Great for reading practice
This app has been an effective tool in helping me increase my hiragana/katakana reading ability.
My vocab is low so I never have the desire to read even though I need to. But this app is colorful and engaging enough that scrolling through a few hundred of these cards feels pretty fun. For studying. Haha.
My vocab is low so I never have the desire to read even though I need to. But this app is colorful and engaging enough that scrolling through a few hundred of these cards feels pretty fun. For studying. Haha.
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The best out there
I don’t write reviews for anything but this one deserves it. It’s a simple interface, easy to navigate and customize and it’s cheap for what you get. 10/10 app.
Still awesome
Even though this app hasn’t been updated for a while, it’s still amazing! Excellent tool for helping you remember hiragana and katakana.
Really helpful
I love this app. I’d love even more if I could use it in landscape mode, especially the iPad version.
Came from the realkana website, going back to the website for now
PLEASE ADD LANDSCAPE VIEW! I’m on the iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard thinking that it’ll be a Japanese learning powerhouse with realkana, but the app is stuck in portrait mode -_-
Going back to the website for now.
Going back to the website for now.
Does what it’s supposed to
This app isn’t the prettiest, and it isn’t even optimized for iPhone X-like devices, but it gets the job done. Super helpful for reviewing kana!
I’m just beginning my Japanese studies and this app (and its website) are great for making sure you’ve got a good grasp of Hiragana and Katakana.
I’m just beginning my Japanese studies and this app (and its website) are great for making sure you’ve got a good grasp of Hiragana and Katakana.
Features Not Working
The setting bar doesn’t appear anymore. Also, I have to continually tap the screen multiple times to hear the pronunciation of the character.
Extremely useful.. a few things could be better
This is a great application for several reasons:
-In your study of kana, you will find that there are just a few characters your mind can't wrap itself around. This application let you focus on those through it's a way of letting you select different characters.
-annoying but necessary: being able to choose different fonts. It's hard enough to learn these incredibly big alphabets without getting sandbagged by people drawing them in different fonts .... but it is what it is! :-) this application let you choose which funds to practice with. Once you master the common ones you can add the others.
What could be better:
Once you get an answer wrong, it should erase the characters you typed. If it happened to me once it happened 100 times that I typed the correct answer but it was wrong because characters were left over from the attempt. This completely breaks the workflow.
I have selected all katakana and although I like that it's repeating the ones I mistake the most… A great feature… It really isn't picking the entire alphabet. Might want to check your random algorithm :-)
Also: please unhide the settings :-) I understand the desire for clean but like apple this is taken to an extreme. You shouldn't need a soothsayer to figure out how to use an application lol
Overall an incredibly useful application for learning kana which should be your first step before doing anything in Japanese.
-In your study of kana, you will find that there are just a few characters your mind can't wrap itself around. This application let you focus on those through it's a way of letting you select different characters.
-annoying but necessary: being able to choose different fonts. It's hard enough to learn these incredibly big alphabets without getting sandbagged by people drawing them in different fonts .... but it is what it is! :-) this application let you choose which funds to practice with. Once you master the common ones you can add the others.
What could be better:
Once you get an answer wrong, it should erase the characters you typed. If it happened to me once it happened 100 times that I typed the correct answer but it was wrong because characters were left over from the attempt. This completely breaks the workflow.
I have selected all katakana and although I like that it's repeating the ones I mistake the most… A great feature… It really isn't picking the entire alphabet. Might want to check your random algorithm :-)
Also: please unhide the settings :-) I understand the desire for clean but like apple this is taken to an extreme. You shouldn't need a soothsayer to figure out how to use an application lol
Overall an incredibly useful application for learning kana which should be your first step before doing anything in Japanese.
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Response from developer
Thank you for your in-depth review! An earlier version erased the answer when you got it wrong, but I felt it would be better if you had a chance to actually see what you had typed. But I think now that it would be better as a setting. And, the algorithm is just a simple random system … it doesn't cycle through all the chosen characters before repeating. I should improve that … thanks again!
Awesome
Super helpful
Helps a lot.
This is just such a nice and simple app. Perfect for quickly running through the hiragana and katakana alphabet. Glad to support the dev.
Response from developer
Thank you so much!
