Random I'm playing Pokémon in Japanese to practice my Japanese.

[X Lod]

As I already brought to your attention, hello, nice to meet you.I've been practicing Japanese out of curiosity and a desire to do so for a while now.I'm playing to have fun.And I'll play the game to relax, give you the change to download some literature books. I practice reading, and I already know some basic words that I've learned and can speak.Since I've finished the game, I'll show you my team, even though I'm still at the beginning.Thank you for your attention, have a great Monday!

 

[Rocket2049]

i've played visual novels in japanese, since they're QUITE wordy most of the time it's quite a challenge
sadly still terrible at reading kanji, anything outside hiragana/katakana is beyond me, and if a game/novel isnt voiced i'm pretty screwed.

i made google translate my friend, literally pointing my phone at my TV/Monitor and translating in
REALTIME is absurd, what an age we live in now!

 

[X Lod]

i've played visual novels in japanese, since they're QUITE wordy most of the time it's quite a challenge
sadly still terrible at reading kanji, anything outside hiragana/katakana is beyond me, and if a game/novel isnt voiced i'm pretty screwed.

i made google translate my friend, literally pointing my phone at my TV/Monitor and translating in
REALTIME is absurd, what an age we live in now!

Hi, how are you? I hope you're doing well. I'm going to play Pokémon Fire Red in Japanese. Nice to meet you, my name is Paulo, but you can call me Lod. I downloaded some books to practice.

 

[contrail_]

First game I played fully in japanese was Ape Escape on the ps1. While it didn't have a lot of text, the text it did have was simple, written entirely in hiragana/katakana (it's a kids' game after all) and relevant to what was happening in the game, so even if you don't understand some of the words, you can figure it out by context. Believe it or not, by the time I finished the game, my reading speed had doubled (although I was painfully slow at the time).
I would recommend playing Ape Escape in japanese to anyone stuck in the weird place of sort of understanding spoken japanese, but not being able to read it well. At the time I had to use a cheat sheet listing all the hiragana and katakana.
Anyone reading this, please recommend more games like this. Pokemon is a very interesting choice, since most players sort of know what the text in the game is meant to convey.

As I already brought to your attention, hello, nice to meet you.I've been practicing Japanese out of curiosity and a desire to do so for a while now.I'm playing to have fun.And I'll play the game to relax, give you the change to download some literature books. I practice reading, and I already know some basic words that I've learned and can speak.Since I've finished the game, I'll show you my team, even though I'm still at the beginning.Thank you for your attention, have a great Monday!

How difficult is the language? Are there lots of kanji? Does the japanese text give the game a different flavor?

 

[X Lod]

O primeiro jogo que joguei totalmente em japonês foi Ape Escape no PS1. Embora não tivesse muito texto, o que tinha era simples, escrito específico em hiragana/katakana (afinal, era um jogo infantil) e relevante para o que estava acontecendo no jogo, então mesmo que você não entendesse algumas palavras, poderia deduzir pelo contexto. Acredite ou não, quando terminei o jogo, minha velocidade de leitura tinha dobrado (embora eu fosse extremamente lento na época).
Eu recomendaria jogar Ape Escape em japonês para qualquer pessoa que esteja nessa situação de entender mais ou menos o japonês falado, mas não conseguir lê-lo bem. Na época, preciso usar uma folha de dicas com todos os hiragana e katakana.
Quem estiver lendo isso, por favor, recomende mais jogos parecidos. Pokémon é uma escolha muito interessante, já que a maioria dos jogadores meio que entende o que o texto do jogo quer dizer.

Quão difícil é o idioma? Há muitos kanji? O texto japonês dá um toque diferente ao jogo?

Olá, prazer em conhecê-lo(a). Eu estava praticando japonês no aplicativo Green Owl, um aplicativo para celular bastante conhecido. Meu nível aqui é o atual.

Here are also the books I'll be reading for practice. I'm practicing the easier letters first, then the kanji.

 

[Rakoniomm]

First game I played fully in japanese was Ape Escape on the ps1. While it didn't have a lot of text, the text it did have was simple, written entirely in hiragana/katakana (it's a kids' game after all) and relevant to what was happening in the game, so even if you don't understand some of the words, you can figure it out by context. Believe it or not, by the time I finished the game, my reading speed had doubled (although I was painfully slow at the time).
I would recommend playing Ape Escape in japanese to anyone stuck in the weird place of sort of understanding spoken japanese, but not being able to read it well. At the time I had to use a cheat sheet listing all the hiragana and katakana.
Anyone reading this, please recommend more games like this. Pokemon is a very interesting choice, since most players sort of know what the text in the game is meant to convey.

How difficult is the language? Are there lots of kanji? Does the japanese text give the game a different flavor?

I also played Japanese Ape Escape on PS1 and agree with you that it's a good game to learn reading Japanese with aside from that since I love VN's I would highly recommend Ace Attorney it was the game that made me learn english so I'm expermenting learning japanese with it (and honestly any reason to replay Ace Attorney is more than welcome for me)

 

[X Lod]

I also played Japanese Ape Escape on PS1 and agree with you that it's a good game to learn reading Japanese with aside from that since I love VN's I would highly recommend Ace Attorney it was the game that made me learn english so I'm expermenting learning japanese with it (and honestly any reason to replay Ace Attorney is more than welcome for me)

Hi, how are you? I missed talking to you. Well, I ended up going back to my Japanese classes.I'm playing Pokémon Fire Red in Japanese right now, then I'll look for your other recommendations of games to play in Japanese. I remember you saying the important thing is to play, it doesn't matter if you don't...Doesn't know a languageDoesn't know the language

 

[Rakoniomm]

Hi, how are you? I missed talking to you. Well, I ended up going back to my Japanese classes.I'm playing Pokémon Fire Red in Japanese right now, then I'll look for your other recommendations of games to play in Japanese. I remember you saying the important thing is to play, it doesn't matter if you don't...Doesn't know a languageDoesn't know the language

Yup exactly! although playing Pokémon fire Red the original game boy release in Japanese will be quite a doozy since that game only have katakana and hiragana with no kanji, and you will quickly realize why this will be quite confusing to read when you don't know when a word or a sentence ends and when a new one starts

 

[X Lod]

Yup exactly! although playing Pokémon fire Red the original game boy release in Japanese will be quite a doozy since that game only have katakana and hiragana with no kanji, and you will quickly realize why this will be quite confusing to read when you don't know when a word or a sentence ends and when a new one starts

Do you remember telling me that day to learn these alphabets?

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

That's certainly interesting as a concept, but I have heard that you are better off sticking to the Famicom for more direct, word-by-word learning — that console didn't really allow devs to go all "flavor text" on them, so it's mostly like reading a Japanese book (or so I have heard).

 

[X Lod]

Isso certamente é interessante como conceito, mas ouvi dizer que é melhor ficar com o Famicom para um aprendizado mais direto, palavra por palavra — aquele console não permitia que os desenvolvedores criassem muitos "textos descritivos", então é mais como ler um livro japonês (ou pelo menos é o que dizem).

'll stick with GBA. And I'm practicing memorizing words with the Pokémon game; I know the basics of Japanese, like introducing myself and other things.

 

[Rakoniomm]

Do you remember telling me that day to learn these alphabets?

Yes I remember it very well

 

[X Lod]

Sim, eu me lembro muito bem.

Thank you for your patience, I'm learning how to type letters on my phone. Do you have more recommendations for gaming apps or magazines?