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For that I recommend the app Japanese dictionary Takoboto. Breaks it down to single kanji/radicals if available (and you can look into their graphemes)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.takoboto
On the web, jisho.org has the same information but the overview isn't as good for graphemes. But nonetheless my favorite online dictionary for Japanese.
There are free apps to learn kana and particles, I recommend you to start with learning those. It makes understanding and pronouncing words easier, and you'll most likely need to learn how to transcribe kana to romaji in order to type in Japanese words on a computer. Moreover Takoboto (Play Store link) is a great dictionary app (and I think also a website), and it includes kana tables and some more nice features. It will definitely help you during your learning :)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.takoboto
Takoboto Japanese Dictionary has something like this where it will give phrases, but also uses a secondary app or website that does indeed give similar words and kanji.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.takoboto&hl=en_US&gl=US
In my experience, I've found that this offline dictionary app is pretty great (and uses most if not all of the definitions on Jisho), especially together with the Japanese handwriting keyboard on Gboard
If you have an iPhone, the app shirabe jisho is pretty good. They will cover the kanjis of the word, meaning, example sentences, etc. https://ricoapps.com/
For Android, there is the takoboto, but I still prefer the shirabe jisho https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.takoboto
I've personally used Takoboto and Kanji study.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.takoboto&hl=en&gl=US
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mindtwisted.kanjistudy&hl=en&gl=US
You need to install AnkiDroid first.
Takoboto has ready made vocab lists from N5 - N1. It has the kanji, hiragana and katagana reading of words.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.takoboto
Minna no nihongo is good for grammar and this app is good for grammar.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.khoapm.japanesen4
Hope this helps
I have always just used Takoboto. I'm not sure how "powerful" it is or if it will suit your necessities but I don't have any problems with it with my current information needs.
Takoboto has fav lists and can export to Anki, has example sentences, search by radical, fairly certain it can handle conjugation.
If you have a smartphone you can find some there. For example this one.
www.jisho.org is a good online one.
If you want to learn Japanese you HAVE to rely on SOME dictionary. How else are you supposed to learn words?
In case you're not already familiar with it: A pretty decent free dictionary would be Takoboto.
Includes Kanji lookup, common phrases, conjugations, Kana tables and it's offline.
Not sure about desktop, but there are lots of great dictionary apps for both android and iphone that can be used offline. I personally use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.takoboto&hl=en
A bad teacher can make for a bad experience. Sorry to hear that the new one isn't working out for you. Personally, I feel like I've been benefiting from:
- this series on Udemy (They have N5-1, but I've not done the higher level courses).
- combined with making flash cards for all of the vocabulary using Anki
- studying kanji with The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course
My go-to dictionaries have been:
I figured it out! I hope.
So, from what I found on this website, Google translator and this Japanese dictionary app, 申し子 was used in the title for Mikoto's fight and means "heavenly-sent child". 申し子 also means, from what I got from the website, "a child born with spiritual power" or "a child with a mysterious power like spiritual power". Considering that I do not speak Japanese and that it's just a lame translation, it's not too far fetched to think of it as supernatural powers. So the chapter would literally mean "The child with supernatural powers loved by electrons", at least that's one possible translation. 申し子 also means, " a child sent by God and Buddha" so a "heavenly sent child". It refers to families who weren't able to have a child until they prayed to heaven. I think Kamachi played with the term, that it can mean "sent by a higher being" and "child with supernatural powers".
Doesn't really fit the Hadit/Nuit connection anymore though but I think it's still interesting. Kamachi could have used "Esper" but decided instead for a vague word which can mean both "Esper" and "someone sent by God/Higher" being for Mikotos fight. I could maybe argue that she, as a higher being if the Nuit connection is true, sent herself because she wanted to do it herself and wasn't really sent by anyone else. AC doesn't count as a God or as a Buddha. That's a stretch though, I know that. Well, I still have NT15 for the connections.
I believe the Angel/Demon symbology when it happens. As long as the only hints we get are connected to the A.A.A - no, the iron sand Kaiju doesn't count, Misaka just wanted to make it look cool, I'm convinced of that - I say the A.A.A has the Demon symbology, not Mikoto herself that it isn't connected to the path she's going to take.
The two main apps I use on my phone are Takoboto which is an app that uses Jisho.org for a dictionary and allows radical input of Kanji; but once you put in on radical, it will automatically filter the displayed Kanji so only ones with that radical will show up.
