I don't know how many people know about this but after all the "My ___ Coach" Nintendo DS games for learning Spanish, French, and English they are finally branching out into Asian languages.
My Chinese Coach (Mandarin) was released the other day. I played around with it a bit yesterday. Clearly made in mind of the Olympics, but it included writing
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teaching you words with pronunciation, pinyin, and also the character.
Games and stuff to re enforce the lesson.
There was then a segment where you are shown stroke order and trace the characters, then are made to draw them without a guide.
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Sorry if I'm asking too much XD
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It's designed to start teaching people who don't know a single word but the first thing the game makes you do is take a placement test so odds are if you have already been studying they will start you somewhere closer to where you are at. I don't know HOW advanced the lessons get though.
The first lesson it started me with, I knew half the words but then it did start introducing words I didn't know pretty quickly. Granted that's not to hard since my Chinese sucks and only consists of common words and phrases people use around me. lol
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Like I said I didn't play it that long, but... it started me on lesson 8 so it sort of jumped right into teaching me a handful of words.
Starting with "I" and "You" they expanded on those with "We" and "They" and some other pronouns. Then it introduced a few verbs to explain grammar and combining them with the pronouns to make basic sentences like "You run."
Considering I was on what the game considered a toddler level (I really only skipped the pronunciation sections) the lessons were really simple but they seemed to be well formed and progressive.
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(I keed, I keed. I'm sure Korea's a lovely country, but outside of actual Koreans there honestly seems to be an absolutely minimal interest in the country in the US, whereas both Japan and China seem to have a sort of mystique about them)
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Though... You would be shocked at how many Korean Americans can't speak Korean... and even have parents who do speak it. >_
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And if you want something to accompany this game you might want to look at Kanji Sono Mama Rakubiki Jiten, which is designed to teach kanji.
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