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.

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

Last edited by Jarvik7 (2008 October 22, 2:48 pm)

Yes it does, thanks very much.