My Japanese Coach "Gameplay"

Better quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irOUdE6AxIs&fmt=18

This Nintendo DS software teaches you Japanese and you can use it as a dictionary too! I had to order it from Amazon.com since at the time I was looking for it, I didn't know of any stores in my area that sold it. Heck, it's not even listed on the Canadian Ubisoft site!

I'm horrible at months, days of the week, and numbers as I've never really studied them before. :P It'd be completely different if I saw them in kana or kanji though. Well, except for the days of the week since although I know the kanji, I can't match them with the actual day. ^^;

Also! The "game" actually doesn't teach the proper way to write certain characters. Case in point, as seen in the video, are "yo" and "na". I didn't correct "na" as I wasn't 100% sure at the time. ^^ It's been a while since I handwrote anything in Japanese. :/

The Hit-A-Word mini game is kind of wonky in that you're penalized for not having spiffy reflexes. :P Of course, in this case, part of the failing was due to the DS being on a stand (and everyone knows that the sensitivity of the touch screen goes down when the DS is in an almost upright position, right?!!?!?)

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• nintendo
• ds
• ubisoft
• language
• studies
• kana
• romanji
• romaji
• 日本語

[kuranalyssia]

uhm... i don't really link its Kana.. isn't the first japanese alphabet called hiragana? then katakana and kanji...? forgive me if i'm wrong... but... seriously....

[koukoupuffs]

From wikipedia (easiest source to quote ^^):

"Kana are the syllabic Japanese scripts, as opposed to the logographic Chinese characters known in Japan as kanji (Japanese: 漢字) and the Roman alphabet known as rōmaji. There are three kana scripts: modern cursive hiragana (ひらがな), modern angular katakana (カタカナ), and the old syllabic use of kanji known as man'yōgana that was ancestral to both."

[dsid4evr]

does this coach also teaches kanji(and pronunciation of it)

and r the nds games region locked?

[koukoupuffs]

Yes, there are kanji lessons. I haven't gotten there yet though. And seeing that the Reference section actually has pronunication of phrases and words written in kanji, I do believe the game will teach you the pronounce them too! :D

The DS and PSP certainly don't have region lock but I don't know of any handheld system that does. There might be though. I dunno.

[veronhurde]

Aah! I keep erasing my current saved data on this game for an unnecessary bad or dumb reason!!! I never make it further in this game!! I even wasted a couple of notebook papers with the same words! I'm terrible at this!!

[hamielgaming]

i would suck in this game. i dont even know how to count in japanese T_T

[baconrocksable]

i love this game i am a 2nd grader now

[bartman464]

0:56 did i just hear kamikaze?? O.o

[Kryanwan8]

Francis: I heard a boomer!.. It sounded Canadian.

[zaldude]

How long have you been playing this game to get to that rank, "Pre-schooler" It says 100 words or something right? How long did it take you?

[IS91Videos]

Long live Haruka (If you didn't know, Haruka is the lovely Japanese woman teaching you :) lol) This game is great!

[WurStGoESCrAzY]

OMG,

that game really sucks! Even the hiragana got a wrong stroke order there (よ and な) ~.~

I prefer the good old book and a ballpen :>

[Deviruu418]

@ben2028

It does eventually switch to kana, once you "mastered" it in the game. If some people can't handle it you do have the option to switch back to romaji.