Mobile Apps
If you have an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android phone or Android tablet, here are some apps that are certain to prove useful for learning Japanese.
If you have an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android phone or Android tablet, here are some apps that are certain to prove useful for learning Japanese.
Gengo Grammar Japanese
This is as much a warning as a recommendation. For beginning and upper beginning levels, this app from the people at JapanesePod101 is a useful guide. The trouble is it's advertised as a complete guide but for intermediate and advanced levels it's of hardly any use at all. £2.99 for iPhone/iOS. |
Cooori Japanese English Dictionary
A good attempt at an all-purpose J/E and kanji dictionary with plenty of example sentences, kanji animation and search-as-you-type. A big disappointment is that the example sentences have no furigana or romaji, making them largely unreadable to most users. Free for iPhone/iOS and Android devices. |
Kanji Flow
Best used in conjunction with the imiwa dictionary (see above), this is a flash card system for memorising kanji. Your chosen kanji and example sentences can be imported via imiwa to compile a personalised set of flash cards and although this takes a little practice, it works very well. Free for iPhone/iOS devices. |
Akebi
Another J/E dictionary that uses the JDICT database and Tatoeba for example sentences. What sets this one apart from the others is its input methods: inbuilt Japanese keyboard, radical search, excellent handwriting recognition, wildcards and "character masking" all make for fast and efficient searching. Free for Android devices. |