Noun Town: VR Language Learning

This by far has been the most fun way of learning. There is a lot to learn I recommend what it tells you because you can over load yourself and then you will forgot more than you elarn this game is meant to be played in small intervals.

It's a nice VR "game" that I could recommend if you want to boost your vocabulary a little instead of just shooting things in VR. It's educational and not as boring as many of those games are and it has relaxing music and a lot of mechanics to interact with in the game.

Disappointed. Speech recognition doesn't work 90% of the time, which is essential for "painting the room" in order to progress. No menu to turn off the constantly repeating music. Instead of Kanji by itself, I'd prefer to see the Hiragana pronunciations with the Kanji.

Very helpful and fun way to assist in language learning. I would like to see a writing component some day where it can score your hiragana/katakana for example, I think that would work well in VR. Thank you for the app and continuous updates!

I purchased this game a couple of years ago in anticipation of a work assignment in Sweden, and the statement from the developers that “It’s on the list of languages for 2023!”. As a big fan of VR, it was the perfect opportunity to use this as a tool to both learn the language, enjoy a hobby, and support the game development industry. Unfortunately, despite it being the most requested language on the developers’ discord, it is still nowhere to be seen years later. This highlights the problems with both making statements that aren’t honored, and purchasing products for features that they don’t already have. It’s the reason I’ve stopped buying early access unless the product and price is acceptable to me as-is. Knowing what I know now, I would not have purchased this game (and am unfortunately well beyond the refund window), and am less trusting of developers when they make these sorts of claims. I understand the prerogative to follow the money, to pivot towards features that make more money, and otherwise find a wider user base for one’s product. These are all understandable goals, but doing so at the cost of improving the product itself or adding value to it just heads you down the same road that Duolingo has paved.

VRで言語学習というチャレンジしたことない体験のためにプレイ。 名詞から、ぬいぐるみのような質感のアイテムを持って名前を呼ぶことで覚えていく。 Townの中では簡単な言語を生かしたゲームと町民との会話を行って、ボキャブラリーを増やしたり、単語の反復練習を行っていく。 トリガーを引きながら実際に発音することで、ゲームによって正誤判定がされて正しい発音ができているかという仕組み。 正誤判定の感度はかなり甘いが、このくらいの精度の方がイライラしなくてすみそう。 一部シーンでは、トリガーを引いても音声認識が起動しない、ミニゲーム中にクリアできない状況になる、覚えたはずのアイテムがまた覚えなおしになるなど不安な場面も散見される。 しかし、あまり競合がないジャンルなので、興味がある人はプレイしてみるのもいいと思う。

I got this game when it was in early access a few years ago and used to originally to learn and test it out before a trip to Germany. It was a buggy mess then but I excused it because it was new and still labelled early acess. I came back to the game a few years now they added Russian which was the language I was waiting to be released. In a lot of ways it's even more of a buggy mess, a lot of mispronunciations/typos of basic words, for example розовый (roh-zoh-vy) pronounced as (roh-zoh-lee) and marks you wrong for saying it correctly, sometimes game freezes, or things can't be interacted with, character gets stuck in the sky randomly and have to hard reset game, voice recognition fails often, and even got rid of some features I like, like being able to practice verbs at your base. There are several achievements that haven't been fixed and wont trigger and devs completely abandoned their roadmap of feature, and languages they were going to add and bugs to fix and completely ignore any questions about the games development on discord and discussion now. They raised so much hype and attention for this game just to abandon it to work on other projects. I really liked this idea and concept and I really hope another game like this comes along that's actually worth while because I've lost hope for this game ever being finished.