Hey everyone!

I built QuizLingua, a complete free quiz game for picking up Japanese (and Korean)!

Just shipped a big update:

• 3 New Practice Modes:

• Sentence Builder – drag-and-drop words to build sentences with grammar breakdowns

• Fill-in Vocabulary – contextual vocab practice with furigana support

• Grammar Practice – verb conjugation and grammar pattern exercises

•  New Roadmap System – structured courses with lessons for guided learning paths

• UI Improvements – refreshed visuals across web and mobile with better card styling and responsive layouts

Here's what you can do:

• Practice solo at your own pace
• Challenge friends (or strangers) in real-time multiplayer quizzes
• Track your progress and earn achievements
• Study characters and vocab in a dedicated section
• Jump in as a guest—no signup needed

🔗 https://quizlingua.com

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Kanaji - A simple iOS and macOS app for learning Kanji (similar to Kanji Study on android)

download

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Hey everyone!

I’m sharing Kanji OS, a kanji learning system built entirely in Notion for anyone studying Japanese.

Kanji OS is a free Notion template designed to help you manage kanji study, vocabulary, and JLPT preparation in one place. It comes with 1,000+ kanji already prepared and ready to use, plus 400+ sample vocabulary words linked to their respective kanji, so you can start studying right away.

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It also includes a kanji writing order widget I built specifically for Notion, so you can easily see the correct stroke order for each character while learning.

Features:

• JLPT Level Hub (N5–N1) for structured exam-focused study
• School Grade Hub (1–6) organizing kanji by Japanese elementary school levels
• Kanji Writing Order Widget built specifically for Notion
• Vocabulary Database linking kanji with words and phrases
• Kana (Hiragana / Katakana) Hub with pronunciation audio
• Flashcard Study System for active recall
• Daily Habit Tracker and study goal planning

Try the template here:

👉 https://www.elhary.store/l/qvmbca

You can also check out the kanji writing order widget separately (open source, designed for Notion):

👉 https://github.com/Elhary/Kanji-Animate

Tango and Lens

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Lens is a Steam Deck overlay for playing games in Japanese. Press a button to see translations, furigana, and word-by-word breakdowns. Everything saves to a gallery for later.

Tango is a web-based SRS designed for immersion:

• Paste in text (subtitles, song lyrics, articles, whatever)
• It creates kanji, vocab, and sentence flashcards
• Cards include native speaker audio for vocab, radical breakdowns for kanji, and more
• Progress syncs across all your packs (when you review an item, it's updated everywhere)

Tango is different from Anki and other SRS systems. Typically in Anki you:

• Use prebuilt decks or create a mining deck one word at a time.
• Study that deck for a very long time, whether the material is still interesting/relevant to you or not
• Have the same static content on every card (the same context sentence every time you encounter a word)

Tango flips it:

• Instantly build packs for whatever you want to study today. Each pack is a custom progression system teaching: kanji -> meaning, word -> reading, cloze deletion -> recall.
• Switch packs, use several at once, remove packs you're not interested in anymore. You never lose progress -- the system tracks your knowledge across packs.
• Context sentences are pulled straight from the places you encounter the words, and change for each pack.
• We're constantly updating and improving cards, so your decks will naturally get better over time.

If you want to transition from "beginner" to "intermediate", and are trying to immerse in more native content this year, consider giving Tango a try.

Both are free while in beta. Would love feedback from anyone interested!

https://tango.acorntalk.com

YouTube immersion website:
hanabira.org

free, open-source, even self-hostable

Has built in dictionary with audio, vocabulary and sentence mining, furigana injection, Japanese and English subtitles side by side, custom simple flashcards and much more.

Site has many other features, such as free Manga OCR reader, sentence structure analytics, visualizations, kanji, vocabulary, wanikani style SRS, drawing canvas ...

Discord:
https://discord.com/invite/afefVyfAkH

Also released self hosted mokuro based manga reader sentence miner app, Includes translations, grammar explanations and SRS.

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Hi! I’m Bela, I teach Japanese for mainly Hungarian people but I would love to teach English-speaking students too. Please watch my video through the link below and help me get better at self-promoting by giving me honest feedback! Thank you.

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Béla Balogh - Japanese teacher

Mimikaki — Japanese audio transcription with clickable timestamps

I built a tool for studying with native audio. Upload a podcast, anime clip, or audiobook and get an AI transcript. Click any sentence to jump to that spot.

• Free: 3 transcription credits, import your own subtitles
• Pro ($3/mo): Furigana, speed control, subtitle export, cloud sync

https://mimikaki.online

Looking for feedback from learners — what would make this more useful for your workflow?

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Hi, my fiancee has a YouTube life/travel channel where she speaks a mix of Japanese (her first language) and English with bilingual subtitles.

I'd put it around n2-n4 because she can speak quite fast sometimes but it might be helpful to help practice listening to native Japanese 🙂

https://youtube.com/@anmarone

I highly recommend まるコジ photobook series. It’s really fun and very easy to read for late N5 learns to N4 students :)

Manabi Reader - iOS and macOS native app for learning Japanese through reading

App Store link

Awarded Best Japanese iOS app of 2025!


100,000+ users

As featured by Tofugu:

Overall, a solid app that we recommend for reading sentences that aren’t drab and contextless—especially if you’re more motivated when reading about something you’re personally interested in.

• EPUB, web browser, RSS feeds, spoken audio. Tap words to look them up and translate sentences. (Manga mode soon!)
• Tracks every word and kanji you read and learn. Charts your progress page-by-page and per JLPT level. See what vocab and kanji you need to know to read every webpage, chapter or ebook. Show only the furigana you don't know and haven't added as flashcards yet.
• Anki or built-in flashcards with SRS (FSRS soon). Makes sentence mining easy. Includes links back to the source of each sentence in your flashcards.
• Privacy obsessed: works like a web browser with processing and storage on-device (and in your personal iCloud)

I quit my job to work on this so expect a lot more soon, such as YouTube with clickable transcripts, MPV-based movie player, visionOS, opt-in AI-backed assistive features, etc.

Next up: I’m working on adding support for Yomitan dictionaries, and adding a manga mode. Currently working on adding Mokuro support as well as live OCR for online manga sites such as Bookwalker. Then I will be adding two-way sync for WaniKani, JPDB, Anki collections. Much more to go...

I've also just added pitch accents in the latest release, as well as FSRS (v6) to Manabi Flashcards.

https://reader.manabi.io

Discord / beta news https://discord.gg/NAD2YJGNsr

All in one sentence mining and reviews for mobile devices!

Mugengo - learn languages through content

In beta for iOS and Android

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