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title: "I set my system language to japanese"
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description: "i am afraid"
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author: "maggie"
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# Hi! It's me again!
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I decided as a definitely skilled Japanese speaker that I'll set my language to Japanese. Here's what happened...
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## It's..... not that bad?
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A lot of things all across the system are just written in katakana, which is (among other uses) used for writing loan words
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This means that there are tons of app names and option that are pretty much untranslated, but that doesn't make using a system in Japanese particularly easy.
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## It is that bad.
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There's also naturally a lot of kanji. If you don't know what kanji is, they're characters imported from Chinese. Those are, just like the loanwords, all over the system. Examples of those are:
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入力 (input), 出力 (output), 管理者 (administrator) and so on.
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This is GOOD!!! Slowing down my work apart, I'm able to learn various computer related words I probably wouldn't have come across.
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## How do I learn them?
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I put them in a program called Anki, you make your own flashcards and then through spaced repetition you learn the words. I take a screenshot of the words I don't know, run them through OCR, verify they're correct, look their definition up and then add an Anki card.
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## Will I keep at it?
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Who knows? I just had a tough time setting a program up but I did do it after all so maybe I'll keep at it. I'll try to do it for a week at minimum nya. you'll most likely be updated.
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## WHERE IS THE FUCKING WEBSITE MAGGIE
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its coming i promise
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