JP Only

[Issac]

my experience with the jp community in ffxiv has been positive. i can read kanji so i can understand the gist of what the jps are asking for when i see their grind pt shouts. i always send the shouter a tell in full auto-translation asking if i could join the party, including my battle class and level and a smiley face. never hurts to be extra nice when you're communicating with them. during the parties, the leader, knowing that i am the only english speaker in the party, would take extra patience to type out important commands in auto-translate. the only time i had trouble understanding them was when i made the mistake of using google translate to say "hello" and "thank you for inviting me" in japanese...they thought i was jp so it made the communications later much harder to understand lol. i also always remember to say thank you and the polite farewell phrases and bow after the party is over. extra courtesies are always encouraged when playing together with jps.

also, i have never seen any shouts on trabia with "jp only." maybe i'm just lucky.

Wait, you can read Kanji but cannot speak the language? How much Kanji can you read? There's thousands, and a few hundred required for basic communication, and 2000 (Last I checked) for high school proficiency. Did you perhaps mean hiragana/katakana?

Personally, I know about 30 Kanji and hiragana/katakana. I know maybe 100-200 vocabulary words, and so far have managed to wrap my head around a few particles like wa/ga, to/ya, ne/yo, and ni. Many of them still confuse me.

Or, maybe you learned Chinese? Many of the Kanji have different meanings in that respect, though. I... think. Not too too sure.

[bird]

Wait, you can read Kanji but cannot speak the language? How much Kanji can you read? There's thousands, and a few hundred required for basic communication, and 2000 (Last I checked) for high school proficiency. Did you perhaps mean hiragana/katakana?

Personally, I know about 30 Kanji and hiragana/katakana. I know maybe 100-200 vocabulary words, and so far have managed to wrap my head around a few particles like wa/ga, to/ya, ne/yo, and ni. Many of them still confuse me.

Or, maybe you learned Chinese? Many of the Kanji have different meanings in that respect, though. I... think. Not too too sure.

yup i'm chinese born and raised ^^. (note: not rmt even though my chocobo is named horsebird tyvm.)

jp shouts for parties usually included class names in kanji which are the same in chinese (even if they are antiquated terms) and levels in roman numerals. so super easy for me to understand and sneak in to the party undetected hehe.