Navaho Gunleg

So I ordered that game recently and in preperation, having downloaded some translated scans from the internet, my curiosity for the Japanese language has been stirred..

A dog is never to old to learn new tricks so, heck, why not try to learn some bits of a new language in my 32th year on this planet. It may even come in handy when playing other, future Japanese import games.

I have always found “language” an intriguing thing … how the first cave-dwellers grumbled and how it this slowly developed into a spoken language, while the written language developed alongside.

As for study-tools, Kiten, a KDE program I knew exists, or the program it is derived from, aren’t natively available on OSX. I found something called Tensai but the author wants $30 as a registration fee so I’m not even trying the not-even-that-crippled free version. JEDict is the shareware program that I am using at the moment (together with some online resources).

Reading Japanese websites is like decoding encrypted messages, with the advantage that the “key” is constant… and you start to recognise characters and see relationships… and that’s cool.

Sure, the novelty of it may all wear off the moment I’m done with the game… but still, it keeps ones mind busy, so to speak…

(The game hasn’t arrived yet and neither has my new Public Enemy CD yet dropped on my doorstep… so that both kinda sucks in a little-boy-anxiously-waiting-for-his-new-toy kind of way.)