掲示板 Forums - What's your favourite part/feature/game in the app?

coming out as a shiritori addict.... I also enjoy just looking through the forums. Haikus are also a part of the app that I really enjoy, but maybe that's just because I like writing poetry.

I do love the forums, I used to use a smaller Japanese learning app that had a similar forum but then the company that was doing it for the app shut down last year, so the developer switched to a Discord channel and it is just not the same. I missed it so much. But now I found this one (which is actually better quality, the other one was hard and annoying to use), and it has filled the gap in my heart

For me, initially the killer feature was kanji mnemonics. Other places will show you mnemonics, and give you places to write stories, but nobody else has the all the features that make renshuu mnemonics so easy to use and so much fun to write.

For my first year or so, about all I did was study kanji. Recently, I’ve started using the feature that allows pro members to write their own sentences and have them used in quizzes. Now that’s my favorite feature.

To quote from a recent email

I find them incredibly useful. A sentence that I’ve struggled to translate sticks in memory much better than some random phrase lifted from a dictionary. Even when I use a sentence that comes with a translation provided by someone else, it feels more alive because it exists as part of a whole work.

My favorite part is the vocab/grammar learning feature. I used to type every new vocab into Anki and it took so long to find a good example sentence and the correct pitch accent for it. I was doing it on my phone cuz I couldn't download the Japanese IME on my PC but I needed it to add furigana. I had the add-on there so I had to work with two devices just to be able to study vocab properly and I was always too lazy to spend hours typing in vocab. But Renshuu is game changer :D It's so easy to add new vocab and it has hundreds of example sentences and even pitch accent! Hours of time saved. I'm sure I have learnt + memorized at least 300 new words in a month with renshuu

Off-topic but if you need to write in kana w/o a JP IME there are websites which let you do that! Before I set up my PC with an IME I'd just Google 'hiragana/katana keyboard' and do it like that. A bit annoying but works in a pinch!

Thank you for the tip!!

I lovethe kao garden and shitori personally, but I truly love ALL OF THE APP

@aoyagitism Yeahhh... I watched a video (Let's Ask Shojo) on Duolingo and he said kinda the same thing, he said that it was too formal. That they didn't totally teach informal phrases.

As Paul mentioned, it is dedicated to Japanese. The sentences are so helpful and in my case I'm happy it doesn't require an app, the browser version works great.

The garden, shiritori and the dictionary

Quick questions. Because every time I don't have to check the words' meaning to understand them gives me so much satisfaction, like I feel that I actually am getting better? Because sometimes, when I just do vocab and grammar exercises, I don't really see the progress even though I'm learning a lot.