As a long time Japanese learner, I always wanted there to be a simple online trainer for learning kana, Kanji and vocabulary - like Anki, but for the web. Originally, I created the website for personal use simply as a better alternative to kana pro and realkana, and as an alternative to Chase Colburn’s Kanji Study app, because Kanji Study was pretty complicated for me to use as a beginner and didn’t have a simpler way of just grinding Kanji like you can grind the kana on kana pro.

I’m doing this because I grew tired of all the subscriptions and paywalls. I want to make the most user-friendly, customizable, aesthetic and fun platform for learning Japanese currently available. Accessible to all, fully open-source and free forever - and driven not by profit, but made by the community, for the community.

We already have more than 30+ active contributors from all over the world, and we really want to make the first definitive 100% free, open-source platform for learning Japanese - in contrast to most other apps for learning Japanese, which are often paid and monetized aggressively.

If you’re interested, you can check it out here: https://kanadojo.com/ ^ ^

GitHub if you’re a dev and interested in contributing: https://github.com/lingdojo/kana-dojo

The app is still in its early alpha stages - but with your help, we can make it even better and give the Japanese learning community its first completely free, open-source and community-driven learning platform! どうもありがとうございます!

  • emb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    A point of confusion: was just trying to grind out the first few sets of Kanji to make them ‘mastered’, but I’m not sure why they’re not getting there. My progress shows me a few in ‘needs more practice’ that are all at 90+% and 10+ attempts, and a few in ‘mastered’. But clicking ‘Hide Mastered’ on the Kanji page doesn’t hide any, and there’s no indicator there of which characters might need more work. Nor is there on the quiz page. I think having something - a progress bar, color coding, mastery%, something - in both places would enhance visibility of progress, and motivate users by showing them that progress.