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!
My roommate and I are both in the very early stages of learning Japanese and this is awesome!! Definitely gonna forward this around <3
You sure managed to hook me right in!

I’ve been looking for something like this for a while, THANK YOU for making this <3
This is really good, thank you!
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.
I think it goes something like: you spend nearly all of your time on the English speaking part of the internet - > for English speakers Japanese is one of the hardest languages you can choose to learn - > people want strong tools and resources to help learn it.
Couple that with the reach and popularity of Japanese media and boom.
This is really cool, but I’m curious about one thing: why are there only three light themes vs approximately eighty dark themes?
Yeah, that’s 3 light themes more than needed
Why do you hate accessibility?
Is light theme an accessibility feature? High contrast is, for sure, but that’s not what people refer with light themes.
Astigmatism haver here. Dark themes usually have blurry letters
¯\_(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!
This is awesome, thank you for making it open source. I really appreciate being able to give it a try without having to sign up and what not as well, good touch!
I used to live in Japan like a decade ago and spoke Japanese then but have lost a lot of it cause I never use it. This was a ton of fun to come back and review. Tysm for sharing!
I love the font! What font is this?
Zen Maru Gothic ^ ^
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! :-]
This is HUGE, I’ve been looking for something like this for a while, awesome work. And extra kudos for making it so pretty!
That’s actually pretty cool. I learned some vowels.
Incredible. Thanks for sharing!
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!






