No option for furigana?

[Leandro Eidi]

This game was a nice surprise for me. I love reading stuff about Japan, and with this game I can practice japanese at the same time. But for it to be perfect there should be an option to activate furigana. I'm just a beginner at japanese, so most of the kanji I can't read. Or is there an option for furigana and I just couldn't find it?

[Tralan]

There isn't an option for that, sadly. I would have thought it was be there by default. I was going to read it purely in japanese but I can't without furigana either.

[HotcakeNinja]

Yeah, that's a cool idea and I would totally do that also. I am contributing to this discussion.

[Oddar]

Or for those of us who need even more basic help... romaji would be a nice option. (yes, yes, I know it's best to leave romaji behind as soon as possible, but it's a good starting crutch.)

[The Coolest Cat]

Furigana would be great! Can read Katakana and Hiragana...a few Kanji, but some are just a bit hard. Still it's nice they have the options!

[suikapann]

I highly agree with this request, and would love to see it implemented in a future update.

Just now, I'm currently learning Japanese at a steady pace, but learning Kanji to me is something that for an educational game like this, would higly benefit from the use of furigana.

The other difficult part is that say for example I'm trying to read the Japanese text and come across a kanji I do not know, how am I suppose to search it if I can't pronounce it? However if furigana is present, I can search the kana appropriate to that kanji, making the game much more of a learning process for not just Japan, but also the language itself, which I think would be a great idea.


@FlankRight - While I agree with that suggestion, I think that's something that one should invest the time to learn, and instead see reading Go! Go! Nippon! as the next step forward.

There are many useful tools on the Internet that I'm sure even the userbase here would be willing to point to and help people learn. Hiragana at the very least is a simple enough alphabet, katakana is a little more difficult, but I'd like to promote learning at least these two before considering reading any sort of Visual Novel in Japanese.

[raknishu]

I'm in the same boat. I can read hiragana, and would like to use this as a studying tool, but I just don't know most of the kanji. Furigana would be so, so useful. Are there any games that people recommend, similar to this one that has the japanese and english translation, that also has furigana?

[Cactusblah]

The Japanese and English text at the same time is a great idea which I would like to see for other games as well, but I would also like Furigana so I can actually read the Kanji.

[Narmy]

Originally posted by Hawkward:

The other difficult part is that say for example I'm trying to read the Japanese text and come across a kanji I do not know, how am I suppose to search it if I can't pronounce it?

With this.[jisho.org]

[aquapendulum]

Originally posted by Narmy:

With this.[jisho.org]

Searching kanji by radicals is not practical for beginning learner. A better solution would be handwriting recognition: http://kanji.sljfaq.org/

[Narmy]

Originally posted by aquapendulum:

Originally posted by Narmy:

With this.[jisho.org]

Searching kanji by radicals is not practical for beginning learner. A better solution would be handwriting recognition: http://kanji.sljfaq.org/

A beginner isn't going to know the proper stroke order of an unfamiliar kanji, but they should be able to easily recognize at least some of the radicals just by looking at it.

[aquapendulum]

Originally posted by Narmy:

A beginner isn't going to know the proper stroke order of an unfamiliar kanji

I beg to differ. Stroke order was pretty natural to learn when I began.

[Lavian]

Originally posted by aquapendulum:

Originally posted by Narmy:

A beginner isn't going to know the proper stroke order of an unfamiliar kanji

I beg to differ. Stroke order was pretty natural to learn when I began.

For some things. When you start getting into Kanji that has over 10 strokes things start getting kind of fuzzy.

[aquapendulum]

Originally posted by Lavian:

For some things. When you start getting into Kanji that has over 10 strokes things start getting kind of fuzzy.

The great thing about the handwriting recognition tool is that you don't even have to draw the full kanji for it to recognize. Draw parts of it and it will list possible matches.

The most convenient way though, is just having this app on your phone: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.nick.wwwjdic&hl=en

Dictionary, Kanji search and handwriting recognition, all in 1.

[Lavian]

Originally posted by aquapendulum:

Originally posted by Lavian:

For some things. When you start getting into Kanji that has over 10 strokes things start getting kind of fuzzy.

The great thing about the handwriting recognition tool is that you don't even have to draw the full kanji for it to recognize. Draw parts of it and it will list possible matches.

The most convenient way though, is just having this app on your phone: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.nick.wwwjdic&hl=en

Dictionary, Kanji search and handwriting recognition, all in 1.

http://kanji.sljfaq.org/ will throw you some fairly strange results if you screw up on stroke order.

As a simple test, try drawing 口 in reverse order. It doesn't work... like at all.

Simply drawing parts that look sort of right isn't going to work, and a beginner just really can't be expected to know stroke order all that well.

[aquapendulum]

Originally posted by Lavian:

http://kanji.sljfaq.org/ will throw you some fairly strange results if you screw up on stroke order.

As a simple test, try drawing 口 in reverse order. It doesn't work... like at all.

Simply drawing parts that look sort of right isn't going to work, and a beginner just really can't be expected to know stroke order all that well.

Let the beginners decide, will ya? Every time you say somebody can't be expected to something something, it hurts.