Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Knuckles In China Land















Knuckles in China Land
is the coolest language learning tool that I have ever seen. This is a full, free downloadable RPG games starring Knuckles (borrowed from Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog franchise). The "battle" sequences consist of flashcard memorization tests.
















KiCL is set-up with Japanese, Indonesian, and German language packs. However, you can create flashcards for any language using the vocabulary editor. When starting a new game, choose the island picture in the bottom-left (pictured) to load a custom-made vocabulary set. You can also edit the vocabulary lists using a text-editting program like Notepad.















This is a perfect example of how gaming can turn something as banal as flashcard memorization into a fun and addictive learning experience. Here are some more screenshots.




























8 comments:

  1. I keep meaning to send you a link to Slime Forest Adventure, which is an RPG that supposedly teaches you to read katagana, hiragana, and 1000 kanji by the time you are done with it.

    http://lrnj.com/

    Although I'm typically a lurker here, I wanted to send out a thank you for your wonderful website!

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  2. Anonymous1:28 AM

    All the download links seem to be down. Here's one that works: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LK34OUI9

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  3. Anonymous4:34 PM

    Can I learn anything about grammar from this game? Or this game is just all about vocabulary?

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  4. wow with games in 3D nowadays I cannot help to laugh at games like these ones, I am sorry, but those games were so cool decades ago when I was a child!

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