Learn English with Bishoujo – Courtesy of Square Enix
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 28, 2011 13:42 JST
- Tags: Adventure Games, Apple, iPhone, Moe, Otaku, Square Enix, Translation
Square Enix have finally given Japanese keen to brush up on their English the chance to do so in a suitably bishoujo-rich environment, in an English learning adventure game entitled “Summer Story.”
The title takes the form of an ¥800 iPhone/iPad app for learning English, designed as a bishoujo adventure game and bearing some rather fine artwork.
Players get the chance to converse with four pretty girls – the flower-maniac daughter of an English aristocrat, an Aussie lass wanting to work as a tour conductor, a Japanese English teacher keen to teach proper English to the protagonist, and, of course, an anime-obsessed American blonde.
The English parts are designed by a native speaker involved with NHK’s educational programming and so presumably possess some educational value.
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Needs broken engrish....
PUT YA GUNS ON!
OYAKATA-SA...
oh wait, thats not..
LET'S PARTY!
No horsebirds this time around huh?
I just ever got random comments telling me I was weird for having little girl figures around my room >_>; Then again I didn't have H-printouts, let alone deep alternative H... lol
MM! nuff said.
"for fucks sake I covered my room in scat/guro hentai printouts when I was 14, I got scolded, beaten and yelled at to take em off but dam it felt good!"
Thats fucking disgusting dude.
"PLEASE don't wave those manga books around in public. People might see!"
Implying that foreigners have the same issues with revealing that you are having hobbies in public as Japanese...
for fucks sake I covered my room in scat/guro hentai printouts when I was 14, I got scolded, beaten and yelled at to take em off but dam it felt good!
Better still, bishoujo-loving otakun need to reverse-engineer this game to be able to teach Japanese to foreigners (at least English-speakers). Because nothing stokes the flames of will better than beautiful girls.
The Vocaloids could be used to teach us to hear and speak somewhat ability of Japanese easily plus they could do it with a song on the side here and there. Not that you would want to order your food at McDonalds singing the tune. I would go for it, reading Japanese is a totally different scope of learning the language, I, just like most others, just want to hear it and respond properly to what was said.
that's right. I approve the idea. it's unfortunate that english girls are not so bishojo..-_-'
...If they learn that KIND of Engrish...
yes mo engrish!!!!
Needs more bishounen. That would sell like wildfire.
you mean yaoi for ya gals
Sweetness learning english from hot girls but it should be the other way around for us. Square Enix should make on where the hot girls teach us Jap they would make a lotta money
Cmon Square Enix How about a PSP version.
Damn true. We're not going to buy that overpriced.. thing.
are that poor. 800yen is like 8 weaboo bucks
The "thing" he refers to is the iphone.
Why buy when you can download
Agree with the above post, if it were them teaching us how to read and write Japanese
Pretty sure you can use the same game to learn Japanese as well, it's translated, after all.
Nope, won't work. Japanese isn't like French or Russian. You can't just learn the alphabet and start picking up words you bump into. The writing system alone takes years of first-hand language experience to master even if you systematically study the characters from beforehand.
*shock and sadness*
Is enough of the text in English that that would actually work? If so, I might have a go.
With menus being in kanji and kana it might be tough at 1st, but still worth a try:3
sweet
Sweeter than sweet
Awesome pear is awesome :3
Actually that's a fucking geniuss way. I learned my english by playing Final Fantasy and MGS. Though the first one translation could be better, the simplicity of it was actually beneficial.
English: alphabet of 26 characters
Japanese: 2x47 syllabary and over 2000 semanto-phonetic characters, most of which having at least 2 different readings.
Somehow, I doubt it would work the same way.
I like you. Come over to my house and f**k my sister!
I didn't know they stacked shit that high
I'm cracking up so much just remembering that hentai manga. It's one of the most hilarious things I've ever read. XD
The line is (if I'm not mistaken) from FMJ and famously used in a manga-like illustrated textbook purporting to teach crude US marine slang to Japanese.
Number one, it's not a hentai manga.
Number two, it's a line from a movie.
People die if they are killed!
i wont die even if you kill me
a true man never dies !
If you die, I'll kill you!
Remember, Michael Jackson woke up dead.
god's army they claim to be the army of god
well, since you've invited me to do so,
I guess I can't refuse that offer.
DLC - Cloud teaches you to swear in english...
Wouldn't that be Cid's job?
Shut up and drink your GODDAMN TEA!!!
I want to drink a reversed version of this game.
nah, that would be Barret's forte
"an anime-obsessed American blonde"
Lucky Star?
Patty?
Who loves to listen to l'arc en ciel, only the anime themes though lol.