Nihongo
Learning and science
japanese vocabulary study
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How HN took it
16 positive, 25 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 6 critical, out of 51 comments about the project. Thread score +0.25.
Idea: 10 for, 2 againstExecution: 4 for, 3 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Automatic flashcard generation from lookups is useful
From 2 comments
Sweet! Looks like a nice addition to WaniKani. I'm using WaniKani for my general studies, but automatic card generation based on my word lookup is definitely neat.
archseer on HN'Clippings' looks really handy. Thanks!
amitlan on HN
Complements WaniKani well
From 2 comments
Sweet! Looks like a nice addition to WaniKani. I'm using WaniKani for my general studies, but automatic card generation based on my word lookup is definitely neat.
archseer on HNYeah, I think Nihongo makes a great compliment to WaniKani! Nihongo doesn't have lessons, and isn't really meant to teach you Japanese in the same way WaniKani is. I like to…
chrisvasselli on HN
Objections
iOS only, no Android
From 3 comments
Looks great! Any timeline on Android?
arcameron on HNAndroid version please!
CoryG89 on HNI have android :(
it_learnses on HN
Does not run on iOS 7
From 2 comments
Unfortunately doesn't run on iOS 7 or below. Any chance you could support it? I'd love to use this app.
djent on HNThe first couple versions of the app supported iOS 7, so when you try to download it, you should get a prompt to download the earlier version. Unfortunately, I don't have any…
chrisvasselli on HN
Parsing mistakes in furigana and word segmentation
From 2 comments
Great questions! We include words from all different dialects, but standard Tokyo dialect will inevitably float to the top. I learned Japanese in Kansai, so I'm sensitive to this…
chrisvasselli on HNYeah, it's a good gripe to bring up. I'd love to come up with some indication of "confidence" in the parsing. Or maybe when there are two possible parses, give the user the…
chrisvasselli on HN
Requests
Android version
From 3 comments
Looks great! Any timeline on Android?
arcameron on HNAndroid version please!
CoryG89 on HNI have android :(
it_learnses on HN
Text-to-speech pronunciation
From 1 comment
Does it leverage text to speech for pronouciation purposes?
newman314 on HN
Support for Mandarin and other languages
From 2 comments
I need this, but for Mandarin
yaiu on HNIs there anything like this in different languages? I think you could make a great language-learning platform with this idea.
abustamam on HN
Questions
Timeline for Android
From 1 comment
Looks great! Any timeline on Android?
arcameron on HN
How words are marked common
From 1 comment
just curious, how do you mark a word as common? I often used jisho.org or classic.jisho.org (from wwwjdic) and from what i remember, a lot of those words marked as "common" were…
deeteecee on HN
Alternatives named
Anki
From 1 comment
Hey HN, creator of Nihongo here! I spent a long time studying Japanese vocabulary using Anki, Flashcards Deluxe, etc., but I found that studying using premade word lists never…
chrisvasselli on HN
Flashcards Deluxe
From 1 comment
Hey HN, creator of Nihongo here! I spent a long time studying Japanese vocabulary using Anki, Flashcards Deluxe, etc., but I found that studying using premade word lists never…
chrisvasselli on HN
Imiwa
From 1 comment
Before I built Nihongo, I used to use Imiwa as my Japanese dictionary, and Flashcards Deluxe for spaced repetition studying. I built this ridiculously convoluted setup where I…
chrisvasselli on HN
WaniKani
From 1 comment
Sweet! Looks like a nice addition to WaniKani. I'm using WaniKani for my general studies, but automatic card generation based on my word lookup is definitely neat.
archseer on HN
Memrise
From 1 comment
I've heard of Memrise, but haven't really spent any time playing with it. In fact, I just checked my phone and it looks like I downloaded it at some point and never opened it.…
chrisvasselli on HN
JLDrill
From 1 comment
Very interesting! Nihongo does use spaced repetition, and it looks like there are some similarities and some differences with JLDrill. Here's the overview: - When you select a…
chrisvasselli on HN