CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Hey everyone,

Years and years ago I built a simple website to help myself (and some students in the same class as I) learn Hiragana, Katakana, and a bunch of vocab. Sadly, this site was destroyed in a server crash. I have since re-incarnated this site (read: totally re-written), and it is now available in public beta as I try to work the kinks out of it. I'll be adding features and fixing bugs, but I figured there were a bunch of users here that would be interesting in playing around with it. So if you want to learn Japanese (or just brush up on your Kana skills), check it out! If you have the "Learn Japanese New College Text" series of textbooks, this site can seriously help with the rote memorization of vocabulary. If you DON'T have said books, I strongly recommend them. Just FYI: If you register for an account (so it can remember your preferences), you can tell it which kana you want to use - that way you can learn the kana slowly. That's very useful for beginners.

http://flash.holdmeaccountable.org/

Over the next few weeks, I will add additional vocabulary lists, so stay tuned!

- Mithrandir

PS: Feel free to post bug reports here if you find any; I need the pants kick to get things fixed quickly anyway. Have fun!

I think I broke it, Mith O___O

Lesson One doesn't seem to work o_o

As of when you were looking at it, Lesson 1 wasn't quite yet ready. Only the Hiragana and Katakana were available. The pop-up list should say: "Lesson 01 (not yet ready)" for the title.



EDIT: Updated - Lesson 01 and Lesson 02 are now available!

That was fun! I'm looking forward to more lessons being added. It would be really cool if the Japanese was written in kana rather than romanized, too.

ShiroiHikari (post: 1275632) wrote:That was fun! I'm looking forward to more lessons being added. It would be really cool if the Japanese was written in kana rather than romanized, too.

That's actually on the docket, eventually. If you follow the Learn Japanese text, there's only one book where it's mostly Romanized. I intentionally created fields in the DB, and set it up as UTF-8 so I can add the kana/kanji entries for each item. Then I'll add a toggle for the end-user to select their preference for each lesson.

Great idea, and it's in the works!

Keep the creative juices flowing - the only limit to what this can end up being is our imagination.


BTW: If anyone registers for an account (so it can remember your preferences), you can tell it which kana you want to use - that way you can learn the kana slowly. It's very useful for beginners. For example, I have a friend who is learning a, i, u, e, and o. The system shows him those over and over and over.

Ooooooh, I guess I never noticed that before ^__^;

I have slacked so much on my lessons... Hopefully, this can get me back on track ^__^

ooh wow that was cool! ^_^ I had fun doing that, Thanks, Mith! 8D I'll probably look at it often.. XD.

Cool! Glad you got use out of it.

I want to learn Japanese so bad, but school keeps getting in the way with its crazy schedule. Stupid school, always getting in the way of learning XD

OldMith, I think this is fantastic and so do my friends as well. *spreads the love around*

Yay! Glad it's useful to ya!

Is there any way you could put a pronunciation thingy along with the words?

This is great. I'm definately going to be going through the lessons a lot. A pronunciation indication would be pretty useful.

That's a very good suggestion. I have the infrastructure in place to allow that, I just need to add it. ATM, I'm working on a different present for you guys (a descriptions of which may make it's way to CAA's main page in the next few days, if things go as planned).

- Mith

Mithrandir (post: 1278883) wrote:That's a very good suggestion. I have the infrastructure in place to allow that, I just need to add it. ATM, I'm working on a different present for you guys (a descriptions of which may make it's way to CAA's main page in the next few days, if things go as planned).

- Mith

A surprise is something good to look forwards to ^__^

Um, Mith? I still see the "Please wait..." screen when I first come here... o_o;

Yeah... I've had a few people notice that. I'm going to have to catch some peeps on AIM/Skype tomorrow and have them run a few commands to try to figure out exactly what's going on.

Thanks for the heads up!