Kanji Teacher - Learn Japanese 4+

Name: Kanji Teacher - Learn Japanese
Rating: 4.6 (56 reviews)
Author: Christian Rusche

Christian Rusche

iPad対応

- 4.6 • 56件の評価

- 無料

説明

R.: »The best kanji app available.«
B.: »Carefully crafted app. Very nice done.«
S.: »I'm using this app every day, it's addicting. I have tried a lot of other apps, but this one I love!.«
K.: »A blessing to those wanting to master Japanese reading and writing.«
P.: »This is the best kanji learning app in the App Stores.«

Kanji Teacher is free. There's no advertising and no in-app purchases are necessary – it's just free, pure and simple.

Kanji Teacher knows not only all the 2,136 jōyō kanjis and their readings, but also the 8,000 most common Japanese words and how to pronounce them. This unique combination enables you to learn the Kun- and On-readings of the kanjis and apply and test what you have learnt straight away: both how to read a word and how to write a word you know.

Kanji Teacher has more features you'll love:

○ Practise your writing with Kanji Teacher! Every stroke is analysed: do the position, direction and order match up with the correct way of writing? Kanji Teacher helps you out with hints to begin with, but as you progress further you’ll be on your own.

○ Kanji Teacher is also a Kana teacher: learn how to read and write Hiragana and Katakana.

○ Kanji Teacher comes with two dedicated tutors – one for Kana and one for Kanji. These tutors will accompany you through the entire learning process, explain Kanji Teacher, introduce new characters, present the tests and celebrate achievements.

○ Kanji Teacher uses multiple choice so you can be sure that you really do know the answer. And it also compiles the possible answers intelligently, ensuring that they all make sense and are similar to the correct answer, because Kanji Teacher is a teacher after all – it's strict, but this helps you learn more quickly.

○ Kanji Teacher uses a Leitner system so you can learn easy kanjis quickly and focus on the more difficult ones.

○ Kanji Teacher comes with around 6,000 sample sentences: Around 8,000 tests have been created based on these sentences, where the corresponding Kanji is omitted and has to be found. In addition you will find tests for 127 important geographical locations in Japan and over 1,300 Japanese first names and surnames together with their reading.

○ Kanjis can be grouped by JLPT level and school year and, most importantly, you can switch between both views without losing what you have already done.

○ Up to eight learning lists can be managed, searched, and the Kanas, Kanjis and radicals assigned. Additionally, Kanjis detailed in sections of popular textbooks and Kanken test groups can be assigned to one of these lists.

○ You can choose the correct answer, check it and move on to the next question with just one touch of the screen, which speeds up your learning and progress.

○ Kanji Teacher comes with Ulrike's Mnemonics, which were provided by Joy o' Kanji,a site where you can find playful, informative, photo-filled essays about each of the 2,136 Joyo Kanji.

○ Learning of radicals is supported in many different ways: with dedicated tests and an Analyze screen that shows which Kanjis are made up of them.

2024年10月11日

バージョン 12.5.1

o Improved test selection for the tutor:
- On the start screen, when the TUTOR tab is active you can use SELECT to choose the tests that the tutor will present. The previous, less precise setting is not automatically transferred.
- A new setting allows you to intensively test all kanjis marked with a star; they will be presented by the tutor once a day, regardless of their color.
- Another new setting allows you to choose whether or not the red and blue tests are displayed by the tutor. Regardless of these settings, the brown (review) and gray (new) tests that become red or blue are presented until they become green. However, if you choose to change the settings, this history will be ignored..

o Various adjustments for the answer of the tests:
- Improved logic of how answer buttons are arranged and how texts fit into them.
- For sentences, you can choose whether the words are spaced or not.
- The kanjis 唄, 岡, 栃, 埼, 阜, 茨 now have a reading.
- Obviously impossible answers, e.g. because a hiragana already present in the question is missing, do not appear or appear less frequently.

o The buttons on the bottom have been moved slightly inwards towards the center when the iPad is in landscape mode.

o Changes to keywords no longer affect example words.

o Minor adjustments to the manual.

o Unfortunately, speech output did not work in some cases on iOS18, this has been fixed. For this reason, I had to make this release earlier than planned. So, if your change request has not yet been implemented, the next release will try to address that. Thank you very much for your feedback.

o Bugfix 12.5.1: some tests of type “Word → Reading” caused an error if grouping was “School Year”.

4.6／5

56件の評価

Useful, many features with minimalist design

**TLDR: Finally an actually good app to learn kanji.**

A thoughtfully designed app that combines lots of features (you will have to click your way around quite a bit to realize all that is possible) with a beautiful minimalist design that allows for a nice workflow. I have used it for a couple of weeks very intensely and my reading abilities have already increased greatly, looking forward to expend hours in the manga museum.
*****
Compared to other apps I have used, here are some nice aspects:
** Emphasis on ON reading. I used to focus too much on KUN, which I now see is a mistake. After all, kanji come from China, so it makes sense.
** Emphasis on attaching a concept to each Kanji, beyond just using translations. This helps a lot with the learning process.
** Phenomenal writing experience. The perfect relaxing contrast to the intense drilling of reading practice. Try picking the pen as a brush!
*****
Not everything is perfect though, here are some cons, all related to vocabulary and probably due to automation of data gathering:
** Translations are not great, and sometimes just wrong.
** Due to a design feature that ties words to specific kanjis, many words are duplicated (or more). The design feature itself is good, but this side effect is terrible, as you have to spend twice the time to learn the same amount of words (at least the way I use it). A work around is needed! Suggestion to the creator: erase older “cards” as new duplicate ones appear. This could be an option that is on by default if needed be.
** Some important readings are missing (this I have only noticed after stepping beyond 6th degree).

Thank you for your feedback; very motivating!

-> I'm trying to add a feature in the next version to make it easier to report feedback on the translations: I'm trying to curate them as accurately as possible for all of us, any feedback is very welcome! The feature will also allow you to report new words that are still missing.

- As you correctly write, words can come twice, separately for each kanji they contain. I have intentionally built this feature so that you are confronted with words in the learning process that you actually already know and can then focus on the reading. In this case, the algorithm should actually make the possible answers somewhat more difficult and (mainly) show answers that are actually all possible. I think I need to improve this algorithm. Or, as you write, make it adjustable with an option

If you have any further suggestions: Please use the “Feedback” function in the app, I'm happy to help and take change requests.

O melhor aplicativo para estudar kanji sem dúvidas!

Moro no Japão há 15 anos e aprendi muito com esse aplicativo, obrigado aos desenvolvedores!.

Muito obrigado!

Perfect for writing practice

As part of my Japanese class, I’m often assigned new kanji to learn to read and write, this app is a phenomenal help drilling in the stroke order and correct way to write kanji!

The only improvement is like to see made is the option to create different “favourited groups”. I use the favourites pretty much all the time as I favourite the kanji we learn in class, but being able to separate the favourites would be very helpful as I currently have a few too many!

Thank you for your feedback! In addition to the favorites list, you can actually maintain up to 7 of your own lists in Kanji Teacher. Is that not enough? Or are you missing another functionality? Feel free to contact me, then we can look at it together and improve the current functionality.