
Shashingo is an edutainment game that teaches you Japanese through virtual photography. With your trusty camera, take photographs of the fictional streets of Japan to capture new words and images as fully translated flash cards!
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Explore bright, fictional Japanese streets filled with details and interesting objects to capture with your camera. Each photograph you take will translate the name of the content into Japanese and English so you can learn with your surroundings.
A stylised, approachable 3D environment
In-game photography system
Japanese audio
Photo album to store your flash-cards
Game modes that test your memory
Beginner phrases and grammar lessons
Day/Night and weather cycle
Display romaji, kana, furigana (recommended) or kanji
A lo-fi soundtrack perfect for studying

Every photo flash-card you take will be unique to you. The idea behind this is to strengthen the relationship between a word and how you see its physical appearance. In the real world, you can then see such objects and make connections to the Japanese words you've already learned while playing Shashingo.

Your photo album is where you keep your collection of photo flash-cards. If you remember them well in Find Mode, they'll be separated into the 'mastered' tab and shown with a gold star sticker. However, if you're struggling to remember a word in Find Mode, they'll be marked with a purple exclamation mark sticker, so you know which words you need to practice more.
At the back of your photo album, there are also numerous pages of Japanese lessons designed for beginners that will teach you how to speak Japanese and use the vocabulary that you learn in Shashingo. Also included are some key words and important phrases that can help you in your future conversations.
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Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America
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Hours played at review time, across 42 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Very good for vocabulary training. Very cozy and relaxing experience while you brain starts to hurt with new informations.
I'm a very big fan of this games graphics and the way you can learn new japanese words. It's a lot of fun and I really enjoy it <3
Great for learning new words :3
9.5/10
Chill, como para ayudar al aprendizaje del idioma por otros medios, tómenlo como una ayuda activa para recodar palabras del día a día, no para querer salir aprendiendo a hablar ni mucho menos. Pero los gráficos son muy lindos, siempre se encuentran nuevas cosas para fotografiar, la forma de repaso es linda. Me gustaría si que se pudiera entrar a los negocios para practicar las palabras aplicadas a frases comunes.
Quite a lovely game. Photography-wise it is a bit disappointing because when you get new photos of a specific thing (e.g. a cat (neko)), they replace the old ones, but otherwise the game is great. A wide variety of words to learn and a really pretty artstyle to it all.
This game is actually super cool, theres so many features that supprised me that i wasnt expecting when i got it but where just really fun, like the text book for example, or the extra related words at the back of cards, also a tip, if there's specific words you wanna practice, add them to favourites, you can change it to quiz yourself on favourites only.
Sugoii desu !!!!!!!!!!
This is very good to help your brain memorize the stuff you learned with flash cards. Alone it's probably not very helpful, diversity is key to learn quick. The game itself states that too. It probably doubled the speed at which I memorized common nouns, and made me realize I overlooked stuff that is needed in everyday conversation for a trip. Also this game has absolutely no business being this polished. It has reflections, rain particles, ambient noises, cute npcs, high res textures, and a very nice menu. It almost looks like the devs initially had the ambition to make a full fletched game, not just a wandering simulator. Cyberpunk material here
This is nice. It has beautiful artstyle with relaxing music. It's a nice 'game' for learning japanese, there's a book with a bunch of lessons on some japanese basics, along with pages specific for teaching you all the hiragana and katakana I believe. Feels great to give a nice starting off point, obviously you should supplement your learning with more stuff as well. I could totally see how this game could be expanded, like with future updates adding new areas, insides of stores, more alleys, and so on. Heck even in DLC format I could totally see DLC expansing more of the city, or a DLC expanding the inside of specific stores or something. [b][u]Overall[/u][/b], it's a nice game to give you a starting point of learning japanese, be sure to supplement your learning with more stuff though.
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