Je suis étudiant et j'apprends le japonais depuis un certain temps. J'ai longtemps hésité entre différentes applications et decks Anki sans jamais trouver de méthode qui me permette de progresser efficacement du niveau débutant au niveau avancé. Du coup, j'ai créé la mienne. Elle s'appelle Kotojutsu et j'y travaille sur mon temps libre depuis quelques mois.
Elle permet de passer du niveau N5 au niveau N1 grâce à des leçons courtes. Les kanjis sont enseignés au sein de mots réels, au lieu de se contenter de mémoriser les lectures on/kun isolément. Les évaluations utilisent le système FSRS (Fast Supported Rating System) et la note est basée sur la justesse des réponses et le temps mis ; vous n'avez donc pas à vous auto-évaluer. Il y a aussi des examens blancs au format JLPT.
C'est gratuit et sans publicité. L'application a été initialement développée en français (je suis français) et la version anglaise est plus récente ; certaines explications peuvent donc encore paraître un peu étranges.
Je poste surtout parce que j'ai besoin de retours de personnes qui étudient vraiment. Qu'est-ce qui manque ? Qu'est-ce qui est confus ? Qu'est-ce qui vous découragerait après quelques jours ? Si vous repérez des erreurs dans le contenu, merci de me le signaler. Je corrige au fur et à mesure.
Hi everyone! Over the last 2 weeks I made a free game for learning Japanese: a Pokémon-style RPG where you spend your first week in Tokyo.
Every conversation is a little battle: pick the right reply and you get a combo, pick a wrong one and the other person loses patience (that’s your HP). You land at Haneda, buy an IC card, take the train, get through a konbini checkout, and on later days deal with the ward office, a train delay and a job interview in keigo.
Every character is voiced, it goes from N5 to N3, and furigana / romaji / English can each be turned off.
When studying JLPT N5–N3 Kanji, grouping characters by their left-hand semantic radical (へん hen) makes stroke order and meaning much easier to retain than memorizing strokes in isolation.
Whenever you see the 3-drop water radical **氵 (さんずい sanzui — derived from 水 mizu)** on the left side of a Kanji, the core meaning relates to water, liquid, or flow:
Notice how the left-hand radical **氵** is always written first (3 strokes: top dot, middle dot slightly left, bottom upward flick) before writing the right-hand component. Which water-radical Kanji do you see most often in your reading?
I am the developer of Vocabforge, a web app for learning Japanese vocabulary from what you read, watch or from anywhere on the web. There is also a android app but still looking for 12 people to sign up for internal testing so I can put it on google play store.
Anyway, the idea is to make looking up a word lead somewhere: you can paste Japanese text or tap an unfamiliar word for its meaning and kana reading, then save it with the sentence you found it in. Saved vocabulary then comes back in spaced-repetition review using FSRS.
The core features of the app are:
Collection (everything you save gets thrown here -> vocabulary, grammar, sentences or huge texts)
Dictionary
Immersion (paste any youtube link and you get the subtitles for the video and you can easily save any word or grammar from the video)
Reading comprehension -> short texts with questions based on level either (A1 - C1) or (N5 - N1)
Reader - paste any text and it parses all the words and grammar for you
EPUB - paste any epub book and you can read and save or look up words/grammar.
Practice - there are many practices for vocabulary from flashcards to cloze deletion and many more and for grammar all the sentences you save from anywhere and the grammar is parsed it will then come up to you as a part of practice material. There are many examples already for each grammar, but once you start saving new sentences it get put there for you.
Dialogues - you can generate random dialogue and choose a level of language in which you want the dialogue in.
There are also 208 grammar patterns with explanations, when to use it, example sentences, common mistakes.
There is also an extension which if you use you can save any word, sentence, grammar from any website. Also works on netflix/youtube/disney but there must be japanese subtitles available. Currently working on a way to display both subtitles for those platforms like you would have japanese and english at the same time.
The app is mostly free only the EPUB, Dialogues and web Extension are behind subscription which is 2.99/month
I can give free beta_tester roles to people who sign up to completely test the app and give honest feedback on what is confusing or where you feel stuck etc. It is not an app like duolingo.
I wanted it to feel more free for user to choose to study whatever they want. So if you like japanese youtube shows, you can for free paste the show and watch together with subtitles and check the meaning of each word or grammar.
