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#71

Opinions on koohi.cafe vs jpdb.io ?

Looking for a SRS website to complement, and at some point to replace, wanikani.

For what I have been trying, jpdb.io I like more how they manage the decks. You just add a volume you want to learn the vocab, and all the vocabulary and kanjis you didnt learn with them will actually be added to your lessons backlog.

Also really userfull how easy they make to see how many words do you know of a certain content

Also they teach like wanikani the kanjis in the sense of using radicals to build the kanji. And if you are going to learn a vocab, first they teach you the radical, then the kanji, and then the vocab. Also in a new deck if there is a word you have already learned, they will ignore it, so you just need to focus in keep learning new words

But their reviews and lesson sucks, since it dosn’t test you if you know it or not, and instead, just ask you if you remember it correctly.

Basically, I feel like they manage the content you want to learn really well, but the review process is a big negative point for me (creator says they will add also something similar to wanikani for reviews, but it could take a long time and we dont know how it will end up being)

For the other part, koohi.cafe I dislike the management system and the stat system compared to jpdb.io , its confusing, you need to go item by item to add them to lessons, it dosnt teach kanjis with radicals or may not teach you the kanji first than the vocab, and I dont know if they know to not show you vocab you have already learned. Its really confusing so maybe I have said something wrong.

But, koohi.cafe has the strong point that the reviews are actually really similar to wanikani, asking you to type the reading and meaning. I feel like while I like less the rest of the website compared to jpdb.io, the review system could make it worth it, but not sure.

I guess one option, but not the perfect one, is to find a way to import what i learn in koohi to jpdb.io to use their stats, and make it easy to move there if one day the add typing for reviews. Not sure if this is even possible.

Other option I guess it would to just wait for jpdb to add typing, but it could end up not being even this year, so I dont think I will do this

Other one, just use koohi.cafe, and accept their imperfections

And some other ones.

I want to do the correct decision, since there is a big chance I will be trapped with it forever. This will affect me for years, maybe decades

So, opinions on people that have used more this websites? I have mainly used each one 30m to figure what they have

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#72

They are a very nice concept but what I don’t like about these services is that they try to tie you in.
I haven’t found a way to easily export the vocabulary to Anki or some other format, and they try to force using their own SRS.

Aside from that, you can pair such services nicely with learnnatively, which provides gradings for books with an estimated difficulty level, and it will also help you keep track of your own reads.

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#73

koohi has a csv export feature, so if someone wants to, could do something with it, but yeah, I would not call it easy right now since the raw data is probably not compatible with most alternatives in a direct way. jpdb.io indeed does not seem to have any export feature yet

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#74

Then if I had to choose between the two, I’d give the priority to the one that has some access to exports / your data. Kohii also seems to be working on an API so there’s room for improvement even.

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#75

Thats what I will do then, going to probably try first the vocab for yuru camp manga since seems like one of the entries with lower vocab requirements

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#76

Hi Asher, if you’ve still got the link, I’d definitely be interested as well! :smiley:

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#77

The link I have is not expired yet, but I’m not sure if I have the green light to share it away with others, probably yes, but better wait for @Asher I guess.

Be ready for a 57GB ZIP file, and an extract tool that allows you to convert from ShiftJIS to UTF-8 if you don’t have your OS in Japanese.

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#78

Yep, no problem. Will PM you the link :ok_hand:.

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#79

Hi, I know it was over a year ago, but do you still got those videos? I would really appreciate it.

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#80

Still got them it seems. Will swing you a link tomorrow once it’s uploaded to Gigafile. 57GB takes a while to upload haha.

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#81

Apologies if this has already been suggested, but if you like Video Games and Japanese grammar, then you’ll thoroughly enjoy the following Youtube channel:

The BunPro team should consider linking his videos to the respective grammar points, as he does an amazing job explaining them very simply and with tons of examples from various games. It’s a super fun way to learn grammar, IMO.

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#82

I would love to get access as well if possible :smiley: Thanks in advance

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#83

I am also interested in a link, if one is going

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#84

If the offer is still available, I’m also interested

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#85

Sorry if it’s already been posted here but this is a great, simple site for conjugation practice

There are tons of options for selecting to practice verbs and い or な adjectives in any tense with various other options like furigana and translations.

Hope this helps

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#86

Could I get a link, as well?

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#87

Hello Asher! If you still have a link for their videos, could you send it to me as well please?

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#88

Could I get a link, as well?

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#89

Link has once again expired. Will PM you all once it uploads again.

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#90

Can I get the link too, please?

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