teach2000 and vocatrain

I use teach2000 to learn words for languages. It is a free program and you can download lists for it or make them yourself. I am going to add lists for my Japanese coach here :

http://www.vocatrain.com/chapters.php?book=987&chapter=1&part=&year=

btw on vocatrain you can also practice in the same way without downloading or making an account.

http://www.teach2000.org/
this is what teach2000 looks like :

vocatrain :

my japanese coach lesson 16 through 20

It gets more difficult now, the grammar is really complicated. But I have already learned a lot so I’m happy. I can’t imagine how much I know in a few months. It has been a month now since I started learning Japanese.

Lesson 16 – numbers 3 (yay I love numbers they’re easy)

Sixteen=juuroku

Seventeen=juunana

Eighteen=juuhachi

Nineteen=juukyuu

Twenty=nijuu

Thirty=sanjuu

Forty=yonjuu

Fifty=gojuu

Sixty=rokujuu

Seventy=nanajuu

Eighty=hachijuu

Ninety=kyuujuu

Hundred=hyaku

Number=suuji

42=yonyuuni

91=kyuujuuichi

175=hyakushichijuugo

298=nihyakukyuujuuhachi

Lesson 17 – kana 5

Lesson 18 – greetings

How are you?=genki desu ka?

I am fine=genki desu

And you?=anata wa?

Thank you very much=doumo arigatou

You’re welcome=douitashimashite

Good morning=ohayou

Good evening=konban wa

Hey=oi

Excuse me=sumimasen

Sorry=gomen

Lesson 19 – verbs in sentences (argh I don’t understand the grammar)

Will go=ikimasu

Will see=mimasu

Terakami ate sushi=terakamisan wa sushi wo tabemashita

Ueno will read a book=uenosan wa hon wo yomimasu

Eat=taberu

Read=yomu

Meet=au

Write=kaku

Hurry=isogu

Speak=hanasu

See=miru

Go=iku

Do=suru

Come=suru

Lesson 20 – kana 6

My japanese coach lessons 6 trough 15

The kana lessons are about hiragana and katakana. First you learn the hiragana characters after that the katakana. In my opinion I didn’t learn any kana from it so I searched the internet for more useful options. I think this site is very useful :

http://www.ernieramaker.nl/kana/index.php?l=nl&ht=1.

Lesson 6 – kana 1

Lesson 7 – months (if you know the numbers till 12 this is really easy)

January=ichigatsu

February=nigatsu

March=sangatsu

April=shigatsu

May=gogatsu

June=rokugatsu

July=shishigatsu

August=hachigatsu

September=kugatsu

October=juugatsu

November=juuichigatsu

December=juunigatsu

Lesson 8 – kana 2

Lesson 9 – pronouns (annoying but good explanation)

Those=sorera

Me (male informal)= boku

Me (female informal)=atashi

You=anata

We=watashitachi

He=kare

She=kanajo

They (mas.)=karera

They (fem.)=kanojotachi

You(plural)=anatatachi

Lesson 10 – kana 3

Lesson 11 – desu (grammar is important but annoying)

Be=desu

Man=otoko no hito

Woman=onna no hito

Child=ko

American=amerikajin

Japanese person=nihonjin

Chair=isu

Car=kuruma

Book=hon

House=ie

Lesson 12 – desu tenses ( in the past and the cat ^^)

Was=deshita

Isn’t=dewa arimasen

Girl=onna no ko

Boy=otoku no ko

Animal=doubutsu

Energetic=genki

Person=hito

English=eigo

Japanese=nihongo

Cat=neko

Lesson 13 – kana 4

Lesson 14 – questions

Where=doko

When=itsu

Why=doushite

Who=dare

What=nani

Bathroom=otearai

Strong=tsujoi

Weak=yowai

Pretty=kirei na

Ugly=minikui

Lesson 15 – numbers 2 (object counters are also easy if you know the numbers)

One object=ikko

Two objects=niko

Three objects=sanko

Four objects=yonko

Five objects=goko

Six objects=rokko

Seven objects=nanako

Eight objects=hachiko

Nine objects=kyuuko

Ten objects=jukko

Another week, another chance

It’s 2 weeks later and I have already learned a lot. Not that’s it’s useful at the moment but you have to start somewhere. My first goal is to play space invaders in Japanese (you don’t need to know a lot of Japanese to play that XD )

Did a lot the last 2 weeks :

I did the test of mind your Japanese, which was crap again.

