What is Reddit's opinion of Japanese Kanji Tree?

Thank you! I've only started learning Japanese recently so I'm pretty new to this. I used Kanji Tree to pick out the Kanji I didn't recognize.

I use both. Lingodeer is a very good application and sometimes I feel like it's "better" to aid me than Duolingo. But in general, I think they both work the same way and I need the same supplemental resources (books, video, audio, writing prompts and so on) to see the improvement that I can actually use to speak to natives. Both of these apps, to me, are vocabulary builders. Lingodeer will have you feeling like you can say more but I've honestly learned hundreds of words in a two-week span just going through Duolingo as well.

Spanish and Japanese, eh? You should check out Kira. He's a native Spanish speaker who teaches Japanese via YouTube. I love him and it's helped me reinforce Spanish and learn Japanese at the same time.

Edit: I forgot some very important stuff. Lingodeer's upside is that they have better grammar section (I barely read those but if you're into that because I can intuit it at this point but if you need it, go ahead) and the alphabet section. Also, the hiragana characters over the kanji can help, but I have removed it a long time ago because I felt like I was learning slower.

I also use an app called Kanji Tree (android) to practice drawing, reading and identifying kanji characters. Way better than the other, more expensive apps that people keep raving about.

Greetings from a fellow student! Hate to break it to you, but リズ is indeed about as close as you can get to Liz. Don't feel too bad - Korean can't distinguish between R and L either, and they don't even have a letter for Z!

I'm going to guess you're already pretty solid on Hiragana/Katakana. If you use Android, I highly highly recommend Kanji Tree. Free, no ads, 4.9 rating, and it actually makes learning Kanji really fun. I used to use Obenkyo since that was how I learned kana, and I hated it. The trick is to go really far, really fast with just recognizing Kanji without worrying about picking up all the vocab and stroke orders, then to go back slowly and learn new words.

As for grammar... Yeah I'm with you on that one. I've only been using past and non-past polite tense so far, and fortunately the particles are pretty straightforward (は、が、を、も…) but I don't know how I'm going to deal with the more advanced grammar rules. I guess we'll see!

Japanese Kanji Tree is free and, imho, better than KanjiStudy. You might wanna check both out and decide for your own, OP.

The biggest problem of Kanji Study is missing SRS - you have to mark progress with each kanji by hand. Apparently this feature is being work on as the rest of the app is really good.

For similiar app with working SRS, try Kanji Tree:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asji.kanjitree

Wanikani/HouHou SRS is still my prefered way of learning kanji though, I mainly use those two mentioned for practice, it works better that way.

I have been using it too, and it's great app, though I kinda miss automatic srs algorythm there, based on your correct or wrong answers. There are stars as rating but those are pretty unsufficient to mark your progress and you have to do it manually.

Japanese Kanji Tree is basically the same but with in-built srs and in the end I found myself using it a lot more, just because of this fact.

if you're an Android user, I highly recommend the Kanji Tree app. It has a kanji drawing feature that checks your strokes and gives you hints what the stroke order is if you get it wrong. I got hooked on it as a "game" and accidentally learned 1000 kanji that way.

I highly recommend Kanji Tree if you're using a mobile device. It highlights the different parts of kanji and let's you click on them to get the meanings of each. You can go as deeply down the rabbit hole as you want and then click back until you get to the original kanji you looked up. It also lists common words that use the kanji according to its different readings. It's by far my favorite kanji study app.

Kanji tree is a great app, it's very similar to that website.

This anki deck is the main way I am learning kanji.

Kanji Tree is by far my favorite for learning kanji. It shows different kanji sorted by difficulty, the radical breakdowns, different pronunciations, and most importantly, a list of their usages in different words. It makes learning the meaning and context of each much easier, and the easy radical click-and-learn interface is way better than any other app I've encountered.

I linked the free version, feel free to give it a try. I have the pro version but I forgot what the differences are. They're probably minor though

There is Kanji Tree that's does basically the same and it's free.

Or Kanshudo which is a lot cheaper and teaches you even grammar.

But bascially any SRS (be it Memrise or Anki) can do the work for free too. The only important thing here is perseverance.

Kanji Tree app worked mostly fine with me, at home I usually use Anki or Houhou which are very similiar to Wanikani and can be customized further. I use JapanesePod101 for good vocabularly and listening practice. As I said, I actually like SRS method and I use Wanikani for second reviews. To effectively learn the kanji so that it stays in memory (even if bit slower) I found it's always better for me to write in on sheet of paper. That way I also learn its shape.

