shrug*

I was directly responding to Thornstar's post where he stated, "Ive started to learn Japanese and I think it would be a great learning experience to just jump onto a Japanese server and pick up parts of the written language by playing there.". Which I am not arguing, I still have 100s of magazines and newspapers which I purchased when I started out to practice reading. Couldn't read anything BUT katakana/hiragana, but it was fun to hunt down the Kanji and attempt to figure it all out. I was just trying to brace him for the shock, because it's not that easy to just "pick up" reading 500/600 Kanji when you have to know both and/or multiple On and Kun readings and how to deturmine which to use... when you're just starting to learn the language. And attempting to play a game where you have to deal with a level of complexity such as the Japanese written language could be quite daunting to someone who doesn't have a firm grasp of the concepts to start out with.

When they launched the european servers, they dropped updates to the language support on our clients. I would assume they'd to the same for Japan. Shouldn't need to get a new box. Microsoft Windows offers the ability to add multiple display languages/fonts and keyboard inputs as well.

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YamadaMan wrote:

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Ka-oan wrote:
It's a little complicated to just "pick up" the written language. Kana isn't too complicated (Hiragana, Katakana, and Romaji), but when you have some 30,000 Kanji characters, both with an On and Kun reading (some with multiples of each).. you'll find yourself hunting down a dictionary and Kanji reference books more often than you'd ever care to. Than again, I've never seen a MMORPG in Japanese, so I'm not sure how they would impliment Kanji. *shrug* Would be cool though.

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well there are officially, 2000 kanjis, at least the most common ones, you can start to read things after you know about 500/600 kanjis wich is quite good already for a non japanese. Roma ji are the characters we're using right now, and katakana/hiragana take like a few days to learn.

and well "fully localised uh ?" u think there's a chance we could get the japanese characters set to download someday ? don't want to buy another box :'(

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2000 kanji? No, sir, there are way more than that. I know more than that!

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yorukaze wrote:

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YamadaMan wrote:

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Ka-oan wrote:
It's a little complicated to just "pick up" the written language. Kana isn't too complicated (Hiragana, Katakana, and Romaji), but when you have some 30,000 Kanji characters, both with an On and Kun reading (some with multiples of each).. you'll find yourself hunting down a dictionary and Kanji reference books more often than you'd ever care to. Than again, I've never seen a MMORPG in Japanese, so I'm not sure how they would impliment Kanji. *shrug* Would be cool though.

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well there are officially, 2000 kanjis, at least the most common ones, you can start to read things after you know about 500/600 kanjis wich is quite good already for a non japanese. Roma ji are the characters we're using right now, and katakana/hiragana take like a few days to learn.

and well "fully localised uh ?" u think there's a chance we could get the japanese characters set to download someday ? don't want to buy another box :'(

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2000 kanji? No, sir, there are way more than that. I know more than that!

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I like the things when people try to tell that they know the best.

well, I actually **lived** in japan, I speak japanese, my wife's japanese as well, and some of my business partners are japanese.

there ARE alot more kanjis than 2000 or so, but the most common ones are approx 2000 kanjis, those you learn at school for example, after that, you have technical and difficult kanjis, even japanese people mostly don't know. it's just the way it is.

CHINESE people use ALOT more kanjis than japanese, and those are not exactly the same ones as japanese ones, evolution was different, and keep in mind that chinese use ALL kanjis wich are unvariable characters/words, japanese had toi adapt kanjis not for their sense but for their pronounciation, cause japanese words vary. so you have mainly 1 or one group of kanjis for the meaning of the word, and hiraganas for the variable part. katakanas being used for foreign words and names mainly. and because of that difference, japanese language uses far less kanjis than chinese language.

we're not talking about how much kanjis there ARE, but about how much are commonly used, and this number is around 2000, or was it 3000, anyway...

Message Edited by Limbonik on 09-12-2004 09:50 AM