u/AndrewNggg

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The thing that finally made particles click for me was not another は vs が essay. It was seeing that particles are the moving part: hold the words still, change only the particle, and the whole sentence changes its mind.

The frame stays 私 ___ 日本人です, you tap は, が, と, に, の, か, も and the meaning line updates under it

Free, no account, it's in the particles overview in the open area

Thank you all!

www.kitsunewa.com/essentials/particles/overview

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I built this for learners, but a tutor told me it saves her prep time, so I'm sharing it here too. Paste any Japanese text, choose whether furigana appears on every kanji or only above a chosen JLPT level, then print.

The printout is just the text with readings, clean on white.

Free, no account needed. If you teach and something about the print layout or the level behavior doesn't fit how you'd use it in class, I'd genuinely like to know.

Thank you all!

www.kitsunewa.com/tools/furigana

The thing that finally made particles click for me was not another は vs が essay. It was seeing that particles are the moving part: hold the words still, change only the particle, and the whole sentence changes its mind.

The frame stays 私 ___ 日本人です, you tap は, が, と, に, の, か, も and the meaning line updates under it

Free, no account, it's in the particles overview in the open area

Two asks for this sub: which particle pair should be the next side-by-side page? And if any of my one-line descriptions are oversimplified or could be better explained, tell me and I will refine it.

Thank you all!

www.kitsunewa.com/essentials/particles/overview

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I built this for learners, but a tutor told me it saves her prep time, so I'm sharing it here too. Paste any Japanese text, choose whether furigana appears on every kanji or only above a chosen JLPT level, then print.

The printout is just the text with readings, clean on white.

Free, no account needed. If you teach and something about the print layout or the level behavior doesn't fit how you'd use it in class, I'd genuinely like to know.

Thank you all!

www.kitsunewa.com/tools/furigana

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The furigana dilemma: with readings on everything, your eyes cheat and read the kana, and the kanji never sink in. With no readings, native material is a wall.

So I built a reader that tries to sit in the middle.

Paste any Japanese text and:

• furigana appears above every kanji, placed the way books print it
• or pick your JLPT level, and kanji at or below your level lose their readings, so you only get help on the ones you actually don't know yet
• tap any word for its reading, meaning, and a plain description of what it does in the sentence, and it can read the word out loud
• copy everything as plain text with readings in brackets, share a link that opens ready to read, or print a clean handout

Free, no account.

Two honest caveats before anyone finds them for me: the JLPT kanji lists are the community-standard ones, since there have been no official lists since 2010. And the readings come from a dictionary tokenizer running live, so on ambiguous words it occasionally picks a wrong reading. If you catch a bad one, please paste the sentence, those reports are exactly what I want.

Is the level filter actually useful to you, or a gimmick? And what's missing for the way you really read?

Thank you all!

www.kitsunewa.com/tools/furigana

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Hi everyone. I kept noticing that there are hundreds of typing tests for English and almost none for Japanese, so I built one, and I'd really like this sub's honest opinion on it.

What it does:

• Kana mode: type the kana shown, MonkeyType style, with optional romaji hints
• Kanji mode: real sentences, you type with your own IME and convert as usual
• A Reading toggle puts furigana on the kanji, so it quietly doubles as reading practice
• Paste your own text (lyrics, Anki sentences, anything) and type that instead
• Timed mode includes the 10 minute format the Japanese typing certification uses, and your result maps to a rough rank estimate from 6級 up to 特段

Free, no account, runs in the browser.

What I would genuinely love feedback on:

1. Does the rank ladder feel about right, or way off? I want it honest, not flattering.
2. IME quirks: if your setup does something strange, tell me which IME and OS.
3. Anything confusing in the first ten seconds?

Thanks for reading, and apologies in advance if you discover your Japanese typing is slower than your handwriting.

kitsunewa.com/tools/typing-test

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Hey everyone!

I am really curious how you all managed to grow your apps. Are you just grinding organic posts on Reddit and X? Paying for Google Ads? Going all-in on SEO?

I'm currently trying to figure out the best distribution channels for my apps, and while I have been an engineer for almost a decade, I'm still learning about marketing.

Let's share our strategies and do a feedback swap!

Drop your app or service below along with your main marketing channel.

Let's check out one another's work, leave some constructive feedback, and see what we can learn from each other's Go-To-Market experiences.

Thank you all!

Hi all!

What are you guys building or working on at the moment? I’d love to know how you came up with the idea, did you do market research to find gaps?

Or was it a problem that you were dealing with and needed a fix yourself?