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I only have time to study on-the-go on my iphone. I've been doing core6k on anki mobile for a while and I'm wanting to get into reading a little when my reviews are done. I haven't finished RTK yet, so I'm only able to read with the help of furigana. With that said, does anyone know how I could get some reading practice on my phone?
Requirements:
iOS app
furigana
includes a dictionary, hotlinks or vocab list for unknown words.
preferably free or freemium so I can try it before buying.
ideally can load custom reading materials.
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Yes, I don’t think Wakaru generates furigana. It displays kana in a pop-up box but you need to swipe the word to see it.
Furigana can be displayed if the original document is in Aozora Format with special brackets like this: 連呼《れんこ》する.
Japanese Reader on the other hand will generate furigana, but is only for the web, i.e. you can’t load documents into it. I guess you could upload a document to the web then view it.
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I was playing around with both of them last night and I think I'll end up using both of them heavily.
I'll probably buy wakaru pro for the offline dictionary. It'll be a little annoying to convert files to aozora format, but I can do a a few at a time and it's not like I read fast, so a short story will take me weeks to read.
Japanese reader seems cool. Presumably I could add text files to my dropbox and browse them from there. Worst case I'd have to convert to html.
Thanks for your suggestion. I actually ran into japanese reader while looking at wakaru, so you helped me find both of them.
Cheers!