Are there any DS games that are useful for learning Japanese? I tried My Japanese Coach, but didn't go too far into it. Is it actually helpful to understand and be able to comprehend (spoken and written) Japanese?
To my understanding, there are no other Japanese learning games for the NDS. If you are serious about learning a new language, then I would highly recommend you look into Rosetta Stone. Best of luck, miros
Sadly, I don't have money to buy Rosetta Stone, and the computer I use doesn't have sound. If there's a way to download it for free, and if there's any way to put it on my M3 DS Real with Sakura (which probably will epically fail), I'd be overjoyed, but as far as I can assume, it won't work at all. :'(
There is an illegal way to get it for free. It isn't that difficult. Without sound though, you're out of luck. It is a learning program completely based around what you hear and see. There is no version that will work on anything but an actual computer.
There are no other Japanese learning games in English. There are Japanese games that help with kanji, but if you're not at that level yet then there's no point in trying those. If you're still learning kana (Hiragana / Katakana ) I suggest playing these. Don't need sound for it. It's simple and helped me learn kana. Hiragana Drag-n-Drop Katakana Drag-n-Drop I've been through My Japanese Coach a couple times, but I already knew kana and some kanji before using it. So it didn't help too much for me except with some phrases and grammar. I'm sure it'll be helpful to you, though. You may have to repeat a couple lessons more than once to get the full effect. I suggest not only using My Japanese Coach, though, obviously. If you need more internet references for learning Japanese, feel free to send me a PM.
I'm using a laptop with windows vista. Well, the screen went berserk, and the only way to actually use it is to attach a seperate monitor, and use it in safe mode. But, in safe mode, not even plug-in speakers work, so I'm sunk with that. Post Merge: [time]1279062421[/time] Ok, for the DS, all I found was Japanese Coach, and Mind Your Language. Which is the better decision among 2 evils?
Is there a really good place online to learn the Japanese words and spellings (i.e. if they're in Kanji, how to pronounce them with Hiragana)?
Wow! I got many of them! I don't know which one is Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana? http://japanese.about.com/library/blhira.htm http://www.realkana.com http://learnjapanese.elanguageschool.net http://www.kanjisite.com http://thejapanesepage.com http://learnthekana.com ...and many more! Just type learning Japanese at Google search engine and you found many of them!
Haha and thanks for all the links!! Oh, Hiragana and Katakana are hard for me to just say which is which, other than, to me, Katakana is sort of simpler strokes. Kanji, on the other hand, is borrowed Chinese characters. If you want to see what Hiragana and Katakana are like, just look at the links PeachMilk supplied!!
Mind Your Language is good for ro-maji... It's how I learned the basic stuff I know now, but ro-maji isn't useful for much except learning to actually SPEAK Japanese. I'd recommend it to get you started though, then move onto the alphabets. Also: My Japanese Coach is alright for learning to read and write basic Japanese... Give it a chance. Though to be honest I'm actually going to pay for tutoring because I need someone to actually give me feedback on how I'm going with pronunciation and tell me that my handwriting is awful. Haha
Does anybody still have a rom of Coach? I can't find the one I downloaded here, and I can't find a working one elsewhere.
Thank you, but I somehow managed to find a working rom of Coach. Thanks for the consideration though, EntropicKitty
