As a long time Japanese learner, I always wanted there to be a simple online trainer for learning kana, Kanji and vocabulary - like Anki, but for the web. Originally, I created the website for personal use simply as a better alternative to kana pro and realkana, and as an alternative to Chase Colburn’s Kanji Study app, because Kanji Study was pretty complicated for me to use as a beginner and didn’t have a simpler way of just grinding Kanji like you can grind the kana on kana pro.
I’m doing this because I grew tired of all the subscriptions and paywalls. I want to make the most user-friendly, customizable, aesthetic and fun platform for learning Japanese currently available. Accessible to all, fully open-source and free forever - and driven not by profit, but made by the community, for the community.
We already have more than 30+ active contributors from all over the world, and we really want to make the first definitive 100% free, open-source platform for learning Japanese - in contrast to most other apps for learning Japanese, which are often paid and monetized aggressively.
If you’re interested, you can check it out here: https://kanadojo.com/ ^ ^
GitHub if you’re a dev and interested in contributing: https://github.com/lingdojo/kana-dojo
The app is still in its early alpha stages - but with your help, we can make it even better and give the Japanese learning community its first completely free, open-source and community-driven learning platform! どうもありがとうございます!
That’s actually pretty cool. I learned some vowels.
This is HUGE, I’ve been looking for something like this for a while, awesome work. And extra kudos for making it so pretty!
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I gotta ask, why is that there are tons of dedicated open source tools for Japanese but not for other languages?
The Venn diagram of weebs and FOSS devs is a circle.
You sure managed to hook me right in!

Great job, haha! That’s amazing. I never personally reached more than 4 stars lol
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

vercel…
Well, I’m a LibreWolf + uBlock hard mode guy, but that’s, I think, the first time one of those anti-bot systems just outright crumbles without any even potential way to fix it. When requesting a challenge the server responds with a 708 code, which is not a standard one, so, I have absolutey zero idea on how to make it happy.
If you can’t fix it, I propose you replace it with something like anubis.
Another funny way to combat bots that does not disrupt the user is honeypotting bots with a hidden link on the page that just blacklists the IP address of anyone touching the endpoint.I’ll try it out, thanks a lot for the advice!
I love the font! What font is this?
Zen Maru Gothic ^ ^
I’ve been looking for something like this for a while, THANK YOU for making this <3
This is really good, thank you!
My roommate and I are both in the very early stages of learning Japanese and this is awesome!! Definitely gonna forward this around <3
Nice, I might finally learn how to read kana, at least the katakana version.
Are vocabulary and kanji already working?
yes, sorry! you just need to scroll down a bit! i’ll fix it asap!
Love the concept and a first try of the website was also nice.
Coming from Kanji Study I want to ask if there is a SRS (staggered repetition study) mode planned. It’s what i mostly use in Kanji Study but there it was lacking for me as it only tracks Kanji and not words (it asks for words in the tests but the answer correctness only gets tracked for the one Kanji you have to fill in, not the whole word). I’m a dev so i might contribute at some point but atm my home PC isn’t set up for programming and I’m often too exhausted after work to program in my free time as well
Thank you. Japan is on my bucket list, and even though the climate looks like I may never make it there (lots of stuff going on that I can’t control…), I’d still like to be somewhat prepared if I do get the opportunity to go.
Thank you for providing knowledge for free! :-]






