This week's review is for the Dictionary App Yomiwa. I would recommend Yomiwa for all levels of learner. It is a great app, a particularly for its visual and example sentence features.
What
Yomiwa is an App for Android and probably the Fruity people version. The App operates as a Dictionary and studying aid.
There are various functions on the App menu which include Analyser, Wall, Browser, Word Lists (Outlier), Gallery, Todays List, Flashcards and Draw.
Where
Available through the App stores.
Who
Yomiwa content belongs to u/Vivoun.
Wall content will have copyright holder limitations as respective of each type and formatting style and respective to each country the content was created under.
When
Available 24/7. Certain features such as Camera, Gallery, Browser and so on are limited usages.
Why
I heavily recommend Yomiwa over other Dictionary Apps, they dont even come close with their free features.
Analyser functions as a tool which simply analyses, you enter a set text and it gives you back the usual tools such as furigana. Once you highlight a Kanji, it brings up its romaji and definitions, within a seperated field for each reading. Clicking into the smaller arrows on the side allow you to make a kind of flashcard in the App, which hold Alternate forms, Intonation, definition, wordnet (synonym sets thesaurus or words closely affiliated in a language but not the same thing thesaurus), flashcard, example sentence and Kanji sections.
Kanji sections expand into JLPT, On'yomi, Kun'yomi, Nanori (Non-standard logographic/Kanji readings), Stroke Order, Radicals, Meaning (common definition), (Personal) Notes, (Yomiwa) Flashcards, Compounds sections (words which use multiple Kanji) and 'Show More' which goes back into the Word List function.
Wall section functions like a social media feed, much as Facebook used to have.
Browser allows you to go through and analyses webpages to make into cards from the text present, these are a little bit redundant though as Rikai-kun already does this but useful if you want to practice Immersion learning from reading.
Word Lists (Outlier) section is what it sounds like, with Lists of Grade 1-9 and JLPT lists of Kanji to practice from. History and Flashcards are also available. MOST interesting though is the Outlier Kanji cards which explain how the original Chinese logographic forms developed into their present day readings as pictographs. So if you want to learn how we get squiggly naruto shape into sun, now you can find out!
Gallery is a clever tool which analyses text using presumably machine learning software on top of your gallery images. It analyses the text essentially from your images and creates flashcards from it.
Todays List is a compilation list of daily words from around the web.
Flashcards are a good idea if you want to have just one app, but are very information dense and not as customisable as you may want, so a nice idea but I would personally stick to Anki.
Flashcards sections are formatted on the app as Romaji, Kanji, Verbal Reading, Stroke Order, Intonation (pitch accent/tonal shift if you have studied Chinese), Definitions, notes, cards, example sentences which use the same Romaji/Furigana, Kanji, Verbal Reading and English translated equivalent formats and the Kanji section listing.
Draw is the reason I adore this app, because along with https://kanji.sljfaq.org/it lets you input your own handwritten texts into the app to find a kanji you might not recognise or remember. For this function alone I recommend it for all levels of learner becuase the amount of times I can read ai (love) but not remember month's (tsuki) other readings is embarrassing.
Whilst Yomiwa is a little difficult to navigate at times, I definitely recommend it as Dictionary and perhaps for some, study aid tool.
External Links :
https://wordnet.princeton.edu/
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=japan&sub=Search+WordNet&o2=&o0=1&o8=1&o1=1&o7=&o5=&o9=&o6=&o3=&o4=&h=
https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/gol1or/the_yomiwa_app/
https://kanji.sljfaq.org/
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