I think you are correct, also im sure any western wanting to learn japanese start doing it by learning to read and write in romaji rather than kanjis which are much more of a novelty in comparison to the roman letters which westerns are originally used to.
On Jul 23, 12:22 am, Xi Cheng (Google employee) wrote: > please let me re-phrase your request. > you want to typeJapanesephonetically using Roman letters and want to > see the translation. > > sounds like the job of input method or transliteration, don't you > think? > > please correct me if I misunderstood your feature request. > > Thanks, > Xi > > On Jul 23, 1:31 am, Hungus wrote: > > > So I was trying to verify my translation of a phrase fromJapaneseto > > English last night and it just returned my original phrase. So then I > > tried simple words, and they all returned just the original word! > > > I tried: > > > 1. onna (should be woman, at least) > > 2. kuma (should be bear, at least) > > 3. kudasai (should be please, at least) > > 4. biru (should be building, at least) > > 5. biiru (should be beer, at least) > > 6. sake (should be salmon or rice wine, or?) > > many many others > > > I'm not aJapaneselanguage expert but I had three years in high > > school and I know hiragana, katakana, and some kanji... so I know > > I've at least hit on a few REALJapanesewords (inromaji). > > > Both Google Translate and Babelfish seem to not be able to translate > > myJapanesewords to English. What am I doing wrong / what is going > > on??? Very confused... > > > If it doesn't work with my Firefox or Mac, Google should fix > > that. :) That isn't very Google-like. As for Babelfish, I realize > > this is not the forum for that but I mentioned it because I thought it > > was interesting that it behaved the same way. > > > Does it only accept JIS input or something? Am I going to have to > > write these in kana / kanji to actually translate them? That seems > > like a real bummer for people that are learning basicJapanese, etc. > > > ---Carl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
