Kanshudo's learning community has been growing fantastically, and we're not far off a big milestone in terms of users. So we're thinking of ways to celebrate by helping one or more lucky learners on their path to Japanese mastery! Stay tuned over the next few months for details.

In the meantime, here's a quick roundup of what's new over the last couple of months.

First, we've added nine new Topic Lessons:

We've added another 9 new grammar points and POIs and updated 12 more. We've also made the Grammar library index much faster and easier to use.

Our partner, Joy o' Kanji, has published 12 new in-depth kanji essays:

Additionally, the founder and driving force between Joy o' Kanji, Eve Kushner, was recently interviewed on her personal kanji journey (which is more involved than most, as you can imagine). Check out the podcast episode Going Crazy for Kanji, with Eve Kushner ⇗.

Many of you already know we're steadily improving the audio on Kanshudo. Originally, we relied heavily on browser audio, and we still do for most of the system - with nearly 300,000 words and 160,000 example sentences, prerecorded audio is not practical. However, we are steadily implementing a hybrid solution - human audio for certain items, prerecorded high quality AI-generated audio for most, and browser audio for the rest. As part of this initiative, you'll see the ability to 'report' audio problems appear around the site - you can find an example on the details page for any example sentence. When audio for an item is reported, we'll create a prerecorded version for that specific item - that way we can prioritize improvement where it matters.

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We've added a new game, currently playable in the 和食 Topic Lesson: Sentence Sort! The goal is to drag sentences from a text into the correct order. This is very useful for helping you develop overall comprehension of a passage and its narrative flow.

If you enjoy testing yourself on our collections, you'll enjoy our new countries of the world collection, which includes the Japanese words for every country in the world!

We're steadily improving our grammar library - although it's only six weeks or so since our last update, we've added another 14 new grammar points and POIs and updated 59 more. We are working on a more structured 'path' through the library and some other improvements - stay tuned!

Additionally, our partner Joy o' Kanji has published 11 new in-depth kanji essays:

We've added several useful new features this month. First, in category searches (for example Word Search, Kanji Search and Grammar Search), you'll see a new flashcard button at the right of every search result, which will let you add a flashcard to the set of your choice immediately. Of course, you can still assign any flashcard set as your favorites bucket so that the favorites star enables you to add a card to that specific set immediately.

In the details page for a flashcard set, there's a new feature in the 'More actions' list which will let you create a study set with cards you have added to the set today - useful if you want to focus on learning material immediately after you've encountered it.

Finally on the flashcards front, you can now create flashcards for grammar points in the Beginner Lessons.

Happy Japanese studying!

If you've tried the Topic Lessons, you'll have seen several new games featured: Image Match, Kanshudo Cloze, and Audio Spell, as well as the new multiple choice quiz format. We're working on several more new games, and we are aiming to have all the games playable independently, with Boost, and with flashcard sets. Stay tuned!

If you have any feedback or suggestions on our games, we'd love to hear from you. Additionally, we're prioritizing new Topic Lessons according to requests, so if there's anything you'd like to see a Topic Lesson on, please let us know.

Since our last update we've added 14 new grammar points and POIs and updated 56 more.

Additionally, our partner Joy o' Kanji has published 11 new in-depth kanji essays:

Although it's largely 'behind the scenes', we are constantly working on our library of Japanese example sentences, which now contains 156,500 fully parsed, de-conjugated, and translated sentences. Our ultimate goal is to have at least one sentence for every word, conjugation, and even meaning in our dictionary. We're already well on the way - we have examples for the vast majority of the most useful words in Japanese. So far in 2022, we have added 1059 new example sentences, and updated an additional 6583!

We've recently added a new feature in the 'details' display of an example: when an example is linked to a grammar point, we include highlighting of the word(s) relevant to the grammar point. See here for an example (no pun intended!).

Finally, we've added a new Textbook Companion to accompany two of the books in the excellent Practical Kanji series: Practical Kanji 700 I and Practical Kanji 700 II, for intermediate learners. We highly recommend these textbooks, as the readings they include cover a range of topical and useful material in depth.

Happy Japanese studying!