Another disadvantage of Wanikani is it only teaches you one reading (mostly onyomi) which is nice in theory but bad in practice (I've found the hard way) as there are times when you need to know which reading is on and which kun to read the sentence properly and that information isn't forwarded well through this learning app.

I've tried so many apps that do something similar to this, but the one I'm enjoying most right now (because it's free and has nice animations when aligning/correcting your strokes) is KanjiTree on Android

I prefer the writing game in Kanji Tree.

It's awesome, but I can't quite put my finger on what I like so much about it. Anyway, I recommend you give it a go.

The best kanji writing game by far is Kanji Tree, for Android.

I've tried a few and this one beats them all hands down. Completely free too, no adds or anything

I prefer Kanji Tree. It's the best one I've found on Android, the writing game in particular is fantastic.

I don't know why it's not way more popular, I guess the guy who wrote it doesn't do any marketing because it's also completely free so he's not making any money off it.

Learn how Japanese syllables work: Vowel, Consonant + Vowel and N alone
Learn hiragana. It works in syllables and it's like lowercase letters
Learn katakana. It's uppercase hiragana
Now you can read like a 5 year old. Learn the 20 most used words in Japanese. Just google "20 most used words in Japanese". I also recommend learning words while you learn hiragana and katakana
Learn Japanese phrase structure: There's particles, that assign a role to every word in a sentence, and those are important. Then you get to know that the verb is always at the end of the phrase and the "topic" (mostly equivalent to the subject) is always at the start, and everything else in in the middle.

For basic grammar, I suggest you look up the YouTube channel That Japanese Man Yuta and you subscribe to his course. It's a series of lessons for basic Japanese that are automatically sent to users through email. They were really useful for me

6. Learn how words work. For example, verbs and adjective can be conjugated and... that's basically it, I can't really think of anything else

These explainations were really useful to me

7. Learn more words (again, do this during step 5 maybe) and start understanding how Kanji work: they've got a Japanese reading and a Chinese reading. They mostly mean things and most of them are just simpler kanji sticked together, so you might figure out the meaning of a Kanji by its components. Sometimes a kanji is used in a certain word just because it makes a certain sound, even if the meanings have nothing to do with each other.

I've learned a lot of things just by trying to understand anime and writing down words I considered useful.

KanjiTree, Infinite Japanese and AnkiDroid are really good apps for memorizing words

Tangorin is a good dictionary, but it's not working for me since they've changed stuff

Yeah real Japanese doesn't have spaces. Sometimes children's books in Japanese that are written purely in hiragana will have spaces, but otherwise... not so much.

This is where it really helps to have the kanji. Most nouns are entirely in kanji, and the stems of most verbs and adjectives are, so it becomes easier to tell when the hiragana is simply particles (like は, に, を, etc.) or the part of the adjectives/verbs that can change for conjugation.

Reading pure hiragana is a pain in the ass. I'd recommend moving on to learning kanji as soon as you can, because it's much easier to read sentences and notice by the kanji what the words mean (though that seems counter-intuitive; it is difficult to learn kanji to begin with).

I do have some resources for learning kanji:

Kanji Tree (free Android app)
Japanese Kanji Study (Android; paid)
Ringotan (beta), Website / Android ← "While Ringotan will eventually be a paid app, anyone who downloads now will keep the full version for free, forever" [See WaniKani post from author]
WaniKani.com (free for first 3 levels)
free Memrise Jōyō kanji course 1 (English meanings only!)
free Memrise Jōyō kanji course 2 (On'yomi+Kun'yomi pronunciations + Meanings)
Anki shared decks (free)

Noone mentioned Kanji Tree? I find it very uselful app as it uses its algorithms to actually make you repeat those kanji you are not so sure with. It's actually very good both for learning and excercising (but of course, one also have to downoad and print joshu practice sheet and do some excercises in traditional way on paper just to get used to writing). Finding each new kanji on jisho.org is must, if only for its writing animation. I used to go with Learn Japanese Kanji series which can be good substitution for jisho but some of its contents are now paid or incompatible with older phones so you need to try to see for yourself. Also, find yourself some kind of japanese dictionary app like this offline one it's also handy tool.

It's true Human Japanese is good but you can get basic grammar out even for free - like with well-known Tae Kim's Guide, although I tend to use his web version more.

For Kanji learning, Obenkyo also works like charm.

That's a difficult one, since as far as completely free platforms that are comparable (even if they have ads), Duolingo is about the only one. I think you might be able to use Busuu for a single language without paying, but it won't have all the features.

On the other hand if you have a little under $100 to spend on a paid platform, I think LingoDeer is by far the best (you can use coupon code LTLSCH to get a lifetime subscription for like $96; I'm unsure if there are any better codes). There's also the Bunpo app, which you can pick up for like $30, and I think it does a pretty decent job for what it is.

