I did a search on the forum and noticed this hasn't been mentioned before. I thought it worth noting for those that don't know about it. It's pretty useful for when you want to do various things at once without switching between apps.

Screenshot here



Download here: http://www.nihongonobenkyou.com/JLS/download.html

I haven't used it so much, but anyone got an opinions on it? Looks decent to me.

My thoughts were that it was just okay on everything. If you've got access to the web, there's better versions of everything.

For my time, I'd rather use the best resources than try to cram it all into a small space.

Meh, you motivated me to write a plugin for anki to grab definitions from sanseido.

I don't really see anything useful in that screenshot. Maybe for someone who has only been learning Japanese for about 3 days all that kana drilling and romaji<->kana stuff might be useful. (Why does so much of western-made Japanese learning software never progress past learning the kana?) Kanji lookups using KANJIDIC are bordering on useless thanks to one word definitions that don't actually match the meaning in compounds. EDICT is no replacement for a real dictionary.

The stroke order function could be useful if the data is reliable. That functionality is better served by dedicated dictionary app (with radical lookup etc) though. The yojijukugo function might be more useful if it wasn't crippled by kanjidic definitions. I suppose you should know what the kanji mean anyways by the time you start learning jukugo though, so the kanjidic definition would simply serve as a reminder. It doesn't show the inter-kanji relations (how the 4ji is formed) or etymology though (afaik there is no public source for that) so it's of minimal use in the end.

Yay for negativity, I haven't had enough sleep

http://www.inf.ufsc.br/~emilio/anki_plugins/

It is not like I first intended, but hey, it works!

Yes it does, thanks very much.