Lingopie is highly recommended by one of my favorite polyglot YouTubers. But man, it is AWFUL for Japanese. Luckily they have a free 7 day trial so I could cancel it right away.
Firstly, the word parsing. You click on a word you don’t understand and it groups it with some hiragana after it that has nothing to do with the word. For example, if it’s a noun and there’s a を after it, it includes the をin the flash card and the pronunciation. ビールを飲みます would create a flash card with ビールを.
Second, you can’t have hiragana on the flash card showing the pronunciation of the word. You have to rely on their AI generated pronunciation sound bits, which is really difficult because they are not the best quality.
Third, the translations are god awful. The actual English subtitle under the sentence isn’t bad, but if you click individual words the translations are either incredibly unclear, or just plain wrong.
I’m sure there’s more that I’m not thinking of right now. I think it’s a fantastic concept, but they are being held back by these glaring issues. Anybody else have some input?
by ScotchBingeington