Dragon Quest 11 is the winner for the Game Gengo community's voted Vocab Episode! If you would like to make sure YOUR favorite game gets covered next, make sure to vote on the Game Gengo discord
50:15 it's also the name of the electric attack in pokemon that was translated as "thunder" in english...so any time you see someone complain that "thunder" should only be the SOUND that lightning makes, it's just a mistranslation
Adding this to my wishlist after I’m done with Ni No Kuni. It’s a wonderful feeling when you notice those small improvements overtime. I’m even having less trouble with Shizuku now than when I started!
I'm going through Ni No Kuni now as well! The trailer video makes it look like the game is really long.. also playing Icey recommended by him. I don't think I'll play Dragonquest though, not a huge RPG fan but I enjoy the Ghibli art style in Ni No Kuni.
Great video and perfect timing as justing a play through of the japanese version of this game on the 3ds, this will definitely give me a helping hand to get started. First time visitor to your channel and great content!
I started doing this myself using the Switch screen-cap feature! There's so much language available to look at in the beginning of the game. I screen capped a couple of conversations on the way to the first cave, and a couple of the signs and tutorials along the way for language practice. For a fantasy game, this is incredibly approachable, and one of the games I got from Japan that I've spent the most time playing with so far. I also picked up Yokai Watch 4 and Metroid Dread.
I keep watching this video cause I wanna learn language specifically to help me play Dragon Quest but I should watch the rest of the series too 😅 do another episode for Dragon Quest 11!
Can confirm that DQXI Steam version works beautifully on PC, as long as you download the Japanese language mod. It's super easy to install too! Thanks so much for the video! Can't wait to dive all in!
i dont know if it was out by the time this video was made, but you can use agent to extract the game dialogue and use yomichan on it. it's less hassle than using ocr so between that and the vocabulary ive learned these months its much easier to me than it was at the beginning of the year😊
You do great work, and I am very thankful for these videos. In my situation (hanging out with japanese friends in vrchat, and well gaming) I learn significantly more useful japanese from one video of yours than a dozen audio lessons from japanese pod. The other one isn't bad, but it's more like if you're going to travel there for a while and maybe work there kind of language. That being said I do have one suggestion, maybe have the music really low. Everything else was fine, but it was pretty hard to hear them speak through the music.
For most US players I'd recommend the PC version over at least the US Switch version. You are not able to switch between Japanese and English text on the Switch version and would need to buy the JP version. While the US PC version is the same, there is at least the mod that seems to be pretty solid and was originally intended for JP users who purchased the US version on accident.
I've noticed that certain words that are mainly used in hiragana nowadays you often see them in Kanji in light novels or even older video games. Fumoto for example I learnt from "Boku no Natsuyasumi" as I am pretty sure it was written in Kanji there.
You can see in the dictionary sometimes that words are ranked as N5 or N4 in hiragana and the same word using Kanji is rank N2 or N1. So the hiragana version is for the younger Japanese audience I take it.
@@sweetiepeetie I think you're right. Another interesting situation happens in words like 歳 (age), which is N1 Since the kanji is difficult to write but the word is extremely common, kids first learn 才 for age in elementary school. Even though 才 is usually used to signify "genius" or "talent"
Amazing video! I've never played DQ but this game looks great for learning Japanese so maybe I'll pick it up! I love how we've somehow learned the word 魔物 way before we learned how to say 歳! LOL Learning Japanese with games gives a slightly weird sense of the relative importance of words!
The game's available on PS Plus but is there any way to get the japanese version? It has Japanese audio but texts are in English (even if you change system language).
Also forgot to mention that while playing Collar x Malice there is crime vocabulary in red and there is a separate section that you can go back to at any time to look at them.
Haha well to avoid re-explaining everything in depth over and over again so videos aren't 10hrs long I treat words we've seen again as 'known' but still go over them briefly just incase you haven't seen the previous episode/for review purposes etc that way we can cover more and have content that works for the highest number of people :)
Hi Matt. Dragon quest 11 (PC, PS4) has no furigana. However, Dragon quest 11S (PC, PS4, Switch) should have furigana on all platforms. I played the demo on PC and indeed it has furigana, no problem. :)
@@southcoastinventors6583 I’ve played ni no kuni. I stopped playing DQ11 because I have so many games that I want to play. DQ11 was just too long to hold my attention lol, good game though
So is the only way to play this game with Japanese text to buy a Japanese copy or buy it from the Japanese eshop? I thought it's enough either to set the Switch to Japanese or there is an option in-game to change it to Japanese. But I tried both and it's still in English. I was only able to switch the audio to Japanese but it would be better if the text would be in Japanese too. If I'm right with my assumption, then I guess visual novels are the only games we can actually play with Japanese text without using the Japanese eshop or buying physical games from Japan. I would like to skip those :/
Great video! I got so excited to play this game that I bought it for PS4 because of furigana. However, my dragon quest xi does not have furigana nor voices! Does anyone know how to fix it?
