I don't know if any of this kind of stuff is out there, so I'm hoping some of you guys may have found things like these.

Applications/websites/online tools that help learners internalise sentence patterns

Example:
English sentence (progressive difficulty)
Drag-and-drop scattered and parsed Japanese sentence

And are there any apps/online tools to help learners develop stronger connections between Japanese verb conjugations and their English translations?

Example:
English sentence
Clozed Japanese sentence with input box for the correct verb ending (or drop-down list with several choices)

Trying to communicate ideas that I'd usually use the present perfect or past perfect for creates so much interference when I want to express these same ideas the Japanese way, among other lexical discrepancies that I may or may not yet understand. Overcoming these problems seems like a daunting task without these kinds of tools, but it's an exciting prospect in any case lol.

I know the 2nd exercise would be pointless without learning the different characteristics between English and Japanese verbs, but since I'm starting to realise these things now, I'd like to start thinking between L1 & L2 a lot more efficiently.

I started making a deck that kind of accomplishes the latter (e.g. front: 書かないだろう ・ 書かないでしょう back: "probably won't write" -- presumptive, negative, plain/polite) but I definitely don't have the programming skills in me OR the patience to create a card for every auxillary verb, let alone trust in myself to make more complicated sentences.

I'm hoping somebody has already enriched the public domain with this stuff or, perhaps, are working on it (shameless hint?)?

Last edited by Animosophy (2013 July 09, 3:01 pm)