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Apps for iPod Touch - cjane - 2009-10-30

Hi,

I've started learning Japanese and I'm thinking of buying an iPod Touch. I've been looking through some of the Apps available for learning Japanese, like Kana, Kanji, Vocabulary, dictionaries, games etc. I'm currently learning Kanji from RTK (upto 500), working through Japanese For Busy People Book1 and attending a class. I'd be interested in any recommendations for iPod Apps learning aids or games that might help me.

Thanks
CJ

Apps for iPod Touch - bombpersons - 2009-10-30

ankimini

Apps for iPod Touch - cjane - 2009-10-30

Thanks, I'm using Anki on a laptop already, and will get it set up on the iPod as well.

CJ

Apps for iPod Touch - FutureBlues - 2009-10-30

I recently did a review of Kotoba! here. It's a great free JMDict based reader for the Touch/iPhone.

I'm in the process of checking out Diajirin too, but I haven't had as much time as I'd like to really drill down into yet.

ShinKanji is also an interesting alternative. It was the first (and remains one of the only) apps to introduce it's own written kanji recognition (so that you don't have to enable yet another keyboard on your device (Chinese) in order to look up kanji by writing them). It's UI is a little quirky, but it's under very active development. It's quite nice, really. The lite version is nearly fully-featured too, so its easy to try before you buy.

Apps for iPod Touch - atomiton - 2009-12-19

"Japanese" by CodeFromTokyo is one of the best "dictionary" apps out there. Version 1.0 wasn't worth the price, but version 2 is MUCH improved. That being said, it should be a $9.99 app... I'm sure he'd more than DOUBLE his audience.

Apps for iPod Touch - squarezebra - 2009-12-19

Japanese by CodeFromTokyo is WELL worth its heavy price tag, and really considering what you get it should cost a lot more. It has a huuuuuuge amount of content, and different ways to search. I bought an extra ipod touch just for this app alone (as kinda a stand alone jisho)
Features:
-150,000 words
-12,000 kanji
-Built in flashcard system
-Kanji stroke order
-Conjugations for all verbs
-JLPT word lists
-Example sentences - you can click on individual words in example sentences to access entries for that word - all example sentences come with furigana
-Search by radical, component, kana, romaji, handwriting
-Different classifications of word lists for easy review of different topics
-ability to make own notes
-simple "shake to look up new word" rather than manually reversing through menus
-hiragana + katakana charts
-history of recently searched words
-Full referencing to other databases for all kanji (eg, where thatr kanji is in Heisig or Kanji Learners dic etc)
-all words broken down into their individual kanji with those kanji explained
-word classification (eg, noun, i-adjective, na-adjective)
-it runs fast

Sorry did I miss something? - Apart from having a J-J option, I really don't see where they can improve on this app.

Considering what you are getting with this dictionary you really can't moan about its price tag. Sure there are free dictionaries like kotoba, but for functionality that doesn't even come close.

Should I get a job as a sales rep? : /

Seriously, hands down. Go check all the five star reviews for this on the app store. It's worth far more than every penny.

Apps for iPod Touch - adutrifoy - 2009-12-19

http://appshopper.com/education/ikic-kanji-in-context

Apps for iPod Touch - Tobberoth - 2009-12-19

I only use two:
Ankimini (a must for anyone with an iphone. If you have problems with the kanji showing up, get my clean generation hack.)
Kotoba (Free EDICT dictionary which works really well. I'd LOVE to have daijirin on my ipod but let's face it, why pay for something when there's free stuff around.)

Apps for iPod Touch - b0ng0 - 2009-12-19

+1 to what Tobberoth says.

Kotoba has recently had a rather large upgrade which including example sentences for almost every word and it's free! Why pay more?

I haven't used Ankimini as I don't have a jailbroken iPod but I use iAnki and it works rather well.

Apps for iPod Touch - Spines11 - 2009-12-19

The Smart.fm app is pretty good, but they won't have example sentence support until a later update. I also use Kotoba! and I use Safari to do my RTK reviews a lot of the time.

Apps for iPod Touch - squarezebra - 2009-12-19

I think on the issue of kotoba vs CodeFromTokyo's Japanese it may be an issue of what you actually need. If you're a casual learner then you probably wouldn't need all the features that CFTokyo offers and spending all that money may be silly. You should go with the Free Kotoba - Kotoba is indeed very good. But i'd stick with my earlier comments .... CFTokyo is well worth it's price tag if you need the additional features it sports.

Apps for iPod Touch - Hashiriya - 2009-12-19

with so many Japanese learning apps out there... it's surprising that the only one i find particularly useful is AnkiMini... I don't do a lot of kanji study on mine though, as i like to be on my computer where i can run things over with rikaichan when i need to...but, i do a heck of a lot of grammar study on mine...

