I was just wondering what most people use for their input? I mainly use romaji input but occasionally use my Google IME. I would like to use kana input more, but the trouble is I’m much slower with it. Not actually with my Japanese input per se, but just generally with the interface and the method…

Based on your post, I’m assuming you’re talking about cell phone input, right? If so, I use the kana-flick keyboard for input and press a button to switch to my English swipe keyboard when I need to write in English. It is quicker, though using the flick keyboard has a learning curve. As for my de…

[image] lukeylupin: Swiping for English letters is a real drag! Are we talking about mobile here?

Yeah, mobile input. do most of my reviews on my phone.

Yeah, It’s a shame it doesn’t accept katakana

On mobile, Japanese people don’t use romaji input much at all.

Great thanks, I think I will download this and try it out. Makes sense for on’yomi anyway!

For WaniKani I use the built in ime, but use a kana flick keyboard for writing Japanese in other contexts. It seems counterproductive to use it for wanikani, since more than half the answers (counting radicals) are in English. I’ll also sometimes use a traditional Chinese handwriting keyboard for si…

for wk reviews/lessons, built in input is the best. for forums or else, i use gboard. it has japanese qwerty option to type in romaji to quickly get 漢字 in pc, i use microsoft ime input. it is not easy, i dunno… ctrl + shift 1 and 0 to change language, then alt + capslock to katakana, ctrl + capslo…

I appreciate WaniKani’s built in IME. Some of my desktop IMEs convert the characters into their kanji before I make the input, and while I do like that self-validation that I got my reading correct, I don’t think WaniKani likes me saying that the reading for 漢字 is 漢字. :stuck_out_tongue:

Romaji or Kana input?

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Myria February 26, 2019, 11:06am 9

If you want to see more katakana when doing wanikani, there’s the Katakana Madness script which automatically turns hiragana into katakana for on’yomi in kanji reviews.

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Romaji or Kana input?

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