081 Facets [Accidental Video:Engish] Forward dated to about ten pm tonight

[wears_a_torc]

[Knuckles is sitting at a kitchen table writing something down. He reaches over to the communicator and presses buttons and a Japanese voice plays and he writes some more, he reaches over to make whatever post he was listening to play again, but he pauses to yawn, then notices the record button.]

Huh? Must have pressed it by accident.

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[wears_a_torc]

[Knuckles has a sheet of paper before him...several sheets of paper in fact. With English words next to...jumbles of letters, most of which had been scribbled out and replaced with new jumbles of letters. There are notes in the magins like "different grammar structure".

Someone fluent in both Japanese and English would quickly figure out that they're Japanese words spelt phonetically, thanks to the auto translating of text Knuckles has never seen how Japanese is written. A lot of Knuckles attempts at translation are wrong, but that's to be expected since he's using trial and error to learn and he does seem to be making some progress as he goes at least.]

Maybe I should call it a night for now.

[Knuckles yawns again]

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[twin_sai_kame]

[Surprisingly, Raphael is up, though becomes obvious why when he slips out of the bathroom. The light from the kitchen though draws his attention from returning to bed, and he heads that way]

Hey, yer up late. [He greets the echidna as he steps into the kitchen, giving a yawn. He eyes the papers though as he approaches the table.] What are ya doing?

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[wears_a_torc]

Yeah I guess I lost track of time.

Learning Japanese...well trying anyway.

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[twin_sai_kame]

[Raph took in the notes, and tried japanese letters, as he listened.]

Ah, yeah, easier to learn when ya aint half asleep. I know some Japanese, but I aint anywhere near fluent in it, specially writing it.

[boy_fatality]

Are you learning Japanese?

[wears_a_torc]

...[stupid communcator]

I'm trying to, but I've only just started.

[boy_fatality]

I see.

What are you studying at the moment?

[wears_a_torc]

Mostly This one at the moment.

[witchoftheweek]

...Studying Japanese? It is a hard language.

[wears_a_torc]

Yeah, and I'm quickly figuring that out.

[witchoftheweek]

It took me about a year to get the various forms of writing down...

And another to be able to speak it fluently.

[wears_a_torc]

I don't think I'll have to worry about the writing here thanks to the communicators...

But I considering how may people speak Japanese here I really should learn at least enough to know if someone is yelling for help or not.