Oh nooo I'm sorry! The language is certainly difficult, but the fact that its push to continue/furigana is what makes it approachable, please don't feel too bad! You will 100% get there in time! :)
Nothing is happening, UA-cam just decided to put ads that way lol It's all automated, has been since day 1 I can try decreasing some manually if its that big a problem? :)
@@Igor-vk8fl Yeah for sure, UA-cam seems to do a really bad job deciding when to put adds. I'll see what I can do to help fix it and space them out more
Dragon Quest 11 is the winner for the Game Gengo community's voted Vocab Episode!
If you would like to make sure YOUR favorite game gets covered next, make sure to vote on the Game Gengo discord
Best 1 and a half hours of my life!
Holy moly what a comment!!
Wow, amazing!
I spent a week on his n4 grammar video lol best week of my life. lol
perfect format for explanation, like for real, the even reload of the sentence after explanation = gold
Hands down, the best Japanese tutorial on UA-cam I've seen so far. Thank you!
Wow man, you make learning so much more fun than I thought it could be. Such an amazing channel to watch!
One of the best channels I came across in years. Keep up the amazing work!
50:15 it's also the name of the electric attack in pokemon that was translated as "thunder" in english...so any time you see someone complain that "thunder" should only be the SOUND that lightning makes, it's just a mistranslation
Adding this to my wishlist after I’m done with Ni No Kuni. It’s a wonderful feeling when you notice those small improvements overtime. I’m even having less trouble with Shizuku now than when I started!
I'm going through Ni No Kuni now as well! The trailer video makes it look like the game is really long.. also playing Icey recommended by him. I don't think I'll play Dragonquest though, not a huge RPG fan but I enjoy the Ghibli art style in Ni No Kuni.
youre an absolute legend Gengo. thank you so much for your channel 🙏
It would be awesome to have a playlist of just the immersion portion of the Vocab episodes!
Great video and perfect timing as justing a play through of the japanese version of this game on the 3ds, this will definitely give me a helping hand to get started. First time visitor to your channel and great content!
Important: if you're buying this on steam, you need a mod to run it in Japanese, and it supports furigana.
I started doing this myself using the Switch screen-cap feature! There's so much language available to look at in the beginning of the game. I screen capped a couple of conversations on the way to the first cave, and a couple of the signs and tutorials along the way for language practice. For a fantasy game, this is incredibly approachable, and one of the games I got from Japan that I've spent the most time playing with so far. I also picked up Yokai Watch 4 and Metroid Dread.
Never played any Dragon Quest game, you convinced me to play now. Buying right now for my Switch!!
I keep watching this video cause I wanna learn language specifically to help me play Dragon Quest but I should watch the rest of the series too 😅 do another episode for Dragon Quest 11!
Some time stamps for N5, N4 and Essentials:
N5:
02:07, 14:22, 20:09, 24:52, 35:39, 44:25, 58:54, 01:01:56, 01:08:55, 01:10:08, 01:10:58, 01:11:55, 01:12:12, 01:14:50
N4:
06:08, 22:10, 39:22, 59:20, 59:38, 01:01:10, 01:14:30
Essential:
26:30, 26:58, 27:40, 27:52, 28:15, 28:28, 28:42, 31:34, 37:05, 37:20, 50:48, 52:25, 54:35, 58:15
Can confirm that DQXI Steam version works beautifully on PC, as long as you download the Japanese language mod. It's super easy to install too!
Thanks so much for the video! Can't wait to dive all in!
Thank you for the video!😊
i dont know if it was out by the time this video was made, but you can use agent to extract the game dialogue and use yomichan on it. it's less hassle than using ocr so between that and the vocabulary ive learned these months its much easier to me than it was at the beginning of the year😊
You do great work, and I am very thankful for these videos. In my situation (hanging out with japanese friends in vrchat, and well gaming) I learn significantly more useful japanese from one video of yours than a dozen audio lessons from japanese pod. The other one isn't bad, but it's more like if you're going to travel there for a while and maybe work there kind of language. That being said I do have one suggestion, maybe have the music really low. Everything else was fine, but it was pretty hard to hear them speak through the music.
For most US players I'd recommend the PC version over at least the US Switch version. You are not able to switch between Japanese and English text on the Switch version and would need to buy the JP version.
While the US PC version is the same, there is at least the mod that seems to be pretty solid and was originally intended for JP users who purchased the US version on accident.
Matt 先生、I fell asleep during the class as it's time to sleep 😴 I will use a week to watch it all over again.
Incredible as always. So happy I discovered this channel
I've noticed that certain words that are mainly used in hiragana nowadays you often see them in Kanji in light novels or even older video games. Fumoto for example I learnt from "Boku no Natsuyasumi" as I am pretty sure it was written in Kanji there.
