Passively Learning Japanese through Video Games

Don't worry, I'm still making "Japan Meet Andrew Marston" videos, but because they take awhile I'm going to start making these short unedited vlogs to keep connected... because I love you internet.

Although I sit down study at least 3 plus hours a day, when I just have time to kick back I still try to do it in the context of Japanese. Currently my latest fix comes in the form of video game strategy guides, Crash Bandicoot 2 and The Legend of Zelda, Phantom Hour Glass to be specific. Although I don't understand everything, I still pick stuff up here and there and have a great time without slipping back to English.

Also, I switched my Mac's OS into Japanese. That's been fun at times :-\

Tsutaya Homepage (it's cool because it's in Japanese *thumbs up* check it out)
http://www.tsutaya.co.jp/index.html

Category:

Education

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• Japan
• Vlog
• Andrew Marston
• Crash Bandicoot
• Zelda
• Phantom Hourglass
• Learning
• Japanese
• Kanji

[TheBleachAmv]

I am doing french gcse and my parents say it will help with my language learning skills both my parents can speak more than 2 languages so i trust them and they say it will help me with my discipline of learning a language

should I do French to help with my japanesse(sounds kinda weird i know:)

[delbertmon]

im not sure what gcse is, but it sounds like your parents are more experts than I am about learning language and I would trust their opinion.

sometimes to avoid thinking in English as long as possible I'll use Spanish vocab if I don't know the word in Japanese... it's fun, but can be quite confusing if you're not careful.

[StormWolf01]

Wow, that's true AJATT alright.

Nice.

[DOty3]

It looks like your getting somewhere.

I need to buy some nihongo books online maybe.

[LularLollelSquiller]

Good stuff, I live in Taiwan and i've learned most of my Chinese from Manga and games, aside from talking to friends. It's a great method, because i'm not a textbook guy. (Chinese language textbooks are the worst...)

[Suisei]

@Clearie552

I think I do. It's called Slime forest right? : O

[Clearie552]

hey I heard there was actually a video game made specifically for studying japanese... like it was an rpg that teaches you kanji or something.. I forgot what it was called, but does anyone know what I'm talking about?

[Ziris85]

I'm actually learning (or at least TRYING to learn) japanese, and changing the OS language was one of the things I tried. Seemed like a nice idea at the time, only problem was I had NO clue what anything was. It was all, like, WAAAY above my skill level! So I found myself just memorizing the locations of things I needed, rather than reading what it said! So try and not fall into that BAD habit! I eventually undid it and installed a virtual machine in JP so I could switch back as necessary.

[Luxverus]

what are those 1500 kanji/hanzi on the wall?

youre using it to keep track of what you still got to learn, is it categorized in some manner?

[iwantinyoursocks]

Haha sweet books :).. I really want that zelda book!

[santiagoff]

Remember that game has a feature to show furigana of kanjis you don't know~

[TheBleachAmv]

Thanks for the quick reply I will try it and see if it works out and also please keep posting more videos they are great:)

[delbertmon]

@zionviller ffdq FOR THE WIN!! seriously, thanks.

[zionviller]

@delbertmon FFDQ(dot)com has walkthroughs for almost every Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest game in Japanese. Quite cool!

[myfreepaysite1]

right on. thanks for the response and it's really cool you post these videos. keep em coming

[iammike08]

It's ok, you own a Mac therefor you are forgiven.  lol

[delbertmon]

@iammike08 classic blunder on my part, did my quick conversion the wrong way. thanks again :-)

[iammike08]

Yeah, unfortunately, today 50 yen will cost you 55 cents.

[delbertmon]

@iammike08 haha, I guess the going rate is dropping faster than I thought.

[iammike08]

I wish 47 cents still got you 50 yen. :(

[delbertmon]

@zionviller sweet! where did you find the online guide?!

[zionviller]

Cool! 偶然にも, I just switched all my OS's and devices to Japanese.. and started playing Final Fantasy 6 in Japanese along with an online walkthrough.. in Japanese.

..it really takes the edge off of studying.