"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@wasabisystems.com> writes:

> I must confess my Japanese skills were not up to following the
> details of the presentations. :) (It is hard to understand much of a
> technical conversation when your vocabulary is limited to phrases
> like "may I have water", "where is the train for Yokohama", and
> "yes, I would like rice." -- give me a couple of years. :)

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NetBSD can be a big help studying Japanese.
http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200202/japanese-netbsd.html