It's also a good idea to have Bulbapedia open so I can get the Japanese translation for Pokémon, attacks, and other things that you probably won't find in the dictionary If you want to write the characters down instead of referencing a chart, Google Translate is useful On the bottom of the text field, next to the microphone icon there is a button labeled あ or with a pencil Select Vulpix is Rokon in Japanese, combining roku ("six") and kon ("the sound a fox makes") Rather than trying to figure out what sound the fox makes in English, the translators chose to combine the cool word "vulpine" ("relating to foxes") and put the "six" at the end, creating the nice little name "Vulpix"Google's free service instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages
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