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Live app: https://kanjido.vercel.app
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- What it does:
A gamified kanji learning app. Pick a kanji, pick a word, guess the meaning or reading under a 30-second timer, earn stars. Content mapped to JLPT levels (N5-N1). Vietnamese-first UI, English supported.
Last year someone close to me said: "I wish someone would just turn Kanji learning into a game." She had failed N2 multiple times. We lost touch after that - completely cut contact. But I remembered what she said.
Months later I had a free weekend. So I built it. Not for her specifically - she may never know it exists. But for myself (someone who loves Japanese culture but finds kanji overwhelming) and for anyone stuck in that same wall.
It's a late promise kept. Whether she sees it or not doesn't matter. It exists because she asked.
Existing tools fail at Kanji specifically:
- Duolingo teaches sentences, not kanji structure. Kanji is an afterthought.
- Anki is pure memorization. Effective but soul-crushing - nobody opens Anki because they want to.
- Traditional methods = write 50 times, repeat. Works for disciplined people. I'm not one of them.
My question: how do I make someone who hates rote memorization (me) open this app every day?