I want to be excited, but I just won't ever need to know Japanese for any reason, ever.

I am excited about My French Coach, owing to living in Canada......though I think Polish and Ukrainian are actually more widespread in this province than French, so I don't know why I don't learn some of that.

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I'm actually anticipating this release. I've been wanting to learn Japanese for quite a while -- I had the chance to back in college, but I hate language classes and textbooks since French in high school.

Besides, my DS needs another "Brain Age type learning device" to offset the influx of DS SNES RPGs. ^_^

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Yes, I'm looking forward to this. I expect some good textbooks to be more useful in the long run, but some diversity can't hurt, right?

One question, wasn't this game supposed to be out this week? eStarland lists it for October or something.

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I really don't know, but I think japanese is too hard to learn with a software. The spanish one was pretty efective, however..

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I am seriously hoping that this game (?) is good - I've been wanting to learn Japanese for ages, but I don't really have the time to do it at any time other than my commute, so this could be really helpful.

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I'm a bit curious about it. I took Japanese in college and have been continuing to study it on my own. I'm just wondering how helpful something like this can be, so I might check it out eventually.

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Weeaboos from all over the world will be jumping for joy with the release of this. I just wanna see how it handles, I already have more than enough programs/text that will help me with my Japanese studies. It's more perserverance than anything that will help you learn ANY language.

I just don't see why people just pull out some text books from their nearest book store and sit down and learn them an hour a day or something.

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I sincerely hope this is a better tool for learning than the anime from which the last influx "learned" Japanese :(

Though there is something kind of funny seeing college guys talking like 4 year old Japanese girls.

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If I could have a one-on-one talk with Shigeru Miyamoto, I would love to learn Japanese. :P

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I am taking Japanese in college and I think this would be a good supplement to my studies. I'm not expecting it to teach me everything, but to keep me interested and keep learning fun would be nice.

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This is something where I really have to wait for the reviews. I have a few language books sitting around, so if the verdict on the game is that it's any less than extremely helpful, I'll just stick to what I already have.

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Time to see if I actually learned anything after 3 years of Japanese classes!

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Gamestop changed the date to 10/14 now. I'm looking forward to this since it could help when trying to play Japanese RPGs

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The background in the eye is taken from google. I know because its the background I have for my laptop! If you google Mt Fuji Wallpaper, its the first image you get.

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I've got my Word Coach, I've got my Word Coach.
I'd play a million of these on my handheld.
I want Ubisoft to make a Word Coach,
So I can have one for Italian as well.

You've got me speaking up and writing down and going in and roaming 'round.

I'm learning Japanese!

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Although I'm sure Rosetta Stone and language guides could be [maybe more?] beneficial, this is definitely good for on the go lessons.

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I thought i could use it as a supplement to my Japanese class, but really that class is enough on itself. Sensei properly buries us with work.

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I'm looking forward to it. As long as it does kanji, like I thought I saw an option for on one of the screenshots a while back, it should be great.

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I am definitely checking out this one. Ever since I had to stop taking Japanese in University due to time/money constrains, I've felt held back with the learning at your own pace thing. But at the moment, I am using Twitter with several Firefox extensions that are helping me with keeping immersed into the language, as well as 3 iPhone apps (Kanji Flip and Japanese Flip are pretty awesome) that are also doing it's part. I can only imagine that this game would just help me continue learning in more places/circumstances and/or different ways, which is always a good thing.

Also guys, pro-tip: you don't have to be a "weeaboo" to want to learn Japanese. Remember, just because you guys never had to learn another language (you know, since you already speak English), doesn't mean that the rest of us who *had* to learn English as well as our native languages and several others wouldn't want to keep learning new languages.

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