I was just playing Chants of Sennaar (a game about deciphering made-up language) and wondering why the same type of game isn’t out there for real languages.
And of course the obvious answer is that it is, I just don’t know. Wagotabi looks neat. I’m still dipping my toes in with playing other games with language set to Japanese, but W seems like it might be a fun bridge.
just a typing test. Gives you an excuse/motivation to try to go fast. I wish it had more words, or a way to upload a word dictionary, etc.
Each are useful in their own right, but I was kind of contemplating making an opensource repo that has similar (but hopefully refined) capabilities, maybe detecting when you commonly confuse two characters and then offer to give you a short drill of just those characters to reinforce.
Obviously less and less useful as time goes on and the hiragana are cemented in your memory, but it makes me sad to think someone might take them down one day and they’d just be lost.
There’s a lot I like about Wagotabi. Not perfect by any means, but I think if offers a fair bit for reinforcement fairly naturally without just always beating you over the head with flash cards. And does offer a little listening practice too at times.
I was just playing Chants of Sennaar (a game about deciphering made-up language) and wondering why the same type of game isn’t out there for real languages.
And of course the obvious answer is that it is, I just don’t know. Wagotabi looks neat. I’m still dipping my toes in with playing other games with language set to Japanese, but W seems like it might be a fun bridge.
Not related other than learning resource - but I’ll also mention on the off chance it’s useful to anyone, I like these resources for practicing kana:
Each are useful in their own right, but I was kind of contemplating making an opensource repo that has similar (but hopefully refined) capabilities, maybe detecting when you commonly confuse two characters and then offer to give you a short drill of just those characters to reinforce.
Obviously less and less useful as time goes on and the hiragana are cemented in your memory, but it makes me sad to think someone might take them down one day and they’d just be lost.
There’s a lot I like about Wagotabi. Not perfect by any means, but I think if offers a fair bit for reinforcement fairly naturally without just always beating you over the head with flash cards. And does offer a little listening practice too at times.