Thread:WhiteSamurai/@comment-26022332-20150119125446/@comment-25978970-20150120035743

Japanese children are not able to read from the newspaper until roughly 9th grade.

Just let that soak in when you are thinking about learning Japanese ;P

As for learning how to understant Machine Translations -MT- it's more of how your brain functions rather than a trained skill. The process that I described to you happens in roughly 3 seconds, with typing of an entire paragraph taking 15 seconds.

A majority of the time it takes to release a Day -1~3 hours- is because I run that same instance over and over again creating over a dozen versions and interpretations in front of my eyes, which take about 5 minutes in total, then I go through each of the ones that I made, and chose the best one taking into consideration the cues from the previous three paragraphs and future 6 paragraphs to ensure that everything is properly synced. This process takes roughly 10-15 minutes.

After that is done, a paragraph is born.

Though, when i'm reading to just read, this entire process happens in less than ten seconds. The reason it takes so much longer is because of how much data i'm holding in my short term memory at one time. I'm holding every word from 10 paragraphs in my short term memory as well as over a dozen interpretations of it all at the same time when i'm cleaning for a novel. When i'm just reading, I'm storing the information in Long term memory as I go, so there is far less effort involved, as well as almost no focus to maintain the information.

From what i've been told, not many people come close to this, but if you can, feel free to pitch in and say so XD

~White