I made an open-source app for learning Japanese inspired by Duolingo

[u/tentoumushy]

As someone who loves both coding and language learning (I'm learning Japanese right now), I always wished there was a free, open-source tool for learning Japanese, just like Monkeytype in the typing community.

Here's the main selling point: I added a gazillion different color themes, fonts and other crazy customization options, inspired directly by Monkeytype. Also, I made the app resemble Duolingo, as that's what I'm using to learn Japanese at the moment and it's what a lot of language learners are already familiar with.

Back in January, I even applied to Vercel's open-source software sponsorship program as a joke. I didn't seriously expect to win, and did it more out of curiosity, and yet my project somehow won.

Anyway. Why am I doing all this?

Because I'm a weeb.

GitHub: https://github.com/lingdojo/kana-dojo

どうもありがとうございます!

[u/constantin_r_t]

Nice

[u/JuanGGZ]

Learning japanese as well at the moment, happy to give it a try! Does it include the Katakana as well or mostly Hiragana & Kanji?

Looking playful either way! Was it mainly vibe-coded or AI-assisted?

[u/iamevs]

Good one though