Weekly Thread: Material Recs and Self-Promo Wednesdays! (January 29, 2025)

Happy Wednesday!

Every Wednesday, share your favorite resources or ones you made yourself! Tell us what your resource an do for us learners!

Weekly Thread changes daily at 9:00 EST:

Mondays – Writing Practice

Tuesdays – Study Buddy and Self-Intros

Wednesdays – Materials and Self-Promotions

Thursdays – Victory day, Share your achievements

Fridays – Memes, videos, free talk

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  1. [OniKanji](https://onikanji.com/)

    Context-first Kanji learning solution. SRS. Stat Tracking. High-scores. Immersion Content. eReader. JLPT lists & more. Also join our discord to chat with other users.

  2. Hello there!

    I’ve created a small web-based game using puzzle-like game mechanics to help people remember kanji:

    [https://kanjitsukuri.com/game](https://kanjitsukuri.com/game)

    It helped me memorize extra words during testing, and I hope others find this approach useful, too.

    Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

    P.S. I posted about the project last week, but I’m continuously working to improve the game. Since last week I’ve added more quests and fixed a couple of bugs. And now it has all 1-st grade jōyō/N5 kanji :3

  3. **Manabi Reader** – iOS and macOS native app for learning Japanese through reading

    6 million flashcards added across 60,000+ 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. (PDF + 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.
    * 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 Yomichan dictionaries, and adding a PDF and manga mode. I’m also going to launch a WebRcade.com iOS port for playing Japanese games and getting realtime OCR transcripts you can look up as you play called Manabi TV, with HDMI inputs on iPad too.

    I’ve also just added pitch accents in the latest release

    [https://reader.manabi.io](https://reader.manabi.io)

    Discord / beta news [https://discord.gg/NAD2YJGNsr](https://discord.gg/NAD2YJGNsr)

  4. [Automatic Cards Creator for Anki](https://github.com/AndreBBM/Anki-Notes-Creator)

    Hey everyone!

    I’ve been learning Japanese for a while, and like many of you, I use Anki to build my vocabulary. However, manually creating good flashcards for every new word takes a ton of time and often discourages me to keep using anki. So, I built an **open-source tool that automates the process!**

    **What It Does:**

    * Given a list of Japanese words, it automatically generates complete Anki cards.
    * Each card includes the target word and an example sentence in the **front**. And the meaning and furigana for both the word and sentence in the **back**.

    It’s super simple to use and you basically need to clone the repo and have the anki connect extension installed.

    **I’d love to hear your thoughts, suggestions or issues** trying to using it! Let me know what you think!

    🔗 **GitHub Repo**: [https://github.com/AndreBBM/Anki-Notes-Creator](https://github.com/AndreBBM/Anki-Notes-Creator)

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