Wanted: People who want to learn Japanese [CLOSED]

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Re: Wanted: People who want to learn Japanese

#16 Post by Googaboga »

Sorry for not being clear, I meant how long each lesson might be on a general level. Like how many Hiragana one could cover or something like that. I'm not sure how the lessons would work so I'm not sure how the content would be measured.

But either way your answer was helpful :].
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Re: Wanted: People who want to learn Japanese

#17 Post by TrickWithAKnife »

I was originally thinking 5 Hiragana per lesson. Not sure if that will be too much though.
"We must teach them through the tools with which they are comfortable."
The #renpy IRC channel is a great place to chat with other devs. Due to the nature of IRC and timezone differences, people probably won't reply right away.

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Re: Wanted: People who want to learn Japanese

#18 Post by Googaboga »

5 sounds like a pretty small amount compared to the 70-something in total. But I have no idea how hard it is to learn these so maybe five would be too much. I guess you could start with 5 and decrease the amount if the testers find it to be too many.
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Re: Wanted: People who want to learn Japanese

#19 Post by TrickWithAKnife »

The initial lessons will be broken into about 13 lessons:

Lesson 1: あ, い, う, え, お.
Lesson 2: か, き, く, け, こ.
Lesson 3: さ, し, す, せ, そ.
Lesson 4: た, ち, つ, て, と.
Lesson 5: な, に, ぬ, ね, の.
Lesson 6: は, ひ, ふ, へ, ほ.
Lesson 7: ま, み, む, め, も.
Lesson 8: や, ゆ, よ.
Lesson 9: ら, り, る, れ, ろ.
Lesson 10: わ, を, ん.
Lesson 11: Small よ, ゆ, つ.
Lesson 12: The small " that goes over some characters.
Lesson 13: The small circle that goes over Japanese characters.

Believe it or not, that adds up to more than 70 characters. Not nearly as difficult as learning 70 though.

If that is too much, then it's not so hard to split the lessons into 2 or 3 characters each time.
"We must teach them through the tools with which they are comfortable."
The #renpy IRC channel is a great place to chat with other devs. Due to the nature of IRC and timezone differences, people probably won't reply right away.

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Re: Wanted: People who want to learn Japanese

#20 Post by Googaboga »

That looks good in my opinion. 13 initial lessons isn't too many and seems like a good idea to start with this many characters per lesson and break it down if you have instead of starting with less right away. After all people might not have a problem with this amount.
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Re: Wanted: People who want to learn Japanese

#21 Post by Dream »

Well, this certainly is an interesting project and quite likely the one that stood out the most for me lately.

I don't know much about educational VNs so the project is interesting in that angle too.

I would love helping you as a beta tester (or any other possible way) and learning some Japanese would be pretty useful (never had any previous learning experience of Japanese language of any sort), but if you already have enought testers (which seems to be the case) i wish you good luck.

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Re: Wanted: People who want to learn Japanese

#22 Post by Boomsickle »

Too bad i took 2 years of japanese in high school also too bad i had a bad teacher so i hardly remember anything. Good luck though.

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Re: Wanted: People who want to learn Japanese

#23 Post by TrickWithAKnife »

Thanks to everyone who offered to test out these study methods.
The people I've chosen are:
DragoonHP, Googaboga and CheeryMoya.

I'll be PMing them again soon to talk about various things.
If for some reason any of them change their mind, I'll PM someone else from this topic and ask them if they still want to take part.
"We must teach them through the tools with which they are comfortable."
The #renpy IRC channel is a great place to chat with other devs. Due to the nature of IRC and timezone differences, people probably won't reply right away.

If you'd like to view or use any code from my VN PM me. All code is freely available without restriction, but also without warranty or (much) support.

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