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Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Hikari — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:21:11 -0000

i dont know if u already found it
but u can download (Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten) from here:
http://www.romulation.net/NDS/0405_-_Kanji_Sono...

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Meronpan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:49:07 -0000

My Japanese Coach. Love it. Learned Kana in 2 days, it works perfectly. It learns you japanese from scratch to I don't know where. I do know it has over a 1000 lessons.

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

cocomonk22 — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:30:35 -0000

Like Ally said, there was a second edition of 正しい漢字かきとりくん released on November 27, 2007. It contains all 1945 jouyou kanji rather than just grade 1-6 kanji, so you may want to update this post so that readers will refer to that version instead (http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-9g-49-en-70...)

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Nana — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:12:46 -0000

Hi Viet! I'm currently studying Japanese. Would u mind sending me the link?

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Funbit — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:30:55 -0000

I've found this post in the google and I should say that these 2 applications you mentioned - Tadashii Kanji and JDS project are the best ones in their genre! I've bought my DS Lite in Tokyo and got Tadashii Kanji right away :) And I'm very happy with it!

PS. "M3 Simply" will help you to run "JDS Project" app.

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Erin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:40:46 -0000

楽 is "easy" and 引く (a verb) is "look up". It's probably hard to translate because 引く has so many definitions (e.g. play an instrument, pull, etc). Hoped that helped!

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

grikdog — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:23:53 -0000

Can anyone tell me what "rakubiki" （楽引） means? It's not in the dictionary (!) I would think something like raku pottery, pulled hot from the fire? So the name would be "The right Kanji, pulled from a hot dictionary" or something like that? Sorry, but 漢字そのままDS楽引辞典 gives me way more information than I need to make a fool of myself ^^;

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Ally — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:17:29 -0000

has anyone gotten the SECOND version of Tadashii kanji kakitori-kun that came out in, I think, november? I want to get this game but I'm guessing the second version is better. can anyone confirm that?

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

wolf — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:00:46 -0000

It's a bit newer than your article, but DS Bimoji Training is really nice for making your kanji look nicer. It even comes with a swank brush stylus.

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Mark — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:39:02 -0000

Hi All,

Erin, in the game, when you input a word/character and it gives you definitions, if you select(jump) it selects the english word, when it would be cool if it let you select th eunknown kanji in that definition. Hope it well enough this time. Cheers.

Mark

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Erin — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:31:31 -0000

Not quite sure what you mean, Mark.

If you want to clarify over email, though, we'll try our best to help.

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Mark — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:41:41 -0000

Hi,

does anyone know if/how to jump to a particular kanji, not an english word, in Kanji Sonomama. I've just started using it and cannot seem to work out how do it. Be such a shame if it's not possible. Cheers.

Mark

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Veksar — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:36:24 -0000

The zoolean website is down...is it still maintained at all? If not does anyone know of any other hiragana/katakana DS software? Thanks!

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Erin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:41:50 -0000

Ionna:

Glad Tofugu advice is producing real world results!

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

lonna — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:48:31 -0000

This has got to be the best thing ever!!! Everyone studying Japanese should get one!!!

PS Because of Sonomama I now know that in my Sailor Moon Doujinshi Queen Beryl is telling the guy with the white hair (I can't remember his name) to "Take out the trash" in reference to Sailor Venus, who she just hit in the head! Ah!!! I wanted to know what she was saying for literally years!!!! But there was no furigana so I couldn't figure it out!

SO HAPPY <3

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

lonna — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:31:36 -0000

thank you so much for the quick reply!!!!! :)

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Shtephen — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:44:08 -0000

lonna I cant post a picture of it her but if you go to www.amazon.com and search "kanji Dictionary" it will come up with the title in English its a the game is in a black case with with and has a blue,yellow and red stripe at the bottom. plus Its $42.95 if you buy it on amazon wich is cheaper than some of the sights that people listed above.

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

lonna — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:47:19 -0000

I know this post is old but can some one put a picture up of what the sonomama game looks like. The one that recognizes kanji. I could really use that but I want to make sure I'm buying the right thing!!! THANK YOU!!!

This has got to be the best looking game ever! It would help me learn Japanese so much!

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

ブロ — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:00:57 -0000

First of let me say that CM is funny, and second! I am off to play-asia to import all of these games. This is fantastic find, I just bought a DS lite. This would help me out alot in the kanji department.

Thanks for the post Koichi.

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

bRadO808 — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:25:47 -0000

Although people have already said it, I'll just repeat that the first game is called 漢字そのまま　DS 楽引辞典 (Kanji Sonomama DS RakubiKI Jiten), in case anyone is still having a hard time finding it because of the misspelling. I personally bought this game and then put a copy on my R4 DS when I got one. I'd definitely recommend it.

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Tyler — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:47:03 -0000

What's the game called in English?

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Kaijiru — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:59:20 -0000

So the DS is like the leapfrog of Japan? Ugggh, I was born in the wrong country!

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Antonio Pratas — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:57:14 -0000

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Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

nororu — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:57:27 -0000

I got it for xmas! the DS with the Kanji Chikara! WEEE!

Still trying to figure it out though, still in the middle of the basic japanese course.

\ (^-^) /

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Kao — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:49:58 -0000

wow. all these games sound cool and all but you need to know at least some japanese. Are there any games you can think of or find that teach you japanese in english?