What is this?
A tool for assistance in reading japanese novels.
こ(ko)れ(re)は(wa)日本語(nihongo)を(o)読(yo)む(mu)た(ta)め(me)の(no)補助(hojo)で(de)す(su)
これ: this
は: [A]は (as for [A] …)(!Pronounced WA not HA)
日本語: Japanese language
per kanji info
日 Day / Sun / Japan / Counter For Days
rarity: B rank (common) (60090/100MB text)
ON にち, じつ
KUN ひ, -び, -か
本 Book / Present / Main / Origin / True / Real / Counter For Long Cylindrical Things
rarity: B rank (common) (44768/100MB text)
ON ほん
KUN もと
語 Word / Speech / Language
rarity: C rank (uncommon) (13989/100MB text)
ON ご
KUN かた.る, かた.らう
を: [A]を[verb] ([A] is being [verbed])
読む: to read
per kanji info
読 Read
rarity: C rank (uncommon) (9268/100MB text)
ON どく, とく, とう
KUN よ.む, -よ.み
ため: sake; purpose
の: [A]の[B] ([A]'s [B])
    / [sentence]の (emphasising [sentence])
補助: assistance
per kanji info
補 Supplement / Supply / Make Good / Offset / Compensate / Assistant / Learner
rarity: C rank (uncommon) (2701/100MB text)
ON ほ
KUN おぎな.う
助 Help / Rescue / Assist
rarity: C rank (uncommon) (8914/100MB text)
ON じょ
KUN たす.ける, たす.かる, す.ける, すけ
です: [A]です ([A] is/are; polite statement)
    / [A]でしょう ([A] is, right?; polite guess)

that up there is a pre rendered example of what this tool is for.

(romaji, hiragana, katakana all supported for readings, and a dictionary of 80k words and 13k kanji)



Most jap teaching apps are either paid, simple "ohayogozaimasu" level, or linguistic know-how is needed to understand them. Or, they only work as browser extensions with no concern for mobile users. so I made this.

It's simple, free, works offline, can be installed as PWA, and helps read novels in peace.

you can close and return to it, it remembers what sentence was last being explained. It can paginate few MBs of text so stuff won't crash if you are reading something big.

読むよー
I am gonna read it!

User may enter/paste any text. If you don't know where to find japanese text, try stuff like syosetu , which has free web novels.
How to find story on syosetu?

- Go to syosetu

- There's gold / silver / bronze crown on links, (those are top stories in the genre selected on the panel above.)

- Open them (it will now show synopsis page for that story).

- click the chapters under the synopsis. (You can also copy the synopsis to read that)

- copy text and come back.

- click "help read sentence" and paste in big text box.


sorta like a course? just enough to get one reading though.
this space is left for that helper thing to open

There are no consequences. Pressing 'Right' or 'Wrong' makes no difference in the questions picked next, it is only used for calculating the stats above which, are also just for the sake of it and do nothing.

Yes the questions are absolutely random.

Why no SRS? because then the mind 'expects' certain questions to not appear or reappear, Maybe it does have benefits but it honestly felt worse to me mainly because it is stressful, it gives us "homework" everyday and doing recap on topics we think we need recap on is hard. When a learner uses multiple sources to study, I'd rather leave it to them to decide which pace or topic they want to focus on.

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- Privacy focused, nothing is sent anywhere.
- So wait for top green bar to go away, it is fetching dictionary etc to do all calculations on your device. It should work even on mobile devices with as low as 4GB RAM comfortably.
- After loaded, paste text and hit GO, or load .txt file
- Touch sentences to see analysis.
- Text and reading history is stored in your browser so clearing data / cache may clear your history.
- Touching any word in the sentence scrolls to that word in the helper panel.
- If there's any better definition a word can have, let me know at sumosage.contact[at]gmail.com