Comments | sinnatious: The Key Word is 'Coach'

sinnatious

The Key Word is 'Coach'

Apr 13, 2009 16:45

So - My Japanese Coach. I've been meaning to talk about it on here for a while, since so many of you classy folks on the f-list are studying the language. It's a nifty little Ubisoft-published game for the Nintendo DS which, as you might have guessed, attempts to teach you Japanese. I probably wouldn't suggest it to anybody as their sole study ( Read more... )

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aventria April 13 2009, 07:26:14 UTC

One irrelevant and arbitrary thing:
OMG POLAR BEAR~!

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missselarne April 13 2009, 13:55:20 UTC

Never picked up the Japanese one.

I have messed around with 'My Spanish Coach' though. Never made it too far as I was sick of doing review of what I was already learning at school. (Though I did manage to learn a very important word: drunk. They don't teach you that at school.)

I'd have to play with it again to see how I like it. I do know there's a sort of second game for Spanish that's just vocab and entirely in Spanish. I don't know if maybe there's one for Japanese.

sinnatious April 14 2009, 10:41:33 UTC

It's the only Japanese learning tool I've found for the DS. :( French and Spanish do seem to get the better treatment - perhaps I should tackle them next!

From what I hear, though, all of the Coach games are quite similar in terms of the layout and mini-games.

thesundaywriter April 13 2009, 14:26:19 UTC

Hm, I tried the one on my friend's DS but I found it too easy? But I didn't know about the quiz at the beginning and her level is lower than mine... that could've been why. I'll definitely try downloading it for myself!

sinnatious April 14 2009, 10:43:59 UTC

Level 11 is still absolute beginner. If you do check it out, definitely take advantage of the cheat! If you've completed JLPT Level 4, you can probably skip the first fifty levels without blinking. ;)

swyrel April 13 2009, 18:02:42 UTC

I've really been wanting to learn Japanese for a while, so this game looks interesting enough, especially since my current Japanese is very, very mada mada dane. One question though, what is the difference between kanji and hiragana? I've heard of kanji and romaji, but never hiragana...

sinnatious April 14 2009, 10:59:09 UTC

Romaji - a i u e o - Japanese written in English letters. It's okay for training wheels, or if you only ever intend to learn a couple of generic phrases or maybe read song lyrics, but if you ever want to make a proper try of learning the language, should be abandoned immediately ( ... )

swyrel April 14 2009, 16:54:17 UTC

O.O I'm confused...but I'm usually confused so, yeah...

Thanks for the explanation though! I guess since I do seriously want to learn Japanese, I'll abandon romaji since that's pretty much the only Japanese I know...

I'm so getting this game. It sounds fun even with all the bugs.

yusahana6323 April 14 2009, 03:54:55 UTC

Sounds dang useful, too bad I'm stuck with an SP. ._. But hearing of all those bugs is kind of off-putting... but still........

Meh, I'm going in-country, hopefully that will prove to be a much better coach for me. ^^;

sinnatious April 14 2009, 11:03:57 UTC

Get a DS already! You can probably pick up a Lite cheap in Japan now that the DSi is out. :P Then you can play The World Ends With You and Phoenix Wright and all the other cool games. ;)

I make it sound terrible with the bugs, but it's really more that the program is not yet all it could be. Definitely, not a substitute for immersion! And you actually go to proper classes, which is way better. I am not so fortunate, so this keeps me from growing TOO rusty. ;)

*sighs* If only we had as many awesome Learn Japanese games as the Japanese do Learn English games. :(