My Japanese Coach
- Explore Japan as you learn Japanese from your own personal teacher, or sensei
- Compare your pronunciation of the sounds unique to Japanese with native speakers
- Learn and practice writing Japanese Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji characters using the DS stylus
- Play 12 different types of mini-sports meeting that test your grasp of the structured lessons
- Built-in dictionary and phrase book with over 12,000 words and hundreds of useful phrases
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Thanks to UbiSoft’s My Japanese Coach for the Nintendo DS, you can carry a tutor in your pocket that lets you learn a new language in as small as 15 minutes a day. With plenty of entertaining lessons, loads of fun-to-play mini-sports meeting, and a host of helpful features, this unique language coach will have you not only speaking like a native in no time, but reading and writing like on as well!
Carry a tutor in your pocket with My Japanese Coach. View larger. |
Learn in Fun and Interactive Ways
My Japanese Coach is an installment in the My Coach series from UbiSoft series that teaches the basic pronunciations unique to the Japanese language. This well-located and simple-to-use tutor allows users to compare their pronunciation to that of native speakers via the Nintendo DS’s microphone. It also lets you use the DS stylus to practice writing Japanese Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji characters.
My Japanese Coach takes you on a virtual tour of Japan while you’re learning the language. Lesson plans take place in a wide array of Japanese locations, from the densest of population centers like Tokyo, to the idyllic Japanese country side. You in fact get to explore Japan while you learn new vocabulary as you open each point of interest.
Learn From a Master
Meet Haruka, the in-game digital sensei, or teacher, that exists solely for the purpose of teaching you Japanese. After giving you a small residency-stylishness test, Haruka will get you started effective owing to the various stages of your lessons. Gaining mastery points by playing the various learning sports meeting allow you to clear each level. Once you master all the words given in a specific level, you go on to the next level.
As you work your way owing to over a 1,000 lessons, your language skills are constantly tested and sharpened by various mini sports meeting. My Japanese Coach includes 12 types of mini sports meeting, ranging from Flash Cards, in which you hear a word and have seconds to choose the right English translation, to Bridge Builder, where you are required to string words together in the right order to make a complete sentence. And with mini-sports meeting that add a gifted twist to classic favorites–like Memory that forces you to match the same words in two different languages–you will be sure to have fun while you learn.
My Japanese Coach also features a built-in dictionary and phrase book that includes over 12,000 words and hundreds of useful everyday phrases.
Meet Haruka, the in-game digital sensei, or teacher. View larger. |
Sharpen and test your language skills with mini sports meeting. View larger. | 
Use the DS stylus to practice writing Japanese characters. View larger. |
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With the copious errors in the game I would question whether this is excellent for any beginners. But on top of that anyone with a decent knowledge of Japanese has no use for it either. Being mandatory to go owing to lesson after lesson of words you already know without kana/kanji is incredibly dull. Learning from this will only teach you terrible habbits. Not impressed at all.
Rating: 1 / 5
When I first heard that there was going to be a Japanese language Coach game for the Nintendo DS, I thought that by now the developers and publishers of this series would have learned from their previous mistakes.
Well, unfortunately I was was incorrect. I got this game as a gift from my grown-up brother during christmas. He knows that I like learning languages and that in high school I was teaching my self how to speak Japanese. Well, I came to an abrupt stop during my senior year because my parents didn’t want me learning Japanese. As you can see some people can be racists and stereotype others without even realizing it. Also, just a small bit more social class knowledge of me, I’m a major in video game development…
Anyways, 3rd year of college. My brother thought I would like this game and bought it for me. We were both excited about this game, but were highly disappointed. I wasn’t expecting too much due to what we heard on the reviews of the other sports meeting, but this is highly ridiculous. The point system is flawed and you don’t really learn the vocabulary by the time you get to the next level. Most of the sports meeting are dull and half done by the developers, nearly like they didn’t care about the game and slacked off. The concept of the Rank, “baby, high schooler, adult,” is even more flawed. Stroke instructions are messed up and vocabulary choice is poor. The lesson map makes you go owing to a detailed area surrounding Tokyo and then completely zooms out after lesson thirty. What if I want to learn a lesson that features the Ainu people? Oh, I forgot. No one cares about native people.
Gamers should be learning from the JLPT just like students. They’re not fools, they deserve to know. The rank system should have also been based on the JLPT to give people a more accurate understanding of their proficiency. Why dissipate time learning random words if it’s not going to help you know? The way that this game tries to teach grammar is also questionable. They try to stuff so much in just a paragraph of text and expect beginners to know it. There is so much that the developers left out of this game, that it shouldn’t have even been released.
Maybe one day, someone will release a better Japanese language game for the DS. I’m sure of one thing though: if it’s excellent, it ain’t a My Coach game.
Rating: 1 / 5
hey Yo – bought “My Japanese Coach” to reinstall lost brain-cell data. My Japanese Coach is not a game as such, but if it makes it simpler for you to learn by thinking its a game then WTF, who am I to block your learning process. if you spend 30 minutes a day with the yer “Coach” the learning curve is like “no sweat”. 4 learning basic Japanese “My Japanese Coach” is worth a ton of cash. has a cute female voice and avatar – sooo cool (kokkui in Japanese – not in the lessons so far). if you are wannabe otaku – this is tha thing. hey – buy a new Nintendo DSi and tha “Coach”. WOH!! that amusing small guy with tha glasses on the front of the case says it all, “Learning IS fun!!” Buy it!! NOW!!
Rating: 5 / 5
Apart from the flaws in the kana writing system as mentioned by other reviewers, I found this to be a pretty nice game. The mastery points system is designed to force you to practice new words at least three times before it’s considered “mastered,” which I found to be a nice alternative to my “eh… I’ve got 90% of these words memorized, I’m doing something else” approach that I end up taking when learning from a textbook.
That being said, this game has progressed very at a snail’s pace for me because of how much Japanese I already know. I’ve been told by my Japanese teachers that I probably know enough to pass the nikyuu proficiency test, and I’ve had three years of college-level Japanese. My contemporary aim is to enlarge my vocabulary so I can speak the language better, so when I heard there were nearly 1,000 lessons with 10 vocabulary words each, my interest was certainly piqued in this game. I finally selected it up when I heard that there was a residency test that would give you a head start if you did well enough.
The conundrum is that the residency test only allows you to skip the first ten lessons of the game even if you get everything right. It does you mastery credit for 107 words, the make pleased of those first ten lessons, but considering there are supposedly about 10,000 vocabulary words in the game, I was sorely disappointed at how small I was able to skip. So here I am slugging owing to basic words like “onna no hito” and “neko” – at least three times each, thanks to the mastery points system – and I’m bored out of my skull. I would say the material I was able to skip was covered in the first semester of my first year high school Japanese class. If you’re much beyond that, you’ll probably find the beginning of the game pretty dull too.
I’m not giving up on the game, because I know that advanced vocabulary is in there – I’m just irritated I have to go owing to so much busywork to get to it all.
Rating: 4 / 5
Splendid product if you own a DS and want to learn Japanese. listen, record, and compare your pronunciation with a japanese lecturer. learn to read and write hiragana & kanji.
Rating: 5 / 5