Should You Learn Japanese with Pokemon Games?

Trying to decide what game to learn Japanese with? Pokemon might be the game for you!

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[CorruptedPulse]

Just so everyone who sees this later knows: Pokemon Legends: Arceus has Furigana for the spoken dialogue and some other text. But keep in mind it's not there for all text in the game for some reason.

[c.w.simpsonproductions]

I tried out a Japanese copy of FireRed. Couldn’t read a word, yet I was still able to do stuff like access and use the PC. I think it’s like muscle memory. I played the English version so much as a kid that it was kinda like tracing your steps through a room in your house without the lights on.

[ATthemusician]

I put over 100 hours into Japanese leaf green, while I already knew hiragana and katakana at an okay level, it got me much better at reading both, and you definitely start learning phrases and recognizing particles for places and actions.

[GameGengo]

This is a reupload with some fixed visuals/editing. I think it really looks much better this way and was worth the reupload while the view count was still fairly low!
Thank you all for your comments and likes on the previous upload <3
Your support is appreciated so incredibly much!!

[Buenanueva]

I’ve been playing Pokemon Violet in Japanese and it has furigana, which is great! It makes it easy to read and to look up words I don’t know

[Arc_Soma]

My learning most useful technique to learn a languague is inmersion, I learned english not by studiying but by pure practicing, Watching a lot of my favorite content in english and playing a lot.
I want to do the same with japanese and I want to learn while playing games, because My goal to learn japanese is to be able to read manga and play video games in japanese.
So for this goal your video game learning content is gonna be fundamental!!
I still remember たばかりfrom your video. I hope you continue making videos because I'm now your new suscriber.

[angelsebastiangb]

Great video! I started learning Japanese "seriously" 4 months ago and I was looking for some practice and I think that Pokémon might just be a great way to do it. Actually Japanese is the fourth language that I'm learning (I'm from Mexico and English is my second language) and when I was a kid I learned a lot of English vocabulary thanks to the Pokémon games, so I thought I would do the same with Japanese now that I'm 18 🤠.
Also, you just won a new subscriber, the edition and information from the videos are great!

[kroqh]

Pokemon has leveled up in the language game with the addition of furigana in the newest titles (Arceus and SV atleast). Tho I dont know if you can disable it if you want a more advanced learning experience.
Also in regards to Pokemon Jargon, in my personal experience you can just go through the game ignoring most pokemon names. This can also go for abilities, moves and items aswell, you just need a general understanding of what they do, and if you have any pokemon experience, thats probably not a problem at all.

[vickydanko]

I personally started my japanese journey with Zelda- Links awakening and Youkai watch 4. Both amazing examples, since both have furigana, easy grammar and vocab and have spaces in between the words as well. Highly recommend!

[vfranceschini]

pokemon's been of great help for me alongside the properly named online-dictionary denshi jisho, as you can enter things in romaji or kana and they look for words; helped a lot with the homophones thing, which is a serious thing in japanese when you have little background/context.
nice vid btw! keep it up! cheers

[cqllel]

I've been studying japanese off and on since July 2019. I've had issues with learning simply due to the fact I almost NEVER get ANY practice. So the 1500 words I learned, end up being mostly for nothing. Only to get severely burnt out and bored af not being able to apply my skills to something I WANT to use them on, like Manga or Vidya games. Instead of reading off a blank white screen/page only to forget it a few days later bcuz those words I learn don't reoccur

And just an hour ago, I got the bright idea of playing Pokemon in Japanese. I've recently modded my 2DSXL and always wanted to play Pokemon. I remember at some point seeing a japanese version that allows you to choose Hiragana or Furigana. And the idea instantly popped into my head. Tho I never thought Pokemon would've been the most popular first choice lol. Great minds think alike, eh?

Only downside, unless they're voiced, I'm gonna probably read Japanese in an English style fashion

[evansmith]

Perhaps you mentioned this and I missed it but I would also argue that even playing Pokemon is possibly an option even if you only know Kana. If you're a Pokemon fan and you already know the general structure of how the games work, it's actually a decent way to get you to actual *READ* the characters instead of slowly, consciously, thinking, remembering what each character is.

[godaininja]

I'm learning a language other than Japanese but the reason it's useful for me is because I'm gonna play the games anyway, so I might as well practice a little on the side.

[countD]

my first Japanese language game was either Pokemon White, or Fist of the North Star: Kami Denshomono no Michi.

I just ordered Brilliant Diamond and Kanken Premium too!

[Willardsmusic]

Don't know if he mentioned it in the video, but Pokemon Colloseum and its sequel both have furigana. You'll get a better reading experience and arguably better gameplay.

[Lady_of_Hyrule]

I've had Japanese copies of the first-gen Pokémon Game Boy games for a while. Last year, I started playing Green and took photos of every line of the intro's dialog so that I could go back and translate it after saving and turning off the game. It was quite tedious, and there were some sentences I couldn't translate. However, my Japanese is rusty. My first exposure to serious Japanese learning was over a decade ago when I took some classes in college. I still remember the basics (sentence structure, simple grammar, some very common vocabulary, etc.) and occasionally read or listen to small segments of the language, but it's not enough to help me, say, have a simple conversation. I'm thinking of reviewing a bit more before I get back to playing Green. The low-res text is a tiny bit annoying, but I can tolerate it if it will help me get back to studying Japanese!

[monniebiloneyart]

I think the mystery dungeon games are better then the mainline game! especially DX since it has furigana now XD

[erburu]

Amazing content! I'm learning Deutsch by playing Pokémon Sapphire, not Japanese, but this was still a very interesting and well-edited analysis. I plan on learning Japanese one day, but not quite yet haha. New subscriber :)

[theseeker]

Great video! Your channel needs more subs. I'm thinking of playing Pokemon Platinum in japanese, but the proboem is that it doesn't have kanji. Sometimes I think I'll check Google Translate Lol. What's fun about all of this is that Portuguese is my first language and I whatched a Video in english about how to speak Japanese 🤣

[retrofizz]

Could you make a video about animal crossing ? I would like to know if it's a good game to learn japanese, and there are also furigana in the game (on new horizons at least) ^^