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Games Like Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography
Shashingo is an edutainment game that teaches you Japanese through virtual photography. With your trusty camera, take photographs of the fictional streets of Japan to capture new words and images as fully translated flash cards!
Best games like Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography
The best games like Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography are Wagotabi, Lushfoil Photography Sim, Pixel Puzzles: Japan, Shin chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation The Endless Seven-Day Journey, and Noun Town Language Learning. GAMESLIKE ranks these alternatives using shared gameplay metadata, Steam review sentiment, and similarity signals. Evidence includes 92% positive across 570 Steam reviews, Steam genre and tag overlap across Casual, Indie, Simulation, platform support for Windows, and $19.99 pricing signal.

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Explore bright, fictional Japanese streets filled with details and interesting objects to capture with your camera. Each photograph you take will translate the name of the content into Japanese and English so you can learn with your surroundings.


Every photo flash-card you take will be unique to you. The idea behind this is to strengthen the relationship between a word and how you see its physical appearance. In the real world, you can then see such objects and make connections to the Japanese words you've already learned while playing Shashingo.

Your photo album is where you keep your collection of photo flash-cards. If you remember them well in Find Mode, they'll be separated into the 'mastered' tab and shown with a gold star sticker. However, if you're struggling to remember a word in Find Mode, they'll be marked with a purple exclamation mark sticker, so you know which words you need to practice more.
At the back of your photo album, there are also numerous pages of Japanese lessons designed for beginners that will teach you how to speak Japanese and use the vocabulary that you learn in Shashingo. Also included are some key words and important phrases that can help you in your future conversations.
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