LLearn Japanese

App to learn Japanese from music

  • December 11, 2024

Thanks to this post, I got a bit of feedback and motivation to continue this project.

I really like to listen to music, and have previously manually searched every lyric breakdown to learn the vocabulary and grammar. There must be a more convenient way. So I decided to create MuLang, a website like Spotify and YouTube Music that has scrolling lyrics and displays the Japanese translation + breakdown of the lyrics. The link redirects to the GitHub page, where a video demo can be seen.

What's funny is, yesterday, the embedded Spotify player could be used without login and can play the full song. BUT, today, when I had just checked it, I NEEDED TO LOGIN. I'm very sorry and I'm surprised myself about this change, and I promise I'll fix this issue before I make the website public. (spotify is evil)

I want to post here also for some advice:

  1. What would be a better website name? "MuLang" was like "Music"+"Language" initially, but right now I feel like the name is a bit boring and not unique haha.
  2. What features would you guys want? I'm thinking of playlist importing, turning into a phone app (high priority), customizing website colors, and of course add a goddamn song search feature : D
  3. Any other advice like UI design (I SUCK AT DESIGN SORRY LOL)
  4. If you guys think this project is worth me continuing to work on and maintain in the long run

The current project needs to be optimized but I think that's too technical and not appropriate in this subreddit.

Thank you everyone! (I'll reply tomorrow it's very late now)

by Master-Personality26

2 comments

  1. So the main thing I’d recommend adding is Romanji something like:

    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT6TTFunwPg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT6TTFunwPg)

    Basically if your learning via music, the whole point is to find a song that’s a complete banger until you can sing along perfectly and translate it after the fact.

    Having Romanji lyrics in real time helps do the karaoke experience the best

  2. I’ll really be looking forward to this! Plenty of my Japanese vocabulary comes from translating lyrics, breaking them down and singing them constantly.

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