Saturday, 30 December 2023

Review #8 | Ultimate WaniKani Deck | Learn Japanese For Free

This week's review is for the Anki Deck 'the Ultimate Wanikani deck'. I would recommend the Deck for intermediate levels of learner. I do not personally recommend the Wani Kani method, rather I would recommend the RTK Heisig method, which is followed in another Anki deck review on the blog.

What

Wanikani Ultimate is a dated version of WaniKani's mnemonic card system. The deck is written like a normal Anki card, consisting of Radicals, Kanji and Vocabulary decks. 

There are various functions on the cards which nclude radicals, Meaning, On'yomi, Kun'yomi and radical storys known as 'Radical Meanings'. 

Where

Available online at www.ankiweb.net/shared/info/266084933

Who

Wanikani content belongs to WaniKani.

Authors content belongs to author of deck.

When

Available 24/7.

Why

This app is recommended if you are looking to try the WaniKani method, which I personally do not recommend. However we all learn differently so it might be an easier or better system for you to use.

I do not recommend this particular deck, nor Wani Kani, as both are very overtly just Heisigs RTK method to me, as an RTK purist. Not to mention, the deck is heavy on the bold and beautiful colour ways which hurts my eyes when I am trying to concentrate, and there is just way too much text to be useful or easy to take in at once which is not optimal considering these are flash cards you see for up to 10 seconds usually.

Socials

Email :        learnjapanese43@gmail.com

Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LearnJapanese43

Discord :     @learnjapaneseforfree

Tiktok :       @learnjapaneseforfree

Youtube:     @learnjapaneseforfree /LJ43?

This review is part of the Learn Japanese for free project. I have, do not and never will derive any profit from this project. Please send any requests, questions or further information about free tools for learning Japanese to learnjapanese43@gmail.com which is checked every 2 weeks.

Sunday, 17 December 2023

Review #7 | NHK Easy | Learn Japanese For Free

This week's review is for the news service NHK Easy. I would recommend the service for beginner and intermediate levels of learner.

What

Easy is a free news website in Japanese. The website is written in simple Japanese alphabets like Hiragana and Katakana, and uses Furigana alongside Kanji to translate these as it were into Hiragana.

Various functions like text-to-speech, video subtitling and grammar related features are available to help with picking up on these in the articles.

Otherwise, it is just a news website which covers generic topics in the news cycle.

Where

Available online at https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/

Who

NHK content belongs to NHK.

When

Available 24/7.

Why

This app is recommended if you are looking to fit in vocabulary learning, reading and hiragana recognition practice.

Socials

Email :        learnjapanese43@gmail.com

Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LearnJapanese43

Discord :     @learnjapaneseforfree

Tiktok :       @learnjapaneseforfree

This review is part of the Learn Japanese for free project. I have, do not and never will derive any profit from this project. Please send any requests, questions or further information about free tools for learning Japanese to learnjapanese43@gmail.com which is checked every 2 weeks.

Sunday, 3 December 2023

Review #6 | Sudadub | Learn Japanese For Free

Sorry life in the way this week and decided all of the technology I own and study materials were a bust. Therefore I have not done a full review this fortnight.

 Subadub is a free service which sometimes works. It can be used for netflix sometimes.

Good luck to you all, I am going back to trying to redownload Anki.

Instead, I would recommend using the Yomikun plugin to maintain sentence mining extraction, but there will be another more LJ43 review coming up of Tatoeba which is easier and less hassle in my eyes, and input is the main way you should ideally be engaging with Kanji and learning the nuances of different readings anyway so your brain can best retain it all contextually than Ankideck equivalents. But up to you. For more see: https://donkuri.github.io/learn-japanese/mining/  for sentence mining with Yomikun plugin. 

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