This interactive and fun tool, which can assist you in learning the base principles of the Japanese language, also comes with a few fun and friendly surprises along the way!
Gome join me, as we immerse ourselves in a world of endless puzzles and entertainment!
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Howdy you everybody my name is Sarah and today we’re going to be playing so to speak this game is interesting essentially it is a Japanese learning tool you solve puzzles and learn Japanese in the process I’m not sure if it’s supposed to teach you how to speak
Japanese given the name so to speak I would hope so from the media that I did see on it it looks like it’s going to teach you how to read Japanese more than anything this is a demo but it is free and available on steam right now we’re
Going to give it a try let’s go ahead and click new game airplane hi that train Light Rail even drag the yellow Japanese word onto its English meaning exit that’s exit yeah yeah mouth mouth exit m whatever let’s go and get it click and drag the
Background to move ah I kind of like that nice nice nice okay exit any of you interactable no doesn’t seem like it this is the station and that is the entrance the station kind of looks like a e r the E has a little skirt underneath it entrance looks like a TP
In a box with legs I like this I like the music too I’m actually shocked how much I like the music click and drag the yeah yeah yeah I’ve figured that out already what’s that that’s not a camera like I thought it was at all we’re going to just move on then
Click the speech bubble drag the word to its English meaningi entrance ah idigi see I did take a little bit of Japanese in uh high school if you don’t know that some high schools do offer Japanese as an elective um I opted out of Spanish cuz I failed Spanish and
Decided to do some Japanese instead um the reason we’re playing this is because I fail Japanese too yeah Cen Park Coen Coen Coen okay Coen that looks like a a old man smiling gly and a I don’t even know a box with legs with words in it Co in yes
Co n co co co that’s cool I I do like that it teaches you like that iy icky it’s iy iy icky icky icky icky like icky it’s icky broi theci exit mouth exit the Gucci the Gucci okay so station was icky I remember because all the the e is a
Skirt with an R it’s e r r is icky icky yeah then Park was the uh modest smiling Man in the Box with some stuff in it oh what was the I’m cheating what’s the park again Coen right right right I remember now click on the river to get a clue I
Don’t want a clue it is a river oh thank you it is a tree where is where is tree where is tree cool yes that is a river oh I’m an idiot you’re supposed to click next three that is a tree okay let’s guess what that means Mei means Path it is a road I was really close So I like that okay Picasso ke oh I don’t ke are you a Kid okay maybe we come back to that uh that is tree I remember that that is tree Mor Mor what is Mori Mor oh you know what that is tree trees Forest that’s a really clever way of saying tree yep there’s Forest nice nice Nice K oh tree is pronounced k k k interesting I’m genuinely into this I feel like I’m I feel like maybe I could learn Ka Kaw well there’s the word Kawai e right so I wonder if that’s just Kawai Kawai Kawai means cute right uh National
Wee slap it on my chest here um so Kawa should mean something what does it oh my God River it means River ka ka so when you’re saying that someone is Kawaii you’re saying that they are river half tree which doesn’t make any sense oh you can zoom in and oh I like
This a lot okay I’m pretty sure we got oh no we didn’t get this guy Forest so Forest is pronounced Mor so you have he and Morty okay yeah Morty is Morty Forest yes we’ve determined that River Kaw uh kawat River yes figuring it out is rock
Boulder can I just attach to okay I don’t need to click on that I’m looking like an idiot over here is she is she a stoned is she a stoned she is uh and this is is is is got it so we got kawat which is River we got uh ke which is
Tree Mori Mii Mii and then Mori Mor Mori so Mii Mori the Forest Road maybe yeah probably I mean that makes the most sense to me I really like the music in this too it’s really relaxing Ging Ginger gin Ginger wait what who are you looking at
Lamp post Shrine oh Shrine okay so that is Shrine ging is that Ginger Ginger Shrine I walked down the Mei saw many key in the Mori I took the Mei across the KA I took the this is why I failed High School Mei Mei Mei Mei is Road Mei I took the Mei on my way to Kawa g g Ginger say that again Ginger Ginger Ginger ging Ginger okay I was on my way to the ginger I was walking on the Mei to
Through the mor Mori not Mochi Mori through the we’re going to figure this out as we go guys going to be fine o Pond oh you could drag this around too that’s so Convenient okay wow that was all the phrases we’ll go through again and look at all this later uh so it does clearly teach you how to speak and read uh Japanese in a way that’s meaningful we’ve learned that tree is ke river is oh what was it again river
Is Kawa cuz it’s not Kawaii it’s Kawa it’s a river like a river uh click the book on the lower right of the screen drag words from the book onto signs okay I dig that oh um so what this is right this is exit that is exit where is
Exit oh no that’s station iy iy okay so this one is is obviously uh oh it’s right there we’re not trying to piece it together we’re just yeah in G ging Ginger Ginger Ginger G I am so sorry everybody hope you’re okay your poor little ear you’ll be
