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Lets hear your recommendations for best Japanese learning apps for IOS or Android.
Just making this thread to share the apps I know about with others and hopefully learn about some new ones as well.
I will start out with a few of my favorite apps.
IOS:
Kanji LS Touch
Kana LS TouchBoth apps are worth the price IMO. Learn kana or kanji and quiz yourself by writing them on the touch screen.
Android:
ObenkyoThis one is free and definitely worth the download. Has all kinds of stuff from Kanji to vocab. Has the awesome kanji writing quiz mode which I am a big fan of.
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I’ve been reviewing Midori for iOS over the last couple of days and I really like it. I’ll put up my review on Tofugu probably sometime next week, but y’all should definitely check it out:
I’ve found Obenkyo to be really good, it’s really helped me with kana and numbers.
The writing thing is a good idea, but I found it was a bit inaccurate at times.Hashi, I have used Midori before and it is really good. I look forward to your review :D
Wish I could find a dictionary that nice on Android. There is Aedict that I have been using for android which is pretty nice.vanandrew, yeah you are right. The writing is still in testing stages and is not all that accurate. However, I would say it only gives me false negatives 5% of the time if even that.
I usually review the kanji myself and decide if I made a mistake or not. Kanji LS Touch for IOS which I talked about earlier has the writing but it doesn’t tell you if you are wrong or right. You review it and then hit either a button for wrong or a button for right. I think that method is a little nicer.
I’ve been using StickyStudy.
The lack of iPad apps for Japanese is a little disappointing I think. (on the store I mean)
StickyStudy is a good one. I’ve used that a bunch before.
I find there are a fair amount of Japanese learning apps for IOS.
There are definitely more on android but I find better quality apps on IOS.
Japan Goggles is a cool app on IOS devices that lets you take a picture of Kanji (for example) and it will show you the reading and meaning of it. Anyone know of an app like this for Android?
Chris (can I call you chris? :P), I have heard good things about JED but have been having issues getting it. I can’t find it on my phone and when I find it online and try to send it to my phone it says “This item cannot be installed in your device’s country” (Canada). I got an app which changed the country of the marketplace and it still says the same thing.
On a side note. Getting that app “market Enabler” and changing the country to Japan is pretty cool. Lot of interesting apps on the Japanese MarketPlace.
EDIT: I just found the .apk file online and manually installed it with no problems. Now I have JED and Aedict which should provide me with all my J-E dictionary needs.
JED and Aedict (and Midori for that matter) both use EDICT, which is not a very good dictionary. I rarely use them anymore, aside from JED for its ability to export words to Anki. It’s okay for beginners or rikaichan, but as shown in this forum previously some of the “definitions” can be dubious and I find it lacking in depth.
Instead I use EBPocket Pro on both Android and iOS loaded with professional EPWING dictionaries like Kenkyusha 5th Edition, Daijirin and Daijisen.
Here’s an example of 足 from the Kenkyusha 新和英大辞典第５版: http://kod.kenkyusha.co.jp/demo/wadai/honmon.jsp?id=0114070&df=0
The way it provides examples for every particle combination (足が、 足で、 足の、 足を) is excellent. So useful for getting a better understanding of how to use a word. The number of expressions and phrases it has is also astonishing:
足を向けて寝られない
●私財を投げ出してわれわれを救ってくれたあの人には足を向けて寝られない. We should 「always be grateful to [never forget] that person for having come to our rescue with her own savings.Of course the negative is that good dictionaries are expensive.
:O That dictionary looks amazing!
Free Android apps I’ve used:
Also, I highly recommned downloading Go Keyboard and using it instead of your stock Android keyboard. You can download the Japanese keyboard plugin and easily switch between English/other languages and Japanese at the click of a button.
GO Keyboard Japanese plugin
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jb.gokeyboard.langpack.ja&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5qYi5nb2tleWJvYXJkLmxhbmdwYWNrLmphIl0.For Japanese keyboard I use ATOK:
And the excellent Mazec handwriting recognition IME:
Buying them from the Japanese market is difficult though, I’m still not really sure how I managed it.
@ Daniel, yes that’s my name. =)
That country changer app looks quite nifty, need to try that out.
This app is pretty fun. I like how the answer start falling faster the bigger streak you get. It’s also on IOS but for a cost. Free on android
NihongoUp Japanese
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.divita.android.paid&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImFpci5jb20uZGl2aXRhLmFuZHJvaWQucGFpZCJd@Elenkis Is it just the app that costs or do the dictionaries you load into it cost as well? What is the total cost of it?
@kanjiman8 I just got Hiragana Cards and it’s pretty good.
I haven’t found myself needing a Japanese keyboard on my phone yet but will give GO Keyboard a try. Thanks.
EBPocket Pro is an EPWING format dictionary reader that allows you search multiple dictionaries at once and functions much like a denshi jisho. You need to provide the dictionaries yourself. Professional dictionaries are expensive. If you want to legally obtain an EPWING copy of the 5th edition Kenkyusha you’re looking at something like $200 for just the J-E.
It’s also one of the dictionaries used on the highest end Casio denshi jishos, but those would cost you much more than 200.
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