My Japanese Coach
by UBI Soft
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Video Game Reviews of My Japanese Coach
Customer Review: My Japanese Coach
Summary: 5 Stars
hey Yo - bought "My Japanese Coach" to reinstall lost brain-cell data. My Japanese Coach is not a game as such, but if it makes it easier for you to learn by thinking its a game then WTF, who am I to block your learning process. if you spend 30 minutes a day with the yer "Coach" the learning curve is like "no sweat". 4 learning basic Japanese "My Japanese Coach" is worth a ton of money. has a cute female voice and avatar - sooo cool (kokkui in Japanese - not in the lessons so far). if you are wannabe otaku - this is tha thing. hey - buy a new Nintendo DSi and tha "Coach". WOH!! that funny little guy with tha glasses on the front of the case says it all, "Learning IS fun!!" Buy it!! NOW!!Customer Review: Placement test woes
Summary: 4 Stars
Apart from the flaws in the kana writing system as mentioned by other reviewers, I found this to be a pretty nice game. The mastery points system is designed to force you to practice new words at least three times before it's considered "mastered," which I found to be a nice alternative to my "eh... I've got 90% of these words memorized, I'm doing something else" approach that I end up taking when learning from a textbook.
That being said, this game has progressed very slowly for me because of how much Japanese I already know. I've been told by my Japanese teachers that I probably know enough to pass the nikyuu proficiency test, and I've had three years of college-level Japanese. My current aim is to expand my vocabulary so I can speak the language better, so when I heard there were nearly 1,000 lessons with 10 vocabulary words each, my interest was definitely piqued in this game. I finally picked it up when I heard that there was a placement test that would give you a head start if you did well enough.
The problem is that the placement test only allows you to skip the first ten lessons of the game even if you get everything correct. It does you mastery credit for 107 words, the content of those first ten lessons, but considering there are supposedly about 10,000 vocabulary words in the game, I was sorely disappointed at how little I was able to skip. So here I am slugging through basic words like "onna no hito" and "neko" - at least three times each, thanks to the mastery points system - and I'm bored out of my skull. I would say the material I was able to skip was covered in the first semester of my first year high school Japanese class. If you're much beyond that, you'll probably find the beginning of the game pretty boring too.
I'm not giving up on the game, because I know that advanced vocabulary is in there - I'm just irritated I have to go through so much busywork to get to it all.
Customer Review: Great product
Summary: 5 Stars
Great product if you own a DS and want to learn Japanese. listen, record, and compare your pronunciation with a japanese speaker. learn to read and write hiragana & kanji. Customer Review: its ok
Summary: 3 Stars
well first off i must point out several things
some of the kana are WRONG.. look japanese must be written in a certain way.. this game can mess you up later when you try to write.. but you can skip the fading characters game so its not a big deal as long as you get a good workbook..
the vocab is ok.. however its not reviewed enough.. you see one word for one day and you might not have it come up in the study games for a long time.. which is upsetting when it finally comes up and you dont remember it..
i love the bridge builder game.. its actually very helpful to me..
the game also starts slow.. if you arent a total beginner get ready for a long boring review the first week.. but whatever.. reviewing is a good thing right?
all and all worth the money but not as great as i had hoped..
Customer Review: Love It!
Summary: 4 Stars
This game is not going to make you fluent, however, it will serve as an INCREDIBLE supplement to your Japanese learning. The lessons are bit-sized, the games reinforce learning, and you're can spend 15 minutes with this every couple days and really make progress! I have a couple of other Japanese books and while I use them as well, this game is easy to pick up and get lost in!
The only real knock I have on it is that I wish there was a game that did nothing but quizzed you on hiragana and katakana. Learning Japanese characters can be a challenge for those of us who have only used the English alphabet.
Also, I wished there was more control in some of the games so that you could define what you want to be quizzed on. That could help you smooth out your problem areas.
Still overall, this is a fun, educational game that will make you excited about learning Japanese!