Fine we not zoom no know Zoom okay that was oh that was TP and box that was um that one was park right and I forgot how to say it already Park of nouns Park of nouns no I was wrong Maybe no it was outside the station it was entrance igii
IGI okay this one’s Shrine again that was Ginger Ginger yes Ginger Ginger Ginger okay use the book to fill purple blanks with Japanese writing or pronunciation oh no okay okay so that one is just road which was Mei I was right first try baby let’s go it is a
Road I wonder if later all the yellow text is going to be removed so that we only have Miki Kawa Coen Coen to go off of and I wonder if even then the purple will eventually go away too and we only have the green to rely
On I don’t know I feel like that would be pretty dope I’ll be down for that uh oh is that gin is this the Gin is a road nope we’re still not at the shrine yet but we’re getting there I forgot what the name for Rock was already but it’s fine no I’m
Dragging that’s one of my that was weird I don’t know if that showed up for you guys but little graphical glitch nothing to be worried about uh river is kaat Ka there it is kaat kaat uh Pond is different I can’t remember what pond was was it
Co let me make sure I’m not being an idiot before I continue yes we found uh is this signifying a rock cuz I cannot remember what rock uh Stone Ichi is is uh tree key yes ke K make sure you drink your Joe in the morning everybody so you don’t get sick
Feeling not sick I’m not sick sick in the [ __ ] dog dude H you’re going to want to make sure you drink your coffee hot because it’s not good when it’s cold unless you let it sit up for so long that it eventually becomes iced coffee then it’s fine I’m currently drinking iced
Coffee oh yoso welcome to him or is Yokoso welcome yoso yoso he me yes yeah oh we didn’t oh I want to go back to the park of nouns hang on take me take me back to the park of nouns I missed something Co right what was Co was this the park of
Nouns K me right right right Road H is this the park of nouns dingi dingi Park Park call right so we figured out oh wait a minute I can’t separate these two call and so what is called the that’s supposed to be the way that this is presented right
Now makes me believe that the only complicated Kani hiana K kanji the only complicated kanji is Park So Co is a preamble to park would that mean that the park is upscale huh book go Away book I want to you know what I want to go back to the train station and fast
Travel yes Kimmy city of compounds Ka kawat was River all right we need our book now uh River Ka kaat you got it uh oh oh does this mean h River y right he uh River no we’re going to say kawwa he Kawa hewa he Kawa hear me cow overpass
Right oh Bridge whatever Hashi Hashi Bridge Hashi did we discover the did we already discover Bridge I’ll be so mad if we did it no wait we haven’t discovered a sign for bridge okay what is this this is uh he meet HEI oh those are those are symbol that’s a symbol for a
Tree wait that Zoom that is a symbol for a tree I don’t know what the seven or the hair is but g g k gak G he me okay you really really put some word behind that yeah he me yes HEI HEI heak heigo gako what is gako
He he what did I unlock me he me he huh interesting heak heak heig gako right we still don’t know what HEI gako is oh but we can guess wait no do we just slap this on top oh oh oh HEI school is the school that is in HEI HEI gako Heo so is every school a gako do you go to gako or is that a again is that like proper or is that like slang they’re they’re probably not even going to get into that but I’m so intrigued uh I I want the Katakana for bridge it is Katakana cuz
Hiana is when you see the English words for it and uh katak is the simplistic like the U shape and the the tree shape being the way that they are and then kanji is when you combine a bunch of the simple symbols into a cluster kind of like like
This one with tree and uh other symbols and that makes something Bridge yes has Hashi is a bridge bridge Hashi Hashi Bridge uh could you tell me oh you know what maybe we’re maybe we’re too focused on trying to find the Katakana or kanji for stuff or Katakana I don’t know
Okay this is a something this is a is this wait is this the bridge hash Hashi okay yeah that’s a bridge all right so it’s tree trees flying but you can’t park there with the enclosed P I’m thinking that a tree made this flotation device and you’re not
Allowed to park on a bridge that’s unsafe right right track okay um I’m using a cheat sheet what was it again Yokoso oh so if if you were to be if you were to walk into class here it would be would it be something along the lines of Yokoso y yoso yo y
Y y welcome to HEI school right God I feel so smart right now okay uh oh that’s a place oh so another fun fact about the Japanese language is after well actually I’m going to fact check this before I start spurting Schmid okay so basically
A lot of words came over from uh France and Germany because the France and Germany was in Japan predominantly during the Magi miji period when was the my period 1868 to 1912 so essentially from 1868 to 1912 was the mai period And every word that was in
The Lexicon the Japanese lexicon at the time had their own unique name like Kei being tree um but when after that other Concepts and ideas were being introduced to Japanese culture they would take the Western version of that name and get it as close to their pronunciation of hiana as
