16 docs tagged with "tools"

Anki alternatives for Japanese compared: JPDB, WaniKani, Mochi, Kitsun, and Migaku Memory side by side, plus the best mobile FSRS pick for daily review.

Choose your first Japanese resources: the four-slot day-one toolkit (kana app, grammar, SRS, dictionary), a free path, a budget-paid path, and what to skip.

Find a free Japanese conversation partner: how exchange apps, meetups, university clubs, and Discord compare, plus the reciprocity tax that makes them fizzle.

HelloTalk for Japanese: an honest review of the big language exchange app, its corrections and Moments, the creep-DM problem, and how to filter partners.

How to learn Japanese vocabulary effectively: compare pre-made decks, sentence mining, and textbook lists, and pick the right approach for your JLPT level.

How to read OJAD, sorted: the four features (Accent Dictionary, Verb Handbook, Text Search, Suzuki-kun), the overline notation, and a Jisho-to-OJAD workflow.

An italki review for Japanese learners: community tutors vs professional teachers, the pricing bands, how to evaluate a tutor, and the trial-lesson strategy.

What is kanji.koohii: the community story bank for Heisig RTK, how its keyword-to-character SRS works, the best-rated story filter, and Anki hand-off.

Learning kanji through vocabulary explained: the AJATT and Refold case for kanji-in-context, the vocab-deck workflow, and trade-offs vs. Heisig and WaniKani.

Online vs in-person Japanese tutoring compared: cost bands, tutor pool, feedback quality, and the one thing in-person still does better. Pick the right format.

Passive vs active vocabulary explains why you understand far more Japanese than you can speak, and how to convert recognition into real production.

Preply vs italki vs Lingoda for Japanese: how Preply's subscription model compares to italki's pay-per-lesson, and why Lingoda offers no Japanese.

Sentence mining lets you build a Japanese Anki deck from what you read. Learn the i+1 method, the Yomitan, JPDB, and Migaku tools, and how to avoid over-mining.

SM-2 vs FSRS in Anki, explained for Japanese learners: how each scheduler picks review intervals, why "ease hell" happens, and whether to switch.

Tandem for Japanese: an honest review of the moderated, video-call-native exchange app, its free vs Pro tiers, and how it stacks up against HelloTalk.

Is WaniKani worth it? How the radical, kanji, and vocabulary SRS pipeline drives the 60-level path, the ~20-item daily load, and who the method fits.