As far as free resources, I do have a list of things that could help (though none of them is really an all-in-one; you'll have to skip around and see what you find useful):

I can recommend Tae Kim's Guide as a free grammar guide (and it also has app versions) ~~and there's also~~ ~~Duolingo~~ ~~as kinda an all-in-one beginner resource~~.

For learning kanji you have Kanji Tree and Ringotan (which is free if you pick it up while it's in beta), and a couple of user-created Memrise courses here (English meanings only) and here (one kun'yomi and one on'yomi reading, plus meanings). You can always use Anki shared decks, though I don't know which are the best.

For dictionaries, I recommend Jisho.org and Takoboto.jp.

For translators, DeepL is the best followed by Google Translate.

Here are also some YouTube channels:

Cheers!

It's always good to have multiple resources, it makes learning Japanese easier. I just put together a whole list of free resources you can use for another thread, so maybe these'll help you out:

I can recommend Tae Kim's Guide as a free grammar guide (and it also has app versions), IMABI and there's also Duolingo as kinda an all-in-one beginner resource.

For learning kanji you have Kanji Tree and Ringotan (which is free if you pick it up while it's in beta), and a couple of user-created Memrise courses here (English meanings only) and here (one kun'yomi and one on'yomi reading, plus meanings). You can always use Anki shared decks, though I don't know which are the best.

For dictionaries, I recommend Jisho.org and Takoboto.jp.

For translators, DeepL is the best followed by Google Translate.

Here are some miscellaneous resources:

Learn to write hiragana and katakana by hand (Yuko Sensei)
Install a Japanese keyboard to take notes or type answers manually
Find Your Name in Japanese!
Peruse some Reading Material for All Levels
Tighten up your Listening Comprehension

Here are also some YouTube channels:

Hope that helps. Cheers!

I started with Pimsleur's Japanese a long time ago, but it's mostly concerned with listening and being able to speak, and not so much the written aspect, so it didn't keep me on the hook for long. I've used a ton of resources since then, including Rosetta Stone (horrible), Rocket Japanese, Duolingo, LingoDeer, Japanese From Zero! and more.

Japanese really is kinda a difficult language, and it can be very hard to find any one resource that's perfect and keeps you focused on learning.

I do have a list of resources that might help (these are free):

I can recommend Tae Kim's Guide as a free grammar guide (and it also has app versions) and there's also Duolingo as kinda an all-in-one beginner resource.

For learning kanji you have Kanji Tree and Ringotan (which is free if you pick it up while it's in beta), and a couple of user-created Memrise courses here (English meanings only) and here (one kun'yomi and one on'yomi reading, plus meanings). You can always use Anki shared decks, though I don't know which are the best.

For dictionaries, I recommend Jisho.org and Takoboto.jp.

For translators, DeepL is the best followed by Google Translate.

Here are also some YouTube channels:

Cheers!

Genki is a popular textbook to begin learning from
Tae Kim's Grammar Guide is one of the best free resources available for learning grammar
WaniKani is great for learning kanji and has helpful mnemonics for each word/phrase. There are also a few different mobile apps for WaniKani with useful plugins to aid your learning
In addition to WaniKani, I use Kanji Tree since the app also tests you on how to write kanji with proper stroke order, not just the pronunciation/meaning
As the user above mentioned, JapanesePod101 is a good resource for listening practice

If you're looking for apps that take you beyond kana, let me recommend the Kanji Tree, 漢検トレーニング, 漢検X級問題集, and JLPT Full apps. [Links are to the Google Store]. They're more serious quiz-type apps rather than games, but I think they're worth checking out.

I have some free resources you might check out:

I can recommend Tae Kim's Guide as a free grammar guide (and it also has app versions) and there's also Duolingo as kinda an all-in-one beginner resource. You've also got IMABI and Reading Material for All Levels.

For learning kanji you have Kanji Tree and Ringotan (which is free if you pick it up while it's in beta), and a couple of user-created Memrise courses here (English meanings only) and here (one kun'yomi and one on'yomi reading, plus meanings). You can always use Anki shared decks, though I don't know which are the best.

For dictionaries, I recommend Jisho.org and Takoboto.jp.

For translators, DeepL is the best followed by Google Translate.

Here are also some YouTube channels:

Cheers!

P.S. I think [Busuu](Busuu.com) is also free for one language, but it won't give you all the options (like peer-review) that make it somewhat worthwhile. I think you can also review the grammar on [Bunpro](Bunpro.jp) even without paying, but won't have access to the SRS review system.

