Learn Japanese with AJATT

🍇 Updated FAQ

I'm the weakest student in language school. How can I improve?

https://ajatt.top/blog/weakest-student-in-language-school.html

🎆 gd-tools v1.9 is out 🎆 Ubuntu and Debian users can install the package attached to the latest GitHub release.

wget https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/gd-tools/releases/latest/download/gd-tools.deb
sudo apt install ./gd-tools.deb

Previously, Ubuntu and Debian had to compile the package from source. repo https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/gd-tools/ docs https://ajatt.top/blog/setting-up-goldendict.html#gd-tools

📖 Understanding Basic Japanese Grammar I noticed that Khatzumoto's old blog, which is now deleted, had a page about this grammar book. So I decided to backport it to our guide and add it to our list of recommended grammar books. I've also uploaded the PDF here in case you cannot reliably access Z-Library or Anna's Archive. This book does not replace my other recommendations. It is just another option among many. https://ajatt.top/blog/learning-grammar.html#grammar-guides https://ajatt.top/blog/understanding-basic-japanese-grammar.html

🧙 Updated AJT Japanese By default, generated graphs now have pitch colors baked in using SVG attributes. Previously, you could either rely on CSS rules or generate black-and-white graphs. https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1344485230

📹 Updated videoclip add-on for MPV. Before this update videoclip did not have an interface for calling ffmpeg, unlike mpvacious. I ported mpvacious's logic to videoclip, so now you can choose between the mpv backend and the ffmpeg backend. And I added an option to copy streams instead of re-encoding which allows making clips almost instantly. https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/videoclip/ https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/videoclip/releases

One of the questions I get asked the most recently is how to use the Pitch Artist Anki add-on. I did not have time to write a user guide for it until recently. The user guide is now ready. Read it here: 👉 https://ajatt.top/blog/pitch-artist-user-guide.html Note: the add-on requires Anki 26.05 and the latest version of AJT Japanese. 🗞 Subscribe|💬 Join Chat|❤️ Support us|🗾 Learn Japanese

🐪 Updated Resources. Added a section about handwriting. https://ajatt.top/blog/resources.html#handwriting

🫐 Updated AJT Merge Notes New option: Suspend cards after merging. After merging, instead of just deleting or keeping original notes, you can now suspend them. The old checkbox has been replaced with a dropdown: Do nothing, Suspend, or Delete. All settings now have explanatory tooltips. 👉 https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1425504015 If the addon crashes, report in our chat or install an older release.

🍇 Acquisition vs Learning Today I added another article to our language learning guide, bringing it one step closer to completion. The article, "Acquisition vs Learning," is quite long and took a lot of time and effort. I had many drafts that I polished on and off for an entire year, and today I finally felt it was ready. I chose words carefully and refined the phrasing, and I think it turned out well. Enjoy! https://ajatt.top/blog/acquisition-vs-learning.html

🍑 Updated AJT Flexible Grading Anki add-on Added a new setting: Flexible Reviewer (enabled by default). Flexible Reviewer replaces the bottom bars on all screens with a custom-built bar made from pure Qt widgets. No Svelte bloatware. Flexible Reviewer replaces Anki's bottom web view with native Qt buttons in the deck browser, overview, and reviewer. Faster, cleaner, no HTML rendering overhead. Also includes: colored answer buttons with keyboard shortcut hints, card timer, remaining count display, and "reps done today" counter, all as native widgets. Requires V3 scheduler. ・ https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1715096333

🍇 Thoughts on books that teach kanji by breaking down kanji into radicals https://ajatt.top/blog/specific-kanji-books.html

🍇 Have you ever tried using AI to analyze grammar? https://ajatt.top/blog/have-you-ever-tried-using-ai-to-analyze-grammar.html

💣 Updated ajatt.top I've spent the last six months porting our website from Bashblog to Tatsublog. One advantage of Tatsublog is that it isn't written in Bash, so we can implement features that weren't possible before. One example is the search page. Check it out: https://ajatt.top/blog/search.html#q=grammar You can now find content on the site much more easily. Another plus is that many features now work with JavaScript disabled. For example, the table-of-contents navigation (Previous and Next links on guide pages) is implemented in Jinja templates and doesn't require JavaScript. Sidebar links used to work only when JavaScript was enabled. They now work without it as well.

🛫 Lancet v26.5.12.0 released Added: ⌨️ support for system keyboard shortcuts On some setups (like Wayland), applications can't register global keyboard shortcuts, so Lancet's shortcuts won't work. You can define shortcuts in your Wayland compositor instead. Below is an example for Sway. Add the following to your ~/.config/sway/config:

# Run OCR
bindsym $mod+o          exec lancet ocr
# Run OCR with the speech-bubble detector
bindsym $mod+Shift+o    exec lancet ocr --detect
# Take a screenshot
bindsym $mod+Print      exec lancet screenshot

https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/lancet

🦍 Updated Ankidrone Sentence Pack Added about 7,000 sentences from a project called Jalup. Ankidrone Sentence Pack now contains 67,855 sentences. https://ajatt.top/blog/ankidrone-sentence-pack.html

🛫 Lancet v26.5.4.0 released New features: 1) Speech bubble detection and page OCR. Press Shift+Alt+O to detect and OCR all text regions in a manga page. 2) You can configure text detection resolution and missed text recovery in Preferences. 3) Added standalone binary releases for GNU/Linux Fixes: 1) Overlapping keyboard shortcuts no longer cause the program to misbehave. 2) Fixed crashes when launching GoldenDict while running the standalone binary. https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/lancet