[exsmoker]

Hey, I was wondering if anyone here has bought this game on the DS and how good it might be. I already have Tadashii Kanji: Kakitori Kun, but learning kanji is kinda useless without knowing much vocabulary to back things up.

My Japanese Coach is supposed to have 10,000 words across 1,000 lessons, but my main concerns are about how much romaji the software relies on or how well the game helps with vocabulary education and retention.

Of course, I am open to other forms of vocabulary learning if ya got any ideas. I would consider myself of the intermediate range since I know about 200 of the kanji and can read a good amount of text, just not able to understand it as well as I would like.

[ssupermegatone]

A classmate of mine and our school's student-tutor use this. They report that they like it a lot, and I've seen them using it to look stuff up during our study sessions. I haven't looked at it myself, though.

[dfuzioniag]

That seems like a good way to study Japanese in the train, I'll have a look.

[vosteglog]

Hey, I was wondering if anyone here has bought this game on the DS and how good it might be. I already have Tadashii Kanji: Kakitori Kun, but learning kanji is kinda useless without knowing much vocabulary to back things up.

My Japanese Coach is supposed to have 10,000 words across 1,000 lessons, but my main concerns are about how much romaji the software relies on or how well the game helps with vocabulary education and retention.

Of course, I am open to other forms of vocabulary learning if ya got any ideas. I would consider myself of the intermediate range since I know about 200 of the kanji and can read a good amount of text, just not able to understand it as well as I would like.

So I checked it out and it's a nice program and I'm going to use it in the train. You can check/uncheck if you want to use romanji or not. It begins very simple so I have no clue how much and what kind of word are used. Grammar is pointed out. Some nice programs to use are ReadWrite Kanji and Rosetta Stone.

[hLabXZlK]

It's weird how details of this game are pretty sparse. Every review I have read pretty much said the same thing, but I'm mostly trying to determine how useful it would be for me or if I'm better off using some other method to get some more vocabulary in my brain. As for turning off the romaji, that is something I haven't heard before. I looked it up and it said that you don't get that option until about level 30, which is pretty disappointing to me.

Thanks for the suggestions, but I think I'm leaning more towards passing on this one. From what I have seen, the material seems probably too basic for the level I am at and the bugs really seem to hamper things according to what I have read. Also, I really abhor the use of romaji and would rather stay away from it any chance I could.

[CKDIWEQ]

Best Japanese program for the DS is the one that comes in the black case called something like *Kanji sono mama de..* or something like that.

Its pretty much a glorified dictionary but I keep it handy because I can draw in kanji I don't know and it picks it up. Great for translating stuff on the fly and a lot cheaper than the super expensive electronic styallus dictionaries.

[Goodwin]

Hey, I was wondering if anyone here has bought this game on the DS and how good it might be. I already have Tadashii Kanji: Kakitori Kun, but learning kanji is kinda useless without knowing much vocabulary to back things up.

My Japanese Coach is supposed to have 10,000 words across 1,000 lessons, but my main concerns are about how much romaji the software relies on or how well the game helps with vocabulary education and retention.

Of course, I am open to other forms of vocabulary learning if ya got any ideas. I would consider myself of the intermediate range since I know about 200 of the kanji and can read a good amount of text, just not able to understand it as well as I would like.

It's an ok program. Don't put too much emphasis on the writing exercises, as the stroke order is sometimes incorrect. It's also relatively easy to make it through the lessons without actually learning anything. I think it's too easy to advance, and there's very little reinforcement of previous lessons.

Best Japanese program for the DS is the one that comes in the black case called something like *Kanji sono mama de..* or something like that.

Its pretty much a glorified dictionary but I keep it handy because I can draw in kanji I don't know and it picks it up. Great for translating stuff on the fly and a lot cheaper than the super expensive electronic styallus dictionaries.

Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten (漢字そのまま楽引辞典)

[EjPWyPm4]

I think I have the one that is the dictionary... quite gewd.

Never used this thingy... I'm doing my kanji benkyo this minute... bloody hard going and I think I'm still only at like a 4-5 year old level!