Weekly Thread: Material Recs and Self-Promo Wednesdays! (April 23, 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. Self-promo here. A better intro to the app I wrote is available here -> [https://shaded.app/intro/](https://shaded.app/intro/) but generally what is does is take the SRS formula and apply it to AI/LLMs. The LLM takes the words you know well and the words you are learning and crafts a lesson based on that.

    It is good for practicing translating from Japanese to English as well as the opposite. There are also easier exercises (think multiple choice) that get generated when the SRS model recognizes a word as hard.

  2. Alpha version of YouTube immersion website:
    [hanabira.org](http://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.

    Discord for feature requests:
    [https://discord.com/invite/afefVyfAkH](https://discord.com/invite/afefVyfAkH)

    there are many developers already in the hanabira discord, so great place to discuss language learning apps (and even showcase yours)

    https://preview.redd.it/y3v3s06kxlwe1.png?width=1803&format=png&auto=webp&s=9c9d28a1d9808dd3aa8a4f4a60faed15acd64ef2

  3. Hi again everyone!

    My kanji study app for iOS that i’ve been working on just got released on the apple store yesterday! It covers all of the Jōyō kanji, and a handful more to make for 2140 kanji total

    [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/maneki-kanji/id6744581619](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/maneki-kanji/id6744581619)

    I’m super excited to share it with this community and others, and get some feedback! The idea with this app is to learn through vocabulary, and features 6700 voiced vocab words. Right now it’s pretty simple, and focuses on vocab and kanji reading quizzes. You can also create custom vocab review decks. I plan to keep adding many more quiz styles and features, and have some already on the way soon. Since it’s a first release, if you encounter any kind of crash or issue let me know! I have a new patched version that’s due for release sometime today or tomorrow to fix a rare bug I encountered, and fix one of the kunyomi readings

    There’s a 7 day free trial, so feel free to try it out and see if it’s for you!

  4. Self promo. I’m learning katakana and hiragana very slowly — I’ve been on this Japanese kick for 60 days and I still haven’t learned kanji — I’ve basically used my love for kawaii and lofi to make my own “flashcards”. It has some jap-eng wordplay and my favorite so far which I just did was the “ねこdream”. I would really like some feedback from you all since I’m still learning. Thanks 😊

  5. Self promo here! I’ll try to keep it short 🙂

    Hi, my name’s Alex and I teach beginner-to-intermediate Japanese in French or English using (mostly) the Genki books. If you’re looking for classes or simply a tutor to help you through, it would be my pleasure to help.

    I’m based in Canada and teach completely online! I can do private one on one or small groups (up to 4 people)

    I have a degree in Modern Languages (English, Spanish, German and Japanese (I speak French natively) and Second Language Education. Having experienced the second language journey a few times myself, I’m very passionate about helping others learn about new languages, however foreign they may be!

    I have now been teaching it locally since 2018. I’m now looking to expand my offer to the online community!

    If you are interested or have any questions, feel free to write me a message here or in private! 🙂

    よろしくね!yoroshikune!

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