Happy to make improvements to better support you / the intermediate reader use case, just let me know.
Happy to answer any questions and also, self-promo: for my project. It’s a lovely language, honestly my favorite language I’ve spent time with, but it’s non-trivial to handle it in general with code. We have a few similar post processing steps like one to better handle separated verbs in German but it’s nothing compared to what we needed for Japanese.Īdditionally Japanese kind of breaks our word model, despite being aware of it and planning for it from the start and every part of the app needs special logic to support Japanese properly. The only reason I got parsing and word segmentation to be pretty good was because I was so familiar with the language and wrote a 3000 line post-processing function on the tokens to get reasonable results. Japanese is just really, really hard for computers to deal with. I’m working on a website for intermediate learners to practice by reading and listening, including Japanese, and Japanese is my strongest second language so I can answer a bit about why it’s so uncommon.
#Ipad jedict compound kanji android
No plans for an Android release at the moment. It’s iPhone-only for now, but iPad will be coming soon. Everything that actually changes behavior between the apps is stored in a single file as an “app variant” configuration, so if I decide to create another companion app in the future, it should be even easier. This gives me a lot of the infrastructure (sync, error reporting, screenshot generation, etc.) of Nihongo for free, and makes it easy to share UI, which I do a fair amount of (flashcards, tutorials, settings). From a technical perspective, Nihongo Lessons is actually just a different entry point into essentially the same app bundle as Nihongo. So, I started building a separate app that would become Nihongo Lessons. Plus, given that Jalup is built around one-time content purchases, and Nihongo is a subscription, the purchases involved would feel convoluted, and people might be upset that they weren’t included in the Nihongo subscription. Originally it was envisioned as an add-on to Nihongo, but after starting to build this out it became clear that from a UX perspective it felt too bloated and tacked-on to just shove Jalup into Nihongo. So I reached out, and we came up with a deal where I would sell Jalup content in my apps. As a fan of Adam’s work I was bummed to hear the news, but realized I actually might be one of the few people in the world in a position to keep his work alive. The project came about when Adam Shapiro of Japanese Level Up (Jalup) announced last April that he was shutting Jalup down.
It’s an app for learning Japanese, specifically made for learners who are serious about becoming fluent, and want a guided set of content that will help them efficiently acquire vocabulary and grammar. Think of Nihongo Lessons as the textbook to Nihongo’s dictionary. Hey HN, it’s been 8 years since I posted on here about the launch of my Japanese dictionary app Nihongo and I’m finally back with a new app: Nihongo Lessons!
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