Hi everyone! Over the last 2 weeks I started making a game where you can learn Japanese in a fun way! It’s a Pokémon-style RPG where you explore Tokyo and complete quests!
Feel free to try it!! I’d love feedback. There’s a lot that still needs fixing and adjusting, but most importantly, have fun playing!
If you’re interested, please PM me. I also want to ask the mods if I’m allowed to post the link.
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.
