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Help to find the best game for learning - yenluu - 2015-10-17

Hello guys,
I started to learn Kanji months ago but I don't know the most popular and easy learning page. I searched Kanji game and I found this: ************** --> I have installed and learnt how to count by their app on my Adroid phone. It's mostly useful and easy for me to learn now. Does anyone try it and how your feedback? Do you have any more games or free learning pages that you're going to suggest me?
Thankfull!

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Help to find the best game for learning - Raulsen - 2015-10-17

Well, that depends a great deal on whether or not you want an actual game in Japanese or a game about Japanese. If you want a simple language learning tool, well... I think a game might not be the best way to go about that.

If you're looking to play a game in Japanese and use that to learn the language, then I'd suggest finding something with bilingual text options, at least until you're comfortable enough to play a game in full Japanese. Games that let you switch from English to Japanese on the fly DO exist, but they're relatively rare.

Help to find the best game for learning - ReneSac - 2015-10-18

I find Anki pretty addictive by itself.

I also enjoyed playing Type Mania, but the website where I used do play seems to be offline now... (here for reference, I don't know if it has any malware or something now: http://somoe.org/typing/)

But I found those two now:
http://www.sightseekerstudio.com/typingmania/contents/odyssey.html <-- original one, mostly vocaloid
http://www.sightseekerstudio.com.tripod.com/ <-- shaddy url, but kinda has the original content at somoe.org but unorganized and yet more buggy.

Note that there usually are many errors in the lyrics transcriptions... and unfortunately the kanji version don't have the karaoke effect, so you have to read or the hiragana or romaji lines...

Help to find the best game for learning - SellingTokyo - 2015-10-18

Hi Yenluu,

Are you just promoting your new product? I don't think this forum has any problem with that if so, as you can see the members here are quite helpful.

Help to find the best game for learning - juniperpansy - 2015-10-18

Raulsen Wrote:Games that let you switch from English to Japanese on the fly DO exist, but they're relatively rare.

That sounds sweet. Is there a list of these games somewhere?

Help to find the best game for learning - Nosferatu - 2015-10-18

juniperpansy Wrote:
Raulsen Wrote:Games that let you switch from English to Japanese on the fly DO exist, but they're relatively rare.
That sounds sweet. Is there a list of these games somewhere?

It's not a game about learning Japanese, but fault milestone one lets you switch between Japanese and English by pressing J and E on your keyboard. It's actually 50% off on Steam right now.

Help to find the best game for learning - Raulsen - 2015-10-19

Nosferatu Wrote:
juniperpansy Wrote:
Raulsen Wrote:Games that let you switch from English to Japanese on the fly DO exist, but they're relatively rare.
That sounds sweet. Is there a list of these games somewhere?
It's not a game about learning Japanese, but fault milestone one lets you switch between Japanese and English by pressing J and E on your keyboard. It's actually 50% off on Steam right now.

These are just the games I can think of off the top of my head, but I know all the Final Fantasy remake titles on the PSP allow you to do this, so naturally this includes I, II, and IV. Bravely Default on the 3DS is another awesome example of this, especially since it includes VA. As far as on the fly language-switching goes, these are the only ones popping up in my mind, but there are a few others with more limited language switching.

Resident Evil: Revelations allows you to select your language prior to loading a save file, if I'm not mistaken. The 3DS Pokemon games all come preloaded with 7 different languages including Japanese & English, but once you set your language, you can't change it back without erasing your save data.

One other thing worth considering is that a good portion of iOS games offer Japanese translations and so long as you have your phone set to Japanese, they'll use their Japanese localization. That being said, some games, like The World Ends With You: Solo Remix, seem to be having issues with iOS 9 and refuse to display in Japanese even if your phone's language is set to Japanese. SE is always particularly slow about things like this, so God only knows if they'll even bother fixing it, though.

If you're confident your Japanese has reached a certain level, though, there are a number of games with relatively easy language. From my experience, games like Kingdom Hearts and Ni No Kuni (so long as you don't mind Kansai-ben from Drippy) are very accessible.

Help to find the best game for learning - juniperpansy - 2015-10-19

Thanks Raulsen and Nosferatu I will take at look at those games Big Grin

Help to find the best game for learning - kerosan41 - 2015-10-20

Nosferatu Wrote:
juniperpansy Wrote:
Raulsen Wrote:Games that let you switch from English to Japanese on the fly DO exist, but they're relatively rare.
That sounds sweet. Is there a list of these games somewhere?

Chrono trigger on the Nintendo DS can switch back and forth. Good game as well!

RE: Help to find the best game for learning - ReneSac - 2015-11-20

(2015-10-20, 2:24 am)kerosan41 Wrote: Chrono trigger on the Nintendo DS can switch back and forth. Good game as well!

Warning: only the japanese version has both languages. The USA version removed the japanese support. In the japanese version you can change the language any time you can bring the menu up. And as it is a DS game, the font resolution is very low, but generally quite legible.

RE: Help to find the best game for learning - sholum - 2015-11-20

(2015-11-20, 10:45 am)ReneSac Wrote: Warning: only the japanese version has both languages. The USA version removed the japanese support. In the japanese version you can change the language any time you can bring the menu up. And as it is a DS game, the font resolution is very low, but generally quite legible.

DS fonts are a far cry better than GBA fonts, but yeah... Also keep in mind that, up until DSi enhanced titles, the DS cartridges were region free. So Japanese carts will play on a US or EU device.

RE: Help to find the best game for learning - Raulsen - 2015-11-20

(2015-11-20, 2:39 pm)sholum Wrote:
(2015-11-20, 10:45 am)ReneSac Wrote: Warning: only the japanese version has both languages. The USA version removed the japanese support. In the japanese version you can change the language any time you can bring the menu up. And as it is a DS game, the font resolution is very low, but generally quite legible.

DS fonts are a far cry better than GBA fonts, but yeah... Also keep in mind that, up until DSi enhanced titles, the DS cartridges were region free. So Japanese carts will play on a US or EU device.

Not to condone piracy, but flash carts are an effective way to see which games might be at your level before buying. Certainly more practical than importing w/out really knowing their difficulty level. You can always purchase a game once you've found you can use it this way. Whether or not you do, though... 話が別ですね。