Beginning to learn Japanese

*phew* i have a LONG way to go to understanding japanese. fugeddaboudit. this is mildly demoralizing.

i was taking a break, looking at some lovely photologs from japan. here: 6strings and bitter girls

thought i might make use of the handy-dandy online translation tool at Jim Breen’s WWWJDIC Server…

it does faithfully translate each word, sentence by sentence. this saves loads of time in looking up in the dictionary (not that i could because i don’t know how to pronounce the kanji to look up the japanese word via hiragana in the first place)…

but it makes no sense whatsoever. of course what can one expect from word by word translation? the translation results are all just a baffling list of words tumbling down the page.

i can’t wait till they invent little ear-bud automagic audio translation devices, which convert foreign language to your native language… the babelfish!

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