What are the languages that give you the widest access to translated material?

What are the languages that give you the widest access to translated material?
I think the order would be something like this:
1. Chinese
2. Korean
3. English
4. Indonesian
5. Spanish

English.

1. Japanese

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chinese, korean, english too

>Learn every subhuman language BESIDES Japanese to read Japanese media

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OP is a retard.

I've started learning Japanese, Spanish and Russian over the past 12 months but gave them all up within a few weeks (Japanese about 2 months) because I lacked motivation. I don't live in a country where it would be useful to know any language other than English, which is annoying but also makes it more difficult to practice because so few are bilingual. I'm frustrated with myself but I just feel too lazy to learn anything because I can't really see any point to it.

English, but I noticed a lot more shit is translated for chinese korean, and spanish.
But then what. Why not learn japanese anyway. Yeah it is hard, but it seem better than learning other langauges when you can just learn the fucking source.
check meetup.com or italki if you want to find people to talk to.

>TRANSLATED material
Chinese for instance is way more useful to learn than japanese. Or do you think we should all take our vietnamese drawings hobby seriously enough to learn a language that could be potentially useless in any other aspect of life?

Kill yourself chink.

>Chinese for instance is way more useful to learn than japanese
>I am a mindless drone who only cares about knowledge that will give me more opportunities to remain a wageslave
Yeah lol I'd love to learn Chinese and deal with fucking subhuman chinks all day. All asians besides the Japanese are net drags on the Earth.

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Was just about to post this.

>I am a mindless drone who only cares about knowledge that will give me more opportunities to remain a wageslave
Are you a neet? I think this is something only a neet would believe for the sole sake of protecting his fragile ego. Belittling the noble act of working that way is just lame.

>any other aspect of life
But anime and video games are my entire life.

Of course I'm a NEET. Why would you be proud of being a slave to a corporation? Whenever someone says "Just learn Japanese", there's always at least one reply saying "B-but Japan is a dying nation anyways, Chinese/Spanish/German/Insert gay language that has no worthwhile media here is so much more useful!! What the fuck bro, why would you want to learn the language of the country that all of the entertainment you consume comes from??". People literally refuse to live their own lives and base all actions on whether or not it can get them a certain job. Learn Japanese and be a fucking construction worker, you'll be happier than some retard who learned a bunch of retarded euroshit languages and still has to wait for anime subs. You don't need to be a neet to call someone out on being a literal robot with no passion for anything.

>>I am a mindless drone who only cares about knowledge that will give me more opportunities to remain a wageslave
What? You're the one who was saying he didn't care about your hobby enough to learn a language, not him.

English. There's more in the world than anime and manga, and English gets most of it.

The most useful languages are the ones you use on a daily basis.

This. If you're discounting work, there's pretty much zero reason to learn a language that's better than "I consume media originally in that language for a quarter+ of my waking life."

Spanish is useful. I use it at work every day.

Good for you, spic.

That's because you're a spic.

No one cares about your job at Taco Bell.

Why would you ever learn anything besides English and Japanese? I couldn't imagine learning a language not out of interest and without media to immerse yourself in.

The best way to retain a language is to use it often while enjoying it.

>the noble act of working

English and Spanish. Sometimes Spanish translations are better and sometimes English are. Sometimes they're both shit.

Thank you.

Spanish translations are iffy because often times they're just translating the English translation. At least in manga.

All I know is that French is useless because no one goddamn scans any of the frogs' localizations.

Agreed. Except Koreans sometimes are leery about porn.

Querido hijo de puta. Hay alguien que quiere decirte que eres un cabronazo, que te pasas el día dando por el ojete en los chats, en los foros y en el messenger, y te se junta la noche con la mañana preguntando tonterías que podrías solucionar usando el buscador. Pues a ver si te buscas la vida de una puta vez antes de preguntar, hijo de puta.

>it's another chink derails the thread to shill his language thread

You're half right but half wrong too. You're putting passion above everything else. The idea is that you should find a balance between the passion for learning and the knowledge that will be actually useful.
You keep using the term "slave to a corporation" as if that was the only kind of work on earth, that's just mental gymnastics to justify being a useless sack of shit.
There's a lot more at play than just that. For example the relative difficulty of learning the language, how much effort you're intending to dedicate in exchange of results, if you intend to live or are living in a certain country.

