Saturday, 8 November 2025

Review #36 | JPDB slop | Learn Japanese For Free

JPDB is a website for a japanese beta dictionary. Its for whatever levels if you want another dictionary. 

Arabic Dictionary (1923, 2021, CC4.0) Mauro Cateb
Derivative ai slop imo

What

JPDB is an online dictionary. You can type a word, kanji or sentence into it. It's interface is available in a few European languages, so a bit shite really. Preferably go back to Tatoeba and just contribute there.

They have difficult lists for things like Anime, light novels etc. The Anime difficulty list which a list of Anime ranked from 1-100 on their difficulty in your ability to comprehend the material in them. They take their methods from machine learning and aggregate data, so also a bit shite. The MAL forums would be a better place to start for recs of this sort, or just reddit. Nice way to find new shows I suppose without the mess of MAL and reddit though.

Below that is the leaderboard where you can get internet points for being an Anki schill. Yeah basically shite Anki and Jisho/Takoboto. Then some stat facts about the fact the service is better than Heisig, which only teaches Kanji readings, so I hope a dictionary which does more than kanji readings btw, would do that. / ;<; / They arent aligned with Hiesig either so good luck trying to get away from that when you want to migrate away from the system. Then 'state of the art algorithms', thats called Anki babycheeks. Also follows the Stephen Krashen methods which are pretty much devolved from science and purely in the theoretical... . They also know tatoeba exists as well so thats nice of them. 

They also track your data.

Where

 https://jpdb.io/kanji/%E4%BA%92#a

Who

The creators of Kanji alive is:

Probably Chatgpt, as the original schmuck is not listed and instead has decided to not list their names.

They have very kindly nicked from the above resources though and not properly credited them and then tried to make profit from other peoples work. LMAO. The actual creatives are:

Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group - CC4.0 - James William Breen 

JMdict Database system  - CC4.0 - Stuart McGraw

Kradfile2/kradfile-u - Uncertain/CC4.0 - Micheal Raine/Jim Rose/Breen

WWDIC - Uncertain - Charles Abbott, James Breen, Paul Blay, muchan and Kouji Ueshiba, Jeffrey Friedl, Peter Galante, Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy (authors of the O'Reilly HTML book),  Otfried Schwarzkopf, Jamie Scuglia, Brodie Thiesfield, Shoji Yamazaki and Bart Mathias, Kendon Stubbs and Susan Munson (UofV), William Maton (Canada), Masayuki Toyoshima (Japan), Warren Togami (Hawaii), Jacek Rutkowski (Poland and EU), Jens and Ola (Sweden), Folken Lacour de Fanel (Chile), Sarwono Sutikno and Mr Waskita (Indonesia); and 'the many people who have emailed suggestions and messages of suggestions and messages of support.'

Wiktionary - CC by-SA - Wikimedia Foundation, Daniel Alston and Larry Sanger

Tatoeba - CC2.0 FR - Trang Ho - BDFL

Tabler Icons - Partially For Profit -  Paweł Kuna and 'more than 100 other contributors'

All Manga/Anime Studios involved - For Profit - Japan

These all have many, many people involved in these projects whom I would love to highlight if they wish to be.

When

Available online.

Why

Its there. The actual free service is very polished, the writing is written as you would find it in a Japanese book, the speech-to-text though is abysmal. Does have enunciation which is nice. Basically a flashy Jisho. 

At popular (2 people) request, non-blue text:

KanjiWhat


JPDB is an online dictionary. You can type a word, kanji or sentence into it. It's interface is available in a few European languages, so a bit shite really. Preferably go back to Tatoeba and just contribute there.


They have difficult lists for things like Anime, light novels etc. The Anime difficulty list which a list of Anime ranked from 1-100 on their difficulty in your ability to comprehend the material in them. They take their methods from machine learning and aggregate data, so also a bit shite. The MAL forums would be a better place to start for recs of this sort, or just reddit. Nice way to find new shows I suppose without the mess of MAL and reddit though.


Below that is the leaderboard where you can get internet points for being an Anki schill. Yeah basically shite Anki and Jisho/Takoboto. Then some stat facts about the fact the service is better than Heisig, which only teaches Kanji readings, so I hope a dictionary which does more than kanji readings btw, would do that. / ;<; / They arent aligned with Hiesig either so good luck trying to get away from that when you want to migrate away from the system. Then 'state of the art algorithms', thats called Anki babycheeks. Also follows the Stephen Krashen methods which are pretty much devolved from science and purely in the theoretical... . They also know tatoeba exists as well so thats nice of them. 


They also track your data.


Where


 https://jpdb.io/kanji/%E4%BA%92#a


Who

The creators of Kanji alive is:

Probably Chatgpt, as the original schmuck is not listed and instead has decided to not list their names.

They have very kindly nicked from the above resources though and not properly credited them and then tried to make profit from other peoples work. LMAO. The actual creatives are:


Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group - CC4.0 - James William Breen 

JMdict Database system  - CC4.0 - Stuart McGraw

Kradfile2/kradfile-u - Uncertain/CC4.0 - Micheal Raine/Jim Rose/Breen

WWDIC - Uncertain - Charles Abbott, James Breen, Paul Blay, muchan and Kouji Ueshiba, Jeffrey Friedl, Peter Galante, Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy (authors of the O'Reilly HTML book),  Otfried Schwarzkopf, Jamie Scuglia, Brodie Thiesfield, Shoji Yamazaki and Bart Mathias, Kendon Stubbs and Susan Munson (UofV), William Maton (Canada), Masayuki Toyoshima (Japan), Warren Togami (Hawaii), Jacek Rutkowski (Poland and EU), Jens and Ola (Sweden), Folken Lacour de Fanel (Chile), Sarwono Sutikno and Mr Waskita (Indonesia); and 'the many people who have emailed suggestions and messages of suggestions and messages of support.'


Wiktionary - CC by-SA - Wikimedia Foundation, Daniel Alston and Larry Sanger


Tatoeba - CC2.0 FR - Trang Ho - BDFL


Tabler Icons - Partially For Profit -  Paweł Kuna and 'more than 100 other contributors'


All Manga/Anime Studios involved - For Profit - Japan

These all have many, many people involved in these projects whom I would love to highlight if they wish to be.


When

Available online.


Why

Its there. The actual free service is very polished, the writing is written as you would find it in a Japanese book, the speech-to-text though is abysmal. Does have enunciation which is nice. Basically a flashy Jisho. 



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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 totally sporadically because the originator is perezoso.


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