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Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese
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#12I think there is something wrong with the total time for round stat. It only told me 0 minutes 0 seconds. The other time related stats were fine
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#14> Unfortunately, pretty much all language learning apps are closed-sourced
Mainly because of the content. Designing a beautiful UI and framework is one thing, but what is your plan for pooling together enough effort to produce enough learning material that the app becomes a meaningful learning resource?
Re: Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese
#15Apps/platforms don't work for learning Japanese. You just need to memorize the hell out of the vocabulary, spend some time learning the grammar, and most importantly IMMERSE. Watch, read and listen to content in Japanese.
https://alljapanesealltheti.me/ (this used to be THE guide for learning)
Re: Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese
#16Apps/platforms don't work for learning Japanese. You just need to memorize the hell out of the vocabulary, spend some time learning the grammar, and most importantly IMMERSE. Watch, read and listen to content in Japanese. https://learnjapanese.moe https://alljapanesealltheti.me/ (this used to be THE guide for learning)
Apps are really good at the first two though.
Re: Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese
#17It looks great. I would suggest changing the kanji next to the label "Kanji" to 字 instead of 出, though. 字 is the second character in the word 漢字 (kanji) and means "character." I would also suggest changing the kanji next to the "Vocabulary" label from 言 to 語. 語 is the second character in the word 単語 (tango) and means "word." The あ next to the "Kana" label is perfect. 出 means "to go out or exit" and doesn't have anyth…
Agreed. PR opened.
Re: Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese
#18Apps/platforms don't work for learning Japanese. You just need to memorize the hell out of the vocabulary, spend some time learning the grammar, and most importantly IMMERSE. Watch, read and listen to content in Japanese. https://learnjapanese.moe https://alljapanesealltheti.me/ (this used to be THE guide for learning)
The “culture” around learning Japanese is so different from other languages. There’s a large amount of software engineers studying the language, so there’s tons of apps/websites that center around it (for better or worse).
The communities are also… particular. People tend to espouse certain deep beliefs or attitudes that you just don’t see for other languages (and I don’t think complexity is the reason; you don’t see that for Chinese or Russian or Finnish, to name some other notoriously hard languages).
Re: Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese
#19Apps/platforms don't work for learning Japanese. You just need to memorize the hell out of the vocabulary, spend some time learning the grammar, and most importantly IMMERSE. Watch, read and listen to content in Japanese. https://learnjapanese.moe https://alljapanesealltheti.me/ (this used to be THE guide for learning)
Anki definitely works for memorizing the hell out of vocabulary and I also don't regret completing WaniKani, although I would probably choose an Anki only approach if I had to start over. At some intermediate level I stopped looking at the mnemonics completely and just did as many reviews as possible until it stuck.
Re: Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese
#20Speaking as someone who knows nothing about Japanese and is unlikely to use any app to ever learn Japanese... but just as a software ui/ux dev first time in. (ie take this with a pinch of salt)
On the test screens I was expecting there to be an option to shown the answers (ie cheat mode) so I could go through and get 100% score first few times.
And use that as a kind of flash card mode to get my footing in understanding stuff.
Then move out of cheat mode and see if I learnt anything!