And I did 12 lessons of my Japanese coach.

Oh and the game says that I know 182 words now (but some of them are hiragana characters)

mind your Japanese class 1

Mind your Japanese puts everything in a word bag separated in nouns, adverbs etc.

For the first class I had to learn 15 nouns and 10 adverbs, the nouns in a catapult game and the adverbs in a really annoying jumping game.

Nouns :

Ari=ant

Beddo=bed

Ringo=apple

Ichigo=strawberry

Banana=banana

Densha=train

Basu=bus

Kuruma=car

Usagi=rabbit

Bo-to=boat

Mushi=insects

Jetensha=bicycle

Isu=chair

Zou=elephant

Neko=cat

Adverbs :

Midori=green

Aoi=blue

Shiroi=white

Kiiroi=yellow

Akai=red

Amai=sweet

Chiisai=small

Takai=tall

Ookii=big

Hikui=short

there was no grammar yet, and after this I have to do a test. But I’m not so happy about the game, so I’m not sure if I want to continue playing it.

My japanese coach lessons 1 trough 5

I knew 21 words before starting, so let’s see how many words I 'learned' in these 5 lessons.

first lesson, 4 new words

second lesson, 2 new words

third lesson, 15 new words

fourth lesson, 7 new words

fifth lesson, 10 new words

Which gives a total of 38 new words, which means my Japanese words have more than doubled XD from 21 to 59.

I have a hard time remembering all of this, so I still have to practice a lot. But I know the colours and the numbers well ^^

Lesson 1 –basic words (always useful)

Good=ii

Bad=dame

Yes=hai

No=iie

Hello=konnichiwa

Goodbye=sayounara

This=kore

That=sore

Thank you=arigatou

I (formal)=watashi

Lesson 2 – pronunciation ( a useless wordlist but you pronounce them differently in English than Japanese and that is what the lesson is about)

Karaoke=karaoke

Kamikaze=kamikaze

Karate=karate

Anime=anime

Manga=manga

Futon=futon

Romaji=ro-maji

Tsunami=tsunami

Samurai=samurai

Ninja=ninja

Lesson 3 – numbers (what is a language without numbers?)

                                                                           

One=ichi

Two=ni

Three=san

Four=yon

Five=go

Six=roku

Seven=shishi

Eight=hashi

Nine=kyuu

Ten=yuu

Eleven=juuichi

Twelve=juuni

Thirteen=juusan

Fourteen=juuyon

Fifteen=juugo

Lesson 4 – colours (they’re everywhere)

Ajectives : grammar explanation: akai ringo

White=shiroi

Black=kuroi

Blue=aoi

Red=akai

Green=midori

Nouns : grammar explanation:  chairo no ringo

Brown=chairo

Yellow=kiiro

Orange=orenji iro

Grey=hairro

Pink=pinku

Lesson 5 – days of the week

Monday=getsuyoubi

Tuesday=kayoubi

Wednesday=Suiyoubi

Thursday=mokuyoubi

Friday=kin’youbi

Saturday=doyoubi

Sunday=nichiyoubi

Day=hi

Today=kyou

Tomorrow=ashita

Introduction

I decided I would finally start learning Japanese, and looked a bit around if I could find games for the ds to learn it.  I found 2 beginner games :

-my Japanese coach

-mind your language , learn Japanese

So I decided to try them out. Both of them use minigames to learn words,

My Japanese coach has a lot of lessons and to go to the next lesson you have to finish the last one. I did the first 5 ones and I liked it. Not all games are the best way to learn the words but after I did the lesson I can learn outside the game. And for the hiragana, katakana and kanji, I read on the internet that there are some stroke order mistakes, so check them if you want to learn the proper stroke order. I like the fact that the words in each lesson have a theme. In every lesson you can hear the words and compare your prononciation with the recording, and see how it’s written in hiragana (I guess) and write it yourself. There is some grammar explanation in the games but I don’t think I’m going to learn the grammar from the games (except for the colours )

O btw the words I knew before starting :

Konnichiwa

Sayounara

Hai

Iie

Arigatou

Watashi

Karaoke

Karate

Anime

Manga

Romaji

Hiragana

Kataka

Kanji

Tsunami

samurai

Ninja

Neko

Kuroi

Shiroi

Midori

Maybe I knew some more but not a lot XD