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FAQs How does it work? The Japanese Name Converter uses a combination of dictionary lookup, substitution rules, and machine learning to convert English characters into. For common English names, a dictionary lookup of about 4,000 English names is used.
For other names, a learned substitution model trained on these names is applied instead. This method is very similar to the (TBL) invented by Eric Brill. Essentially, given a list of English/Japanese name pairs, the system learns a series of substitution rules to apply to the English input in order to get the Japanese output. For instance, the first rule the system learns is to replace the letter 'L' with the letter 'R', because there is no 'L' in Japanese.
More subtle rules are applied, such as 'replace G with J if it's followed by an E.' Gives more details, for those interested in a complete answer. Hey, doofus, you messed up my name! I'm Daenerys Targaryen, and you got the last vowel wrong! Congratulations, you took high-school Japanese. This web site was not designed for you.
The machine learning method sometimes makes mistakes. In my own tests, it had an accuracy of about 95% on a per-character basic, but your mileage may vary. In my defense, transliteration is not an easy task, especially with a language as orthographically challenged as English. The vowel system is very irregular, and some names are even ambiguous. For instance, is Jaime pronounced /'jeɪmi:/ (JAY-mee) or /'haɪmeɪ/ (HIGH-may)? In any case, always check with a Japanese friend before getting any badass tattoos based on this web site.
And check with Mom too. Mom always knows best.
Your app fascinates me. How can I contribute to this wonderful project? Now stop, you're going to make me blush. The code is and awaits your modifications.
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What do you think? Also, here's some information about me: -I'd like to know more about animation (not especially anime) because I'm generally interested in that.I have the feeling that Japanese people are a little fake, as in they pretend to like you and they actually don't (I don't know if it's true, sorry if it isn't) -I'm fifteen -I'm worried about Chinese air pollution, but I like the buildings -I think (from what I've read) that Japanese is harder than Chinese. Japanese is a dynamic and complex language, but is arguably easier to speak and write than Mandarin Chinese. Japanese grammar is far more difficult than Chinese, which has commonalities with English. Japanese also has ways to become more accessible to foreign speakers (furigana) while Chinese, you must know the character, period. Japanese requires knowing about 2,000 characters to be considered legally fluent, and maybe 500-1,000 to be able to conduct the vast majority of everyday life without difficulty, while Chinese requires over 10,000 to be literate.
I find Japanese much easier to speak than Chinese, mainly due to tones. Chinese is a language skill that will make you very employable (if current conditions continue), but when you enter the work force in ten years, things might drastically change. If you are worried about air pollution, you can either 1: not travel to China, or 2: learn traditional characters and work in Taiwan. I know a woman from Taiwan who works for an American insurance company as a translator, and makes six figures annually. Japan may have a higher threshold to achieve in terms of making a career as a foreigner, but in terms of quality of life, job security, and society, it is worth the extra hurdles.
However, your options are essentially limited to interpretation work (you would need to have virtually mastered the language to do this), company work (monotonous, unfulfilling, low growth potential, long hours, but this is all different company to company), English language teaching (Japanese not required, also its own form of hell), and translation (you can specialise in the jargon of a certain industry or field like aircraft, medical, manufacturing, literature, etc). Essentially this is all assuming that a decade from now will have the same circumstances as today. China could become less and less of an attractive business partner in the coming years, Japan could reform corporate culture, there could be a war, or a civil war, etc. In terms of being welcomed into society, neither is better than the other.
You will likely be an outcast unless you look Chinese or Japanese and speak natively. Neither take criticism of their cultures well, with the Japanese quietly ostracising finger-waggers and the Chinese outright becoming hostile in defense. As far as being 'fake', the nature of the Japanese language is to be indirect, to not say things that don't need to be clarified (dropping subjects from sentences, not completing sentences, for instance saying 「それはちょっと.」, hell even 'konnichiwa' means literally 'regarding today.'
Or 'today is.' ) and saying negative things like 'no' or 'wrong' is handled by saying it like 'that is a bit difficult' 'it's different'. Basically, the zeitgeist of American interactions is similar to how Japanese have been doing it, and when someone coming from outside Japan complains about Japanese being passive or indirect, it's almost exclusively older people saying it, because the newer generation is used to being indirect and careful in choosing words. In terms of the people, I feel as if insincerity isn't more common in Japan than in American culture, and probably more common than in British.