Hello, you might like to try Kanji Tree.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asji.kanjitree

It's mainly an app to help you learn kanji, but it's also got a dictionary in it too.

I'm using KanjiTree and I'm finding it quite useful.

Yeah, the wiki is missing a lot. I'd add these myself but I don't seem to have edit rights.

Animebook - Web based video player with custom subs and Anki integration
asbplayer - What Animebook was based on; more features including tab sync
ッツ ebook reader - Web based ebook reader with vertical text support (can use Yomichan)
Kotu - Collection of web based tools and quizzes. Pitch accent quiz is great.
Jidoujisho - All-in-one japanese learning tool for Android
Sakubi - Basically Cliff's Notes for Tae Kim's guide. Same info with a quicker read.
KanjiTree - Android app for Kanji and vocab memorization
Kanji Study - Excellent Kanji dictionary; Paid version adds KanjiTree-like functions
Kaku - Android system-wide OCR with pop up dictionary
Tachiyomi - Manga reader for Android. Works with Kaku OCR or Google Lens OCR
Typhon改 - Android ebook reader with pop up dictionary
Akebi - Ad-free dictionary app with a unique and powerful layout
Takoboto - Another ad-free dictionary similar to Jisho
TheMoeWay - Lots more resources, some that can't be linked here

There's Kanji Tree

I can recommend Tae Kim's Guide as a free grammar guide (and it also has app versions) and there's also Duolingo as kinda an all-in-one beginner resource. You've also got IMABI and Reading Material for All Levels.

For learning kanji you have Kanji Tree and Ringotan (which is free if you pick it up while it's in beta), and a couple of user-created Memrise courses here (English meanings only) and here (one kun'yomi and one on'yomi reading, plus meanings). You can always use Anki shared decks, though I don't know which are the best.

For dictionaries, I recommend Jisho.org and Takoboto.jp.

For translators, DeepL is the best followed by Google Translate.

Here are also some YouTube channels:

Cheers!

Resources to learn Japanese? I have a few (these are free ones):

I can recommend Tae Kim's Guide as a free grammar guide (and it also has app versions) and there's also Duolingo as kinda an all-in-one beginner resource.

For learning kanji you have Kanji Tree and Ringotan (which is free if you pick it up while it's in beta), and a couple of user-created Memrise courses here (English meanings only) and here (one kun'yomi and one on'yomi reading, plus meanings). You can always use Anki shared decks, though I don't know which are the best.

For dictionaries, I recommend Jisho.org and Takoboto.jp.

For translators, DeepL is the best followed by Google Translate.

Here are also some YouTube channels:

Cheers!

You'll want some kind of primary learning resource, like a grammar book or an all-in-one type of beginner platform like Duolingo or Rocket Japanese. I have some resources that might help you out (all of these ones are free):

I can recommend Tae Kim's Guide as a free grammar guide (and it also has app versions) and there's also Duolingo as kinda an all-in-one beginner resource.

For learning kanji you have Kanji Tree and Ringotan (which is free if you pick it up while it's in beta), and a couple of user-created Memrise courses here (English meanings only) and here (one kun'yomi and one on'yomi reading, plus meanings). You can always use Anki shared decks, though I don't know which are the best.

For dictionaries, I recommend Jisho.org and Takoboto.jp.

For translators, DeepL is the best followed by Google Translate.

Here are also some YouTube channels:

Cheers!

Also Android: Kanji Tree is nice for practicing kana and is ad free aside from the occasional request to rate it.

This one? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asji.kanjitree&hl=en_US

I'm finding KanjiTree quite useful.

Here are some resources that might help:

For grammar: Tae Kim (long and in depth) or Sakubi (short and to the point)

For kanji: jpdb.io (also teaches vocab) and/or KanjiTree

For vocab: Anki with Core Anime deck and/or Jlab deck

Plenty of free resources for that stuff, instead of buying books.

For the kana:

Learn to write hiragana and katakana by hand (Yuko Sensei)
...also check out https://8020japanese.com/pronunciation

For kanji:

Kanji Tree (free Android app)
Japanese Kanji Study (Android; paid)
Ringotan (beta), Website / Android ← free while in beta
WaniKani.com (free for first 3 levels)
free Memrise Jōyō kanji course 1 (English meanings only!)
free Memrise Jōyō kanji course 2 (On'yomi+Kun'yomi pronunciations + Meanings)
Anki shared decks (free)

Cheers!

I do have some free resources that I usually recommend. As for paid stuff, I can recommend LingoDeer as a good base for learning (and I think with code LTLSCH you can get lifetime for $96). There's also WaniKani that's good for learning kanji and vocabulary.

