@darkfenrir Your written English (on these forums, anyway) is great. Maybe not perfect, but better than what many native English speakers can muster, for sure.
I'm going to try a new language acquisition method with Japanese that involves drilling the kanji with an SRS, using mnemonic devices to quickly understand the gist of what they mean, while immersing myself in the language in written and spoken form. The idea is to simulate learning the language like a native speaker would instead of learning to mentally translate everything you hear into thoughts in your native language.
I went for a test run with this earlier in the year and I very quickly internalized the meaning of 100+ kanji. It's an effective method, except it requires CONSTANT maintenance. Even taking a day off from practicing with this method is disastrous.
Of course, I won't be able to completely seal myself off from all language apart from Japanese, so it won't be quite as effective as going full immersion, but it seems like I should be able to approximate something similar if I'm diligent in how I manage my free time.
And good luck on your Japanese learning, new language is not easy, and since you aren't as young as when you usually first started learning language... that usually make things harder.
@FaeKnight That is not true. I have bought many games at cheaper prices, and Nintendo has the red-label that comes at a cheaper price later on. Plus...aftermarket.
@jhewitt3476 It's just not my cup of tea. I gave it a few hours and I REALLY did not like it. I like structure, and a consistent art style in a Mario game. I hate how everything looks realistic except Mario, it doesn't play. And I hate even small things like the odd way Mario runs in this one, looks like he's just walking fast. And those moons....there is just no structure and there are too many of them. And there is an aimlessness to the game. Sunshine was such a great game, they could have done something with that type of structure while making the worlds bigger and the hub too. I like the "episodes" idea of 64, Sunshine, and Galaxy, where the world changes each time you come back to accommodate an episode.
On a more happy note, I've been playing BOTW more, and am starting to enjoy it more. It still has a lot of things that bug me, like weapons breaking and the wonky controls, but it's cool.
When the hell I said that I dislike the Switch ? When ?
I just said THE TRUTH ! And now, even with Digital Foundry that explain the exact same points as mine with proofs and facts on the screen, there are still boys like you to lie about me... INSANE !
In some years when you'll be adult, you'll understand better that truth is always better than lies...
Peace.
Maybe in a few years when you grow up you'll understand that some 'truths' are subjective. And in fact are more opinions then "truth". If you've literally only played your switch for 10 days in the last 10 months and think as poorly about it as you appear to, then it just may be that the system isn't for you. This doesn't mean "Zomygod the Switch is a bad system", it just means that you personally don't like the Switch for whatever reason.
Please, note the vast amounts of sarcasm in the above paragraph.
For example Digital Foundry, who you cite as proof that your views are an objective truth all must acknowledge, go into great depths about how XC2 has dips down as low as 22 fps at times and the resolution dropping low as well while in portable mode. What they fail to mention is that the game still plays so smoothly you're probably not going to realize the frame rate dropped at all. It's not a fast paced shooter so dips in frame rate of 2-8 aren't going to impact gameplay much. And the game still looks great in portable mode. The average person isn't likely to even notice any resolution drops. And in fact they are only really noticeable if you are putting the gameplay of portable mode on a large computer monitor.
Or in other words Digital Foundry gets so caught up on the technical aspects they forget about the practical aspects. Are you going to even notice Zelda dropping down to 25 fps? and lowering screen resolution at times in portable mode? Probably not.
@jhewitt3476
Oh sure, but I enjoyed the set up from the get go. I understand the majority expects big sprawling stories, but it made Octopath more personal which I really dig. Still need to complete my first chapter 4. Boss kicked my butt.
Funny to see this discussion about English, grammar and the like. I always try to be as clear as possible. It makes things easier that English and its rules are easier to grasp than Dutch. (Believe me, Dutch can be sucky, even as Dutchman myself)
@Ralizah You could try using sticky notes. With the kanji/kana name of the object in question. To an outsider you'd probably look like a lunatic, but it can help you memorise the words for everyday objects.
Personally speaking I find that it becomes easier to learn languages the more languages you are already familiar with. I'm not sure that would work for Japanese, since there's no language that's really close to it. Even the Chinese languages are completely different, despite some overlap in kanji/hanzi. It works for most European languages though. If you know Latin and French, Italian is relatively easy to pick up for example.
@Octane
Chinese use Simplified Han Zi, contrary with Taiwan and Japan (Full Chinese letter).
So, All the Japanese Kanji letters are the FULL version of Chinese Han Zi.
For Kanji letters, you must recognize the Kunyomi (Japanese spelling) & Onyomi (Chinese spelling).
Example, a Chinese letter of Horse is Ma, in Japanese by Kunyomi it spelled uma , by Onyomi it spelled Ba.
And the other Kanji letters do the same thing.
Who said that English is my second language ?
I never learnt English at school, I just tried to learn by myself around my 30's. I started with some translations that I wanted to do from a bunch of songs that I liked (liking a song for the music it's great but it's even better if you can understand the lyrics ^^).
Then I started to watch series and movies with subtitles to get the point because I had no clue at all about what these were talking about.
And step by step, I started to get some stuffs, to hear the difference between English, American, Australian, Irish etc... Maybe it sounds ridiculous for a native but trust me, for me everything sounded the same... LOL
And to conclude, now I can talk with a pretty neutral accent (I mean, a strange mix of several ones but not the typical French accent in English " ZIS DAYYE IZ BYOUTIFOULE ".
So you see, I don't have the chance to live in a country where I have to speak English, to be immersed by the language, to have to practice in my everyday life but at least I try to communicate with a language that I learnt without any teacher, just me, my music, my movies and my books.
@Cobalt Mlrgh, well guess those parts I can forgive then. Just that maybe you'll need to read up some... idk, some written works since a lot of times, your words are less like giving opinions and such and more of... "Here's the truth of it and if you guys didn't believe in my truth, then you all are stupid", that's the way you are wording it.
The problem was that you are saying your opinion as everyone's, and if people said that no- they didn't feel the same, you are saying that they are wrong and re-iterate your own. That was the problem.
(And tbh, I also don't live in a country where I have to speak English, at most it was just my occasional vacation to Singapore or Malaysia that came like... maybe once in 5 years if I'm lucky. Just know it as it's super rare. Most of my knowledge of English came from reading a lot of written works, from fanfictions to novels
Although must admit I did get lessons, but they aren't as good as the fact that I read a lot of stuff in English, and that games are in English.)
In the end, I hope that you'll look at how your words were read by another person. I apologize for that mistake of thinking English is your second language though.
@Cobalt
At the end of the day, you are definitely a much more driven/smarter person than I am, I will say. I don't know if I could ever just teach myself a new language like you have. For that, you get serious props. But attitude, yea... still a bit separate from the language thing lol
What color joy cons would people like to see released?
I'd quite like to see some inspired by previous consoles. Maybe Gamecube purple?
I have to admit collecting joy cons has become a guilty pleasure of mine... I'm only missing the red set that came with Odyssey (and will lack the Pokemon ones when they are out).
I would like to see a flat black with a darker eggplant type purple trim and stick/buttons
also a shiny black set with a med to med dark red trim and stick/buttons especially for Star Wars and/or an appropriate dark RPG game
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