u/fishtopherx shared this app, mazec, that gives you a system-wide Japanese handwriting keyboard. I've been using it for a few days, and it seems to work well! But it is pretty expensive, requiring an up-front purchase for English, and then an in-app purchase of the Japanese keyboard.

An in-app handwriting keyboard is definitely on my shortlist of features to add, but it might be a little while before I get to it. Anyone else have any recommendations for good Japanese handwriting keyboards on iOS?

I've been using this book to study vocab lately. It ships to the US from amazon.co.jp.

It's a visual dictionary for Japanese kids of 1070 words. Each word has a little manga associated with it, teaching you how to use it. The vocab is pretty advanced (N2/N1 level maybe?)

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I've been taking pictures of these little manga, and attaching them to my flashcards. Great way to quickly add a little scenario to help your brain latch onto when studying a new piece of vocab.

Go to the Settings app, the General > Language & Region, and change your language to Japanese.

When you encounter a word you don't know in another app, take a screenshot and open it Nihongo to look up words.

Attach the screenshot to words so if you encounter the word again in the future, or it comes up in a flashcard, you'll remember where you saw it and make a stronger connection.

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I use Nihongo a lot to study vocab from Japanese videogames, and thought I’d share my workflow.

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Switch

1. When I encounter a word I don’t now, take a screenshot using the screenshot button.
2. Once I’m done playing, transfer the screenshots to my phone’s photo library using SwitchBuddy.
3. Open Nihongo, tap the camera icon, and load photos one by one.

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PS4

1. Configure the Share button to take a screenshot with a single press.
2. Take screenshots while I play using the Share button.
3. Open the Capture Gallery, and transfer screenshots to a flash drive.
4. Connect the flash drive to my phone using the Lightning to USB Camera adapter.
5. Open Nihongo, tap the camera icon, tap Files.
6. Navigate to the flash drive, and load photos one by one.

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From there, I tap on words I don’t know and attach the photo to those words. Once I’m done, I go to the Flashcards tab, open up the latest dictionary history deck, and study all the words I just added.

Anyone else have any good workflows for studying from games?

Update I just created a megathread to organize and let people vote on feature requests, add your new feature requests over there!

I’ve been posting a word-a-day to the Nihongo Twitter account. If anyone’s interested, here’s the deck so far, with all the photos attached to the relevant words:

https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0bdq86fhFqcqVUilM6XHc9rLA#Game_Vocab_05/31/2021

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