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[–] 25 points 6 months ago (13 children)

Impossible, as the structure of language is not the same so you will always have lag or you need context to get the right meaning of a word. If someone is going to a ball, are they going to a dance, or getting a toy off the ground?

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  • [–] 43 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    Anyone who knows at least two languages can tell you that you need to listen to the whole sentence before you can start translating. Usually there’s something in the end that changes everything. In many cases, the word order is more or less reversed, so you have to start translating from the end.

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  • [–] 35 points 6 months ago (9 children)
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    chat the entered japanese

    I felt it was imminent. My bro married a beautiful girl from japan, and she's so patient; but, even being marginally fluent in Thai and Mandarin as well as his French and English experience - thus, super plastic for languages - Japanese is still so hard. It seems to be THE poster-child for inscrutably challenging second-languages!

    (Hmm. He needs to watch more anime maybe?)

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Japanese as context the chat as destination entered*

    If you're translating 日本語はチャットに入りました。

    EDIT Mine would even be “Japanese as context the chat as destination entered (conjugated to polite)”…

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Seems like a lot of asian languages follow this structure, a bunch of Indian languages are like this as well

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