With education it really, really depends on the employer. Sometimes it even depends on the branch of the employer - you hear tell of people having a fine old time at one branch of Aeon or ECC and then others who hate it passionately. Of course you also have companies like Nova who are universally regarded as exploitative scum and who should be avoided like the plague. The point is to research the employer carefully and try to find a good one. Teaching also improves dramatically with experience under your belt because you can get direct-hire jobs with better pay and contract conditions. For Japanese skill, it's definitely not necessary but it does make things much easier, especially when searching for jobs with better pay and conditions or if aiming for promotion in some positions.
Teaching is definitely not sunshine and rainbows in Japan but it's not a bad career path if you like it. Since jobs in it are ten-a-yen as well, you pretty much never have to worry about the prospect of redundancy because it will be so easy to get another position with even the vaguest amount of experience to set you apart from the flood of newlygrads.
I read and speak both, but since I'm living in Japan, I'm using Japanese more than Chinese, and I love watching Chinese period drama. I used to like anime, but not anymore, something about living here changes your fascinations with it. From experience, I learned Chinese way before Japanese. It was very easy to learn the Kanji, as most have very similar meaning.
If I see kanji I can understand the meaning, but may have no clue how to read it in Japanese (remember Japanese adopted Kanji after they have a language for at least a thousand years). Writing took no practice time at all, for all kanji, hiragana, katakana, writing strokes and sequences translate directly from Chinese. The biggest difference for me was grammar, Chinese is very simple and quite systematic in a sense, as each character represents a single meaning. Japanese on the other hand, to me personally, is full of exceptions on top of rules that are already full of exceptions. Nice thing about Japanese is that even if you don't know the kanji, you can still write a letter/note with hiragana, but in Chinese, you can't. Not entirely convinced that Chinese is a better move economically. I heard this a lot from Chinese studies students in University, and they have all subsequently gone on to get jobs that don't use Chinese because it's not proved all that relevant (whereas a decent number of people who studied Japanese are using it to some level.
Not me any more though!) This especially goes for jobs in your home country - because at least for the UK there are plenty of opportunities at large Japanese brands but nowhere near the same scope for Chinese ones. Could change in 20 years though.
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There are also millions of people in China who have far better English than a Western person's Chinese will ever be - which I think is probably a more relevant point. Especially given the seeming timeless Japanese aversion to English.
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Neither is very useful for business. Pretty much any Chinese or Japanese person you work with on any kind of international business deal is going to speak perfect English. In terms of lay people, Chinese people probably speak better English but there's a lot more English signs and stuff in Japan. Japanese is probably the harder language to learn at first. You're fluent in Mandarin at 2000ish (1500 if you're a rural person!) characters. You're considered fluent in Japanese at 2,136. And Japanese has multiple readings for the characters.
And more complicated grammar. Though if you're trying to learn a different Chinese language like Cantonese or Taiwanese, abandon all hope.
Culturally speaking, China is a lot more individualistic and blunt than Japan (or selfish/rude depending on your perspective). Western cultures tend to be much more individualistic and blunt (much like China), so they might perceive politeness in more collectivist cultures as non-authentic. But I don't think it's fake, it's just more subtle.
Japanese people will express to you that they don't like you. You just might not notice it. In contrast, Chinese social behavior is a lot closer to the West. But they've also had less interaction with the West. So it's not clear which is a bigger culture shock.
The big question is going to be 'do you have an interest in either country'. Obviously if you want to visit one of them for an extended period of time, that's going to sway your decision. After that, you have to ask yourself if you work in a profession where knowing one of those two languages will help on your resume. If you work in the tech industry and you want to get a job at either a japanese company or a company that does a lot of partnerships with japanese companies, that can be a big selling point for which language you want to learn. An example of an industry where this could be a beneficial skill would be the tech industry.
Outside of that, you have to look at if there is any content being produced in those countries that you want to be able to experience in their original language (or at all, if it's something that doesn't get localized into your own language). This could include anime, manga, video games, movies, comedians, or music for example. For me, all of those metrics said 'learn some japanese'. For you, you'll have to ask yourself those questions and think about it and make that decision. You like to know more about animation (not specifically Japanese) = learn Japanese, you'll have the most and widest exposure.
You feel that Japanese people pretend to like you but don't and are superficial = tie, you won't do any better in China, it just happens in a different way. Air pollution = Japanese, yes visiting China is a pain.
None of the reasons you gave were good reasons for learning any language, although animation is at least a reason. Do you just want to explore the world when you get older? Or meet people? Japanese is much harder than Chinese due to grammar, but Chinese pronunciation is the hardest of almost any language.
I speak both.