Learning Japanese is hard enough without the characters actively conspiring against you. In NumeNume, a new online multiplayer game, players face one deceptively simple question: can you tell the difference between the hiragana characters nu (ぬ) and me (め)? It’s essentially hide-and-seek, except...
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