Possible so that’s why we get something like Hotel I know that this is a hotel this is all just a tangent about I know what this is this is a hotel because Hotel oh let’s get back in here hotel right the r u kind of sounds like an
L cuz you’re not supposed to say Rue you say like when you when you smile and you put an accent behind it it’ll sound proper M right Mori Mori hot and Mori as we learned were uh what was Mori again Road no Forest it was Forest hotel right so Mori
Hotelu is yeah Forest Hotel the more that you know right Mor hot yes Mor which is Forest yes which is kind of like an umbrella that’s crying and other stuff we’ll get into that later yes Mor hot well I know what it is it’s a Hotel it is a hotel probably yeah yeah yeah right I’m H I’m just having such a hard time piecing all of this together I guess Mor Mor yeah yeah okay so you you complete the puzzle by completing the string of thought Mor hotelu Mor hotelu yes oh we’re getting it let’s [ __ ]
Go is there anything hidden back here oh no it it allows you to go past that sweet oh God HEI right HEI was the location and HEI is this right here these two words right here and it looks like a Ramen Shop he means Ramen I swear if that’s Ramen I’m
Going to lose it Udan oh of course udon noodles right right right UD and then he and udon is noodle yes yes okay oh man this is so cool and it’s we’ve already gun so far and it’s just the demo I’m really enjoying this iy say that Again goodi okay we’re figuring it out eventually uh HEI HEI oh oh oh that was um I’m not even going to look I’m not even going to cheat um the word uh eer is is entrance entrance right and I forgot how to pronounce entrance but it absolutely is
Entrance [ __ ] station of course it is I think I did that last time too it’s icky right it’s cuz it’s icky the station is Icky you go to the subway station in New York and it’s [ __ ] icky that’s icky if I ever did see ity
Hey okay let’s zoom in on this oh the the station entrance right yes okay IG got it huh exit exit entrance wait what’s the difference between exit and exit it’s an exit hole okay well this one is clearly the GUI the the Gucci right right we figured out the Gucci
Uchi right okay we’re getting that figured out sweet we love it II iyi iyi iuchi thank you thank you thank you thank you oh did we not finish yours you’re not green no no no that was this one iy I Gucci it I I keep wanting to say
Irie Gucci and there’s nothing Gucci about that bro iy iy right it’s eky it’s the station is iyy yes ah music shift we did it that’s deserving us some Joe hiar is that driving Road pathway hiari Hikari right right right right right right right hiar hi hi oh you know what car right
Because I was after the the me oh what was it again the I guess the oh yeah the mai area was the first half of the Empire of Japan so basically after the Imperial era of Japan right cars right cars were sound crazy [ __ ] cars man uh hiar right
Car hiar you getting you see like kachow kakari Kari right okay parking lot CH sh CH sh cars shot okay guys of course car could be like the car pulled by horses from the Imperial Air you know what I I thought I was onto something and clearly
I wasn’t it’s fine it’s all good uh shot shot shot oh no that’s shot that’s shot um could you say that again cha cha multiple car mini car several safe Zone uh this is well that’s taxi right h oh I couldn’t select the lot before oh
No it won’t let me because I’m a freaking idiot shot shot right right right right okay okay maybe maybe that’s a parking lot that’s a parking lot CH sha well I was trying to go for that but okay sure whatever fine that’s great it’s cool CH sh parking lot CH
Joe as in like parking for car car yeah okay so Cho and that’s taxi right [ __ ] what was Sha Sha CH and this one is something something Sha Sha right no okay so up here tuxi hxi oh like taxi look literally like listen Tui Tui Tui Tui Tui
Tui yes is that also indicative Tui Taki right there’s the Katakana entrance we remember entrance no no no it’s not ENT I keep on messing up station and entrance it’s the station is Icky where’s the station Hikari station iy iy Hikari hiar Hikari right yes I already
Know it’s a train station actually I didn’t know it was a train station I just knew that it was a station but still okay so we got a lot of kanji here or Katakana uh obviously this is elevator I mean obviously uh escalator yes of course it’s an escalator yes escalator
Escalator why the exclamation is that absolutely necessary I’m not judging or anything but like is there a purpose behind that I what does this mean cuz I know that’s car that is the symbol for car did we already see something like a shelf before eki is
Just oh eki is really close no it’s not it’s not close at all I’m an idiot uh South entrance so South mouth gu guigi minaguchi Min what Minami Minami Minami [ __ ] I can’t read mamii mamii Minami is South okay that’s cool see I I like this a lot we’re
Learning Japanese a lot faster than I did in high school that’s awesome probably didn’t I already get that what escal escaleta yes escal es right right but how do you do I have to oh wait oh I’ve been all the way down here this whole time
Escate wait how do we how do we learn the I guess we have to click on it right oh oh oh right you click on the thing not on the word okay es good right right we’re figuring it out y’all okay get out of here uh bus that is a bus
Bu do we have anything like that no that’s brand new okaya that’s elevator Yesa got it B bus it’s a bus that’s a bus uh just got to figure out the word for that that’s bu that is bus cool okay I like that see what I don’t understand is where
