turning Japanese
I just ran across this site on the web today: Project LRNJ — Accelerated Japanese Instruction
Here’s a little snippet of what it’s about straight from the website:
“The goal of Project LRNJ is to make Japanese accessible to people who enjoy anime or video games, and wouldn’t otherwise learn it. To meet this goal, it is necessary that the training program be freely available, efficient, and both attractive and fun for the target audience. There are years of part-time R&D on the project, but the idea of making it into a game only came up in March 2003.
Long story short: I’m making a serial RPG that teaches you Japanese. Enough Japanese to use a native dictionary. Once you can do that, I don’t think there’s any training better than practice through regular use. It will be released in regular chapters like other serial web projects such as web comics, usually each introducing 4-9 new kana or kanji.”
Basically they’re releasing this cute little CRPG which allows you to learn Japanese while you play, and it’s targetted at your average american otaku who loves anime and mange but doesn’t know a whit of Japanese. Sounds like fun, go check it out, and if you like it, register, I think this is one of those projects that could use our support.
