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Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Games - furrykef - 2010-10-18
A couple weeks ago I started a website called Learning Languages Through Video Games (LLTVG for short). Now that I've added a forum to the site, I think I'm ready to start posting about it everywhere, so... hi guys!
It's pretty much what it sounds like: we supply the text of a game in Japanese, as well as the reading of the kanji (or, if the game is kana-only, we supply the kanji that it might have been written with) and a translation to English. (We plan to add other languages, too, but Japanese-to-English is all we have at the moment.) You can use this in myriad ways: you can look through the text and make flash cards out of words you don't know; you can apply the AJATT method; you can play the game and consult the site when you don't understand something; etc.
The site doesn't have much yet, but it's a wiki, so anybody is free to contribute.
Let me know what you guys think, and I hope to see you there!- Kef
Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Games - mezbup - 2010-10-18
All the final fantasy and dragon quest games plus the good visual novels that aren't smutty. お願いします。
Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Games - furrykef - 2010-10-18
Well, I'd like them too, but that's a huge chunk of text you're talking about there. I'd like to concentrate on smaller games before moving up to really huge projects like that. (I have Zelda 3 as an exception because I'm really interested in that one, and Mother 2 because it has a rabid fanbase that would probably be all too eager to help. Also, OoT is there because somebody else started it; I had nothing to do with that choice.
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Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Games - Cheesemaster64 - 2010-10-18
Thanks for info! I used to mine sentences from FF7 by taking a screenshot every time I didn't understand something. The problem is the transition from screenshot to text. Mistyping and or the lack of will to go through 1000+ screen shots kinda made me just want to play the game and forget about the story.
Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Games - mezbup - 2010-10-18
I thought there was already a dump of the txt for some of the FF games. Sure I saw it linked to a while back...
Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Games - furrykef - 2010-10-18
There could be. I haven't exactly scoured the 'net for text dumps. It'd be good to have them, it's just that I'd rather concentrate our energies on projects that are more practical while the site is small.
Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Games - Daichi - 2010-10-18
Great site. On a slightly related note http://japaneseforgamers.com/ is a tumbler site that had screenshots from old games with a word of the day. Unfortunately it stopped getting updated. :/ Would be great to see another gaming word of the day site similar to this one.
And another note. If anyone is interested in playing Super Robot Wars games, http://srw.akurasu.net/ while this place doesn't have scripts, it does have menu translations and tips for a lot of the series.
Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Games - furrykef - 2010-10-18
If somebody wants to add a "word of the day" to the site, I won't stop them. I won't do it myself, though, because I know I'd never have the discipline to update it every day (or even every week).
I think it'd make most sense for words that are very likely to appear in games (like 魔法 or 敵). Many of the words on the site you linked to seem to be random words that just happened to appear in a game.
Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Games - nadiatims - 2010-10-18
Couldn't you have "word of the day" just randomly drawn from a list? some text file on the server which you just adds words to in bulk whenever you feel like it.
Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Games - furrykef - 2010-10-18
Hmm, maybe. And since it's a wiki, anybody could expand the list...
Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Games - jcdietz03 - 2010-10-18
I bookmarked the page.
Not a lot of resources like this (that will translate for you line-by-line).
Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Games - albion - 2010-10-18
furrykef Wrote:If somebody wants to add a "word of the day" to the site, I won't stop them. I won't do it myself, though, because I know I'd never have the discipline to update it every day (or even every week).Since they're only single words, maybe people could get together and prepare lists of words in advance, then it would just be a case of picking one and posting it. 30 words shouldn't take that long to do, and that would be a month's worth of words ready to post.
In about 5 or 10 minutes I managed to come up with about 40 words off the top of my head, (mainly RPG-ish words).
It looks interesting, so I'd like to keep an eye on it. I wouldn't mind trying to help out with the MGS or Phoenix Wright pages either (or making a list of words).