Tools To Help You Learn Japanese (DS, iPhone)

[kuroibuta]

When I broke my electronic dictionary, I ended up buying kanji sono mama de but it was always a pain and embarrassing to bring out my fat DS (the big original one). Now I have an iphone I use apps like Kotoba, stickystudy for study. I recommend these. Also, search sakanahen, its free, its just a quiz app but drill it and you will learn 42 fish kanji easily ;D

Just a question, have you found any iphone apps that have any good recognition for writing kanji like kanji sonomama de?

[kuroibuta]

@kuroibuta not to mention, kanji sono mama de is really limited in entries, it often didnt find vocab I was looking for.

[TheNuni98]

cool hat

[olleryokel]

Have you tried the Kanji Wordsearch iPhone app? Fun, and it tracks your progress.

[pitto]

I love hiratouch and katatouch you should make a vid about those apps

[Cornholio8787]

what the heck i have to marry a japanese girl so she can teach me

[DustUpper]

useful if you're using the /what/ method did you say?

[probounderxxx]

dude why u spent money for that Ds game ?? type rom freak on google and download all ur nintendo DS roms !!! for free also theres many japanese NDS games for learning japanese like my japanese coach, Beautiful kanji / kana / hiragana

[probounderxxx]

@probounderxxx

also if ur wondering how to play these games on ur DS and not just on your computer well just go order an R4DS card on any shop online it should cost around 3$-10$ depends on every site web and the free shipping takes like 1week to 6 weeks. This is a must if u dont want to spend 1000$ on hundred of NDS games

[sirscutter]

Why is your iPhone not set to 日本語?

[NesyDan]

I'm into Japanese culture.but ever person that is into the Japanese culture seems kind of douchy,to me.just look at every person on youtube and tell me if I'm wrong.you know who they are.

[keyinregulus3]

Not all of them. Though I will admit...there are a lot of people like that, mostly wapanese and otaku in america. I don't consider myself a douche though because I can readily admit when I don't know a question someone asks me about the Japanese language.

[pisaluo]

i dont understand anything you just said.

[ilovemypetrockbrian]

@NesyDan

agreed.. what is it with that?

[Elithrae]

@NesyDan Seriously? Wow. Not every Otaku/Japanophile plasters their mug on YouTube or acts like a douchebag. Some of us just quietly enjoy studying Japan and embracing what we can of the culture and art. The fact that you are using a bunch of people on YouTube to say we're all douchebags is really, really rude.

[garnerchan]

I'm not being silly but the free kotoba dictionary isn't very accurate. And I can't look up any idioms or grammar. My Japanese friend uses wisdom which is really good but is aimed at Japanese learning English. I'm wondering if there is an equivalent of this for English speakers learning Japanese. I need to be able to look up the grammar from my JLPT text books. Such as ともかく　and きっかけに、etc. I also need to be able to look up idioms. Any ideas? HELP!!!

[keyinregulus3]

Really? I haven't used the kotoba dictionary: but how is it an inaccurate? Could you give me some examples?

[EverLivingGhost]

I like your hat. <3

[Alexoflondon]

a note on the new DS LL... Had mine since Saturday, and it`s helped my Japanese studies alot... however that`s because of the kanji (kanken3) software I bought , and the DS as a machine in general.

The advantages of the big screen are negated by the loss in graphics quality, which are very obvious. Also, when writing kanji, you have to draw them extra big, which I`ve realised is somewhat unnatural.

Try before you buy :)

[HellFret]

Thanks,

and yeah Kotoba works for iPod touch.

ps- How many kanji should i learn per day using Heisig's method?

[moshpit19]

just jailbreak it then get the most expensive app for jap dictionary!!!

[nov4tosilva]

Thank you Jhon, Kotoba looks exactly as what I need for my Japan Academic Exchange. You are the Walrus.

[CrapaccinoMan1]

since it's been about a year, any new word on if it works on the itouch yet?

[Macywhatsoever]

I downloaded that app like 5 times and it doesn't work.

:/.

it always crashes.

[rhyannon11]

that was really interesting. im now downloading the iphone app - i have a itouch so it'll probably work.

thanks a tonne

p.s

love the hat :)

[wii6tomoki]

john lennon on the camera XD LOL