Language help!
So, Im in Grade 11, and I decided french sucks (french being the default as I'm a Canadian... eh), so I opted for japanese.
Sooo with vista rubbing both its "ease of use" and it's "get your Ultimate Vista extras now" constantly in my face i decided to install the japanese language pack... well at the time i was also installing Visual Studios 2005 so the installation was choppy, windows explorer died on me, but the language package seemd to have installed just fine. So here I am trying to get the damn thing setup...
WTF? could it BEE more complicated? I think not... I have word 2007 (yeah I really really went all out on the software for this sucker) and I just cant figure it out. I've been round and round the help guide, the language bar, the translate (in word) option, help in word, round and round, and I Still cant figure it out.
Heres what I want: When I'm In word, I want to be able to enter stuff in Romagi, and have it come out in Hiragana or perhalps even a few Kanji characters (although i dont know too many so perhalps we should just stick to Hiragana.
For those who dont know:
Romaji is using english letters to create the sound of japanese. So I guess its best discribed as the pronounciation.
Hiraganna is the most simplistic form of Japanese that can really be considered Japanese. Its like spelling each word out individually. and via a simple google search, you can catch my drift by clicking
this link.
Kanji are the thousands of complex characters that are sometimes shared with chinese.
Herewould be the Kanji character for Spirit.
Katakana are characters for words that are not japanese in origon, and are imported from other languages. Forign names would be in Katakana in Japan.
so what i want to be able to do is enter the characters in english and ahve it come out with what i need in japanese. I dont really care how it gets around the Katakana just so long as I can put in Romaji and have it spit out japanese.
If anyone has any experiance with language packs please help me out. This would save me a world of time and effort (as typing it out on a keyboard will be a whole lot easier then drawing each character out individually).