And Kanji Recgonizer which allows you to draw in kanji and is pretty forgiving compared to some other draw inputs, but will only show you the kanji meanings and readings, no translations to the readings.
Also sometimes I use https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/ if the translated word doesn't make much sense in context.
There doesn't seem to be any good apps that act as a thesaurus though, which is annoying because there are so many similar words and a dictionary will only help so much going from English to Japanese.
that's cool!
I've never had a lesson, native speaker to help, or the time/motivation for serious self-study. I learnt かな by making charts and printing them out. Lots of people say it took them a couple hours to learn but I'm not very good at remembering stuff so it took about a month. We used to have reading time at my school for 20mins a day and I had a PDF rip of Tae Kim's Japanese Grammar Guide (it's a godsend) on my phone so I'd just re-read the first half of it until it stuck in my head. I've tried Genki and other stuff recommended by r/lj but I found most of it boring. There's a Japanese-English dictionary app called Takoboto but it also has word lists for each 日本語能力試験 level so I use the flashcard function whenever I've got a spare sec to learn vocab (it's also a great dictionary app tho). I have a Japanese penpal from 宮崎市 and we talk pretty much daily. HelloTalk and チャットパッド are good for talking to native speakers. I use NHK EASY NEWS for reading practice, as well as setting my phone's main language to Japanese so I don't start forgetting it.
I don't think I could pass N5 so I'm not sure if I'm exactly a success story (aha) but I can read simple articles and tweets, and I'm fine with my phone in Japanese which I use daily. Thanks for asking about it
T長;D読 (incase anyone else is curious): I use the Tae Kim textbook and Takoboto.
Combo Takoboto with google's handwriting keyboard. Although, for normal typing (when I know what the kanjis sound like), I use this google keyboard instead.
use this for sentence examples and other things: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.takoboto&hl=en
Sure. I left them out because I knew the thread was already going to be long. In no particular order-
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.takoboto
- Takoboto Japanese Dictionary : It has stroke order, pitch accent, speech, sentences, has it's own flash card system where you can make your own group of cards or import them to Anki. It has another app it shares info with and that one goes into even more of kanji and it's root radicals.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.eup.jpnews
- Todai Japanese Newsreader : the best current Japanese Newsreader that I am aware of. Free with ads or pay for no ads. Indepth with kanji and even kana. Either press or press and hold and even drag and it translates for you. Has it's own section for stroke orders, and a sleep of extras. Be aware not all extras are free however.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=6305109846602286854 (not sure why I can not share the game directly, I have to share the developer page. Regardless he only has one game to his credit.
- Earthlingo is a free game on Steam or a free app on Android. Although it has many different languages, Japanese is among them. Some call it a visual dictionary. I call it an open game world where you roam around a city and click on objects, buildings and even people to learn the names, verbs, colors, etc for them. People, vehicles and animals travel about as well. Maps open up the further you get like a house or airport I believe, etc. But the items in the house for instance are many, including new people to learn, everything in a kitchen, bedroom, livingroom, the front and back yard objects, etc.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.ucla.eastasianstudies.hentaigana
- Hentaigana : No tentacle monsters. Just shows the cursive form of the hiragana. Helps with your calligraphy and maybe even how to read the old scrolls even modern Japanese can not do.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cipl.androidenglish
- Explore Japan : I can not put my finger on it. But there is something about this app that just gives off so much charm. It is set up to help you with more indepth reasons behind how things work in some articles and then just "exploring Japan" in others.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alexisblaze.japanese_grammar
- Tae Kim's Learning Japanese : decent all around. But I believe he skips the politeness and just goes straight into it, so be aware of that if you are trying to be formal.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.takoboto it includes the pitch accent of the words when you click on them
I'd say you use site called LearnJapaneseAdventure as it has the lessons planned from a person who had learned Japanese himself some while ago. It's hella useful. It has these 27 "basic lessons" and then it goes on to "intermediate lessons" (haven't reached it, I'm still on lesson 13 of basic lessons).
I myself used Duolingo and learned quite a lot from it but it wasn't enough for me and in the comments someone threw this site. One my friends is also using his lessons. The cons would be that he does not casually introduce new Kanji unlike Duolingo and it doesn't have audio files so it's all words.
