Weekly Thread: Material Recs and Self-Promo Wednesdays! (September 25, 2024)

Happy Wednesday!

Every Wednesday, share your favorite resources or ones you made yourself! Tell us what your resource an do for us learners!

Weekly Thread changes daily at 9:00 EST:

Mondays – Writing Practice

Tuesdays – Study Buddy and Self-Intros

Wednesdays – Materials and Self-Promotions

Thursdays – Victory day, Share your achievements

Fridays – Memes, videos, free talk

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  1. 🎉 **Kanjiverse** is now available on [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.appbrew.kanjiverse&utm_source=web_user&utm_campaign=reddit), [iOS](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kanjiverse/id1556859583?itsct=reddit), and the [web](https://app.kanjiverse.com)!

    The free **Japanese Learner’s Dictionary** is your perfect study buddy for kanji and sentence mining.

    * 🔍 **Multi-modal search**: Use voice, handwriting, images, and more to explore all dictionaries.
    * 🧠 **Sentence analyzer**: Rate difficulty and color-code words by frequency.
    * 📚 **Sentence mining**: Import, bookmark, and translate sentences from various sources.
    * 🔡 **Kanji decomposition**: Break down kanji into components with helpful graphs and tools.
    * 🤖 **AI tools**: Generate translations and new sentences—completely free.
    * 🛠️ **Fully customizable**: Arrange dictionary cards the way you want.
    * 🌐 **Social features**: Create and share kanji, word, and sentence lists.
    * ☁️ **Cloud sync**: Access Kanjiverse across devices, seamlessly.
    * More to come!

  2. **Manabi Reader** – iOS and macOS native app for learning Japanese through reading

    6 million flashcards added across 60,000+ users. 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. (PDF + manga mode soon!)
    * 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, visionOS, opt-in AI-backed assistive features, etc.

    Next up: I’m working on adding support for Yomichan dictionaries, and adding a PDF and manga mode. I’m also going to launch a WebRcade.com iOS port for playing Japanese games and getting realtime OCR transcripts you can look up as you play called Manabi TV, with HDMI inputs on iPad too.

    [https://reader.manabi.io](https://reader.manabi.io)

    Discord / beta news [https://discord.gg/NAD2YJGNsr](https://discord.gg/NAD2YJGNsr)

  3. Japanese Level Up (JALUP) decks are still available via [Nihongo Lessons](https://lessons.nihongo-app.com/) on iOS, or the Anki decks are still available on the JALUP Adventurers [discord group](https://discord.gg/pCy8WPU). Free Sample decks also available. 

     Read up a recent review [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/1fo4oij/i_just_finished_the_jalup_intermediate_deck_and_i/) if unfamiliar with JALUP. Deck explanations also on discord.  

    I [wrote a script](https://github.com/StyraxBenzoin/Jalup_Vocab_Upgrade/) to make a vocabulary section for the Anki cards of the JALUP decks, and thought I should share it here! The aim was to emulate the card linking feature that the app has. I can also try and help out upgrading your own deck if you hit me up on discord.

    I’m not sponsored or affiliated with either JALUP or Nihongo Lessons; I just really like the JALUP flashcards because they are awesome!

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