
Nazoru: Read Japanese
Tap a word, keep the sentence
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What's New in Nazoru
1.9
October 31, 2026
Some words are not in the dictionary at all — a name, a company, a piece of jargon, a word from an article you pasted in yourself. Until now they were simply greyed out and did nothing when you tapped them. Now you can write them yourself. Tap the greyed word; if the split landed in the middle of what you wanted, adjust how much of it to take; then type the reading in kana and what it means in your own words. The reading is optional — if you only know the meaning, write only the meaning. What you write goes into the vocabulary book, marked as yours, and comes back at review like any other word. It does not get a pitch line: you typed a reading, not an accent, and the app will not invent one for you. In the text the word stays greyed out, because the dictionary still does not have it — but tapping it again brings up what you wrote. A word can also be in the dictionary, with a reading, but with no meaning written yet. That card used to end there. It now has a way through to a note of your own, and it saves the word first so there is somewhere to write. Six more texts. Readers working at N2 and N1 said the bundled texts were too easy for their level. We measured them and they were right — some pieces labelled N1 carried fewer hard words than the N2 average. Rather than rewrite the ones already there, we added three harder pieces to N2 and three to N1. Those two levels now have nine each, thirty-six in all. The levels are no longer even, and that is on purpose: padding N5 to N3 would have added texts nobody asked for. Fixed: with the sakura skin on a device set to dark mode, text you were typing could be drawn in a colour that left it invisible — on the screen where you paste an article, in the note editor, and in several other panels. Fixed: on the screen where you pick how much of a text to work through, the strip of range buttons could be wider than the screen and push the page sideways.
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