He's been out of hiatus for a little while now. We just did a big dump of Joukamachi no Dandelion on 4chan about a month ago. I mentioned it but haven't heard anything back. Idk if he wants to do LNs anymore because they're so time intensive, and especially after someone snaked Oregairu vol 11 out from under us.
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I've actually been searching online, trying to see if I could find a hard copy of the VE LN and can't find a single one. Amazon JP is out of stock.
Or she's Japanese.
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I'm actually reading quite a few things in Japanese now. Mostly manga, but I've read a volume of S&W and several volumes of Oregairu in Japanese. There are definitely a lot of tricky things I come across but nothing I've not been able to solve without using a EN-JP dictionary or asking friends/gf. I get what you're saying, though.
Reading in Japanese does not equal translating from Japanese. I'm not trying to be discouraging but let's just say that I would struggle with en->fi / fi->en.
Now you can, ofcourse, do as you wish but I dare say that translating and just reading while checking dictionary will be whole different experiences.
edit: Though, I also think that if you are both good with your secondary languages and both of you put a lot of effort to it, it might just work out fine.
Last edited by Asetotti; 2016-05-29 at 06:37 PM.
Agreed.
There's also one thing I'd like to point out about him. Not sure about Sj but Vale had actually learned another language before Japanese. And Hungarian is probably his native so he had made one big leap already when he started Japanese (Hungarian and English are pretty different, as in they are from entirely different families, English being Indo-european and Hungarian is Uralic).
But yeah, I have no idea about Sj's "language history" so I wouldn't know about that, but already being bilingual holds an advantage when it comes to speed.
and again, I'm not trying to be a cunt even if I come off as a little over sceptical.
Oh nah I agree with you on your points. You're not coming across as that at all.
If I remember correctly I think he started learning English in grade school, so he was bilingual by High School, and started learning Japanese in HS, so it would definitely give him a one up.