{"id":1141,"date":"2008-10-26T21:04:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T04:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2008-10-26T21:10:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T04:10:40","slug":"minigames-in-my-japanese-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/minigames-in-my-japanese-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Minigames in My Japanese Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’m up to Lesson 42 which means I now have 10 minigames within My Japanese Coach<\/a><\/em> to choose from. Here is my assessment of the first five:<\/p>\n

Multiple Choice<\/strong> is pictured to the left and is one of the most useful of the minigames for learning Japanese. It is also the one you will want to use if you want to quickly move up levels because you already know some Japanese. You can get through a level\/lesson in about 2 minutes by playing Multiple Choice on Hard setting. After Lesson 30 you can do Multiple Choice in kana<\/em> mode (as pictured) which is nice practice for those still learning to read kana<\/em>. Before Lesson 30 you can only do it in romaji<\/em> mode. When you click on the correct choice in this game, My Japanese Coach<\/em> also says the word in Japanese which is good for listening practice.<\/p>\n

Hit-a-Word<\/strong> is a Wack-a-Mole type game that is completely useless for learning Japanese. This game features no Japanese audio and measures only how quickly you can hit the screen.<\/p>\n

Word Search<\/strong> is also completely worthless. You have to find hidden Japanese words written in romaji<\/em> (even after Lesson 30) and draw a line through them. You will learn no Japanese in doing so, but you will waste a lot of time.<\/p>\n

Fading Characters<\/strong> would be useful for learning how to write hiragana<\/em> and katakana<\/em> were it not for the fact that many characters are written with an improper stroke order, the examples written like a gaijin<\/em> instead of like a native Japanese person, and if the character recognition software was as good as it is in other games like Nazotte Oboeru Otona no Kanji Renshuu Kanzenhan<\/a><\/em>. My Japanese Coach<\/em>‘s character recognition is not nearly as good.<\/p>\n

Write Cards<\/strong> is a little better than Fading Characters in that you don’t have to see the characters clumsily written by a gaijin<\/em> before writing the word provided. You also get to hear correct, native Japanese pronunciation when you finish writing each word. Once you learn hiragana<\/em> and katakana<\/em>, though, Write Cards is of no further use to improving your Japanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m up to Lesson 42 which means I now have 10 minigames within My Japanese Coach to choose from. Here is my assessment of the first five: Multiple Choice is pictured to the left and is one of the most useful of the minigames for learning Japanese. It is also the one you will want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[158],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}