Home Forums Tips, Hacks, & Ideas For Learning Japanese Thinking about getting DS for kanji!

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  • #13326

    Nark
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    So I am busy with college and working but i am starting to worry about my kanji so i though picking up one of those ds and ordering a ds kanji game was a decent idea. any suggestions on that or anyone tried it?

    #13338

    budonoseito
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    If you have a smart phone, there are kanji apps. One less thing to carry around.

    #13343

    Kaona
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    DS Kanji games are fun – I regularly use one at my Japanese tutors house. It’s a great way to help memorise kanji (including the stroke order) and it teaches you the kanji in grade order. You can also learn words from the game and there are other features I haven’t tried yet.

    The only downside is that it’s in 100% Japanese with no English whatsoever.

    #13344

    Sheepy
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    ^Sounds like a bonus to me!

    #13357

    Kaona
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    Yeah but I think you’d require a great good deal (intermediate at the very least) of Japanese to be able to understand anything.

    #13372

    Sheepy
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    Well like if you get Kanji Sonomama, theres a video explaining how to use it. The other ones aren’t too difficult but yeah the writing instructions are pretty difficult for me.

    #13517

    Callisto
    Member

    So uhm, anyone have any suggestions on good games for this purpose? I gleaned Kanji Sonomama, but has anyone here tried any other games?

    • This reply was modified 13 years, 4 months ago by  Callisto.
    #13546

    Kaona
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    ‘Tadashii Kanji Kakitori-kun’ is the one that I use at my Japanese Tutors house. It’s really fun and teaches you how to write Hiragana but mainly it teaches you how to write the kanji from Grades 1-6.
    There is also another feature where you have to remember a certain kanji AND how to write it – it’ll show you a word (LEARN THAT WORD!) and you have to fill in the gap with the right kanji. (I can’t explain this one very well and I might be a bit off on some things as I’ve only tried it once for about 5 minutes.)
    There’s also another feature which I haven’t tried yet.

    I highly recommend this game although you’d probably need a mid-intermediate level to understand most of it.

    #13563

    Sheepy
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTuUw3fKGQo

    Do you really need to know more?

    P.s theres videos showing the ins and outs of using it on youtube.

    #13586

    Kaona
    Member

    Eh, it’s not THAT fun. ;_;

    #13587

    Sheepy
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    Theres a chicken and a little man who tells you things!

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