Finger Gun Games previously made its debut on the Wii U eShop with Stone Shire, a Minecraft-style title, but has gone in an entirely different direction for its next release. Ohayou! Beginner's Japanese aims to help users gain the building blocks for learning the language.
The basic premise is that you use flash cards to learn and master Hiragana and Katakana characters, before tackling lessons to prove what you've learned. A trailer and description is below.
Asuka and Kenji are here to help guide you along the path to learning how to read Japanese Hiragana and Katakana. Use digital flash cards to learn how to both write and how to pronounce each character. And when you think you've gotten a grasp of the language, you can participate in a memory game of over 60 lessons requiring you to use your finger to "cut" across the matching Hiragana or Katakana. If you get past these lessons, you will surely learn the basics of the Japanese language!
It's certainly a unique arrival for the Wii U store, and it'll be interesting to see how effective it is. It arrives in North America on 17th November for $4.99, and one week later on 24th November in Europe.
Are you tempted to try this out?
[source fingergungames.com]
Comments 15
Countless apps like this exist for free on the app store or the google play store. It's a nice idea but it will not help you learn Japanese. Hiragana and Katakana are just a tiny part of the language and can be learned within a week. It would be great if it would also teach kanji or at least kanji radicals. Then you could use this in conjunction with a text book and it would make for a pretty effective studying tool.
Day one purchase, for me personally.
This could be interesting.
I have the DS game which Ubisoft did, that worked for me as a good starting point! I already know hiragana and katakana though so if that is all this is it is not for me!
I've tried an app similar to this. I liked it and I felt like I learned something but I stopped playing it after a week or so. Pronunciation is really easy for me since Japanese is close to Finnish in that regard. I remember some of the katakana and hiragana but I can't bring myself to memorize all of them. I know some random words and phrases but you can't get far with the phrases you learn from watching anime. I think I'm just too lazy to study on my own. Unfortunately, I can't study it at my school. I can currently speak and write English, Swedish, German and Spanish (some better than others). The more the merrier.
I can read and write Hiragana, Katakana and some Kanji words. I think it will be easy peasy for me (As long not complicated Kanji).
"And when you think you've gotten a grasp of the language..."
Seeing as they can't speak English, I doubt their foreign language teaching skills.
I learn Japanese by watching anime; what exactly is the difference?
@Handsomistic15 neither will get you very far so in that regard don't change anything
I want this on the 3ds would be a better idea
Not a terrible idea, but there are cheaper ways to learn hiragana and katakana. In fact, you could easily find a chart online right now and memorize it all before this game even releases.
On my birthday?!?! Great!
The perfect app for weeaboos! By the way, I'm not saying anyone on this site is a weeb, I meant that this is the app weeaboos will most likely download.
Neat.
Anybody who wants to learn Japanese should use WaniKani. It's the best tool out there imo.
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