You can see in the dictionary sometimes that words are ranked as N5 or N4 in hiragana and the same word using Kanji is rank N2 or N1. So the hiragana version is for the younger Japanese audience I take it.
@@sweetiepeetie I think you're right. Another interesting situation happens in words like 歳 (age), which is N1
Since the kanji is difficult to write but the word is extremely common, kids first learn 才 for age in elementary school. Even though 才 is usually used to signify "genius" or "talent"
Amazing video! I've never played DQ but this game looks great for learning Japanese so maybe I'll pick it up!
I love how we've somehow learned the word 魔物 way before we learned how to say 歳! LOL Learning Japanese with games gives a slightly weird sense of the relative importance of words!
Great format, i love these
日本人としては英語の勉強になります！最高だぜ！
1:14:54
"Your mother"
Seeing this live made me laugh
Ya...definitely S tier for learning
The game's available on PS Plus but is there any way to get the japanese version? It has Japanese audio but texts are in English (even if you change system language).
Also forgot to mention that while playing Collar x Malice there is crime vocabulary in red and there is a separate section that you can go back to at any time to look at them.
Oooo very cool! I love when games do stuff like that!
ありがとう💕ごサイマス先生ほんとにすごい classes 💐嬉しいです💕😘😁
Best 93 minutes an 11 seconds of my life
Holy shit
Doing the lord's work here
Ichiban made me curious about this franchise
Welp, I’m sold. I’m buying this game
i like how sensei assumes that we know all the other words just by hearing them once.
Haha well to avoid re-explaining everything in depth over and over again so videos aren't 10hrs long I treat words we've seen again as 'known' but still go over them briefly just incase you haven't seen the previous episode/for review purposes etc that way we can cover more and have content that works for the highest number of people :)
There is a PC Steam free demo of Dragonquest XI S Echoes of an Elusive Age and is has hiragana.
Hi Matt. Dragon quest 11 (PC, PS4) has no furigana. However, Dragon quest 11S (PC, PS4, Switch) should have furigana on all platforms. I played the demo on PC and indeed it has furigana, no problem. :)
Note you need the Japanese version of the game for Japanese text, unless you use the mod on PC
I’m 54 hours into DQ11. I gave up a few weeks ago and moved onto megaton musashi. I might go back to it though.
Any reason why out of curiosity also you could try Yokai Watch or Ni No Kuni or Famicom Detective if you into VNs
@@southcoastinventors6583 I’ve played ni no kuni. I stopped playing DQ11 because I have so many games that I want to play. DQ11 was just too long to hold my attention lol, good game though
@@pathologicpicnic Any good suggestions ?
So is the only way to play this game with Japanese text to buy a Japanese copy or buy it from the Japanese eshop? I thought it's enough either to set the Switch to Japanese or there is an option in-game to change it to Japanese. But I tried both and it's still in English. I was only able to switch the audio to Japanese but it would be better if the text would be in Japanese too. If I'm right with my assumption, then I guess visual novels are the only games we can actually play with Japanese text without using the Japanese eshop or buying physical games from Japan. I would like to skip those :/
ドラクエで日本語勉強したら日本のサブカル系スラングの大半は理解できるようになりそう
How do I get this game in japanese on steam? the steam version doesn't have japanese subs
You’d have to use a VPN. However, the Japanese text mod does now have Furigana (not completely, but it’s got it for the main story)
Great video!
I got so excited to play this game that I bought it for PS4 because of furigana. However, my dragon quest xi does not have furigana nor voices! Does anyone know how to fix it?
It’s a japanese version, bought in Japan
Amazing🎉
Has the channel covered ほど ?
I gotchu ;)
ua-cam.com/video/dMPppUek6lI/v-deo.html
also ua-cam.com/video/SyEs1uDiKnY/v-deo.html
@@GameGengo thank you!!!
kills me when he says, "super approachable" and "for beginner levels". This all feels intermediate.
Oh nooo I'm sorry! The language is certainly difficult, but the fact that its push to continue/furigana is what makes it approachable, please don't feel too bad! You will 100% get there in time! :)
いつも、ありがとう
It would be amazing if the next one is yokai watch 4 or Astral chain! 😊
It's really hard to get the Japanese version of this game for some reason.
Dragon quest xi = no furigana, no voice acting
Dragon quest xs = furigana and voice acting
The console doesn’t matter
🔥🔥
More than 5 ads in 10 minutes. What is happening with this channel?
Nothing is happening, UA-cam just decided to put ads that way lol
It's all automated, has been since day 1
I can try decreasing some manually if its that big a problem? :)
@@GameGengo Well, 5 ads in 10 minutes is a big problem, annoying. Make us lose focus on the video.
@@Igor-vk8fl Yeah for sure, UA-cam seems to do a really bad job deciding when to put adds. I'll see what I can do to help fix it and space them out more
Even though the language seems very approachable, the story looks so boring 😅