I restarted wanikani recently, and Bunpro for grammar, and I was trying to come up with something productive to do when I had an itch to study Japanese. This time around I’m being very strict in the number of SRS lessons I’m allowing myself per day, so as to avoid setting any review bombs up for my future self. I don’t have enough grammar and vocab to realistically read stuff right now, so I thought I’d try replaying persona 5 in Japanese (text and speech) and use the audio log feature to mimic the voice lines (and if the line is comprehensible to me, try to read it)
I’ve played the game before so I’m not worried about tutorials and stuff, and I’m just trying to repeat as many pieces of dialogue as I can to get the mouth feel of Japanese.
thoughts on this as an early supplemental material? I’ve heard this kind of thing called “mimicking” or “shadowing” before, and I figured persona would be a particularly good fit with the easy to pause and replay dialogue.
(P. S. If you want to try P5R on steam with Japanese text you have to go into the steam game properties>general and change the language there. In the game menus you can only change audio)
I’m not a gamer - have considered picking up P5R from Steam simply because long ago I enjoyed watching the P5 anime (mostly enjoyed the artwork, IIRC) - but if I were to do that I’m almost certain that it would end up as just another Steam game that I’ve paid for but never actually used
But I’d be interested in what others may have to say about the idea. I’ve never actually tried shadowing before, although I have a couple of CDs intended for that use - maybe someday I’ll actually use them.
From what I’ve seen, it’s one of the more difficult games because a lot of the concepts are pretty difficult, and there’s a lot of more archaic language as well. (At least, I’m pretty sure I remember seeing that). I think a good early step might be some of the social link interactions, since those tend to be more conversational. The fact that they have the audio log is a definite plus too. I have actually tried to do that with P3R a couple of times, just playing through like one of the conversations or the intro and see how much I can pick out, but there’s still a long way to go.
P3R may be a better choice for this purpose in particular, since they have more fully voiced content in that game than p5r, but I love the vibes of p5.
in any case I can’t speak for the results but just mimicking a bunch seems like it’s a good driver for language exposure, since that’s basically what kids do with their parents