For example, a native italian would find it much cost effective to learn spanish to access more translated manga.

That's when they're shit, but when they translate directly from Japanese they're usually pretty good.
This is why Spanish speaking people are looked down to, you give us a bad image with your butthurt and edgy comments.

Japs are right about one thing, Chinks are barbarians. This comes from someone who lived in China for a long time. Don't live there, they'll make you unhappy with their primitive ways.

Chinese.

It's cakewalk for Chinese people to translate Japanese kanji.

There's 1.35 billion of them, any percentage of autistic scanlators is easily the population of an entire city.

>if you intend to live or are living in a certain country.
I guess I was assuming that you already know the language of the country you're currently living in. If not, that would obviously be an exception. And if you intend to live in a country where you don't already know the language, I would assume that has something to with work. Either that or you're marrying someone there, but none of us are getting married, so that doesn't matter.

>none of us are getting married
I thought we all were already married to our waifu.

I'm a chink and I find chinks disgusting. What a cruel world.

>Chinese for instance is way more useful to learn than japanese.

Maybe if you live in Vancouver. If you already know English then just learn whatever makes you happy.

Why the fuck would I learn Chinese if I'm never going to use it? Besides I fucking despise chinks.

Korean
Chink
French
Italian

How is the Chinese fan subbing community

Probably a good chunk of the stuff you find in english is actually translated from chinese/korean.

Bigger than the English language one.

Pretty big, usually Chinese translations are faster than English ones.

Yeah, but like do they bitch about meme subs and such. where do you find chinks shit

>Speak spanish
>Japanese pronunciation is piss easy, be able to speak correctly without any effort.

Dirty EOPs

I don't know if they complain since they speak Chinese.

tfw gook

feels good to read ones with the [Korean] but not [English] on sadpanda lads

My nigga.
I always find it hilarious how we can talk japanese easily with no problem while the anglos have to struggle for years to get it right.

how do i filter out all the gook manga?

What? All the stuff you find in English is ripped from HS or Funi.

You can say words or phrases but it is still hard to actually speak the language, saying "Watashi no namae ga Paburo desu" properly doesn't mean you speak Japanese.

>pronunciation
It's not like most anons learn it to speak to people.

I'm pretty sure those anons forgot what "fan subbing" meant and started talking about manga.

>saying "Watashi no namae ga Paburo desu" properly doesn't mean you speak Japanese.
That's literally speaking japanese. Fluency and actual knowledge of the language are sand of another bag.

B-but atleast I can sing without sounding like a retard!

>learn japanese for years to read raws and readily avaliable material
>the only things that get released are in chinese and korean

>Chinese for instance is way more useful to learn than japanese.
Not useful enough for you to state which chinese language to learn though :^)

That's saying a phrase in Japanese, fluency and actual knowledge of the language is required to actually speak it. Just like people going to the US without knowing English and knowing how to ask "where is the bathroom?" doesn't mean they speak English.

Is Hong Kong any better than the rest of China? I was considering learning Cantonese at some point but I don't want to learn Mandarin

speak
Pronunciation: /spiːk/
VERB (past spoke /spəʊk/; past participle spoken /ˈspəʊk(ə)n/)

Say something in order to convey information or to express a feeling

I don't know what stupid definition of "speak" you are working with, but saying "Ohayo godaimasu" is indeed speaking in japanese, even if that's the only thing you can say.

TL;DR:
> Actually mandarin only used in China mainland / Singapore.
>Most Chinese people are sick fuck businessman who always tried to find a loophole in agreement to profit more (Now I think Jews I know are better than this)
>Learning mandarin will make you tons of money, no doubt. But it'll kill you inside and eating your living span about decades because their asshat attitude.

Did I get that right?

Or maybe you just actually buy it.

>learning to spend money
I bet you went to college too.

Jesus Christ. I did good going for Japanese instead of Mandarin it seems. Fucking Chinks. Even the ones I'm living with right now are fucking hypocrite assholes.

umm... how about the Indonesian one?

If you're learning a language for weeaboo shit, just learn Japanese. Compared to English, all other languages will feel useless in terms of possible usage, and should be studied only if you have specific goals in mind (i.e. wants to actually move to France or whatever).

