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

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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. Wrote a [guide](https://www.hayailearn.com/blog/guide-to-finding-japanese-youtube-videos-for-language-immersion) on How to search for Japanese Youtube videos to immerse with.

   Open to any feedback on how to make it more comprehensive or useful

4. #Genki Study Plan

   If you’re looking for a structured way to go through the Genki textbooks, I’ve put together a detailed study plan [here](https://nihongonoashiba.com/genki-textbook-study-plan/), which breaks down exactly what to do for each lesson.

   I’ve put up the study plan for all of Genki 1 and will update to include Genki 2 in the coming weeks.

5. 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!