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Lvl up gaming5/6/2023 ![]() ![]() I also want to provide some thoughts on how I arrived at the Kanji numbers you see associated with each tier: On the other side of this are the Dragon Quest games full with short phrases and words that are just super common, especially to JRPGs. I try to consider is the types of words they might encounter.įor example does the game in question use a lot of words that are rather uncommon especially when it comes to games or if it even has its own special words? An example of this are the Trails/Kiseki games where you will just end up learning lots of words that from my experience are very specific to them, like the word „遊撃士”(Yuugekishi) which was translated as Bracer, that's something I've never encountered somewhere else, much less had a chance to use in some other context outside of talking about the Kiseki games themselves. The estimated number of Kanji one should know to have a decent playing experience without having to look up every word they come into contact with.Ģ. RPL is a short for "Recommended Proficiency Level", my way of trying to assess the level of difficulty a game might pose to someone that tries to learn Japanese.Ĭurrently the only two factors I take into consideration to make these assessments are:ġ. Where cutscenes give you an opportunity to get some listening practice, quests make you read and general gameplay gives you a nice break in between. And a lot of times those challenges are automatically well paced by the game design itself. I think the only other big language relevant aspect they don't really help you improve is your speaking proficiency. They also usually challenge your vocabulary, reading ability as well as listening comprehension given that many games have some amount of text and often make use of voice acting. Lots of Kanji have been etched into my head because I instinctively connect them to certain moments I've experienced in games. I believe that games are one of the greatest tools to help someone improve their language skills, not that I'm an expert after all I'm only basing this off of my own experience learning English/Japanese, but there's a lot of things about games especially RPGs that intrinsically make a pleasant learning experience.įor one, games have a lot of components that make for really good memory anchors, from music/story/visual. Dragon Quest VIII / ドラゴンクエストVIII RPG | 3DS.Pokemon / ポケモン RPG | Nintendo Handhelds/Virtual Console.RPL(Recommended Proficiency Level) tier list: If anyone of you has any ideas, suggestions, feedback or want to chat about Japanese games or learning Japanese feel free to post in this thread or drop me a pm on this site I'll do my best to be helpful! Ok I couldn't help myself and just do the Persona entry instead of studying xD poll is still in play for the entry after that though which is either going to be Dragon Quest 8 or Ni no Kuni. Currently I'm eyeing Persona 4 Golden but if you want me to do something else So I finished everything for today I think from here on out it's just additional entries. Just wanted to put it out there cause what annoys me personally sometimes is uncertainty around updates. Will do the dragon quest 8 entry as well as the menu sheets for P4G shortly after the 20th after my last exam. Beyond replying to people I'll just update the thread title when the next update is finished. Working on it the hold up to be perfectly honest is that I just fell into a pit called I am Setsuna xD sorry. That stuff is sadly somewhat more time consuming than the write up, especially when I have to screen cap myself, after that I think I'm doing Ni no Kuni Stealth update with DQ8 going to update the title after I find the opportunity to photoshop the P4G menu screens + the DQ8 menu guide.
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