I discovered this a little bit ago. I remember faintly before my Japanese days that I saw all those weird little stick figure thingies and thought it was some kind of morse code. Lol. I also am planning on buying one of those DS games that works on teaching and practicing your kanji. Theyre designed to teach eight year old Japanese kids how to learn kanji, but hey. I have the knowledge of a Japanese two year old anyways. (in Japanese, of course!)

I have used “My Japanese Coach” before.. I probably wouldn’t recommend it though. There are a bunch of other ones I had that were pretty good but I can’t remember their names.

When I had a DS I strictly used it for Japanese studies. After I got an iPod touch and then later a Samsung Galaxy S I never used the DS and ended up selling it. If you can get an iPod touch (they are cheap) or android phone you will have much better, higher quality learning services on hand compared to the DS (including textfugu if there is wifi near by).

My biggest problem with the DS is how the touch screen isn’t the most accurate. So I would be drilling through kana and it would tell me I got it wrong when in fact the stylus for some reason lost contact with the screen counting it as more than one stroke. I now use a stylus on my Samsung Galaxy S for drilling kana and kanji. I ended up selling the iPod as I prefer Android over Apple’s IOS. To each their own.

I was considering buying another DS the other day. Mainly for playing games in Japanese like dragon quest or Pokemon. However, for drilling and writting kana/kanji, an iPod or Android phone would be much better. PLUS both IOS and Android can get Anki apps (free on the android).

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