Wot's so bad about My Jawapanese Coach? I've only played My Chinese Coach, and what annoys me about it is that it draws the characters at light speed and then expects you to mimick what they did. But other than that, it's absolutely brilliant. It still works great for learning to recognize characters and speak. It's not like we need to learn to write that much anyway. Hell, I've almost lost the ability to use a pen and paper in English.