Language

[Miley-Winters]

Maybe you know that problem (actually propably not XD).
You're looking for a title for whatever you do (a story, a poem...) but you think that english is way too boring this time, so you want a japanease title. So you're tiping a randome title into a translater and make it translate that title into japanease. And what do you spot? A couple of really similar-shaped boxes. While you're propably a little bit confused, you try it again. And again. And again. Til you get so pissed, that you try to hit your screen with one of your speakers (I'm a pretty aggressive chick, belive it or not XD).
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So here's my question: Is there a program to download, that can show the actual JAPANEASE WORDS? I'd be great if I could see WORDS for once, not only strange boxes that return into the english language when you translate it once again.

I'd be happy (and less pissed and freaked out^^) if someone could help me^_____________________^

[Mirae]

You're seeing the boxes because your computer, being English-based, doesn't recognise the Japanese writing. To be able to see the words you should download a Japanese Language pack, just do a search for google and you should be able to find it no problem :)

http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=japanese+lang+pack&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

[Miley-Winters]

Thank you-su! I can finally see the signs, but...I actually needed to know, how to show the japanease words, not the signs. Here's an example:
I want to translate Goodbye into "Sayonara" and not into "さよなら".
Wait....Is there a program to make this happen anyway? XD

[Dr. Aeyze]

Not that I can think of, you might just have to romanize it youself.
I'm not sure if you can - I haven't downloaded it and played around with it yet myself, but JWPce might help;

http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~grosenth/jwpce.html

It's a free download japanese word processor, might be worth having a look into.

[~Manick~]

You'd be a lot better off just learning all the Hiragana yourself. You'll get a lot more out of it, and it will help you more in the long run. I started learning japanese quite a while ago, and now turning Hiragana into romanji is second nature to me.

It is actually a lot easier than I thought it would be.

Now, Kanji is a whole different story.

[Miley-Winters]

Yeah, you're right, I'm trying to learn Hiragana since some weeks myself^^
Well, thanks to everyone that helped me :)