I've been studying Japanese on and off for a year and a half and have about 900 words memorized and just started memorizing kanji. I'm learning the language very vaugely and feel knocked on my ass whenever I try to actually translate something. I just started playing FF4...
For the upper line, with the help of a dictionary, I came up with "Army death height crane group location world"
This is congruent with the picture but doesn't sound good at all. :lol My biggest problem is the apparent lack of spacing between words. Translating seems all about making your best guess with the sensory information to reference.
Am I screwing up horribly? Or is that basically how direct translations work? That would at least explain Engrish....
Thank you for your help!
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For the upper line, with the help of a dictionary, I came up with "Army death height crane group location world"
This is congruent with the picture but doesn't sound good at all. :lol My biggest problem is the apparent lack of spacing between words. Translating seems all about making your best guess with the sensory information to reference.
Am I screwing up horribly? Or is that basically how direct translations work? That would at least explain Engrish....
Thank you for your help!