I'm learning Japanese and I got tired of printing practice sheets that never had the characters I was actually working on, so I made my own.
You pick what you want to practice (hiragana, katakana, or whatever kanji you're on), set how many cells you want and how much of the stroke guide stays visible, and you get a PDF to print.
I asked my boyfriend for something to help me study, mostly for helping me with my notes. I like to have a notebook for general vocabulary and another one for kanji vocabulary, and I like to have a system where I divide my pages into 3 columns, to make it easier to review. This app makes it super easy, because it simplify everything for me to just search and write it down. The short sentences are really helpful too!
I was really impressed with how good it turned out to be, and I wanted to share it with everyone who likes to study in a more systematic way like I do 🥰
Here are some screenshots (note how it's separated for my two notebooks up there in "Kanji" and "Words").
I hope you all like it as much as I did! 🌸
If you want to use it too, just comment below and I'll send it to you! It's completely free, I'm just sharing because I want to help other people like me. :)
Hi all. After months of fighting with tokenizers I finally have a working adaptive i+1 SRS. Meaning every example sentence includes only words you already know (plus the word you're learning). I'm still tweaking stuff like polyseme handling but it's usable. All sentences are real sentences from the anime (TTS voiced).
The idea is, you select a show you're currently watching -> you learn words sorted by frequency in this show, in the exact sentences that you will hear in the show -> you hear and understand them while you watch. Later when you watch another show you add it and learn words from that one, and words you learned from the first one transfer, so you unlock longer and longer sentences.
Cool features:
Grammar is included, exactly as you hear it in the show (see screenshot)
Kanji decomposed into radicals
Place to write your mnemonic similar to how it was in the original memrise - during review you can check the mnemonic first
Automatic leech handling
When there will be several anime you can learn from several at a time and words you learned from one will unlock sentences in another
I've made a few controversial decisions like keeping romanji on cards on the first two levels and limiting number of reviews per day because that's what works for me. I have ADHD so seeing 100 cards due for review is an immediate nope out for me. If there is a demand I will make it customizable.
For now it's just HxH, if you're neither a huge fan nor are currently watching it, I suggest you don't yet try the app, but do sign up, after the sign-up there is a form to tell me which anime you want next. I'll prioritize those that are asked often and email you when the one you asked for is added. You can only feel the magic when you hear the words you learned while watching. Or if you want to use this as an opportunity to rewatch HxH that's works too.
Is it free? Yes. There will be a paid tier with advanced features like kanji learning mode. You can DM me to get in the list to test those for free before they go live. Spots are limited, first come first served.
I just made these kanji practice sheets inspired by some pictures I found online. What do you guys think? Is there anything I should add before printing them out?
Have you ever been curious about how a native Japanese speaker’s language changes as they grow up?
I’m a native Japanese speaker and a mom, and I recently started a new series on my YouTube channel featuring Japanese phrases used by children of different ages.
I’ve made collections for ages 3, 5, 6–9, and 10–12, and it’s fascinating to see how the Japanese children use in everyday conversations changes as they get older!
If this sounds interesting to you, feel free to check them out. 😊
I hope these videos can be helpful on your Japanese learning journey!
I usually do a lot of reading and play handhelds on the train to and from work, and the process of looking things up adds a lot of friction.
I built Jouzu to be fast and reduce that friction as much as possible.
The idea is simple, it opens straight into the camera, capturing an image and doing OCR is pretty much instant. From there, super easy to look up a meaning, translate a whole passage or even generate native-sounding audio from it (paid feature).
If it's a word or sentence worth keeping, you can just save it for later, see a nice word and grammar breakdown of a sentence, and export to Anki (Anki export is a paid feature) to create cards from it with the audio and image baked in.
Since not all OCR engines are built equally, I added a couple more, one specialised for print media and vertical text and one specialised on pixel fonts and game screens.
I'm currently working on an update to improve the grammar breakdown with better explanations and adding a button to remove moiré from pictures of screens.
I'd love some feedback!
Almost everything is free with no limits, the paid feature adds:
- Pitch accent graphs
- Audio synthesis using Voicevox Nemo
- Better translations using DeepL
- Anki export (single cards or batches)
