I've been getting into riichi mahjong lately but haven't started playing on JP only clients until this week SEGA NET MJ is brutal with the Kanji but given it follows common UX design practices you don't even really need to be able to read to know what each button does. Confirm is always the button on the left that's more colorful, etc etc.
It seems that Mahjong is essentially part of a 'Big 5' of Japanese games(I don't know if there's an official name for it) also including Hanafuda(Koi-Koi), Go, Daifugou(President) and Shogi. Has anyone been using these games to develop their vocabulary? I'm wondering how useful this approach might be given it might just be a lot of proper nouns.
by IChawt