Mr Khan said:
Furigana is hiragana (or rather, the characters of Furigana are rendered in hiragana). Katakana words will never be rendered in kanji in any case. Honestly reading is the hardest part in Japanese, though more all-ages games like Pokemon will be easier, more adult-focused like, say, Catherine is going to presume adult-level literacy (games in-between, like, say, Final Fantasy, will be more middling in terms of vocabulary). Really, i should say "reading aloud" is the hardest part in Japanese. There are a LOT of Kanji that i recognize, and so can patch together the meaning of a word, but would have no idea how to pronounce. For reading, though, i'd buy myself a textbook and keep with that. Watch a lot of subtitled anime, too, as that gets you word recognition off the words that you're seeing (and some others). |
That is a brillant idea you had there that will probably help me in the future with this. (Playing children's games, should be tons of children's DS games huh? Are DSs region free? If not I wonder if there are a decent amount of children's games for PC (in Japanese). But I obviously am not to the point of reading anything yet. Thanks for the future idea though