The difference is that you can learn most random languages in a year or two.
Japanese can easily take two times more time and effort.

Chinese here, I never really understand why "Jews being Jews" is even a thing.
It is to my knowledge that Chinese has always been the bigger "jews"

>tfw you can just go to the nearest bookstore and grab the hottest new indonesian-translated manga

Feels good to read physical books

Wouldn't recommend learning Indonesian just to consume japanese media though.

You don't think chinkspeak takes at least as much effort to learn?

As for gookspeak, that might be slightly easier, but it's still going to take a while.

They make all these "mangapanda/mangastream watermark" complaints look silly

>lol
Kill yourself.

>Learning mandarin will make you tons of money
No.
It might expand your options to make a bit more than you normally would, but it's not like you're going to become CEO just because you speak Chinese.

Learning Cantonese doesn't make you magically not have to learn Mandarin anyways. Most Cantonese people who write, basically revert to Mandarin equivalents anyways.

Everything that gets translated to English gets translated or pirated to Spanish. Pick unrelated.

>tfw have to import some books with its custom tax for the title that will never get published in here.
On the bright side comic book rental is pretty cheap.

Do people really think speaking Mandarin makes a big difference in business? It's only useful if you work with supply chains, not relevant to most positions.

And if you're a manager you have your own ABC goons speaking it for you.

As far as translated material goes, Chinese for manga and one between Italian/Spanish/French for old anime.

Honestly, it'd probably make a bigger difference in day to day life if you live near a lot of Chinese people. Getting good deals, not being cheated.

False, you can study and learn traditional chinese all your live and still no be able to dominate it, due the great number dialects and because is old as fuck. Mandarin is as hard as japanese and is just chinese simplified.

>oh user, this is 201 industry standard [...]
>there is only one 201 grade you fucking idiot [...]
>luckily, the chinese 201 grade happened to be the same as russian local industry standard 201
So there was more than one 201 grade, and it is used in 2 big markets like China and Russia. This seems like something important that someone working in a stainless steel industry should know, even ignoring that he was ignorant and arrogant.

>Three different writing systems and two syllabary systems add to the language's difficulty.
What is that supposed to mean? Counting Hiragana and Katakana twice makes Japanese hard to learn?

French or Spanish are ok for manga and anime.

Having access to a fairly big selection of Chinese translated VNs is about the only reason I'm glad that I'm a chink.

I only once didn't find a manga that didn't have a translation to a language that I understand. The only translation that I found was French, and I can of get what they where saying.

>two syllabary systems add to the language's difficulty.
Which are piss easy.

>I can of get what they where saying
I need a translation to a language I understand.

Kind*

And they are ?

Yeah, kana make Japanese much easier than Chinese.

>only once
You should probably read more manga, then.

Fun fact. I was climbing a mountain in China and whenever I stood anywhere the throngs of tourists kept asking me to move out of the way so they could take selfies in the most entitled way. All the time.

Mind you these idiots carry boom boxes with Chinese pop, are led by tourguides with megahorns that never shut up, and they like to shout off the cliffs "AHHHHH!" to see if their voice echoes. The trail up the mountain was packed with tens of thousands of tourists, and there is no peace of mind. Plus they constantly spit in every direction, it's like you have to dodge the rain of spit. Oh and my lodging was 3rd world and overpriced too.

So then I go to New Zealand and guess what? I see a woman is enjoying a view on a mountain after climbing it, and then three old chinese women in gaudy jewelry come up by cable car. They take out their cameras and without even looking at the view they start asking her to move aside so they can take selfies. The woman doesn't seem to notice, maybe she doesn't understand English, so they raised their voice. They shouted at her for over a minute before I got fed up with and told them to leave her alone. They just smirked at me and slunk off. The worse part is these bitches could have moved 3 meters to the left and taken their selfie without her, but no, they had it framed just perfect and they sure as hell weren't going to wait for her to move.

Get the fuck out.

Sure thing, you can sing anisons sounding like a middle-aged yakuza with your ere's, Jose.

> and I can of get what they where saying.
That's what translators think as well.
Learn Japanese and compare raws and translations and realize you've been living a lie.

Selfie sticks made Chinese tourists even worse.
They completely ruin any interesting places in Asia.

They're always loud, and they're always blocking someone's path or invading personal space.

Fuck chinks.