I'm in my final year at university and need to develop a piece of software (or website) as an independent project.

I considered just making another SRS program/site since making the algorithm for it could get some high marks but it's already been done.

Seeing as I'm scratching my head a bit right now I decided to ask if anybody has any suggestions for something that hasn't been done but might be good for Japanese learners.

There is limited time to do this so I can't really be gathering content to use, rather I can make an empty system with some test data. Also I don't particularly fancy messing around with video/audio.

Not sure of the legality of it, so you might need to check with them first.
But how about a site (or perhaps an app to run on tablets) that presents http://www.japancrush.com in a better manner for studying.

Its a cool site that has translations of japanese articles and of comments from Japanese people. You can even view the original Japanese by hovering your mouse over the text.
However, you can't really use rikaichan with it, due to their japanese text popups covering rikaichan's popups. Also on their mobile site, it doesnt even have the original Japanese.

I'm imagining a reader that will let you select a story, and then it will display it in a 2 column view, with English on left and Japanese on right, aligned by paragraph.
If you do an app for tablets, it would then also be useful to have some sort of rikai-like lookup so you can get the reading and meaning of words, or maybe also some way to export stuff into anki.

I just posted this in another thread: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid196258

Basically, it would do some of the things that morph man does, but do it in a more user friendly way. I'm imagining once you input your 'known' vocab list, you could load text from a variety of sources(txt files, web sites, subtitle file) and the app would spit out a vocab list(or anki deck) for studying vocab. You could also have a viewer / browser / extension that would highlight unknown words and gloss them in a side panel.

Pretty much if you can make it so it takes any webpage and separates it into individual sentences. You then check which sentences you want to keep and that can be imported to Anki. I'd use that.

There is an incredible app called Japanese Please for the iPhone.

I think it is a great idea to help people recall kana & kanji very quickly.

But the app has a limited number of characters for testing, uses a lot of english . . .

Writing a competitive app is not fair. But you might be able to use a similar idea for a free website that

- allows people to insert their own characters (say upload a few columns from excel, txt file, etc.)
- prompts user in japanese (so no English used - prompt of ich would require user to click the kanji 一）
- uses an SRS

That would be a killer program . . .

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lardycake Wrote:I'm in my final year at university and need to develop a piece of software (or website) as an independent project.

I considered just making another SRS program/site since making the algorithm for it could get some high marks but it's already been done.

There are a lot of STS sites now, perhaps you could go with a twist on the idea?

I am sure you must have seen Kana Wars or Brainspeed on iknow or any of the learning games. Perhaps you could create a learning 'game' that uses SRS to control what you see/play with?

If it's for vocab you could probably get away with using the first hundred words from Core.

I'd like to see an application for reviewing vocabulary passively with audio files. It wouldn't need to require flipping cards manually, grading could be optional, and it could use the audio files used in WWWJDIC. I'm currently using HTML files like this to review vocabulary, but they could be improved in many ways: by having SRS-style scheduling, by making it easier to grade items, or by having an interface that would only display one or a few words at a time.

It would be great if you can make it for mac ox.

Maybe this doesn't fit your requirements but here goes.

I love anki. It has worked great for me personally. I work as a high school teacher. (unless things have changed in the last few months) I have found that it worked poorly in this capacity though. Its just too complicated for ordinary (ie. the average unmotivated) high school student.

What would I would love to see is a 'dumb downed' version of the interface to make anki easily usable in high schools. I have heard this could be done using python scripts to alter the interface in anki.

Again I don't know if this fits your requirements but this could be a huge benefit for education.

juniperpansy Wrote:Maybe this doesn't fit your requirements but here goes.

I love anki. It has worked great for me personally. I work as a high school teacher. (unless things have changed in the last few months) I have found that it worked poorly in this capacity though. Its just too complicated for ordinary (ie. the average unmotivated) high school student.

What would I would love to see is a 'dumb downed' version of the interface to make anki easily usable in high schools. I have heard this could be done using python scripts to alter the interface in anki.

Again I don't know if this fits your requirements but this could be a huge benefit for education.

Would Ankiweb work for this? It has very few features compared to Anki, but you can still make basic cards and decks with it without downloading the desktop version, last I checked. Or does it need to be downloadable software specifically?

Bokusenou Wrote:Would Ankiweb work for this? It has very few features compared to Anki, but you can still make basic cards and decks with it without downloading the desktop version, last I checked. Or does it need to be downloadable software specifically?

Anki web is certainly helpful but (one of ) the biggest issues I remember was dividing decks in user friendly ways.
eg. being able to enable/disable cards from different chapters of the book easily (This can be done via tags of course. It just isn't kid proof

Hmm...so dumbed down but not too dumbed down...I've heard Mnemosyne is like a less powerful version of Anki, so that might be a decent alternative if the OP picks another idea to work on.