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Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Ziko577 — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:01:07 -0000

Agreed. Oh, and did you know it's outdated as well. Most of those are 3rd Edition Jitens. Most are on the 4th now. They made this game when the other was in the process of being phased out. That's why I don't care for it.

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Ziko577 — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:59:19 -0000

I heard that game takes too long to learn the Kana (Hira and Kata). But it is self-paced so that's probably why. Instead, my method was a shotgun one. I just went to a few places online like Wikipedia and used the charts there. They even play out how the strokes are done for the majority of them. I learned it all in about 1 day.

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Pipo Santo Maldonado — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:34:37 -0000

what baffles me of sono mama is that many many words don't have translation into english.
i tried looking for some words of a wii japanese game, and i found them pretty quick, they just didn't have translations ,and are explained in other kanji, as translation dictionary , needs some polish

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Yin69YangMaster — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:04:11 -0000

Oh also, will it work with my Acekard2i? because that's all I have.

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Yin69YangMaster — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:02:55 -0000

Hi, I was wondering if you could please send me the link too?

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Marcgraci — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:16:41 -0000

There's also UBI Soft's fantastic "Coach" series. They have "Japanese Coach" and it's pretty good for vocabulary. It's fun, too.

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Katexgg — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:49:10 -0000

I know this is super late, but would I be able to get the link too?

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

calvinlovessashimi — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:28:07 -0000

so would you recommend this over an ipod touch?

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

buburkentang — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:54:27 -0000

http://www.romulation.net/N... this the link for this game DBV, but u have be a mamber to in romulation.net and its free...

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Shadow — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:52:49 -0000

The New Dragon Quest 9 for DS in japanese is awesome, one of the main reasons its good for japanese learners is because It has furigana throughout the whole game.

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:
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EDIT: We don't condone the linking to ROMs unless it contains a freeware license -Viet

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/pa...

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