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1. Re: Learning Japanese for playing games

   

   Reply by Yozora · Oct 2011 · Home› General Discussion

   It's good advice for some of the kanji, but you can't build a 100% logical system from it. Well you can, but it won't exactly be logical logical, just a messed up logical based on stories you made up :p And that's not a bad way of learning it, that's what the Heisig method teaches. A common type of example would be…

2. Re: Learning Japanese for playing games

   

   Reply by EmAr · Oct 2011 · Home› General Discussion

   This is good advice. One of the simplest example is the tree and forest Kanji's probably: tree: forest:

3. Re: Learning Japanese for playing games

   

   Reply by System · Oct 2011 · Home› General Discussion

   Thanks Hawken. Yeah I think I'm gonna try a few different games, certainly to start with. Apparently there's a Professor Layton version that shows the furigana with the kanji which might be helpful. I'll get into the grammar more too. I'm starting to get an understanding of it, it's just very weird seeing the same…

4. Re: Learning Japanese for playing games

   

   Reply by FensterMayhew · Oct 2011 · Home› General Discussion

   mm i think the education of japanese through textbooks or 'apps' can be properly (and appropriately IMO) circumvented through the watching of animes and anime drawings. this, afterall, will give you the streetsmarts that will give you the edge in japan, vs the booksmarts and overtly formal method of speech gained from…