Japanese My Way App Reviews

Fantastic value for amazing range of content. I am using this to revise my rusty japanese skills and am truly amazed. Wish this tool was around 15 years ago. A thorough kanji learning tool with extensive dictionary and sentences from beginner to advanced levels. Just missing sound and this would be perfect.

The app comprises a dictionary, a collection of phrases, and--its best feature--a flashcard program that lets one draw characters and check for accuracy, incl. stroke order. These are the main features. I found it much fun to draw characters with this program and the iPad is ideal for this.

I just can confirm, what mshal wrote! This App is huge, got tons of japanese kanji...

I dont recommend anyone to buy this worst app EVER.

This app is great to study kanji and offers an huge amount of japanese sentences and conjugations of any verbs and adjectives- which is very very helpful~ I really enjoy studying japanese with this app and can spend hours with it. Thank you very much for having developed this app!!

...since the last update im not able to use my flashcards anymore which means I cant access my personal vocab. Very annoying and I hope its going to be fixed soon... Otherwise I use this App on a daily basis as my dictionnary and it works fine. Its also very detailed and helps me a lot in my classes.

Its perfect for learning vocabulary. Sou have also a good dictionary wirhin the app, so you dont have to type in all the words :)

5 min of programming for the author, and Id rate 5 stars. Great app for learning writing kanji, but unusable: Please fix: - upon start annoying message icloud not found. Then upon pressing " understood", app goes to AppStore. What the hell...? I dont wanna mess around with stupid ickoud, just want to learn kanji - cards should me more shuffled. Now always the same 5-10 cards come, until I perfectly master them, then completely new ones and u forget the just learned. StickyStudy has a better shuffling system to mix new and old cards.

I really find this app useful, especially when studying for tests. Unfortunately there was an update that caused the flash card section to shut down after certain cards. Its a little frustrating because I never get to the cards at the end. Thats really the only problem.

I purchased this for the writing recognition but it is way too inflexible. I had a Japanese native try it and the software couldnt recognize their writing correctly

I previously gave this app 4☆, but Im reducing it to two as I have found that I cannot enter vocabulary lists as they appear in my textbook. The problem seems centred around compound words. e.g. 団体 and 生活 are both in the dictionary, but 団体生活 is not and JMW will not let me add the word as it appears in my textbook vocabulary list to a deck. Similarly, one cannot add a な adjective to a deck. You can add 有名 but not 有名な. There are workarounds, but it is frustrating and its not My Way. I cannot drill the vocabulary lists as they appear in my textbook. Also, I am still frustrated by how picky JMW is about hiragana. It is annoying to be graded wrong on 難しい because your い is judged incorrect even though it could not be mistaken for any other character.

Just cannot walk without it

Fantastic for practicing your Japanese vocabulary and it even has a lot of the basic grammar points as entries so you can make grammar flash cards. If youre working on the tricky Japanese verbs you can stop on any verb card and look through many of the possible conjugations. One day of playing with it and making practice decks though and I have been noticing some interesting omissions I would have expected to be in there. たとえばー はんざい (crime) is there but はんざいしゃ (criminal) isnt? ~ことがある (there are times when) Ok ~ことにする (decided to) not there? There was more I was missing but... Great product! please keep filling out the dictionary.

This app is simply a waste of money. Difficult and cumbersome to use, and the dictionary and example sentences are the same as in other free apps. In short, dont buy it. You get nothing beyond what free resources can provide you.

Now includes Kanji and Vocabulary decks according to the great "500 Basic Kanji Book" - now theres no more excuse for not learning Kanji. This combination is great! Thanks a lot! 2012/11: also love the current update. Now it looks really pro, and the kanji writing practice feels really good. Thank you.

Hello to whom it may concern,,, I am a fellow user of this great app... In fact this is so far the best app for Kanji I have downloaded ( and paid ).. But since the release of iOS 6 the apps keep on crashing.... Whenever I click play, the app keep on saying there is problem when displaying the content and make sure to select.... But when I select any of the deck, picker and game etc... Nothing appears to select for.... So in other words, there is BIG problem in the app and not just a bug ...and I repeat... A BIG BIG problem... And I need to reinstall the app to TEMPORARILY fix the problem, and ofcourse the problem continues when I stop using the apps for couple of days.... Sorry for the word my dear creator.... Please address the problem and fix it..

first of all, excellent app to study kanji. writing and recognizing functions are just great (especially with recent update fixing simple kanjis recognition). bugs: - "write kana from kanji" and "write kana from meaning" games return an error "oops kanji - not found" (for example refer to "grade 1 kanji" of the "sample deck") - the same games sometimes return "oops kanji - not found in the database. you can only play writing games for kanji with stroke data" (i assume this happens when "-" or "." is included in kana sequence)

The best flash cards app I found. Very useful, definitely will recommend to anyone who learn Japanese. The big choice of games (writing, build words) is the most interesting thing about this app.

This app is perfect for practicing my vocabulary and kanji for class. Being able to drill the different word forms is very useful. Writing works well, though sometimes its a little too forgiving and a little more room to draw would be nice.

Flash cards are very smooth and havent found any words not in the dictionary yet. Switching between different types of conjugations for flash cards is awesome! Have to create decks before you can add words from the dictionary, but not a big problem since I create a monthly deck for new words to practice for the month. Recommended!