#kamesame

[omoshiroinihongo]

Is kamesame totally free? I know kaniwani only has levels 1 to 3 (?) for free but anything more needs a subscription.

It's free and runs its infrastructure through donations. I have seen comments from the site owner that if they do ever add a paid model, it's more of adding quality-of-life features for paid users.

This is from the first post on this page:

Hello, Internet! KameSame is a free Japanese learning tool that is designed to offer a fast, streamlined user interface and a robust feature set that provide users with a variety of ways to learn Japanese. Because it features a complete dictionary, it can be your primary Japanese learning tool for years to come.

Highlights

Four ways to do lessons for over 10,000 kanji and over 180,000 vocabulary:

From a list (e.g. N5 vocabulary, Top 10,000 Words, or Level 11-20 WaniKani Kanji)

From your WaniKani progress [Requires WaniKani API Key]

From free-from Japanese language content (i.e. pasting in lyrics, transcripts, articles)

From searching for any item and starting a one-off lesson

Study both production (typing in Japanese) and recognition (providing English definitions) skills

Audio recordings for every reading of every word (around 300,000 recordings)

Keyboard navigation and shortcuts for nearly every user interface action (see them with / key)

A mobile-optimized Progressive Web App experience

Customizable Japanese spellings and English definitions for every word

An experience point (XP) system as you do reviews spanning 100 levels

Resource links for every word to other dictionaries, image searches, example sentences, and news articles

An “alternate match” system so that you aren’t marked wrong when you provide a Japanese word that also means what the system was expecting

One-click study actions like undo, mark-as-failed, learn/burn (and unlearn/unburn), skip, and block items

Every page is safe to reload the page and navigate back & forward in the browser history

[sadgravynogomi]

this is the reason I have trust issues  一体！(｀ヘ´)

[omoshiroinihongo]

SRS Through KameSame

My language learning journey is mainly through immersion. And the things that impede my immersion? It's noting down information about a new vocabulary to create Anki cards for later. I'll end up with this long list of new vocab and realize the humongous task that entails. I lose all motivation. Because then, I'd prefer to put my energy into reading another book! It's a vicious cycle of vaguely knowing a word (or making assumptions based on the kanji composition) but having to double-check the dictionary.

That's where I found KameSame to be a powerful SRS app because it lets me do more immersion with the least amount of effort to create flashcards.

More information under the cut if you are interested.

KameSame is a "fast, feature-rich Japanese memorization web　app." You can learn about its full features here, but what I want to talk about specifically in this post is the "fast" part of the app's tagline and how it aids my immersion. I'll be diving right into it.

(This also applies to search if you just want a single word.)

Under the lessons tab, on the bottom section is "Study words found in content." Note that this can only recognize dictionary forms.

Once you click "Scan for vocabulary," you'll get to this page:

Clicking on "Study" will add two items for each vocabulary into your inbox. One for production (typing the word in Japanese):

And the other one for recognition (typing the word in English):

Notice that they use kana if it's more commonly written in kana. And most alternative spellings and meanings are listed on the bottom as well. That's a plus in my book!

If you're not familiar with the kanji of one of the vocabulary words, click on a word specifically to take you to its page. At the bottom, you'll see (I clicked snail):

Click on the kanji you want to learn to take you to its page:

Click "Learn this kanji" once you've read up on the readings to review it:

Same as vocabulary, it will add two items in your inbox, one for production and the other for recognition.

I usually have it open when I'm reading/listening/watching anything Japanese, pop the word in and immediately answer to put it in my review queue. I hope this app helps you as much as it's helping me! I've been using it for a few months now and can now spend more time on immersion.

ごめんなさい、かたつむりさん。