Tho you can use this as a dictionary and it has these decks premade for counters, JLPT vocabulary, Kanji levels, Date, and kana etc and use this epic and unparalleled app to learn the pronunciations (it has everything, it's a dictionary, you can select a word and share it to KanjiStudy to know what the words means etc. It has courses for learning Japanese such as rtk 6th and older edition and how is taught in Japanese grades, JLPT levels, Kanji kentei etc. It had audio files a list of radicals and kana (which you can learn through flashcards or quizzes found in the app) and stroke challenges so you know how it's written.
That's all I use. So I works suggest you use LearnJapaneseAdventure to learn the grammar and all and you can learn the Kanji by this epic and unparalleled app which you can also use as an dictionary. It also functions as a anki deck app, tho it's not related to it. It teaches you how to use all the features bit if you use it and don't understand how to do something you can always pm me.
I'd say you use site called LearnJapaneseAdventure as it has the lessons planned from a person who had learned Japanese himself some while ago. It's hella useful. It has these 27 "basic lessons" and then it goes on to "intermediate lessons" (haven't reached it, I'm still on lesson 13 of basic lessons).
I myself used Duolingo and learned quite a lot from it but it wasn't enough for me and in the comments someone threw this site. One my friends is also using his lessons. The cons would be that he does not casually introduce new Kanji unlike Duolingo and it doesn't have audio files so it's all words.
Tho you can use this as a dictionary which has decks premade for counters, JLPT vocabulary etc and use this epic and unparalleled app to learn the pronunciations (it has everything, it's a dictionary, you can select a word and share it to KanjiStudy to know what the words means etc. It has courses for learning Japanese such as rtk 6th and older edition and how is taught in Japanese grades, JLPT levels, Kanji kentei etc. It had audio files a list of radicals and kana (which you can learn through flashcards or quizzes found in the app) and stroke challenges so you know how it's written.
That's all I use. So I works suggest you use LearnJapaneseAdventure to learn the grammar and all and you can learn the Kanji by this epic and unparalleled app which you can also use as an dictionary. It also functions as a anki deck app, tho it's not related to it.
There's this amazing app on Android called japanese takoboto
Takoboto dictionary works great with AnkiDroid:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.takoboto
A simple app called Echo, great for practicing your pronunciation:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.projectneon.echo
I also like to use an audiobook player to listen to podcasts like Teppei, etc. I personally use "Listen Audiobook Player" (paid), but here's a popular free alternative with similar features:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ak.alizandro.smartaudiobookplayer
Takoboto works great with AnkiDroid:
If you want an actually free (no ads, no purchases) Android app I'd highly recommend Takoboto
I use Takoboto, it's completely free (with no ads) and it can export entries directly into AnkiDroid.
Have you looked at Takoboto?
It supports custom tags, anki export (with deduplication), dark mode, verb deinflection, and multiple words lookup. Not sure about pitch accents or custom notepads though (it has a share button? I've not used it though)...
I'm personally trying out Akebi currently, which others have mentioned. It's really slick, but Takoboto has got a couple of killer features over Akebi which make Anki integration better for my usage at least:
- you can add words to word lists, and these automatically end up in Anki as tags
- it inserts a link that can be used to jump back to the word's definition inside Takoboto with one click
- you can type a whole sentence and it will try to parse it into words and show the meanings of each word
Things Akebi is better at:
- finds similarly spelled words as well (auto-correct)
- both expression and example sentence are exported to Anki with properly-formatted furigana out of the box. With Takoboto, I have to use Japanese example sentences to bulk-add sentences where they were missing, and Japanese support to bulk-add the furigana-style readings for the expression and the example sentences.
- supports kanji (rather than word) as its own special class of Anki note
- faster, fewer taps
- in-app handwriting recognition
For completeness, things both apps are missing and I wish some app out there offered:
- handling multiple meanings well, e.g. writing them all out in a systemic way, by usage. Both apps usually just export the first, main meaning.
- connecting an example sentence with the correct meaning based on usage
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I use Takoboto to view and search by radicals: http://takoboto.jp/
Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.takoboto
Free and ad-free
I use this as well, it shows Hiragana readings but not pronunciation: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.takoboto&hl=en
I like Takoboto
Literally just found exactly what I'm looking for. Typical. It's called Takoboto an offline dictionary https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.takoboto :)
Web:
Mobile (Android):
Browser Pop-up dictionary:
Grammar Lookups:
- Dictionary of Japanese Grammar
- Itazuraneko
- Renshuu (requires sign-in)
Pronunciation: