Weekly Thread: Material Recs and Self-Promo Wednesdays! (January 17, 2024)

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1. Hi, I’m a new Japanese Learner and Web Developer and to practice my skills as a developer, I made a WebApp to Learn Kana and Kanji (and vocabulary and grammar in the future). This app Focuses more on drills than in SRS. I’ve been manually adding content to it in the last few weeks and I think is finally ready to be tested by real users.

   [Nihongo Classroom](https://nihongoclassroom.com)

   This week, I’ve been working on a new course that organizes all the elementary school kanji based on common onyomi readings.

   Here’s why this app is different from anything else:

   Drills for short term memory, Reviews for Long Term Memory.

   You’ll learn using interactive drills that employ active recall. These drills focus on your mistakes, offer instant feedback, help you rectify errors, and can detect your confusions, placing confused characters side by side so you learn to differentiate them.

   After Drilling a Lesson and passing the test, the characters are sent to your reviews.The review process uses Spaced Repetition to calculate the optimal time to test each item. Each correct response extends the period until the next test .

   Learning Order: There are many ways to organize kanji into groups, and they are all useful. That’s why I’ve organized them into many courses that tackle kanji from different angles, like stroke count, elementary school grade, frequency of use, radicals, and common onyomi readings.

   Courses are organized into units and further divided into small lessons with manageable chunks of information. This structure makes learning thousands of items less intimidating.Each unit has a optional final Drill with all the content of the unit.

   You have the freedom to learn at your own Rhythm as you decide how many lessons and reviews to do each day. You don’t have to wait to finish all reviews before new lessons, so you’ll never get bored or overwhelmed again.

   You can learn to write too. Each lesson provides a downloadable PDF with stroke order, allowing you to start practicing your handwriting.

   Please give it a chance and tell me everything you think is right or wrong.

2. Hi there recently I started learning Japanese. And I would love to continue with some kind of tutor, could anyone recommend one or give some kind of advice where to look for one.
   Thanks in advance.

3. Hi guys, fresh new member here! Please help out a fellow Japanese student by filling a quick anonymous survey 🙂 or leaving me a message!

   I am an IT student with interest in Japanese and I want to create a website for Japanese language learning (thesis project) and I would really appreciate your opinion and knowledge, what other sites lack and what lessons/sources do you think are the best to learn the language.

   If you dont want to fill the survey no probs, drop me a message and we can have a conversation about Japanese!

   Survey link – [https://forms.gle/vjdkXM1ZD12oDS5F9](https://forms.gle/vjdkXM1ZD12oDS5F9)

4. Hello all! Since it’s Wednesday, self-promo day, I’d like to share about Kanji Slayer (I’m a moderator there). Kanji Slayer is a really cool way to learn Japanese online and it’s releasing soon. It’s in early access right now. You can customize your character, level up skills, trade with other players, collect pets, send your pets on adventures, build a house, and other cool stuff! It teaches Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji!

   The website is built by KanjiBen, who is a software engineer with family in Japan. This is a really awesome way to learn Japanese and Kanji! Here is their chill Discord server: https://discord.gg/kvQGsY8sUR

5. [Japanese 24/7 😉](https://anchor.fm/japanese247/episodes/ep-e2egbfo)

6. Does anyone watch Japanese version of Pokémon (1997)? Anyone interested if I created and shared flashcards of words and phrases from each episode? Or is there any other series?