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1. Share your favorite JP youtubers who use youtube soft subtitles (japanese) so that the videos are minable with asbplayer

2. [I got mod permission to post this here bc the weekly promo thread failed to post this week:]

   **SELF-PROMO:**

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

   App Store link: [https://apps.apple.com/app/learn-japanese-manabi-reader/id1247286380](https://apps.apple.com/app/learn-japanese-manabi-reader/id1247286380)

   UPDATE: If you’ve read this message before – I’ve just released a big quality update, and I’m close to finishing the Mokuro manga reading mode!

   6 million flashcards added across 70,000+ 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. Currently working on adding Netflix.

   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)

3. I am a bit bothered by 人懐っこい. It implies other kinds of 懐っこい but there aren’t any.

4. Is there a way to tweak asbplayer so that I don’t have to Yomitan a word and then also have to press Ctrl + Shift + U? I don’t mind doing that very much, but I often miss the correct timing by a bit and get a Card with either the wrong audio or no picture or a picture with the Yomitan pop-up.

5. So many single kanji are themselves nouns for example 約 “promise” or 会 “meeting”. Are they actually used vs example 会議 or 約束? writing only? talking only? depends on the word? thank you for any info.

6. Hi I was wondering what all do yall use to try and learn Japanese. I’ve tried using Busuu and Duolingo but duo didn’t really help much and while Busuu is a bit better I was wondering what other options are out there

7. Hey! I need advice on supplemental study materials. Right now, I’m in an intensive Japanese language class, and we are using the Quartet textbook. The textbook introduces 8-10 new grammar points per lesson. Usually, this would not be an issue at all, as they are not very complicated.

   However, since this is an intensive language class, we are doing 3 lessons every 2 weeks. This makes remembering all these grammar points very difficult at best, and impossible at worst. Moreover, in the actual quartet textbook, the only place these grammars are used in context are in the reading practice—not the listening or speaking practice. 

   Basically, the issue is that we are learning these grammar points super fast and never getting any reinforcement. Does anyone have any reccomendations for resources that reveiw the Quartet grammar points other than the actual textbook? I’d like to get more practice with recognizing and using them in context. Thank you so much.

8. JLPT is very close by . Is there a short and summerized version of Grammer N4 .. I am just having issue with the book.

9. Hello, I have a question regarding how to proceed with studying. My main motivation is to consume media in its native language (books, TV, games, etc.). I have started several times but didn’t go very far. The 1st time I gave up after kana. My 2nd attempt was much more successful. I was watching Cure Dolly for basic grammar, taking my notes, doing Anki, set up Yomitan and OCR, and reading Yotsuba manga (all according to a certain guide on the internet). Everything was proceeding rather well, and I could read basic sentences in Japanese Twitter. However, Anki started to take up a lot of time. Lots of words were leeches that won’t stick no matter what, and the review count kept growing and taking more and more time. Then one day I got sick and skipped lots of days in a row, and then Anki became unsalvageable. That ended my 2nd attempt. Since then I tried one more time, however sadly I lost my previous notes, newly set-up yomitan for some reason isn’t as responsive as it was and it was very annoying, if my old anki settings were such that I spend too much of time on it, my newly set up anki instead felt rushed and too easy/fast, also I started RTK deck (I think thats what it was called) and while it did help in certain cases, for me it had a major flaw – its just japanese symbol with random english word associated with it, no examples in japanese, no examples where its used in other kanji, no reading with kana (if its like a complete kanji on its own) which actively detracted from my ability to recognize and remember them well, because I’m not an english native speaker (which is probably already evident from the grammar in this post already) and this 3rd attempt aborted because of the exams in medical university which took my full time, attention and strength crashing my anki down and killing my motivation to resume.

   So my question is, maybe someone had a similar experience and can give advice and pointers on how to proceed? What were my mistakes? Maybe there is a way to “freeze” Anki in time because messing it up has killed my momentum twice already? Or maybe there are alternatives to Anki? Thank you.