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Posted by momentmaker 13 hours ago

A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese(jivx.com)
329 points | 65 commentspage 2
Zababa 11 hours ago|
This looks good and I like the idea but I don't get what the "practice" is here?
philote 8 hours ago|
Yeah I loaded it up and had no idea what to do.
nsfmc 7 hours ago||
you listen to the audio and try to determine if you can either read or understand the audio. it's repeated twice, once formally and once casually, so good for listening practice, but also good for adding new words/phrases into your vocabulary since some of them might be familiar but maybe reconfigured in a way that you don't normally see in your practice.

this is probably only useful if you've started learning a very small amount of grammar, know hiragana well enough to make furigana useful, and have started memorizing enough kanji/vocab to make 'overheard train chatter' useful. probably, generously, something maybe 3-6 months into your japanese language journey, so not good for bootstrapping.

Zababa 6 hours ago||
That makes sense. It seems a bit too slow to be really useful, as in, I feel like you'd want either to replay the audio as much as you want, or you can kind of listen passively/actively to something simple and slow.
b112 4 hours ago||
I watched for a couple of minutes, and while it kept saying Japanese phrases, it just showed me floating by a large city landscape. Certainly nothing like being in a train.

Do you just need to wait a while to be in the train? Or for it to start?

fitsumbelay 7 hours ago||
very cool and runs pretty nicely on my 2019 mac mini
kingkool68 7 hours ago||
This reminds me of Sim Copter from when I was a kid
mrbluecoat 11 hours ago||
What a cool idea! Need something similar for Korean - perhaps the EverLine light rail line in Yongin.
swang 6 hours ago||
any volume control? voice is a bit loud and i couldn't find anything to turn it down.
rambojohnson 4 hours ago||
the experience for attempting to record my voice during practices is atrocious. the background music continues to play, and the obnoxious AI voice interrupted me at least twice, then it switched to "transcribing..." wth?

cute concept, please fix that flow..

echelon 11 hours ago||
Does this scale beyond N5/N4?

This could be a really useful tool.

badabidi 8 hours ago||
Epic!
rimworld 12 hours ago|
love the tunes
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