Looking for a very specific app to practice kanji readings

I need to find (or I will probably create it) a website that possess features listed below:

  • you can choose kanji to add to your reviews, and add particular readings you want to practice
  • Not an SRS but a drill practice, answer style should be similar to gokana (type the answer)
  • The system tracks all my kanji’ stats, and every session gives kanji with bigger answer time and lower accuracy so I always practice my week spots

Is anyone knows app like that?

Thanks!

I don’t know about a site for this in particular, but if you allow me to give you some advice, I think it’s going to be better for you to focus on learning words instead of Kanji readings. The readings will come naturally as you do SRS in Anki and mine words and words.

I’ve been learning for some time now (not that long, though) and I found that this method of learning words instead of readings is more effective than memorizing a Kanji and all their readings. You will have to in the end learn this when you come across a new word anyway, sometimes you won’t be able to “guess” how a word is read (I guess it’s this way until you gain a certain level of confidence in the language)

Taking the examples for this problem from TheMoeWay’s site, learning only readings becomes a problem given how many readings some characters have:

家路[いえじ], 通路[つうろ], 家賃[やちん], 漫画家([まんがか], 小学校[しょうがっこう],袋小路[ふくろこうじ], 素足[すあし],素人[しろうと],恋人[こいびと],日本人[にほんじん], 狩人[かりゅうど]

生, 先生[せんせい], 生涯[しょうがい], 生粋[きっすい], 芝生[しばふ], 生き残る[いきのこる], 生ビール[なまびーる], 生真面目[きまじめ],生い茂る[おいしげる]

Also, if you wish to know how much progress you have done in Anki in regards to Kanji (which I suppose is important to know to know which kanjis one will encounter in JLPT Exams, though I think there’s no more official lists anymore) there’s add-ons that track your progress in Anki and draw a chart with all the characters you encountered.

As an example, here’s the Anki add-on Kanji Table, tracking my progress based on the intervals of the card (Blue to red being blue the highest interval and red the lowest, and white/black-red unseen and unmined cards respectively)

Sorry if my answer isn’t what you looked for. I hope you can find what you need if you feel it’s the best for your growth.

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Thanks for reply.
I’ve heard this story many times, and I’ve been doing that myself, there is no problem with that, but I have my own assumptions and interesting thoughts to test concerning this topic.

Also, about that add-on. I’ve here’d about it, but when tried finding couldn’t do that, could you share which one you are using?

Here’s the add-on I use.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1828617820

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I gave up on traditional anki so I will not make use of it right now, but I will make use of it later on for sure, thanks!

I don’t know if this does exactly what you want, but perhaps this site might be of help?

I was going to use it as a replacement for Anki as it has several answer functions. But I haven’t had the time to really get into it yet. But from what I have seen, it might do the things you want.

Well, I guess it’s just a spaced repetition app, and creating those cards will be even harder then for anki with yomitan.
But I like this feature:
“For Deckademy, I have designed a system of change proposals (heavily inspired by open source software development workflows) where any user can lift the burden off deck authors, draft changes to a deck, whether it’s fixing mistakes or adding new content, and then submit the result as a change proposal. The deck author and other maintainers are then notified, and can with just a couple of clicks choose which changes to accept and reject”

You can almost do this with quizlet (it has been a while since I used quizlet so it might not be quite what I remember anyway). You can design your own lessons where you have to type in answers so you can pick whichever reading you want and drill them because it started as a flashcard website and has no srs. It does not track stats in any way that you can view, from what I remember, but it does track what you get wrong and recommend them to you.

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How is Kanshudo Answer Type - Kanshudo
It sounds like what you are talking about.

For some reason, this link is giving me 404, but I believe kanshudo can have something like that, ill explore it, but can you double-check the link as well?

Sounds like a useful app. If you find or make a site like that I too would be interested. In my experience with kanji, I learn them much better through drilling (same with vocab, tbh) than with SRS. Best of luck on your search.

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Thanks!
I’m leaning towards the creation option more and more)

There is an option to create a team of wannabe juniors who will create it for experience, it’s just a bit of a struggle to manage them (and I failed it one time), but I believe with good deadlines and small mvp it can be achievable

If I do it I’ll create a separate thread to collect users’ opinions on needed functions before establishing a team

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Just sit outside of a community college computer science classroom and walk up to the students and be like “hey kid… do you want some programming experience?” worksevery time. (I’m joking, don’t do this.)

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It’s not like that)
In Ukraine, we have a lot of switchers who just finished courses and need some teamwork and general experience. There are usually 400-600 applications for one place, and there are almost no junior positions. Therefore there is a large “team pet project” movement.
Idk if it is a cultural thing, but just after posting on LInkedIn “We are looking for a designer for a project community project” I got a few responses immediately, and now our community project vscubing.com has a suitable design!

There are even self-organizations (some about volunteering projects some just for pet projects) teamchallenge.io for example.

People who completed pet project (round 3%) are said to be gigachads who get their job offers in an instant

OK, fixed the link.
https://www.kanshudo.com/play/answertype_first
It doesn’t pick words based on past attempts, Just by N level

Unfortunately, it’s not what I’m looking for but rather a completely different function I think :thinking:

Renshuu.org seems lightly close-ish as a ready solution…
Its quite customisable:

I tried to make a few screenshots of some of the different question types available and to show that its possible to tailor the reviews seen.

How does it decide which kanji to show?
I’m trying to build my app based on fail-rate/answer time to work on the least known kanji, and improve well known as well, and I actually want to build it already))
Anyhow, it seems quite interesting, and the other options like “furigana split” to different.
Do you use it daily?
I think I’ll try it now to see if it’s what I’m looking for

For Renshuu, its very customisable.
Its possible to add to reviews manually everything or create “schedules” (ie decks).
I just have all kanji schedule (deck) , all grammar (deck) etc…
In the past I used to use this website to print kanji practice sheets, now its just for extra study.

Just thought Renshuu could give you some ideas

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