Jean
11-17-2011

How do you get this skill?

Lena
11-17-2011

Good question.

Larciel
11-17-2011

You must change your job to one of the jobs listed above as having this skill as specialized or preferential. You may not learn Linguistics without changing your job, as there is no NPC who teaches the said skill.

Hernan
11-18-2011

same for alchemy

Misun
11-18-2011

and request convoy

Jean
11-25-2011

Wow i got to get my hands on the Language Reader.

War Hawk
03-21-2012

if you have linguistics can you speak to NPC without their language just like body language?

Yaafm
03-23-2012

Dont think so but you can make things that will let you. PITA part is the 30000 adventure fame needed.

Lisa
06-08-2012

With this skill, dont need body language, just make the dictionary of the language

Chester
06-08-2012

thats just an ignorant uninformed comment. you really think somebody is going to carry the mats around all the time to make a dictionary to speak wherever they go? body language is an essential skill and can not effectively be replaced by linguistics

Erda
06-08-2012

and their are only 4 jobs you can get that have the skill
cant buy it anywhere... its job specific so try playing the game without the language or bodylanguage until you get one of these jobs...

Nina
08-31-2012

silly comments... i have this skill and it is only good for archive browsing when u need to "READ" archives where body language will never help u and translation notes u buy from the interpreter are very few.
usually all recipes have paper and some other trade goods (mostly dyes that are locally in the same area they speak the language u r trying to make the dictionary for). Usually paper is easy to make/get around the world if u buy ramie, collect hemp and more...
it serves me well when i do serious adventuring thats all

Lisa
03-24-2013

WHY IS THERE NO JAPAN LAUNGUAGE!!!

Li Yue
05-14-2013

what is max rank of this skill?

Dongwoo
05-15-2013

R10

Begas
05-15-2013

Max rank of this skill is r16 with Interpreter job

Laurencio
05-15-2013

man, i hope r16 aint max LOL. max alchemy is r13, just like highest recipe, so i'm hoping this is max r10 since r10 is highest recipe here LOL. thanx guys

Almeida
01-04-2014

Once you make language dictionaries do you read them once to learn a language or do you have to keep each dictionary in your inventory? If the latter it would seem this takes up more space than a single Body Language skill, and you can get Aides for Archives you don't have the language skill for.

Xiao Wei
01-04-2014

Pretty sure the dictionaries are an item that sits in your inventory like translation notes (tho they have effect, meaning dictionaries won't lose dura until you use them)

Erda
01-26-2014

you mean... it's like any ordinary piece i never need, until i break it up?

ThatOneGuy
02-27-2015

Eh, so... when grinding this skill, which method gives better prof, making dictionaries, or translation notes? I've got recipe books for dictionaries, but if notes are better...

Guilder
04-20-2015

Just as a small note, a Japanese wiki confirms this skill's highest possible rank is 10, or 10+1 with Interpreter job.

Source: gvo.gamedb.info/wiki/?Skill/List

Nekos
04-21-2015

Why don't put chinese at level 11 and japanese and arctic language at level 12

Nekos
04-24-2015

Make translations is faster and you can sell them to the interpreter.
If you do dictionaries you have to drop them everytime you do 3 or 4, because occupied space at the inventory

Guilder
05-10-2016

About a year from now, whenever chapter 1 from the "Age of Revolution" update is released, it looks like this skill will finally allow players to make Chinese/Japanese translation notes.

Source: gvo.gamedb.info/wiki/?Update/IndustrialRevolution -- namely, listed under Factory production (printing press) according to Google Translate

Chinese/Thai-Burmese notes: R5
C/T-B Dictionary: R8
Korean/Japanese notes: R7
K/J Dictionary: R10

There will be other requirements I don't fully understand yet, mainly to do with that whole industrial revolution angle... but hey. Now we know.