Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Sushi Damacy: Reading fish

Ever wondered what the readings are for all those fish-based kanji you see at sushi-ya and fishmongers? The Kanken DS software has a bonus game dedicated to learning (or more specifically, testing) exactly that. Make one mistake and you have start again from the beginning, and the order changes each time. Only those truly possessing the soul of sushi stand a hope of answering all 45 correctly.

Although there's no actual time limit, I did it as a speed run. How many would you have got?



Note: There's no sound in the above video.
Posted by Coal at 5:11 PM
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3 comments:

  1. This has to be one of the best videos on the Net!

    You deserve a medal!
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  2. Nice handwriting recognition on that software. Or is hiragana inherently easy to recognize?

    P.S. I currently try to write kana and kanji as caligraphically as possible - will it eventually degenerate? By comparison, my Latin handwriting is pretty average, no calligraphy.
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  3. Hokey smokes, you must've worked hard to learn all those fish kanji. None of the natives I know can get more than 5 or 7 into the game without hitting something they have no idea how to read.
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