My Japanese Coach
by UBI Soft
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Video Game Reviews of My Japanese Coach
Customer Review: Excellent tool to brush up on your Japanese too. =]
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm Japanese and this Japanese DS Coach helped me brush up on my Japanese skills. Ever since I moved out of my Parents home my Japanese skills got a little rusty to a point where I was having difficulty communicating with my Mom. This Japanese Coach helped me with my basics and even helped me learn words I didn't know before like I never knew how to say the days of the week or the months in Japanese before but now I'm learning them. You learn alot using this coach and I think I'll purchase the spanish one next so I can learn to speak Spanish. I recommend this to anyone and to try the other language coaches as well. Customer Review: Good learning supplement
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great product for people who have dabbled in the language before; nothing, I think, can really take the place of actually being in a classroom, but as for adding to your vocabulary, brushing up on grammar rules, and learning new usages, it's really useful. I took a semester last fall at my local community college, and this game has helped build on that. However, like all self-study methods, in order to be effective, you have to be able to stick with it and manage your time well.Customer Review: Best and Most Affordable Resource
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been studying japanese for about 3-4 years and I picked this up just on a whim. I've tried many of the various programs out there including Rosetta, Pimsleur and BYKI. I must say that this is one of the best for the LEAST amount of money. I am so pleased with this program. It's entertaining and has extensive vocabulary, grammar and many different learning exercises/games. It does cover reading and writing of hiragana, katakana and Kanji. I especially like how it tracks your progress so you stay engaged and motivated by the whole process.
In short, I'm blown away by this software that is so under the radar in the Japanese study community.
Rob
Ps. I wanted to mention that I don't work for this company. I'm adding this because my review is so favorable.
Customer Review: Daijoubu!
Summary: 4 Stars
Got this for my 7 year old to start working on Japanese. Lots of great options. She can go at her own pace. She's not going to become fluent using this, but every little bit helps.Customer Review: A huge disappointment
Summary: 1 Stars
When I first heard that there was going to be a Japanese language Coach game for the Nintendo DS, I thought that by now the developers and publishers of this series would have learned from their previous mistakes.
Well, unfortunately I was was wrong. I got this game as a gift from my older brother during christmas. He knows that I love learning languages and that in high school I was teaching my self how to speak Japanese. Well, I came to an abrupt stop during my senior year because my parents didn't want me learning Japanese. As you can see some people can be racists and stereotype others without even realizing it. Also, just a little bit more background knowledge of me, I'm a major in video game development...
Anyways, 3rd year of college. My brother thought I would like this game and purchased it for me. We were both excited about this game, but were highly disappointed. I wasn't expecting too much due to what we heard on the reviews of the other games, but this is highly ridiculous. The point system is flawed and you don't really learn the vocabulary by the time you get to the next level. Most of the games are boring and half done by the developers, almost like they didn't care about the game and slacked off. The concept of the Rank, "baby, high schooler, adult," is even more flawed. Stroke orders are messed up and vocabulary choice is poor. The lesson map makes you go through a detailed area surrounding Tokyo and then completely zooms out after lesson thirty. What if I want to learn a lesson that features the Ainu people? Oh, I forgot. No one cares about native people.
Gamers should be learning from the JLPT just like students. They're not fools, they deserve to know. The rank system should have also been based on the JLPT to give people a more accurate understanding of their proficiency. Why waste time learning random words if it's not going to help you understand? The way that this game tries to teach grammar is also questionable. They try to stuff so much in just a paragraph of text and expect beginners to understand it. There is so much that the developers left out of this game, that it shouldn't have even been released.
Maybe one day, someone will release a better Japanese language game for the DS. I'm sure of one thing though: if it's good, it ain't a My Coach game.