03-31-2009, 01:37 AM
I have it and I am enjoying it kind of. It's structure is really weird. It has helped me out with learning vocabulary, but when it comes to verbs, sentence structures, and particles then it is weird in my opinion. However, it has fun minigames that pretty much train your brain to immediately connect a Japanese word with the English meaning. For example, it has the Hit-a-Word game, and the Multiple Choice game, where when you play them on Hard, you have very little time to react, so your brain adapts.
A couple things I don't like is that it moves too slow in my opinion. It starts out with romaji, and doesn't switch fully to kana until I believe lesson 30. Also, I do not remember when it starts teaching you kanji, but I wish it was started at the beginning when they were teaching you the words.
I would advise you, if you were to get it, to try and get it used so that it is cheaper.
By all means, don't take my word as a get it or not though, I would recommend people with a DS that want to learn Japanese to get it. There are a lot of Japanese games that help out a ton too when you start to learn kanji.
I bought a CycloDS and use that to hold all of my games. It's probably my best purchase that I've ever had and has benefitted me greatly. I recommend you look into it if you have a DS.
Hope this helped. If you have any more questions just ask!
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