Together with my friend @applebub we made AneNinja where you can test:
Kanji writing where you can learn how to write Japanese characters
Vocab meaning/reading where you test your vocabulary
Japan map where you can learn all the prefectures
Pitch accent where you can train your ear to be able to hear the difference in pitch
Simple to use, just click and play.
Major Update!:
Now you can create an account and track your progress
You can search vocab in the dictionary and add it to your lists
There is a ranked mode where your best scores could appear on the leaderboards
Every quiz was improved and updated
Changed the name from uroninja to aneninja
In the future we plan to add SRS, integrate yomichan and add more quiz modes.
If you have any questions/feedback let us know here or on our discord server.
Score is calculated as number of correct answers minus number of incorrect ones times 3, but yeah it doesn’t make much sense haha. I think it is more useful to look at percentage correct. We will adjust final score later.
Very small detail, but if you click on a link and go to another page and then come back, you have to click inside the textbox and press enter. I guess you’d have to anyway since you need to write the next one. But maybe adding a button to go next and having it select the textbox automatically?
I’m on my phone.
Sounds like percentage is good to know accuracy, and number of correct answers to see streak or highscore.
Quite proud of my score, that was fun
For some extra learning, you could include the Japanese spelling of the prefectures as well (edit: just found that option in the top right…)
Usually when selecting your prefecture when inputting your address somewhere, they’re sorted the other way round, from north to south. Hokkaido first and Kyushu and Okinawa at the bottom. So if you have nothing else to do you could switch the order around to match that
Thank you for your feedback!
Yeah with time, there is problem, because minimum is one minute, so it doesn’t let you delete 1.
I will fix it today, I think one way would be to just inform you that time has to be more than one minute, but still let you insert any number.
As to ケ゚ it is how in linguistics they write nasal g constants, here is more info:
Yeah next button makes sense.
We didn’t test much on phones, so there might be some more bugs there, I will look into them now.
Thank you for spotting this!
Yeah, there are problems with jlpt lists. I fixed the definition, so at least it should now show the correct one.
There are no official jlpt word lists anymore, and most apps use lists provided by a site tanos.co.uk (even jisho). Unfortunately this site is no longer maintained and has many problems. I wish someone would create word lists based on textbooks and jlpt mock exams.
Do you know maybe any good resources for jlpt list?
Also if you noticed more mistakes, let us know
Looking great so far! I have a sort of bug on mobile (Firefox browser) when writing kanji, I can’t do down strokes because it pulls the whole page down like it’s refreshing (and sometimes does actually refresh), so all my kanji look like this!
Thanks for trying the app!
I’m aware of this problem, I myself use Firefox and noticed this.
It seems that pull to refresh feature is buggy. I know this is not a great solution, but you can turn it off in your Firefox settings under customization. Funnily enough, it is no longer default option in new installations (https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/20/mozilla-disables-pull-to-refresh-by-default-in-firefox-for-android/)
I tried to solve it in a different way, but for now no success.
Hey, I see that you added writing, or maybe I just didn’t see it there before. Pretty good.
Could I randomly ask for a random number generator with a maximum number of digits prompt that shows you either the number or the hiragana (two modes but the first one is probably the most important one) and you write it in?
Or do you know a website that does this?
I couldn’t find one exactly how I want it, even though that’s how I think the base should be.
This one has a slider but it fixes all numbers to that amount of digits instead of being an upper bound.
The one here is in kanji and I couldn’t get any but the first mode to work.
Thanks for the suggestion! We want uroninja to be a place for various tools so we will look into making it.
Just to be sure what you are looking for is the same as in steven-kraft Japanese Numbers just you would prefer to set an upper bound? And also to be able to write in kanji as an answer? (using ime not draw)
An upper bound instead of just choosing the number of digits, yes.
Like max 5 digits, so 1 to 99999.
I think choosing the number of digits makes it a lot easier, and you’re not really thinking about the numbers but rather just filling the blanks.
Oh, I don’t really care about kanji being a possible answer, usually hiragana would be better. I was just saying some of the sites I found only showed the numbers in kanji, like so:
四十五万三千四百七十七
And it’s not very conducive to beginner practice.
Though I guess accepting kanji as input could be useful for someone?
From now on you can practice Japanese numbers in uroninja! We’ve added options to display numbers as digits, hiragana and kanji. Let us know what you think.
(edit: just found that option in the top right…)
