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