I am writing a short story in a notebook, in Japanese (!). Of course I don't know how to read or write Japanese, but
www.translate.google.com is such a great tool!
As long as the sentences are short and simple, it translates them into any language correctly.
After writing the Japanese sentences in romanized letters in my notebook, I draw facial manga expressions next to each sentence (just like in this post). It feels as if I was a mangaka! ^^'
I don't want to imagine if someone finds out about the notebook though... Oh my pride!!! XD