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KanaSensei is a web app for learning to read Japanese. Practice hiragana and katakana with adaptive drills, challenges, memorable mnemonics, native audio, and progress tracking.
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@sajmumelΒ Great Product Samuel!
What's the trickiest kana pair (katakana γ·/γ, maybe?) and how'd you mnemonic your way around it?
Dial
the "picture-story mnemonic per character" approach is the right call - rote repetition is exactly where I've bounced off other apps before. the part of kana that actually got me stuck on my own trip wasn't the characters in isolation, it was the lookalike pairs, shi/tsu, ki/ka, so/n, that I'd nail individually in an app and then blank on side by side on an actual sign. does KanaSensei's drill deliberately pit those confusable pairs against each other, or is it mostly one character at a time and the mixing happens naturally once you're further into the deck
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@galdayanΒ That's a really sharp catch, and you've nailed the exact thing I want to build next.
Right now the drill pulls randomly from whatever set you've selected (and won't repeat a character twice in a row), so the lookalike pairs do start colliding once you widen your selection β but I'll be honest, that's natural mixing, not the app deliberately pitting shi vs. tsu against each other.
And you're spot on that isolation is the trap: nailing γ alone tells you nothing about spotting it next to γ· on a real sign. So a mode that deliberately drills the confusable sets against each other β shi/tsu, ki/ka, so/n β is going straight on the roadmap. Really appreciate the feedback, this is exactly the kind that shapes what's next.
Dial
@sajmumelΒ good honesty about calling it natural mixing rather than overselling it. glad the confusable-pairs mode is going on the roadmap either way - that's the one that would actually move the needle for me. will keep an eye out for it