Postby kichigaijin » May 31st, 2007 9:23 pm
umm you can get a ds lite online or in the states for 120 or so.
i got mine for about 180 after shipping, but that was when they were sold out everywhere.
basically you start up the game
you create your own user account, you can have 3 i think
then you choose if you want to do かきとり (writing practice), ドリル (drills), or I forget the last one.
After that it asks you to choose the grade you want to start at (elementary, year's 1 through 6) and whether or not you want explanation (せつめい）
the first one かきとり is just copying the kanji that appears on the screen with the stylus, click 消す to erase, click さいてん to grade it, in the upper left they've got one box where you can see the computer draw the character (complete with stroke order & direction), plus another box that will give you a light gray version of the kanji on the drawing screen that you can trace over (kinda like cheating).
The second of the 3, ドリル is basically like a workbook, where they give you 音読みor 訓読み and get you to draw the kanji for various reading sections. Again, it's split up by grade. It grades each kanji for each reading section (usually 4 or 5 per section), also if you get some kanji wrong, it makes you go back and fix your errors.
The third option, from what i remember (haven't spent much time on that one yet) is exactly like ドリル but it actually grades your paper on the whole, and not just each individual kanji.
if you use the kanji listed in the game as a guide for what to study out of the books, with some more repetition, some focus on the important radicals, and learning the 音読み and 訓読みfor each kanji; then you could use the game to evaluate your progress.
) and knowing only a hundred of kanji makes 99,99% of the games unplayables 