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Hello! My brother and I have developed a free Chrome extension for learning Japanese with anime using crunchyroll.com. Here’s an overview of our current features:
💬 Japanese Subtitles: Integrated Japanese subtitles for selected anime and the ability to add your own subtitles with limited functionality.
📘 Word Parsing: Hover over and click on parsed words to open a popup with translations.
📚 Comprehensive Word Popup: Our word popup offers two tabs: word meanings and kanji information.
🔍 Subtitle Highlighting: Highlight subtitle text to open a Link popup for quick searches on various websites or to build your own Google query.
⏱️ Subtitle Sync: Adjust subtitle offset if they are out of sync with the video.
⚙️ Customizable Settings: Tailor the user interface to your preferences with our customizable settings.
📝 Save and Review Notes: Locally save words/notes while watching and review them later. Please keep in mind that these notes will be lost if the extension is removed from the browser.
For now, we only support a limited number of anime, but we will add more if people like it. You can request anime to be added on our discord server. What we have now is just the foundation; we’re looking to expand it with new features (we have plenty of ideas).
📢 Feedback Appreciated: As we’re still in the early stages of development, we highly value any feedback, particularly regarding database availability, as we’re using a free tier DB service.
Thank you for checking it out!
Links:
Chrome extension: [https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/manabidojo-learn-japanese/efbhkecfjhcpmepgbpogiiaidkmjhojl](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/manabidojo-learn-japanese/efbhkecfjhcpmepgbpogiiaidkmjhojl)
Discord: [https://discord.gg/9bpAX9RbH3](https://discord.gg/9bpAX9RbH3)
Our homepage: [https://manabidojo.github.io/](https://manabidojo.github.io/)
**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.
Next up: I’m working on adding support for Yomichan dictionaries, and adding a manga mode. 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)