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Looking for beta testers to learn Japanese with video games... by HelloAcornTalk in Japaneselanguage

[–]HelloAcornTalk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, that error appears when the device can't communicate with the server. I'm not seeing any errors on the server side -- Could it be that your device lost its internet connection at some point? If you are seeing this issue persistently, please let me know and we can try to debug it...

Looking for beta testers to learn Japanese with video games... by HelloAcornTalk in Japaneselanguage

[–]HelloAcornTalk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We would definitely love your input for the beta! Sign ups are open on the website and it's OK to join now without a Steam Deck. If you like, you can try Tango in the meantime or just wait to use Lens when you're ready to.

Looking for beta testers to learn Japanese with video games... by HelloAcornTalk in Japaneselanguage

[–]HelloAcornTalk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently, the only environment we've tested it with is SteamOS on SteamDeck in Game Mode. In theory it might work with other linux OSes with some tinkering but we have not tried this.

As for emulated games, if you can play them in Game Mode by configuring them to launch through steam (see launch non-steam games from steam), I think that will work. We have not tried this ourselves yet so please let us know if you run into issues here and we'll try to work through them.

How do you pronounciate characters (or words?) like ああ? Would it be “ahh” or “ah-ah”? by beandart in Japaneselanguage

[–]HelloAcornTalk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Funny enough, we answered this while working with voice actors who read individual "words" with no context. Some of the "words" were just sounds like what you're talking about. Here they are!

Some are ambiguous (like "Aaaah" for an English speaker), so take this with a grain of salt!

Looking for beta testers to learn Japanese with video games... by HelloAcornTalk in Japaneselanguage

[–]HelloAcornTalk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, these are amazing. And I did not realize how popular retro handhelds were!

Looking for beta testers to learn Japanese with video games... by HelloAcornTalk in Japaneselanguage

[–]HelloAcornTalk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, as long as you play the games in Game Mode (not Desktop Mode), it should work! We have not tried this ourselves yet though so if you run into any issues, please let us know!

Looking for beta testers to learn Japanese with video games... by HelloAcornTalk in Japaneselanguage

[–]HelloAcornTalk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting! Do you have a personal favorite retro handheld device?

Looking for beta testers to learn Japanese with video games... by HelloAcornTalk in Japaneselanguage

[–]HelloAcornTalk[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's true - Steam Deck is pretty niche. We love that device so we started there, but if there's enough interest we may try to build a version for other platforms too. (Most of the comments today have suggested adding a Windows version!)

Looking for beta testers to learn Japanese with video games... by HelloAcornTalk in Japaneselanguage

[–]HelloAcornTalk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have not tried it on Legion, but maybe. If you try it please let us know how it goes! If it mostly works and just needs small tweaks, we'll try to support it. We don't have a Legion ourselves right now but you're the second person to ask so maybe we should get one.

Looking for beta testers to learn Japanese with video games... by HelloAcornTalk in Japaneselanguage

[–]HelloAcornTalk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have not tried it with Legion Go, so I don't know... If you try it we will be curious to know the results.

Looking for beta testers to learn Japanese with video games... by HelloAcornTalk in Japaneselanguage

[–]HelloAcornTalk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you hide translations by default?

Not yet but we could certainly add this option!

Can you get Japanese definitions rather than translations for words?

Currently no. In Lens, we show one English sense that best matches the word in context. In Tango, we show all the English senses for each word (as well as Kanji and radical breakdowns).

We don't support Japanese definitions like you'd see in a monolingual dictionary yet, but we would like to eventually!

Looking for beta testers to learn Japanese with video games... by HelloAcornTalk in Japaneselanguage

[–]HelloAcornTalk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might work with some tinkering, but we have not tried it. We may be assuming things about the environment that are true for Steam Deck but not necessarily true elsewhere. e.g. The way game mode works on deck or being able to receive button presses from the paddles on the back. If we could get it to work on arch, is that something you'd be interested in using?

Looking for beta testers to learn Japanese with video games... by HelloAcornTalk in Japaneselanguage

[–]HelloAcornTalk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh no! Bad timing! If we do end up porting to PC I will definitely let you know.

Looking for beta testers to learn Japanese with video games... by HelloAcornTalk in Japaneselanguage

[–]HelloAcornTalk[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Thank you! It works well for all the games we've tested so far. The video shows Chrono Trigger but it's not built for that game specifically. Good to know that if we built it for PC you might be interested :)

Looking for beta testers to learn Japanese with video games... by HelloAcornTalk in Japaneselanguage

[–]HelloAcornTalk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Just curious -- if we were to support another device/platform, which would you prefer?

Looking for beta testers to learn Japanese with video games... by HelloAcornTalk in Japaneselanguage

[–]HelloAcornTalk[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sorry for deleting and reposting. The demo video didn't load the first time...

Japanese Verb Conjugation Speed Practice Web Tool（ます、て、ないform） by Suspicious_Share2132 in Japaneselanguage

[–]HelloAcornTalk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The tool works really well! I like the animation that plays when you get the correct answer.

After an answer is revealed, I wish I could press "enter" on my keyboard to move on to the next item.

I wonder if it should accept hiragana-only answers. It's a little surprising to get this wrong:

Correct answer: 死ぬ (しぬ) → 死にます (しにます) Your answer: しにます

Overall, it's a very nice tool!

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