My App Just Won Best Ios Japanese Learning Tool of 2025 Award (blog)
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My App: My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award
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There is also a project called SwiftCrossUI which provides UI across Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, tVOS, TUI from one codebase.
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If you're sharing a 3rd-party post like this, then you need to use the article's original title, rather than editorializing it to draw attention to your own project.
The right way to share news about winning an award like this would be to write your own blog post, giving the audience some narrative about your journey from conceiving the project to winning the award. That could be a great post.
It's up to you how you communicate your work and achievements to the world, of course, but anything submitted to HN needs to adhere to the guidelines.
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It also does not support Yomitan-style custom dictionaries, which is a shame but I understand why it would be a non-goal. Shiori (the other iOS reader app the post mentions) and Jidoujisho (the Android app winner) both have only partial support.
I will consider more automatic ways of tracking reading progress as well. And I will make this tracking far more valuable soon too: it will automatically review your flashcards (ones that exist and ones you create in the future) when you read the words/kanji that appear in texts. This will also automatically transition words to "known" status simply by reading and applying the FSRS algorithm to it to determine learning status maturity levels based on the resulting intervals.
I'm also currently working on Yomitan custom dictionary import. I hope to launch this very soon. Besides bringing your own dictionaries, it will also include Wiktionary ones out of the box so that you can get monolingual lookups.
Relatedly, the Japanese learning community has many excellent blogs and resources. Many explore theories of learning and how it applies to Japanese, too, which is interesting enough in it’s own right :)
However, as a loan officer living in Japan, I see many people master the "Software" but fail because of the "Hardware" (Audio OS).
In Japanese, vowels (a, i, u, e, o) are standalone signals. We process them as language. But I've read that Western brains often filter them out as mechanical noise.
My advice: Use these tools to build your database, but don't forget to "update your BIOS". Unless you retune your brain to treat isolated vowels as Signal instead of Noise, the software won't run smoothly.
Data is just the sheet music; pronunciation is the actual performance. Without the right instrument (Audio OS), the music doesn't play.
I tried unsuccessfully to find your email to chat about the topic of the Japanese language learning ecosystem further. Would you mind dropping me an email to start a conversation? (Mine's in my profile.)