Today I learnt something new about technology! Never heard of PWA before but that’s great to know.
Thanks, @s1212z and @jprspereira! I’ll give it a whirl on the fortnight trial and see how it goes from there.
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Preach, brother!
So true, if you can’t explain it then you don’t truly understand it.
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I’m in same boat when it comes to liking Kamesame over Kitsun. I don’t like the “how do you feel you did on remembering this word?” aspect of Kitsun or Anki. I like to either the answer correct, or get it wrong. It does suck that KameSame doesn’t have the same layout as WaniKani, I’d like to be able to write my own mnemonics and memorization techniques and see them on screen at the same time as studying, but it’s still great.
On Kitsun you can also input your answers, just like Wanikani. Actually, the big majority of decks around Kitsun allow you to do just that.
Did you face this problem while trying to import a deck?
I didn’t manage to see that option. I made a deck out of a vocabulary list I’d made from a DuoLingo lesson, but it just gave me five cards in a lesson with an answer structure similar to Anki.
If I ever do a subscription to Kitsun, I’ll try to look more indepth at how to properly configure it, but for now KameSame is filling that role.
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A bunch of tutorials within the site will be implemented in the following days, hopefully that will make the whole experience easier to understand 
Feel free to leave a message on the Kitsun forums in case you ever decide to give it another try.
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Thank you! Will do!
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Fluent Forever is my current Vocab App. It has a really good pronunciation and pitch accent tutorials built in and it also has a fairly novel approach to vocab acquisition.
https://fluent-forever.com/
This is the guy who made its TED talk:
Very interesting talk. I’m not sure I agree that adults will pick up language faster than a child will in a similar situation, but I do agree not being able to get the accent right as an adult is not a rule IF enough hard work is put into it.
Have you used this app a lot? I’m very interested in accent and pronunciation and I’m always looking for more ways to learn about it
Yeah I’ve used it since the Japanese version came out. It essentially will show videos that explain the exact mouth/tongue position and use limited pairs to help your ear here the difference. For example ski and 好き will be used to hear the difference between the American and Japanese vowels and consonants. It will play one and you have to pick between the two and see if you are correct.
This is mostly the first part of the app. It then uses sentences to build up your knowledge of vocabulary. I can show my setup later, I’m at work right now.
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宜しく！
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It also has stuff for the difference between voiced and unvoiced consonants as well as pitch accent with limited pairs like 橋 / 箸.
Thanks to everybody for the suggestions. It seems like Kitsun is a popular choice. I have tried it out but not sure how I feel about the price yet. I think I’m gonna stick with Anki for a little while since I already have a couple decks in process. Making the jump from one learning program to the next is definitely harder than I expected, especially after a few years, but at least I have a good reference point. Thanks again.
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I don’t see an option to dm you, but would you mind sending those links my way?
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I’ll PM you when I get back home! The context of this confused me at first, didn’t realize that post was already a year old haha.
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Sorry about that, I look forward to it, thank you!
I use Anki because it’s the most flexible and customizable of all the options out there today. Since I know how to code (it’s my day job), I have customized the card types to suit my preferences. I create all of my own cards by hand after studying the entries on at least jisho.org and goo.ne.jp, sometimes supplementing with other sources. It’s an extremely labor-intensive process. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re as particular about your learning experience as I am. But if you are, I believe Anki is the most flexible–though not necessarily the most convenient–option.
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I also use Anki since I really like making my vocab cards exactly how I need them to be. Aedict is also the best Japanese dictionary app on Android I’ve ever used. You can export words from it directly into Anki and honestly that feature has saved me a huge amount of time. I generally add words to my deck whenever I encounter them in books or on the internet.
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Kanji Study App also supports exporting to Anki cards, and I use that regularly to compile collections of words using kanji that I need to better familiarize myself with.
I hadn’t heard of Aedict before, but since you mentioned it, I’ll have to check it out!
One of my favorite Aedict features is that whenever you look up a word and click on it there’s a tab called buddies. It lists all the similar words or ones that use the same kanji. Then you can select multiple words at once to export to your Anki deck. It helps with learning kanji readings a lot.
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