After trying to find good websites to learn Chinese and being so fed up with everything being soooo boring, I decided to take the karma approach to stuff and put some more learning Japanese stuff out there first.

So I basically took two of the games from the CD1 Remix, flipped them into Japanese and put them on the GenkiJapan.net site. They’re a bit slimmed down to fit on the web, but they work really well, and are lots of fun. ( It’s basically learn while you play for adults). Have a try:

Shopping
Left & Right
North & South ( this one isn’t on the GE CD, but is pretty useful I thought!)

The funny thing is getting people to do the recordings in a real voice. Professionals always start speaking in really over pronounced ways that are completely different to what the average person on the street says. It’s also the same with normal people, as soon as you put a microphone in front of them – they all go into “have to sound like a textbook” mode. It’s taken a lot of editing to get rid of this, but what you have here is pretty much real everyday Japanese, which is what I wanted.

Right, anyone fancy doing some fun stuff for me to learn Chinese?