Games & Kanji

Clash of Clans

Clash of Clans is fantastic for language learning for a number of reasons. Between the humour, styles of language, volume of text and overall aesthetic you can’t go far wrong.

Proving the process: Games and Kanji goes Spanish!

Most of my time spent outside of work is spent playing games in Japanese. Let’s give Spanish a run for its money.

Is revision necessary when learning languages?

My methods have never been 100% orthodox and sometimes they’ve just been downright weird, so where does typically academic studying and revision play a part in all of this?

Peak

I think I may be a little too into this but since Peak’s release I’ve played it almost every day. The repeatable charm and usage of language makes it remarkably inviting.

Interview with Nam

I’ve known Nam for some time now. We never spent much time learning languages in our youth but when we found we were both learning Japanese it sparked a long, language based partnership.

Gotcha Force

Imagine if you will, Pokémon meets Gundam, pulled entirely out of a kid’s toy box. I go back to revisit another childhood classic.

For those of you out there who like old-style, pixel art graphics and the shambling undead, boy do I have a game suggestion for you. It’s nice to see a game like Dead Ahead Warfare tickle that zombie killing itch.

Hiragana

Hiragana is the first of 3 Japanese scripts required to read everyday Japanese. This is where your reading journey will begin. Before you know it you’ll be pronouncing Japanese words like a pro!

Katakana

Katakana is the second of the 3 Japanese scripts that you’ll need to learn in order to read everyday japanese. This lesson will be infinitely useful to all the gamers out there too!

AI and what it’s doing to language

I’m aware I’ve possibly gone on a little bit of an emotionally heated rant, but in summary, we’ll all continue to use AI and it’ll likely become even more impressive.