Comments on: App Review: i-Sokki Japanese Vocabulary for JLPT

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 08:17:51 +0000

Hi, looks like a pretty nice app. I’d like to recommend my own apps/website for JLPT study which will likely interest your readers:
The http://www.kanjigames.com has online versions of two mobile apps, ‘Kanji Connect’ and ‘Lex Flashcard Game for Quizlet’.
Kanji Connect is a game like Boggle but the target word is cued with kanji or hiragana and meaning, and you need to spell out the word in the grid. Great thinking game to get to know kanji readings and meanings and learn new vocabulary – it also tracks progress and has reference flashcards.
The Lex Word Game app is a similar game but allows you to put in your own data via Quizlet, and allows for longer strings (including English words, or short Japanese sentences). N.B. It takes about 3 minutes tops to export a Perapera list of lookups, upload it to Quizlet and then import into the Lex app so that you can review your lookups in the game. No other apps feature this kind of game plus review and progress tracking!

Both games are also iphone apps available on the app store.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lex-flashcard-game-for-quizlet/id678847630?mt=8&uo=4

Enjoy! 😀

Oliver

By: error

error — Thu, 02 May 2013 13:01:34 +0000

I can’t seem to download the app from Firefox. The “This addon from addon.mozilla.org could not be installed because it does not match the addon Firefox expected” error keeps showing up every time I try to download it. Is there some other way I can download just the .xpi or something?

By: admin

admin — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:10:42 +0000

In reply to Sébastien. Hi Sébastien. Wow that sounds like a really good app! Will be sure to check it out. Thanks for recommending :)

By: Sébastien

Sébastien — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:04:54 +0000

Hello,

I would like to inform all JLPT takers here, that there is this free app called “Learn Japanese JLPT N1” or something, created by “Viet talent”, which is actually more about preparing the JLPT1 than learning Japanese.
It is basically an data base of hundreds of vocabulary and grammar MCQ questions (more than 2000 in total) which look every bit as genuine questions from the JLPT, with a “practice” mode to browse through all the questions, and a “test” mode to try and answer 25 questions in 25 minutes, at the end of which you browse back through all 25 questions and see which ones you got wrong.

I’m using it all the time; it doesn’t train you to get used to the actual format of the test, but once you’ve gone through every questions, I think you’re pretty much vocabulary-proof.
(best used in parallel with an android/laptop Japanese dictionary to check all the nuances of the words as you go).

I think it’s only fair that I share this lucky find here.