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Dontsudontsu
>>177441 There are two "readings" for Kanji, there's on-reading and kun-reading. As an example, ? (on: Jin, kun: Hito, meaning "person" or "man"). On is the chinese ( might be wrong on this one ) way, and is used when it's connected to other words, like ??? (Nihonjin, Japanese person), while kun is the japanese reading and used when the kanji stands alone (or rather, is not connected with another kanji to form a new word, but a word in itself), as in ??? (Otoko no hito, meaning man (male person)).
Blah, I'm pretty lousy at explaining, but that's the jest of it anyway. As for keyboard, you don't need a special keyboard. There's this great thing called Microsoft IME (if you're using Windows XP anyway), it lets you type directly in japanese. I use a word processor (a text editor with kanji lookup, japanese dictionaries, direct japanese input etc. etc.)
I'll stop now >_<
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