Hi there. I've been into Anime for about 3 years now and began really reading Manga about 6 months ago and relaly love the scanlation groups becasue there are far too many titles that will never be licensed in the USA becasue of the content.

I would like to learn japanese and recently began reading books trying to learn japanese, any suggestions on books that would be good for this?

Got a quick question that someone here should be able to answer. In most scanlations, quite a few SFX and descriptive words are not translated so I have worked to translate some of them on my own and am doing ok (especially since I have a good idea what it is in the first place) but would someone answer a question for me on the written launguage? What is the significance of adding the -N to the end of some of these words. I see that they are always describing some detail of the picture with a -N on the end.

Thanks for a great site and talk to you soon.

First, welcome to the forum.

I had the same idea, but unfortunately i don't have enough time right now to learn seriously. Here's a website with some .pdf files about japanese, and there are also Video lessons. They're old ('80s) but good enough for me.

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You'll need to go into more detail than that draksig, if you want your question answered. It would be helpful, if you have an example of the sentence or construction you want explained.

My guess is it just suggests that the sentence is explanatory in nature, but there are lots of reasons for things to end in -n.

they just put n to make words sound cute..or so i've heard. like Nyoro~n...

I don't know anything about the Japanese language, but hello anyways~

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