Gamification is my favorite! Also doing this with some of my endeavors - I am all for leaning into aesthetic to make something more fun and motivating. All the best with your language learning adventures.
This is great, Vanessa. As an inept speaker of just one language, I deeply admire and envy those who can speak more than their own mother tongue. I admire even more those who can speak Japanese, because if there is one language I'd love to learn then it's Japanese. My high school education unfortunately put very little emphasis on language (and barely any on English, for that matter!) and I worry that the skillset and ability to acquire a second language is a boat that sailed long ago.
I did learn some Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji during lockdown and that was via a game on Steam, the name of which escapes me right now. But it was excellent, and it was, as you say, great because it was gamified. Perhaps I should return to that some day. I got to the point where I could at least translate (slowly) the first few words of my Japanese version of Murakami's Wind Up Bird Chronicle.
Those Japanese text books look so cute, you wanna learn Japanese only to be able to read them. I'm curious, are the textbooks better than in Austria?
Gamification is my favorite! Also doing this with some of my endeavors - I am all for leaning into aesthetic to make something more fun and motivating. All the best with your language learning adventures.
This is great, Vanessa. As an inept speaker of just one language, I deeply admire and envy those who can speak more than their own mother tongue. I admire even more those who can speak Japanese, because if there is one language I'd love to learn then it's Japanese. My high school education unfortunately put very little emphasis on language (and barely any on English, for that matter!) and I worry that the skillset and ability to acquire a second language is a boat that sailed long ago.
I did learn some Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji during lockdown and that was via a game on Steam, the name of which escapes me right now. But it was excellent, and it was, as you say, great because it was gamified. Perhaps I should return to that some day. I got to the point where I could at least translate (slowly) the first few words of my Japanese version of Murakami's Wind Up Bird Chronicle.