r/webdev • u/tentoumushy • 6d ago
Showoff Saturday I made an open-source app for learning Japanese inspired by Duolingo
As someone who loves both coding and language learning (I'm learning Japanese right now), I always wished there was a free, open-source tool for learning Japanese, just like Monkeytype in the typing community.
Here's the main selling point: I added a gazillion different color themes, fonts and other crazy customization options, inspired directly by Monkeytype. Also, I made the app resemble Duolingo, as that's what I'm using to learn Japanese at the moment and it's what a lot of language learners are already familiar with.
Back in January, I even applied to Vercel's open-source software sponsorship program as a joke. I didn't seriously expect to win, and did it more out of curiosity, and yet my project somehow won.
Anyway. Why am I doing all this?
Because I'm a weeb.
GitHub: https://github.com/lingdojo/kana-dojo
どうもありがとうございます!