Show HN: Nihongo – Study Japanese using authentic text from games, songs, etc.

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Re: Show HN: Nihongo – Study Japanese using authentic text from games, songs, etc.

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Post by chrisvasselli » Mon, Aug 24, 2015, 1:11 PM UTC

mikekchar wrote: post #99

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Very interesting! Nihongo does use spaced repetition, and it looks like there are some similarities and some differences with JLDrill. Here's the overview: - When you select a deck, you study words 10 at a time in "learn" mode. -- In "learn" mode, you have to get the flashcard correct 3 times in a row, at which point they are "learned". - Every day, you'll be given a set of cards you've learned to "review". - These c…

Hi. Unfortunately, I don't don't have an IOS devices, so I can't try Nihongo. However, I'll give you some feedback on the spaced repetition stuff. Hopefully you will find it interesting. IMHO your goal in creating a spaced repetition algorithm is to balance the cost of learning against the cost of forgetting. I generated a lot of data for myself of how I used JLDrill. What I found was that it takes me a little over a…

By the way, if you have any specific papers in mind that you think would be good reading, please let me know!

Re: Show HN: Nihongo – Study Japanese using authentic text from games, songs, etc.

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Post by KerrickStaley » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 9:18 PM UTC

chrisvasselli wrote: post #36

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Tangential shameless self-promotion: I built a tool for Chinese learners that can take starred entries from the Hanping Dictionary app (for Android) and import them into Anki. It's available at https://github.com/kerrickstaley/hsk_flashcards . File a bug if you have trouble running/using it. Obviously not as seamless as Nihongo :)

Before I built Nihongo, I used to use Imiwa as my Japanese dictionary, and Flashcards Deluxe for spaced repetition studying. I built this ridiculously convoluted setup where I would upload a list of words from Imiwa to dropbox, my laptop at home would detect a new file in my dropbox and run a script to convert the format to the one supported by Flashcards Deluxe, and then I'd open up Flashcards Deluxe and download th…

You're giving me ideas :P

The problem is that I don't have time to build a monolithic app that serves as both a good Chinese dictionary and a good flashcard app; it's much easier to cobble together a system using existing software.

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