Your education system is just going to be a bunch of different mobile apps with microtransactions in five years isn’t it

Also, recommend an app for practicing writing kanji, I got a stylus and everything

I love it DuoLingo offers Hindi and displays is with the Indian flag but no Urdu… or Bengali… or Marathi… or Telugu…

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I’ve been doing HelloChinese on and off, because I’m dedicated to being just sightly ahead of the HSK 1 curve for the rest of my life.

Would love to find something better.

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That’s the blue states, red states will have salafist madrassas with teachers made out of ham

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That, and homeschooled kids who last left their house when they came from the hospital after their birth.

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I thought they switched to butter sculptures because of the dairy subsidy

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Lingodeer has lessons on stroke order for some kanji and otherwise has pretty decent lessons with stories included to test comprehension.

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I had lingodeer recommended to me over Duolingo for any language that doesn’t have roman letters.

I’m pretty confident that I’d only use an app to supplement a textbook. Also, I had this idea that eventually, when it comes down to the point where you have 500 vocab words to memorize, the only way (for me) to progress past that is immersion. Same with any competency speaking.

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I’ll be sure to bring my calligraphy brushes and inks with me on the bus

Not that I don’t agree, but something you can pull out while taking a shit or whatever has its own niche and helps keep your learning neurons firing.

I actually have an app I’ve used in the past that still works, Obenkyo. It does other stuff too, but I have mainly used it for Kanji practice.

There’s a writing practice mode where it asks you to draw specific kanji based on on-yomi and kun-yomi and it lets you know if you fucked up the stroke order. The detection isn’t perfect, but it’s pretty good for practice on the go. I recommend grabbing a cheap stylus from a dollar store so you don’t have to jab at the screen with your sweaty sausage fingers.

It lets you select lists of kanji based on JLPT levels but you can also load a .txt file with all the kanji you want to practice if you want something more tailored to the course you’re taking etc.

I don’t think there’s been an update to the app in like 5 years which is why I wondered if there are any newer alternatives. Then again, it doesn’t have microtransactions, ads, gamified Skinner box bullshit or social media integration so I guess that’s not a bad thing :shrug-outta-hecks:

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Brush pens are a thing. They are quite fun to use.

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Stroke order is pretty key

I kind of disagree with this. Modern hand writing recognition software is generally good enough not to care about stroke order and obviously real humans can make out what you’re writing as long as it looks accurate.

The only time I can really think of stroke order being relevant is looking things up in a paper dictionary and good God who even owns those anymore?

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