JL
JL is a program for looking up Japanese words and expressions. (by rampaa)
yomichan
Japanese pop-up dictionary extension for Chrome and Firefox. (by FooSoft)
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| JL | yomichan | |
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| 11 | 63 | |
| 164 | 842 | |
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| 9.8 | 7.6 | |
| 2 days ago | about 1 year ago | |
| C# | JavaScript | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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JL
Posts with mentions or reviews of JL.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
- chiitranslate not working pls help
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JP Lazy Immersion Tool Setup Guide: all-in-one modern easy-to-install resources for PC & Android (Anime, Manga, LN, VN)
I think rather than clipboard inserter for VNs, this is wayyy more convenient https://github.com/rampaa/JL having to go back and forth between your VN window and your browser window with clipboard stuff is annoying and fairly inefficient, you lose a lot of time and it just feels unnatural. Meanwhile if you set up this you can read directly from it in the same place that you'd normally read with a VN, it supports anki integration too. Though fair warning, I haven't actually tried this exact program, I use chiitranslite which it's based off of, but CTL gives virus warnings and stuff when you go to download and you have to change some settings and it doesn't have anki integration, so harder to recommend.
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Easy visual novels to practice japanese
I respectfully disagree with the latter half of your comment. OP could try something parser-less first like JL first, but switch to a parser if they find it too stressful.
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What Japanese learning tools do you use on a regular basis?
Decent list. Some additions: exSTATIC, mokuro, migaku, TheMoeWay discord, compressed audio, and the coolest of all, JL
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An Updated Way To Learn Japanese Through VNs?
Textractor, Translation Aggregator (for JParser + Mecab) and JL
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[GUIDE] How to use texthookers and JL/Yomichan to read visual novels in Japanese
JL setup is easier. All you need is the program and textractor Download it from here. Make sure textractor is open and properly setup and the copy to clipboard extension for textractor installed. Refer to the github for any problems
- Fureraba or Sanoba Witch first for palate cleansing + learning Japanese?
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Learn Japanese with VNs – my project
The recently released JL seem to have all of those features, so even that is already covered.
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Agent - Universal script based text hooker
> why make another hook text translation if there is textractor? I didn't know about Textractor (VNR too) when creating Agent, (I created it while learning about JavaScript engine (V8), emulators,...) Its not Textractor replacer. Agent do the things another text hookers can't, I/g: Emulated games, JavaScript games, MAGES games,... (By design, textractor can't...). > Why not integrate Agent into ...? Textractor, VNR,... is HCode based (same engine). Agent is script based. Agent use a different engine (JavaScript). Normal users can't see the different, but its easy to maintenance, sharing, support new games, complex games,... > the small box. Agent takes the text from the game and only that. You can combine Agent with textractor (clipboard), yomichan, JL (github.com/rampaa/JL), Sugoi,...
- JL, new mouse-over dictionary tool for japanese, with epwing support and custom dictionaries
yomichan
Posts with mentions or reviews of yomichan.
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Why can't I find a technical description of the Yomichan dictionary format?
You read the schemas, usually it's enough for devs a waste of time asking r/LearnJapanese
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Yomichan Dictionaries for Cantonese
I made a Yomichan dictionary from CantoDict, and there are other dictionaries linked made by other people I wanted to share.
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What is your workflow for adding new words to Anki deck for language learning?
I wish I would of known about Yomichan years ago, I can see a lot of work went into the project. Yes, for most web pages a Chrome extension should be able to get the sentence that the word came from. The relevant code for Yomichan might be from this page https://github.com/FooSoft/yomichan/blob/master/ext/js/app/frontend.js
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Reading Manga with Hiragana
You can use mokuro on any manga you have in digital form to turn the text into selectable text and read it in a PDF reader of your choice. You can then combine this with the Yomichan browser extension and dictionaries of your choice to allow you to instantly look up any unknown word you encounter when reading manga, with a single button press.
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Application or program that works well offline
Download kiwi browser, after that go to extensions, and download yomichan. Download the dictionaries (they can be use offline). Finally, go to the site https://ttu-ebook.web.app (It can also be use offline), you can read any kind of epub file that you may have within your device. After setting up everything, you can read japanese with the fastest looks ups without using internet.
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Where can I find light novels and manga in Japanese?
Capture2Text (I usually use this with games, manga, etc. in tandem with Yomichan's search page)
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Chrome/firefox extension like yomichan or rikaikun for Spanish?
What I am looking for is something like this: https://foosoft.net/projects/yomichan/
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Help auto-creating Anki cards from word list
You are not the first to miss this functionality: https://github.com/FooSoft/yomichan/issues/1987
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Are there any sites out there that give the reference number for kanji? I use the Kodansha Kanji Learner's course and it would save me a ton of time instead of having to look for it via stroke count.
Consider trying Yomichan. In the popup dictionary, click on the Kanji. If you scroll down, there are a bunch of reference numbers for different Kanji books and dictionaries (including Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide and Kodansha Kanji Dictionary).
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How do I look up a new Kanji in the most effective way?
Links, if you are interested: https://github.com/kha-white/manga-ocr https://foosoft.net/projects/yomichan/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing JL and yomichan you can also consider the following projects:
DawgSharp - DAWG String Dictionary in C#
Game2Text - Complete toolbox for gamifying language learning
awesome-anki - A curated list of awesome Anki add-ons, decks and resources
mpvacious - 🍜 Adds mpv keybindings to create Anki cards from movies and TV shows.
qolibri - Continuation of the qolibri EPWING dictionary/book reader
Textractor - Extracts text from video games and visual novels. Highly extensible.
Translation-Aggregator - Translation Aggregator is a program that machine translates texts through multiple sources and presents them in one convenient window.
tachiyomi - Free and open source manga reader for Android.
ichiran - Linguistic tools for texts in Japanese language
clipboard-inserter
scripts - A collection of scripts for Agent. Feel free to submit a pull request to add your script.
rikaikun - rikaikun is a Chrome extension that helps you to read Japanese web pages by showing the reading and English definition of Japanese words when you hover over them.