Ok so I seem to have lost my camera, which is very bad it was expensive. So i will upload from my camera phone which is lower quality, I will replace images and video when i get a new camera/find my actual camera.
Proposal: I intend to integrate what I've learned this semester (and previous semesters) into daily life, and since i don't know many native speakers I will do the next best thing by using it how I would normally in my everyday life. Specifically with video games. I have shown some use of Japanese in a very old project from Final fantasy XI where I tried to communicate with Japanese players, although I had no Japanese language interface for that game and could only use romanized japanese words. However I now have a new game, for a handheld system that is 100% Japanese. It has Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji tools. I intend to communicate as best I can in a realtime interface with what I've learned, from a basic greeting to asking advanced questions and getting responses from other players. The tools I am using include my phone's camera/camcorder, and this blog I have used for other school oriented assignments.
Edit: unfortunately the videos will not send, they are too large and I can't send from the phone. So i will just include low res still images and explanations at the bottom.
Edit 2: it seems this blog has trouble showing some of the japanese and instead shows a white block. If that happens, highlighting that text shows what was really under there.
Teaming up with online players, most american players write their names in katakana. The big purple robot is me. トウカイ ＭＫ．２ is my characters name, while エミリア is another players name. メナス、is the short one on the right hand side．Unfortunately my camera could not capture text fast enough so I will just write everything I wrote and the players responses. It was very interesting as I encountered some slang amongst the players I was not used to and had to investigate.
I apologized for not being very good at Japanese: ごめなさい、私の 日本語を じょうずじゃないです。
エミリア：いえいえ、あなたはいいですよ。
メナス: にょろん
I did not know what にょろん meant so i had to look it up, I asked what it meant in game and they just sort of laughed. It was a little bizarre, as when i looked it up I just got a lot of youtube videos to an anime title. I'm guessing it was a characters catch phrase or something.
as we progressed further together we found some treasure chests, including some new weapons and armor. In trying to use new vocabulary I asked for the new sword that dropped.
Me: あのう、エミリアさん。
エミリア：何？
Ｍｅ：そのセイバーをかえしてもらいたいまして。
I guess i said it wrong or impolitely, but they seemed to understand and let me have it, probably more because they didn't need it.
エミリア：もちろん（￣ー￣）
メナス: さう。。。
which i assume was a sigh.
after a bit more fighting of monsters, we got to a large dragon and killed it. The fight was frantic and difficult to get pictures. Although in the end, we got a lot of treasure. And I got a new shield.
Ｍｅ：たいへんですね
エミリア：おめでとう！ Emilia then started to dance and so did I as we returned to the city.
after that 1 round people had to leave and I started having connection problems. I did get to see more players talking amongst themselves, but there was quite a bit of kanji i didn't know and it went by so quick I couldn't even write them down or take pictures. Overall I think it was a great success, and even though i didn't get to say much in the fast paced battles i was able to communicate what i wanted to effectively.
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