After getting back on my Japanese grind, I (Cal James) decide to use and review a piece of software for the Nintendo DS that's designed to help students learn Japanese (日本語).
Is this the piece of English-Japanese edutainment that Japanese students all over the world have been anxiously anticipating? Find out by watching this software review, brought to you by Buffering While Bored!
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Hi James, You are very fun to watch make a review. I would watch you on tv. You have a good screen presence. I am using My Japanese Coach. I am on lesson 277. Past lesson 100, all of the lessons are either just vocabulary or just kanji with no more grammar. I am learning a lot of Japanese vocabulary this way. The game says that I know 2,808 words, but I have learned a lot of other Japanese words on my own so I probably know more like 5,000 Japanese words. I am trying to do all 1,000 lessons. Then my vocabulary will be huge. I don't like mnemonics as a learning method so I won't use the book you talked about. I use A Guide to Remembering the Kanji by Henshall instead because it gives you the etymology of the kanji. For example, the kanji for world (SEkai) is composed of 3 tens connected. Basically, it reads as 30, which in the old days was an average person's lifespan so it came to mean generation or generations of people which in turn came to mean world since generations of people create a society and everything that comes with that (basically the world as we know it). I find I remember the kanji better when I know their origin. Anyway, I think you should keep using My Japanese Coach because I have gotten a lot out of it. I also google all of the vocabulary in the lessons before playing the games. This helps me learn more about the words in context and I remember them better. I also watch a lot of Japanese movies and drama on mysoju and iidrama and such which has helped me advance my Japanese skills. I feel like with the big vocabulary I am getting from My Japanese Coach and the movies/drama plus the grammar I am learning on the internet and by watching movies/drama that I could talk with a Japanese person about almost anything now. Of course, my Japanese would have a ton of mistakes in it but I could do it. I think that if I went to Japan now with everything I know, that I would have an amazing time talking with Japanese people and that my Japanese could get decent very fast. By the way, have you ever seen the Japanese language school called Yamasa? I think it might be the best place to go to school in Japan if you want a good intensive class in Japanese and the prices are good. Save up for it! I really want to go there myself someday.
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