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Originally posted by Unicorn:
Nope. I learn them by using a special Kanji-course after I finished my japanese-basics course. In fact, I already repeated the whole basics course two times and the second time, I also tried to memorize the Kanji in spite of the instructions, the course gave me.
Playing the games is more of a continued test, about how much I already learned.
I see... So, how many kanji are you working on right now? Anyway, it's good to "test yourself" like that, with the help of a game or a manga, both of those help [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img].
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Well, Obbligato comes to mind first. But also playing a japanese original of a game, you already know in english could be of help because if you remember the according english passages, you could use that game for learning too. (So, the CROWD-album could also be of some help for me. Particularly TCI could be interesting, because I think I know this game now by heart.)
Well, the throught of getting the Crowd-album for that reason have occured to me as well. If so, I could use the english version of TCI (and later, the Japanese versions of Doushin and XC2 as well) to improve my skills. Hmm, does it say anywhere that the Crowd-album is a "limited edition", thing? Still, it's kind of hard to say how much of a help it really would be, since the meaning of the text may change during translations...
Speaking about TCI, anyway, since the main character is named Takayuki, I wonder if his name would be written "Taka" (hawk) and "Yuki" (snow)? [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]. and "Yamano", then... "Yama" for mountain and "no", for.... curses, I forgot what "no" stands for...
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Of cause. And the NVLs are usually even better. But the point is: These two kinds of games wouldn't let you run into my "Dokusen"-Problem because you could always keep track of your decisions and search for another path, while SIMs might hide some side-effects of your training in the story that are vital information for your gameplay (as apparently in "Dokusen").
Hmm, yes, I can see that. And with a SIM, it might be harder to see changes int he dialouge and things like that may appears as pointers or soemthing like that, when the results of the meters are pointing in one way... Hmm...