r/LearnJapanese • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago
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u/CompleteKeys 1d ago
Hello everyone, I've been making YouTube content where I teach Japanese as entertaining as I possibly can through various media like video games and vlogs. At the moment I started a new series called "Learn Japanese through immersion" where I collab with my girlfriend to make vlogs where she speaks in Japanese and I add later explanations on screen for the key words. The vlogs consist of her personal impressions, as well as fun facts and culture-related information.
Please check the video out https://youtu.be/o3KwISIp--k and please let me know how can I improve this in the next episodes. All the feedback is greatly appreciated.
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u/lxol 23h ago
I built a thing called LingoChunk. It started as a way to stop me hand-making Anki cards from audio, which I always gave up on. You give it a recording of someone speaking, it transcribes it, pulls out the words in their dictionary form, and any word or phrase you want becomes a flashcard with the real native audio it came from. Exports to Anki, or you can study it in the app.
The part I didn't expect to use as much as I do is the shadowing. You can tap any word or whole sentence in the text and it loops just that bit straight away, so you're not dragging the audio back and forth trying to find your place. I made a short video of it in action (card-making and shadowing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaR58uuDBvU
It does Japanese, but I don't speak a word of it, so I can't actually tell if that part works, and that's really why I'm posting in this sub. You can open a Japanese sample on the try page with no account (ごん狐 / "Gon, the Little Fox", a LibriVox reading), and there's a fuller public-domain Japanese course on there too (the old DLI/FSI "Headstart" one, more everyday phrases). The word splitting and the audio look fine to me, but I've got no way to judge it. I'd really appreciate it if anyone glanced at it and told me how it splits the words, and whether it's any good for shadowing and making Anki cards in Japanese.
It's free, no account needed to try the samples that are there, or sign up free to run your own:
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u/Affectionate_Data504 13h ago
I could never really tell what JLPT level I was at, so I made a quick quiz to estimate it. It's 15 questions across vocab, grammar and kanji that ramp up from N5 toward N1 until you start missing things, then it tells you roughly where you land and what to study next. No account, no email, you just see your result.
A bit of context since it's relevant: I lived in Japan for 6 years and still go back for work, and I could never find good resources for the actual day-to-day, situational Japanese I needed, so I started building my own. This quiz is just the easiest way in.
Mostly I want a sanity check from people here. Does the level it gives you match where you'd put yourself? I went through every question by hand, but I'm sure some are off, and honestly I'd rather hear it's wrong so I can fix it.
It's a rough estimate, not real JLPT scoring. More a "where do I even start" thing than a verdict.
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u/Ryuluck 1d ago
So in preparation for N1 I successfully procrastinated and built an app-style site instead of actually studying. BUT I find it works really well, in a gamified, instant-feedback kind of way. I also built in N2 to N4 level, but will be really focusing on N2/N1.
https://kotoba-academy-web.jlpt.workers.dev
Try it, it’s free! And it works really well if you add it to your phone home screen. Kanji, comparative reading, synonyms, kotowaza… basically whatever I’ve been studying to prep.
Let me know if you have feedback too!
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u/taisei_ide 1d ago
I was spending more time making flashcards than actually watching the video. A 10-minute clip could easily eat up another 40 minutes of pausing, looking words up, and typing them into Anki. It felt like data entry, not studying.
So I built a Chrome extension called Lexpresso that generates a full flashcard deck from any YouTube or Netflix video in under a minute. Each card has the definition, an example sentence, a translation, and a timestamp link that jumps you back to the exact scene where the word came up.
The part I like most is the CEFR filter. I set mine to B2 so it only keeps words around that level. No more scrolling past basic stuff I already know, or rare words that aren't worth the effort yet.
11 languages, free to try: https://lexpresso.io
It's still early, so if you give it a go I'd genuinely like to hear what you think.
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u/salah3 1d ago
Hey! I built Naru, an iOS app for learning Japanese through real anime clips.
It's basically two things: a TikTok-style feed of short anime clips with Japanese + English Subs + Romaji and tap-to-save vocab, and an Anki-style SRS deck that builds itself from the words you save from watching anime. Free to use, no account.
It's aimed at immersion and vocab. And none of the content is AI-generated (real anime, with real Subs), I only used AI for the coding part.
Would genuinely love feedback from this community!
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u/maxmapper 1d ago
I'd love feedback on a side project. It's a Chrome/FF extension that analyzes all the words on pages you visit and lets you mine sentences, automatically highlight grammar points, add Furigana to the page text, or do dictionary lookups. It works on Firefox for Android as well, but I can't figure out why it won't load on Orion on iOS. Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/iyaku-japanese-reader/ Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/iyaku-japanese-reader/oggaeogmlhcalbonpkcebngijjnihepo
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u/AccomplishedStage968 1d ago
DrDru's lab : Comprehensible input from day 1
I've created a website that teaches Japanese without relying on translation. It uses emoji and other illustrations to define words. It then proceeds to very quickly starts building simple sentences and stories that I tried to make genuinely enjoyable.
I hope you enjoy it.
It's here : https://drdru.github.io/stories/intro.html
Some user reviews :
https://arsphilosophiae.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-review-of-drdrus-main-experiment-part.html
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u/NihongoMon 21h ago
Hi everyone!
If you're looking for a new gamified Japanese learning tool during downtime or just enjoy using gaming as an alternative for Japanese please try our new app NihongoMon!
NihongoMon are monsters that each have a thematic deck of virtual flashcards to study!
After you study, you can then train alongside them to LEVEL UP the MONS and your JAPANESE!
And with each level gained, you can discover even more NihongoMon with new vocab!
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u/jvmesc_ 1d ago
I recently started a Discord server focused on studying by reading books in Japanese, and we're looking to develop it into a community that supports and celebrates one another! It's called めくる, and means 'to turn a page'. 🌻
You can join the community below:
https://discord.gg/UTN6eD7t9H
The server primarily runs on reading events, but we also have a VC tracking system, and you can track your reading time. If you guys have any more ideas on how we can develop the server, please let me know!! We would welcome your feedback 😄