Should I really use Japanese translations just to write a paper?
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It isn't a good idea unless you use a human translation because if you make mistakes it will give you a bad grade
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If you are serious about a translation business, you need access to the best dictionaries, whether on-line or hard copies, almost regardless of the price. It's a basic investment (and tax-deductible, I should think). It's the bread and butter of your trade. Don't scrimp! Hard copies have advantages sometimes as well - you can make your own notes in them, and they give your eyes a break from the screen!\n\nApart from that, though, I'm sorry I can't make any specific recommendations.\n\nGood luck!
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Do you just want to speak and understand Japanese, or do you want to read and write Japanese as well? \n\nReading and writing Japanese can take about three years and is very hard since it's unrelated to any other language and since it uses pictograms instead of a plain alphabet. You probably won't be able to learn it alone. You should visit your Japanese Cultural Center or Japanese Embassy. \n\nIf you just want to speak and understand it and you want to work on your own, then the very best source you can find is Hugo's Japanese In Three Months (http://www.amazon.com/Hugo-Language-Course-Japanese-Cassettes/dp/0789435845/sr=8-1/qid=1163238970/ref=sr_1_1/103-2517153-8535065?ie=UTF8&s=books). Listening to the tapes and reading the book carefully about an hour a day, you will know the basics very well after three months. If you work for two or three hours a day, you could be done in six or seven weeks. The Hugo Method helped me learn basic French two years ago, and this year I'm going to use it as an introduction to German. I'd put in a good word for it for anybody. It's the best.
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I used RM XP once or twice. I opened the code I think in the database, and basically figured it out from there. It is similar to HTML in a way. Open the Title Screen section to see what I mean.\n\nIllegal versions show comments in Japanese, while the real translated one should show them in English, I think.
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Definitely depends on the kinds of stuff you are doing.\n\nHave a look at a decent spreadsheet - there is a very good chance that they can do everything you need without having to learn a whole language.
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Of course Chinese. Japanese have "stolen" a lot of characters from Chinese and developed two sets of symbols of their own  syllabic writing: hiragana and katakana, which symbols, strictly speaking, are not characters. But even if you add up hiragana and katakana symbols together with the characters that they are using, the number will still be much less than the number of characters used in Chinese.
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No program can do a good job of translating, at least not yet.  Any page you find might help some, but if you want more than a few words translated your meaning will probably be lost.  If you really need a translation done, you need to find a person to translate it for you.  Unless you personally know someone, there will be a charge.
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How to write in English, not whatever you just wrote.
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One of the best places for translation for free (help not whole documents) is\n\nhttp://help.beberger.com
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no translation everyone writes in english
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You need to download "Japanese Language Pack"... go to\nhttp://www.kanjistep.com/en/misc/howto.html
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hmm ... i would like to write something, but theres no need written whats already well written\n\nhope this helps =)
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I can trasnlsate it better than babelfish only because I lived in Japan quite a long time, and had a very long term relationship with a Japanese woman. brettkun@verizon.net
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Visit following site but need to read japanese.
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Be careful of automatic translators like babelfish.  Watch what happens.  For example, here's your question:\n\n"Is there a means of translating a page written in another language into english?"\n\nHere's what you get if you use babelfish to translate your question into Chinese:\n\n"有是翻译页手段被写用其它语言成英语吗?"\n\nAnd if you use babelfish to translate the Chinese translation back into English, this is the result:\n\n"Has is translates the page method to write becomes with other languages English?"\n\nAs you can see, if you use mechanical translators, you might be missing quite a bit.
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newspapers are mostly written in Kanji.  There are three kinds that they use by Japanese people.  Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.  They use all three together sometimes. They use Katakana in reference to western words.  Not all japanese people can read Kanji as it's the hardest one.
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I think you should start learning conversational Japanese first. Your local community college or community center might have a conversational class for a decent rate. If you are interested in learning the written language, this will probably take many years. The Japanese language uses katakana, hiragana, and kanji to convey there written language. The 'kana' are relatively easy to learn but you will not be able to function in Japan without "Kanji" or Chinese writting. The Japanese use several thousand kanji on a daily basis. Your community college or university is probably the best way to learn the total language.