Anyway, onto the freebies!

I can recommend Tae Kim's Guide as a free grammar guide (and it also has app versions) and there's also Duolingo as kinda an all-in-one beginner resource.

For learning kanji you have Kanji Tree and Ringotan (which is free if you pick it up while it's in beta), and a couple of user-created Memrise courses here (English meanings only) and here (one kun'yomi and one on'yomi reading, plus meanings). You can always use Anki shared decks, though I don't know which are the best.

For dictionaries, I recommend Jisho.org and Takoboto.jp.

For translators, DeepL is the best followed by Google Translate.

Here are also some YouTube channels:

Cheers!

I have a few free resources that might help you out:

I can recommend Tae Kim's Guide as a free grammar guide (and it also has app versions) and there's also Duolingo as kinda an all-in-one beginner resource.

For learning kanji you have Kanji Tree and Ringotan (which is free if you pick it up while it's in beta), and a couple of user-created Memrise courses here (English meanings only) and here (one kun'yomi and one on'yomi reading, plus meanings). You can always use Anki shared decks, though I don't know which are the best.

For dictionaries, I recommend Jisho.org and Takoboto.jp.

For translators, DeepL is the best followed by Google Translate.

Here are also some YouTube channels:

Cheers!

I have some resources that might help ya out:

I can recommend Tae Kim's Guide as a free grammar guide (and it also has app versions) and there's also Duolingo as kinda an all-in-one beginner resource.

For learning kanji you have Kanji Tree and Ringotan (which is free if you pick it up while it's in beta), and a couple of user-created Memrise courses here (English meanings only) and here (one kun'yomi and one on'yomi reading, plus meanings). You can always use Anki shared decks, though I don't know which are the best.

For dictionaries, I recommend Jisho.org and Takoboto.jp.

For translators, DeepL is the best followed by Google Translate.

Here are also some YouTube channels:

Cheers!

I have a list of Japanese resources (all free) that might help you out.

I can recommend Tae Kim's Guide as a free grammar guide (and it also has app versions) and there's also Duolingo as kinda an all-in-one beginner resource.

For learning kanji you have Kanji Tree and Ringotan (which is free if you pick it up while it's in beta), and a couple of user-created Memrise courses here (English meanings only) and here (one kun'yomi and one on'yomi reading, plus meanings). You can always use Anki shared decks, though I don't know which are the best.

For dictionaries, I recommend Jisho.org and Takoboto.jp.

For translators, DeepL is the best followed by Google Translate.

Here are also some YouTube channels:

Kanji Tree is pretty good:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asji.kanjitree

JA Sensei also seems to be popular:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.japanactivator.android.jasensei

Kanji Study is probably the best though, but only the most basic kanji (100 or so) are included in the free version.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mindtwisted.kanjistudy

I recommend kanji tree.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asji.kanjitree&hl=ja

Japanese Kanji Tree - Free - no ads

Knots 3D - goes on sale every few months

Here is a couple developers of language/programming apps that go free every now and then, most seem to have at least 4+ rating - https://imgur.com/IiMxufw.jpg - search "pub:MosaLingua Crea" or Apkzube

Also found some Google apps that look cool: Expeditions, Arts & Culture, Toontastic 3D

Kanji Tree is by far the best app I've found and use. It not only shows different kanji based on grade, JLPT level, or search, but it also shows the breakdown radicals for all kanji. It shows the radicals in different colors and allows you to click a radical to bring up information about it. You can see the frequencies of all readings and can click on them to see all (or at least many) of the usages of that kanji in that reading. It's by far the best I've found, even compared to AnkiDroid and some others

The next I use is https://learnjapanesepod.com/ through a podcast-listening app (I use CastBox, but that was an arbitrary choice). The podcasts help my listening abilities and let me listen to cultural parts of Japanese along with vocab.

Finally, I use a PDF viewer (again, an arbitrary choice I made was to use XodoPDF) to read Genki and my own notes I write in LaTeX.

I'd like to find more apps like Kanji Tree but haven't found anything quite as good. I just downloaded Color Kanji because it looks like it shows radicals as well, but so far it still doesn't compare to Kanji Tree.

EDIT: I use Aedict3 for my dictionary. I can't objectively say it's the best b/c I haven't tried that many other offline dictionaries, but I love the highlight -> translate feature (I can highlight some text and the menu that pops up on my Android includes a "translate" option) so I don't have to open the app to translate words.

Kanji Tree has by far the best writing game of any I've seen so far.

It's also got the JLTP lists built in.

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