After I found out he’d given up, I realised what I’d done: I’d taken all the fun out of it. When I found this site I was thrilled! I hadn’t been exposed to any kind of really ‘out-there’ learning methods before and was having a blast just reading whatever caught my eye. When I told him that he had to read all this stuff, though, it turned into just another pile of text, like a boring text book or something, that was looming over him before he could really get going. This made him procrastinate and eventually quit.

Unfortunately when I realised this I was too late and he had lost his interest in language, but hey, please learn from my mistake: if someone asks you how to go about learning a language just give them the link to this site, tell them to poke around a bit(or just link them to this post, though they’ll probably find it on their own), and make sure they don’t turn it into some kind of dogma.

FWI, if you are trying to learn Japanese with a 3DS, the only vocab you will learn from Mario games is セーブしています。。。 so yeah. Get something like… actually, there is a game that produced by Level 5, in conjunction with Studio Ghibli called 二の国（にのくに）and it comes with a play through book that is necessary to finish the game. I’ve heard good things about it from my friends and there is no, and never will be an English version for the NDS version. So yeah 🙂 might be something worth buying.