Playstation Portable = Sega Saturn in terms of marketing

[AdamGomez1987]

Anyone ever get that feeling when you look at the Playstation Portable, you see some pretty lame garbage marketing in terms of what games they decide to bring...those PSP Squirrels?! Give me a break!

With games like Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII and various other popular games that went out such as Tales of Phantasia and Megaman Legends I and II collaborated for the PSP, what do we get? Why!! We get Rattatouie for the PSP! :O

How long does it take to learn japanese? I may need to take a crash course for my intensive video gaming.

[Breetai]

AHow long does it take to learn japanese? I may need to take a crash course for my intensive video gaming.

Depends on your effort. They "say" it takes about three years of active studying and immersion to become fluent (whatever that means).

Have you considered teaching English in Japan once you're finished school?

[BRIK]

How long does it take to learn japanese? I may need to take a crash course for my intensive video gaming.

They say it's one of the hardest languages to learn, right next to English. Half the fun is playing foreign video game and not knowing wtf is going on though

[benderx]

I wanted to learn japanese through Rosetta Stone well got the software for free, but something seemed fishy. but I think I got the wrong version. This was years back. I think I got some international version because it felt incomplete to me. But I will get roseetta stone again the right version. There are other ways of learning languages besides rosetta stone. Its cool learning languages it does make you stand and treated fair in public or real world.

I remember one time some asian women was providing guidance of some sort and I was impressed by her spanish, she knew more than 3 languages.

I thought Chinese was the hardest especially old traditional chinese. I hear Cantonese is easy ZANG!

[Breetai]

I wanted to learn japanese through Rosetta Stone well got the software for free, but something seemed fishy. but I think I got the wrong version. This was years back. I think I got some international version because it felt incomplete to me. But I will get roseetta stone again the right version. There are other ways of learning languages besides rosetta stone. Its cool learning languages it does make you stand and treated fair in public or real world.

I remember one time some asian women was providing guidance of some sort and I was impressed by her spanish, she knew more than 3 languages.

I thought Chinese was the hardest especially old traditionaal chinese. I hear Cantonese is easy ZANG!

I'm not sure how to respond to this.

Rosetta stone is, or a similar self-study program, doesn't compare at all to "real" experience. Study vocab and grammar, and then practice it as much as you can with real people. That is how it is done.

Whether a language is hard or not is all relative. For a European, something like Mandarin or Japanese might be difficult, since the syntax, vocab and grammar are all different. Yet, for a Korean, it will be a lot easier as the syntax and grammar are similar to Japanese, and the vocabulary is similar to Chinese.

English is tough for most people, as the rules and vocabulary are taken from many courses; making it difficult to follow it logically sometimes.

What is your first language, Bender?

[AdamGomez1987]

I just remember the bloody mess of things when I bought my PSP. Actually I thought the PSP was great with the number of games that came out with it, then they started coming out with more sports games and felt they never mastered the PSP and all 1.8 gigs of their memory on that UMD as most of the games only used around 400-500 with a few exceptions such as Final Fantasy, Marvel Alliance, ect.

I aint gonna lie year later when the system came out, Megaman Powered Up was on my scope of awesome games that I definitely was going to get, the saddest part was that the game came out a week after my birthday so I remember having an a awesome birthday but still waiting for the greatest game in the world that I still had to wait for a week.

[pakopako]

Heh. Funny pointing out the Saturn marketing squad... the PSP's is a little better though. The Crazy Squirrels and Marcus are consistent. You get used to them and associate them with the PSP. You don't really know much about the system or the games, but yo know the Squirrels.

Japanese can actually be fairly easy to learn. Can. The grammar is fairly similar to Latin-based languages in that words are conjugated similarly and sentence structure is Subject Object Verb. (As opposed to Germanic languages like English, which are Subject-Verb-Object.)

The vocabulary might take awhile to get used to, but simple Katakana and Hiragana can be learned in weeks. Imagine these are like "upper case" and "lower case" respectively (There are only 47~94 "letters" to remember; English has 26~52 if you count lower-case letters.) Foreign words usually are said in katakana as are words that are shouted in CAPS.

The only issue you may have (and many do) is that there is very little sense of spacing when you read sentences that are mostly hiragana. Imagine in English trying to read some bad URLs like "expertsexchange" -- you can read it as intended (Experts Exchange) or as "Expert Sex Change". It's like having Sean Connery on Jeopardy.

Kanji, which uses Chinese characters, are the only banes of learning most languages in the region (Korean, Japanese, Malaysian, et al.) Like most current languages that are over two millennia old, the characters closely resemble hieroglyphs. Kanji is very difficult to break down (even though they are build on simpler characters) and often must be memorized.

[noiseredux]

Heh. Funny pointing out the Saturn marketing squad... the PSP's is a little better though. The Crazy Squirrels and Marcus are consistent. You get used to them and associate them with the PSP. You don't really know much about the system or the games, but yo know the Squirrels.

I have to be honest, I have no idea what you guys are talking about with squirrels.

[AdamGomez1987]

Heh. Funny pointing out the Saturn marketing squad... the PSP's is a little better though. The Crazy Squirrels and Marcus are consistent. You get used to them and associate them with the PSP. You don't really know much about the system or the games, but yo know the Squirrels.

I have to be honest, I have no idea what you guys are talking about with squirrels.

youtube PSP Squirrels and you'll see both the actual video and its parody ( I believe the parody is more popular than the actual video )

[pakopako]

Heh. Funny pointing out the Saturn marketing squad... the PSP's is a little better though. The Crazy Squirrels and Marcus are consistent. You get used to them and associate them with the PSP. You don't really know much about the system or the games, but yo know the Squirrels.

I have to be honest, I have no idea what you guys are talking about with squirrels.

youtube PSP Squirrels and you'll see both the actual video and its parody ( I believe the parody is more popular than the actual video )

How can the parody be better than this??