So Chowning got me a game a while ago that has attempted to teach me Japanese. It has been an interesting game, and is one of the only ones that I play with the sound on. Well, I have learned that there are something like 4 character sets in japanese. I was cool with that at first, some of them reminded me of chinese characters, and others didn't. There there was the whole set of Romaji, which uses roman characters to phonetically spell the word. Two of the others (I think there are more) are Haragana and Katakana. Each is kind of cool and interesting to learn how they work phonetically, but then I realized that while it is possible to spell a word in all 3 alphabets, there are some words that use both haragana and katakana!! What the fuck! So I learn how to spell something using a letter set, and then to actually spell a functional word I need to learn another set!?! Why didn't you just teach me that set also? I know the answer is because there are ways to spell most things with haragana, but it feels like some one has taught me how to spell because but did't tell me that there is some new letter that replaces the au with a single stroke. It makes it even harder when trying to read, because I can phonetically read things up to a point where some crazy new letter shows up that is in a different alphabet. Not that I'll know what the word means anyway, but at least I can phonetically read Haragana . . . until fucking Katakana gets in my way. Fuck languages.