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Hello friends, fellow Japanese language learner here 🙂 I am working on building an intuitive Japanese conversational tutor with a few friends, called Nora. We created this tool as a way to practice speaking in between tutoring sessions and in preparation for our travels to Japan.
It all started when a few of us realized that even though we had been studying Japanese for years, we still had trouble saying even the most basic things. We tried a bunch of other apps and felt like they weren’t up to the task for a tough language like Japanese, so we made our own!
Nora is designed to be a no-nonsense output practice tool, powered by AI. I wanted to share it with this community, and also see if you guys have any feedback. We want to make this thing as awesome as possible for people who truly want to learn to speak Japanese.
You can join the pre-release list here if you are interested: [https://signup.hellonora.ai/](https://signup.hellonora.ai/)
**Manabi Reader** – iOS and macOS native app for learning Japanese through reading
As featured by Tofugu:
>*Overall,* ***a solid app that we recommend*** *for reading sentences that aren’t drab and contextless—especially if you’re more motivated when reading about something you’re personally interested in.*
* EPUB, web browser, RSS feeds, spoken audio. Tap words to look them up and translate sentences.
* Tracks every word and kanji you read and learn. Charts your progress page-by-page and per JLPT level. See what vocab and kanji you need to know to read every webpage, chapter or ebook.
* Anki or built-in flashcards with SRS (FSRS soon). Makes sentence mining easy. Includes links back to the source of each sentence in your flashcards.
* Privacy obsessed: works like a web browser with processing and storage on-device (and in your personal iCloud)
I quit my job to work on this so expect a lot more soon, such as YouTube with clickable transcripts, MPV-based movie player, etc.
I’m also going to launch Nintendo emulator support (GB/GBC/GBA) for playing Japanese games and getting realtime OCR transcripts you can look up as you play.
[https://reader.manabi.io](https://reader.manabi.io)
I made this kana reference chart/review game [https://kana.kylezhe.ng](https://kana.kylezhe.ng)
It’s a kana chart with pronunciations and stroke diagrams. The review game is the same as [https://www.realkana.com/](https://www.realkana.com/) and [https://kana-quiz.tofugu.com/](https://kana-quiz.tofugu.com/), but I focused on making it nice on a phone. If you’re just learning hiragana/katanana and still occasionally forget one or two, I hope this might help you.
Also I did the sound myself, so a few might have weird pronunciation b/c I still struggle with r sounds.
To Japanese learners who wants to listen to daily use Japanese