[APP][2.2+]Alephbet Hiragana - Learn Japanese Hiragana

PharaohsVizier · Aug 21, 2014

Alephbet Hiragana will teach you to read and write Japanese Hiragana quickly and effectively. Unlike other apps that push overnight memorization, Alephbet Hiragana takes you through ten short, manageable lessons and gives you the reading practice you need. You will only encounter words, phrases and sentences that use the Hiragana you've learned so far.

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By the end of the lessons, you will have incrementally learned and practiced each of the Hiragana and committed them to memory. Learn to read and write at a natural pace without the help of mnemonics or tricks. Comprehensive Writing and Reading Practice modes at the end of the lessons will make sure you solidify the material.

Features:
* Ten lessons that cover pronunciation and reading tips
* Reading practice with carefully chosen words that you can actually read
* Writing practice on the popup view
* Audio examples to perfect your reading

Available FREE on the Play Store

Feedback and comments are happily accepted. Thank you!

PharaohsVizier · Sep 6, 2014

Following up Alephbet Hiragana is Alephbet Katakana. Katakana is challenging because it occurs so infrequently, but with words specifically picked for the application, Alephbet Katakana will give you a list of words and phrases to practice on. Just like Alephbet Hiragana, you will encounter only the Katakana you've learned so far in your lessons, so you can practice reading whole, complete words and phrases.

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Available FREE on the Play Store

Feedback and criticism is gladly accepted.

souler456 · Sep 6, 2014

Any chance to create one for Kanji?

PharaohsVizier · Sep 6, 2014

souler456 said:
Any chance to create one for Kanji?

Yes Kanji is in the pipeline, it is being brainstormed right now. The approach we have planned is a little different, with the lessons covering things like radicals and groupings rather than the most common kanji to the least common. However, this will be several weeks down the line. Both the Katakana and Hiragana apps will be getting content updates first, and frankly kanji is just a tougher one to approach. But keep an eye out, I'll make another post to this thread when it comes out.

souler456 · Sep 6, 2014

PharaohsVizier said:
Yes Kanji is in the pipeline, it is being brainstormed right now. The approach we have planned is a little different, with the lessons covering things like radicals and groupings rather than the most common kanji to the least common. However, this will be several weeks down the line. Both the Katakana and Hiragana apps will be getting content updates first, and frankly kanji is just a tougher one to approach. But keep an eye out, I'll make another post to this thread when it comes out.

Thanks! I'm really having a hard time learning and memorizing Kanjis. I'm hoping that it will be user-friendly and of course, really easy to cope and learn with... :good:

PharaohsVizier · Sep 7, 2014

souler456 said:
Thanks! I'm really having a hard time learning and memorizing Kanjis. I'm hoping that it will be user-friendly and of course, really easy to cope and learn with... :good:

Kanji is definitely challenging, sadly practice is a must and repeated exposure. We're still brainstorming, but at the moment our approach seems to be to touch on common radicals, structures, placement and basically tackle how each kanji is written. The idea is that we can only cover maybe 100 kanji in the app, but the lessons will give you some tools to guess at the meaning of the kanji and also give you a systematic way of organizing them as you learn. By breaking down the kanji to some components, memorization should come easier than the brute method used by most textbooks.

souler456 · Sep 7, 2014

PharaohsVizier said:
Kanji is definitely challenging, sadly practice is a must and repeated exposure. We're still brainstorming, but at the moment our approach seems to be to touch on common radicals, structures, placement and basically tackle how each kanji is written. The idea is that we can only cover maybe 100 kanji in the app, but the lessons will give you some tools to guess at the meaning of the kanji and also give you a systematic way of organizing them as you learn. By breaking down the kanji to some components, memorization should come easier than the brute method used by most textbooks.

Suggestion: Since you said "practice", a Mini-Games or Short-Quizzes would be helpful for it... And since you said "exposure", some Reading Practice Section (like read a sentence and translate it) would be good as well... desune?

Of course, it's still a suggestion, so no forcing this onto you is intended... :good:

PharaohsVizier · Sep 8, 2014

souler456 said:
Suggestion: Since you said "practice", a Mini-Games or Short-Quizzes would be helpful for it... And since you said "exposure", some Reading Practice Section (like read a sentence and translate it) would be good as well... desune?

Of course, it's still a suggestion, so no forcing this onto you is intended... :good:

Thanks for the suggestions. The practice section will feature longer sentences and probably some paragraphs. I think mini games might be a bit far off for now, but it's definitely something we would like to implement. Someone else suggested playing sounds and a blank canvas which is pretty cool.

souler456 · Sep 8, 2014

PharaohsVizier said:
Thanks for the suggestions. The practice section will feature longer sentences and probably some paragraphs. I think mini games might be a bit far off for now, but it's definitely something we would like to implement. Someone else suggested playing sounds and a blank canvas which is pretty cool.

Blank canvas? Like you practice handwriting and strokes there? Where's your official site, by the way?

PharaohsVizier · Sep 9, 2014

souler456 said:
Blank canvas? Like you practice handwriting and strokes there? Where's your official site, by the way?

Yep exactly. Someone suggested that we prompt users with either the sound files or text prompts and ask users to write out the hiragana character without the word printed on the back. Pretty simple.

Unfortunately we don't have an official site. It doesn't seem like it'd be worth the time for such a simple app.

PharaohsVizier · Oct 7, 2014

In the last week, we pushed out two major updates for both Alephbet Hiragana and Alephbet Katakana. The first update was a Writing Practice mode where you must write out hiragana or katakana characters based on a random prompt. You are given a blank box to practice writing, and also the romaji and sound. This will help you recall the stroke order, and of course the answer is available if you need it.

The second update was the Reading Practice mode. Instead of coming up with phrases of our own, we decided to find something a bit more cultural. Alephbet Hiragana now includes a large selection of haiku poems by the 17th century poet Matsuo Basho. You read through the hiragana and tap on the lines you are stuck on to reveal the romaji pronunciation. Alephbet Katakana instead has an extended verse from a Buddhist scripture, the Lotus Sutra. Again, translations, original text and romaji are all provided.

And lastly, for those waiting for a Kanji app, it is finally shaping up. The lessons have all been drafted at this point and is being proofread. Because of the differences, the app will need some reprogramming instead of a port like the katakana and hiragana apps. So it will still be a few weeks, but it is moving along and will hopefully be the best Alephbet app yet.

DarkSephiroth1 · Dec 8, 2019

For some phrases there are no audios, like Lesson 1: for "to say", "Hey!", "on top", "fish", "good", "many" and "like that".

Will there be updates?

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