I was talking with one of my friends who is fluent in Japanese and he was telling me about how when he was learning he slowly replaced his words with the Japanese words he knew when talking to himself and got him more used to using them in general. That gave me an idea for an app that doesn’t look like it exists or I just can’t find it myself. I think it would be super cool if you could add words to a “known” list in your device and it would change that word to Japanese kanji, Katakana, or Hiragana. This would only be on the user side so you wouldn’t be texting your friend’s random messages with Japanese thrown throughout. I realize this would probably not help you if you’re trying to learn the grammar, but starting out getting used to reading simple words like cat, house, or food.
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I think this does it : https://jointoucan.com/
It turns out it doesn’t work super well essentially because of homophones.
I use a news app called “Easy Japanese” and it essentially is news articles and you can highlight words and sentences to get a translation. I enjoy it for learning
This definitely exists and it definitely doesn’t work well. It doesn’t take more than sentences like “I object” vs “this is an object” to break these kind of things. Even a word like “house” can have more than one Japanese word associated with it depending on the usage.
I think it would be cool if there was a texting app that had toggle furigana.
You can do that in your head anyway. Not everything requires technology.