My Japanese Coach (review of game)

[Francis Hult]

Pocket Gamer

 

My Japanese Coach

 

Learning a language is difficult. For the past couple of years now, I've been trying to teach myself Japanese and I've still only reached the most basic level of comprehension. Mostly, it's difficult just to find the time, let alone get to grips with grammar and syntax and learning words. So a DS game that promises to help students learn the language in just minutes a day sounds too good to be true.

 

That's because it is.

 

There's nothing mysterious about how to learn a language: memorise some sample conversations; learn lists of vocabulary; study some grammar points and reinforce them by using them to form sentences - and it's this latter point that's probably the most important part. Anybody can learn words, but learning to use them is the real art of learning a language.

 

Full story:

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/DS/My+Japanese+Coach/review.asp?c=9694

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