LingoDeer App Japanese (SRS/grammar)

Japanese Language Resources
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Well… After about five minutes of trying it out, I’m already kind of annoyed with it. Here are my complaints, if anyone is interested before trying it out themselves.

  1. You have to hit a button to submit your answer, and then again to progress to the next question. Ugh. I don’t want to press a button at all. If I’m right, just move on. (I know not everyone wants that feature, but I think a lot of us here do like it as it’s often talked about in regards to Memrise, etc)

  2. I don’t like how some of the questions are set up.
    For example, there’s a “dragging” one where you have to drag an item into the correct place in the sentence. It’s a bit clunky (at least, on my phone it is. not sure what others will think) and it seems like a bit too much effort is needed to answer the question (obviously I mean physically, here. of course you should be challenged mentally). Since it’s an app, I want the ease of use to be fairly high in order to enjoy using the application.
    Another example is a listening portion. You can’t skip any of them. It will make you listen to the entire sentence before you can move on, and they don’t exactly speak very quickly. For new material, this is fine, but if you come across something you know pretty well, it’d be nice to be able to pass it up and move on to more unfamiliar things.

  3. It appears you HAVE to go through all the lessons. So I can’t skip to material that’s unfamiliar to me, I have to go through all the basics again.

I’m sure I could find more things I don’t like, to be honest, since I seriously only used it for about 5 minutes, but I think I’ll go ahead and pass on continuing.

Basically, it’s pretty obvious that this app is meant for absolute beginners. I can’t see anyone that’s not brand new to the language liking this better than other apps that are out there. (If you do, please don’t take offense. I’m just not a fan and I’ve tried lots of tools since I started learning Japanese.)

I suppose there are plenty of people that will like it and get something out of it, but it doesn’t seem like it’s for me.

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