Comments on: Learning Japanese = Playing a Video Game, Part 1 /learning-japanese-playing-a-video-game-part-1/ You don't know a language, you live it. You don't learn a language, you get used to it. Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:09:19 +0900 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.13 By: Daikoru /learning-japanese-playing-a-video-game-part-1/#comment-1000048752 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 20:22:53 +0000 /?p=5070#comment-1000048752 I decided to start my 4th video game in Japanese, and also the first one with Kanji yet without Furigana (I played Pokemon HG and the two NDS Zelda games in JP). This 4th one is Super Mario RPG, a game I’ve always kept going back to (so hey, I already know the story!).

I wish to place my focus on reading Kanji, now that I can recognize them all. What I do is simple: I read through everything (doesn’t matter if I don’t understand), and if I stumble upon a Kanji word I don’t know how to read, I look it up and add it to my new vocab deck (I’ll review it later). So far, it’s going quite great and I’m having fun, especially when doing links with words I’ve found often in previous games. I plan to always increase the level after finishing a game, so that there’s always more Kanji to be found, but never an overwhelming amount.

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By: マルク /learning-japanese-playing-a-video-game-part-1/#comment-160191 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:33:30 +0000 /?p=5070#comment-160191 This is getting really off-topic, but there are lots of private servers for Ragnarok Online. I’m sure at least one of them would be Japanese. MMOs aren’t fun for a super long time, anyway, but I mean, if you like RPGs, you could at least look for alternative options like the one I mentioned.

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By: ライトニング /learning-japanese-playing-a-video-game-part-1/#comment-159395 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:49:25 +0000 /?p=5070#comment-159395 I never caught onto MMOs, and since i’m AJATTing Japanese, i can’t, cuz they only people to play if they have a Japanese IP

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By: Miss Language Learning /learning-japanese-playing-a-video-game-part-1/#comment-159374 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:07:47 +0000 /?p=5070#comment-159374 You’ve never played Ragnarok Online?! Porings are the cutest things alive.

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By: Kimura /learning-japanese-playing-a-video-game-part-1/#comment-159132 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:29:40 +0000 /?p=5070#comment-159132 Exactly what Japanese Level Up is talking about. Catching up on a two-week-long backlog of Anki reviews (Achievement Get! – Three-Day Monk Green Belt) feels almost like repeatedly going through Petalburg and stomping Goombas to get enough Star Points to fight Rawk Hawk, a miniboss from three chapters later. (Sorry if you don’t get it, the “Paper Mario” and “Mario & Luigi” series are the only RPGs I’ve actually been able to get my hands on.) Or going back to the katamari comparison (again, haven’t found a copy of that game), having a car-sized katamari and trying to pick up sand. Well, I’ve got 600 grains of sand stuck in my 靴 right now (200 shaped like kanji, 250 of the vocab type, and 50 unknowns), and good grief I want to get past those already!
 
Wow, that train of thought went out the 窓 in a hurry.

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By: ライトニング /learning-japanese-playing-a-video-game-part-1/#comment-158950 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:02:32 +0000 /?p=5070#comment-158950 What is a poring.

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By: Monochrome /learning-japanese-playing-a-video-game-part-1/#comment-158807 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:41:29 +0000 /?p=5070#comment-158807 Sometimes it feels more like grinding.

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By: Miss Language Learning /learning-japanese-playing-a-video-game-part-1/#comment-158805 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:38:59 +0000 /?p=5070#comment-158805 OMG there’s a poring on the picture, there’s a poring on the picture! <3

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By: Mattholomew III, Esquire /learning-japanese-playing-a-video-game-part-1/#comment-158796 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:05:16 +0000 /?p=5070#comment-158796 Former video game tester here. They’re already a chore. Great article though!

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