Good games to practice Japanese reading comprehension with

[Enecororo]

I'm the type of person that tends to easily freeze up when encountering words or etymology that escape me but I feel like I should know easily

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Com licençaExcuse me, if it's not a bother for you, can you help me learn a very good game for me to learn that is for very basic beginners, I don't even know basic Japanese. I still want to learn.

Unfortunately I don't have any recommendations of games where you can start from zero, cause I actually took learning courses before I started playing games

 

[qw90700]

I also have a tip for Japanese learners.

Seeings tons of Kanji, it may be hard to read and they all "look-alike" but there is a trick to identify what a Kanji is to classify them so you may don't know what a Kanji means yet if you can understand what the sense trying to say you'll get what the Kanji probably means.

Kanji 101: Kanjis are made of radicals. I'll skip Chinese language history and directly will say Kanjis made of meaningful symbols being combined to for words. That's why Kanjis should be considered a word than a letter, and then some Kanji words are made of one letter.

The most popular example of how Kanji is made of radicals is the word for an island: 島

Yes WTF is 島 I can't even see this shit!!! What a bunch of rubbish lines all around!!!

島
Ah that's better. So 島 is made of 2 radicals for mountain 山 and bird 鳥 and you may notice these radicals being on top of each other in 島. Why it means "island" is Japanese people knew that what an island is is top of a mountain and seeing a bird on an island is relatable concept that means an "island". Kanji words have such "make senses" meanings and radicals they are formed with. But sometimes why a Kanji have some radicals are lost to history because it meant something to people back then but not anymore but somehow you can make sense it yourself.

Radicals are standard materials used to make a Kanji word so before learning Kanjis it will help you to learn radicals and make sense of them. Fortunately there are way less radicals than there are Kanjis. You may never even see some Kanjis but you bet you'll see radicals everywhere.

Another good thing about radical logic is every Kanji about same topic has same radicals. For example the radical "彳" is for any Kanji about movement and action. For example: 行 (to go). Notice "彳" is in left part of the " 行". Sometimes radicals' meaning used abstractly. For example 徒 (Foot soldier/Follower), 律 (Law/rhythm). Japanese is a poetic abstract language and once you get the knack for it you'll became a poet in no time!!!

Lastly what to say about radicals in Kanjis is, not all radicals you'll see in Kanji words is there for their meanings, they are there to let you know how they are pronounced. So when you see 3 radicals making 1 Kanji, 2 of them will be about its meaning and one of them will be about how it is pronounced. Sometimes the way it is pronounces is easy because that's how the radical is pronunced, but sometimes the way of pronouncing them is because of something happened in daily life of people long time ago but it's unknown what happened so they decided that word should be pronounced in that way or they changed its pronouncion for some reason. Sometimes instead of a radical the whole pronouncing of one Kanji lets you know how a group of Kanjis together pronounced.

For example "房" means "inner part a building" and that's why it can mean a chamber or a prison cell. "房" is made of "戸" and "方". So if you never saw this Kanji before, by knowing radicals you know 戸 can mean door or a house and therefore a building; but 方 can mean lots of stuff like a direction, person, square, a way of doing things like a policy or method. So trying to match these meanings with door and building either way not really make sense so it may be a way for you to ensure this time "方" is not used for its versitile in meaning but used for its sound "hou". And we know "戸" has the sound of either "to" or "ko" when it is used for pronouncing a Kanji and it also sounds like how 方 pronounced we can figure out how it might be pronounced. And then it can give you an idea of the Kanji kinda means "direction in building" -> "inner part of a building". So when you have no idea of what a Kanji means this is partly how you can make sense what a Kanji can means.

For example: "部屋" (room) made of 2 Kanji words that is pronounced as "bu ya" individually but its actual pronouncing is "he ya" in Japanese. This is rather part of how Japanese language took Chinese words but changed their pronouncing.

Check this shit out to learn radicals to make sense Kanji yo!!!:

Kangxi radicals - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Enecororo]

Most recently I tried Actraiser and that did not work

 

[JG5009]

Most recently I tried Actraiser and that did not work

Well, it is not something you can simply understand from one day to another, stuff will be difficult to understand for at least several months of active reading/listening, I've been consuming JP stuff since I started to learn in february and I still struggle a lot, I can barely understand a quarter of any text that isn't simple, this takes time, the important thing is to not give up.

 

[qw90700]

Well, it is not something you can simply understand from one day to another, stuff will be difficult to understand for at least several months of active reading/listening, I've been consuming JP stuff since I started to learn in february and I still struggle a lot, I can barely understand a quarter of any text that isn't simple, this takes time, the important thing is to not give up.

Yes don't give up so one day you can beat the final big boss The Tales of Ise!!! It's a very ancient prose-poetry book about love and stuff and its Japanese is so ancient even a native cannot read it lolol.

 

[Enecororo]

Well, it is not something you can simply understand from one day to another, stuff will be difficult to understand for at least several months of active reading/listening, I've been consuming JP stuff since I started to learn in february and I still struggle a lot, I can barely understand a quarter of any text that isn't simple, this takes time, the important thing is to not give up.

I mean I've been doing it on and off for years, but I am probably not far off from you

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How would Dark Tales of the Lost Soul on PS1 be?

Not much text but there's a lot of spoken dialogue

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Ended up playing Doraemon Study Boy Kanji

Which is certainly a choice. Not sure if I'd recommend it for total beginners cause it is assuming you're at least in the first grade as a Japanese kid