Apps for iPod Touch - Katsuo - 2009-12-19

adutrifoy Wrote:http://appshopper.com/education/ikic-kanji-in-context
Checking this out I see there is a free "Lite" version you can test. It covers lesson 79 only (ten kanji in total) and considering that, the file size is enormous. iKIC Lite - Kanji in Context Lite.

It's just been released and the information is confusing. Also the links don't work, so you can't report/inquire about problems.

Apps for iPod Touch - Hashiriya - 2009-12-19

i was looking on there website just now hoping to find a list of all those example sentences http://www.iucjapan.org/html/text_e.html unfortunately they only have a book version hah! why can't some company upload a huge amount of easy to understand example sentences that i can just copy/paste into Anki? the only stuff i found useful like that so far was the ALC example sentences... thanks a million for those spreadsheets Katsuo

Apps for iPod Touch - Hashiriya - 2009-12-19

well, after a little research, it seems they do have kanji in context software... http://www.iucjapan.org/html/call_e.html#kanji i wonder if it can be copied and pasted from?
EDIT: i couldn't find where you can purchase the software, so i sent an e-mail about it...

Apps for iPod Touch - Javizy - 2009-12-19

What's the advantage of ankimini over iAnki, by the way? Why bother jailbreaking? iAnki works fine for me. I like 'Japanese' too. I export the vocab lists and generate flashcards with J-J defs and example sentences from them. iEijiro is useful for E-J, too. Good for finding out collocations when writing. There are some simple manga like Neko Ramen, and some detective games as well, which are good for a quick bit of reading.

Apps for iPod Touch - delenir - 2009-12-19

It'd be pretty cool to find a Japanese eReader for the iPod that can display furigana...

Apps for iPod Touch - Hashiriya - 2009-12-21

well so much for the KiC sentences idea:

Thank you for your interest in our Kanji in Context software.
We regret to say that currently we have no plan to sell this software for computer use.
Instead, we have just launched a new software of Kanji in Context, "iKIC" for iPhone and iPod Touch.
The iKIC is available through App Store.

Sincerely,
Chieko Yoshida
IUC Yokohama Administrative Office

Apps for iPod Touch - Robatsu - 2009-12-21

I just have to say thanks to FutureBlues for mentioning Kotoba!

I just installed it onto my iPhone, did a little searching and was entirely blown away by it! I think I'll be bookmarking this thread to look into the other suggestions at a later date, or anything new that crops up.

Apps for iPod Touch - delenir - 2009-12-22

I'd have to second the iAnki suggestion. Pretty easy to setup when you follow the steps, not too much of a pain to sync either. Other than that I'd recommend setting your iPod's language to Japanese, and use the thing to look up Japanese content Smile

Apps for iPod Touch - Hashiriya - 2009-12-22

iAnki is really useful when you are walking on the treadmill in the gym as well... i just laid my ipod in front of me and just tap the button after i read each sentence... i can power-walk for hours like that lol

Apps for iPod Touch - delenir - 2009-12-28

Oh man I never thought about using it while walking... We have a treadmill at home, and I usually do SRSing and walking on that seperately... Not anymore! Haha!

Apps for iPod Touch - Tobberoth - 2009-12-28

Javizy Wrote:What's the advantage of ankimini over iAnki, by the way? Why bother jailbreaking? iAnki works fine for me. I like 'Japanese' too. I export the vocab lists and generate flashcards with J-J defs and example sentences from them. iEijiro is useful for E-J, too. Good for finding out collocations when writing. There are some simple manga like Neko Ramen, and some detective games as well, which are good for a quick bit of reading.
Why bother jailbreaking? Because you remove locks from something you own! Anki isn't the only thing that iPod or iPhone is good for you know. With a jailbroken iPod you can access it using OpenSSH, run emulators, theme it, add a settings panel accessible from anywhere instantly including a dock and other functions, you can lock the automatic orientation in Safari, you can download hacked apps for free and you can develop your own stuff if you have the skill.

Jailbreaking an iPod or iPhone takes 10 seconds with blackra1n and makes it 500% more useful. Question is, why bother NOT jailbreaking?

Apps for iPod Touch - BJohnsen - 2009-12-28

I've been sort of using Kotoba but haven't really been happy with it, so I was very interested to hear about Japanese by CodeFromTokyo, which I'm downloading at this very moment. NOTE: It's 20% off through today (12/28)! Other things on its iTunes page that caught my eye: search by SKIP code, lemmatized search, SRS, and the reviewers who said they'd abandoned their Canon Wordtanks after using this app. Now I'm looking forward to uploading to my Touch and playing with it.

Apps for iPod Touch - Hashiriya - 2009-12-28

i bought Japanese by CodeFromTokyo as well because i heard it recommended here... i like it a lot... i use the jailbroken app 切り替え to switch back and forth from it and AnkiMini when i do my studying