These guys come into play huh okay so we can definitely take these individually right huh car mini car automobile okay that’s certainly a way to put it um what was this again something car I own a car oh you know what that might just mean mini car I think this means mini
Car right shop car parking well yeah car parking lot yeah of course okay um what’s with the squid holding a sickle iy thing where have we seen that oh lot as in a many right I would think so I would be wrong apparently huh okay we’re just going to move on
From that and pretend that we never saw that oh it’s right there of course it is uh bike rack Park holding spot Place whatever that word is Yesa Jena Jena J bicycle Jena right so byen 10 10 bicy wait no way seriously 10 there’s not 10 bicycles in there learn how to
Read which one is that that’s a up here um that certainly means something we’ll learn it down the way I suppose um bus what was bus that that is bus right Bas Bas oh Christ where is parking parking wait hang on that’s parking right parking Park parking lot park is it not
Parking I guess it’s not parking never mind um shoot you think you’re on to something and then you lose it yeah it’s a bus boarding Z oh my God noras Basu okaya josa what is josa what does that mean what could that possibly mean huh J automobile okay J Kur
Kurum kuruma kuruma or josa I guess gu like yeah you call it either a car or a vehicle or something like that right Jos and Kur it sounds like a child is saying that I’m pretty sure that’s not because it’s a child that they’re required to say
Kura and that’s an adult male josa I don’t know but that is automobile and kosha Kat josa kumat are one in the same got it um oh wait is that that’s not the same is it no kurat kumat kumat that’s a thing right there bicycle something shot shot
Shot it sounds like I’m saying shat in Scottish shot I shot myself fing liked it uh oh ER that’s station bus station wait a minute wait a minute I think we’re getting it figured out icky icky it’s icky something’s icky about this bus station uh busu Basu no it’s not bus station
Where have we seen this word before currently we’re trying to work on it um there’s no one else to talk to unless I’m super blind right there’s no one else to talk to it’s all yeah everyone’s already been helped um h so we just need to figure out one two two
Zone no we’ve already determined that that’s a bus boarding Zone uh what what are you something station city of travel I wonder if this is City where was bicycle on this whole string again bicycle H something car I have no idea I’m genuinely stumped on this one I guess we’ll uh go here and try to figure it out okay so there’s the weird e with a skirt right and that was part of station uh station right
Yes okay so it’s e i instead so what does the E represent when you take it apart station station we still haven’t figured out the octopus holding the sickle yet oh wait a minute lot right isn’t it just lot okay oh oh oh oh I’m so dumb you
Have to do that of course you have to do that because of course you dock did we already okay yeah I’m just dumb everybody it’s fine 10 okay so bicycle is 10 right so oh we still haven’t figured out what this is doesn’t that just mean lot yes yes okay we’re figuring it
Out uh now we’re oh oh oh Park parking Park yeah yes oh my gosh I’m losing my brain hole yes that sounds about correct yeah yeah I’m liking that I’m liking that a lot uh now we need the icky station that’s mouth that’s opening that’s exit right there
Gucci nothing Gucci about this icky station no wait we already got station what am I doing uh oh the name of this place was uh he Hikari it’s hiar station bus entrance no that’s that’s not bus that’s automobile Automotive is it Automotive J josa no kudat no that’s not it either um dang
What is you bro I know that’s a bicycle get the [ __ ] out of here um elevator right well this is indicating a lot of some sort right this is the like when you get off the bus you would look at this sign be like hey you’re here so what is
That and wait I swear we figured out what EI is did we not lot yeah yeah that that’s what I thought we we’ already figured that out long ago okay we’ve got everything except for whatever the heck this is oh oh oh oh South South we heard we learned that a while ago
Minami minam Hikari Station South entrance Hikari minamiguchi yes getting it y’all we are getting it no better feeling than that all right I think I’m going to leave this here for now I am genuinely enjoying myself and I think honestly I’m going to get this full game when it releases and I might
Actually try to learn Japanese with it it’s really fun are you oh you’re a cat okay please understand y’all this was a ghost when I looked at it okay it was a demon looking through the window of this possibly church building I don’t know we’re going
To find out next time if you guys enjoyed it thank you so much for watching I really appreciate you all coming here and watching me figure out how to speak another language even though I F high school and language is hard Japanese is hard but if there’s one
Thing that we can leave knowing today it’s that we’re all human and we all make mistakes I made many mistakes this time around and who cares go the video’s over bye
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The game name is ‘So To Speak’
Hi, thank you for making this video! I guess my pixel art cat does look like a ghost 😀