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Well the iPad is a tablet, do you mean an Android tablet over an iPad tablet? All in all I think the answer would be no, and the real question willbe how large of a screen do YOU prefer. I use my Nexus 7 a lot with, well, pretty much everything including Textfugu. The site is made well for virtually any device as I’ve also viewed it on my phone.
It all likely comes down to what size you’ll like more and it’s hard to answer that. I have huge hands yet I prefer my 7″ tablet over a 10″ becuase it’s just that much easier to have with me everywhere I go. But I know others who prefer the 10″, I also notice they don’t carry it around everywhere either though. If you’re big like me you can fit the 7″ tablet even in your pants pocket.
I hate fanboyism, I have nothing major against Apple either even though I’d likely never own one at this point. It should come down to which eco system and size you prefer. You can easily read up on reviews most of this, but the size should come from actually holding one in your hands for a bit, more easily done if you have a friend that owns one of these devices.
When it comes down to it, a tablet is essential in my opinion! There are many applications that have recognition software so you can draw out the Kanji, or kana and it will tell you if you have the stroke order wrong, or just outright wrong character. I also use Anki which syncs with anki web so I can use the flash cards from textfugu on my PC at home or work, plus on my tablet.
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Zenarik.
I would have assumed that textfugu would get you to about N4 level based on what I’ve seen so far. But you would still want to use some sort of study guide to make sure you don’t have any gaps.
I initially used Obenkyo on Android to learn hiragana, it’s free and does a great job. Playing it like a game trying to beat your last score makes it more interesting. I would start with 5 or so at a time then add more as my scores improved past about 85%. Once I was able to get consistently high scores as multiple choice, I would transition to drawing them out using the built in hand writing recognition, it added a new level of difficulty. Naturally, switching to drawing was insane at first so pick out 5 easy ones and start including more as you get to know them. I did this when I was waiting, doing laundry, laying in bed, or sitting on the toilet. It really became the game I played a lot as it’s challenging and unlike other games it gives you something tangible as a reward.
Currently I use JA Sensei instead of Obenkyo which I’ve come to like more but for what it does Obenkyo is great, and free. Of course I think this works better with a tablet but I started on my phone and eventually bought a fairly cheap tablet specifically for progressing my Japanese.
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Finally finished season 2! Even though none of it was really brand new, the knowledge I had was only seedlings that refused to grow. Hard to believe it’s only been 2 weeks since I started, but having a couple years worth of vocab and syllabary knowledge already under my belt the main issue is grammar as it’s been hellishly hard to get it into my skull. I feel I procrastinated way too much despite how excited I’ve been and hoping I won’t do it as much for the next season. But as Koichi mentioned at one point I believe and not exactly quoting him, it’s sometimes really good to let the knowledge simmer in your head for a bit before continuing. Forgot about the 50% off of the lifetime thing, doublechecked and it’s still going on so I managed to snag that just now as well.
I didn’t feel too impressed after getting to the end of Season 2 and seeing a “Coming Soon” page for the practice sessions though but I think it had a good deal of practice already. Hopefully the overhaul comes sooner rather than later. Tomorrow I start Season 3!
You can only benefit by starting sooner. My thinking when it does eventually go live is to breeze through it from beginning until it gets more difficult. I do this for certifications I generally already know and usually find bits here and there that I didn’t realize before or missed somehow. Plus it takes no time to skim through things, and you can think of it as a refresher for material you might not be as familiar with and to engrain other knowledge you might know with new ways of looking at it.
You could say I’ve been learning Japanese all “wrong” for years, but despite that I have come to know a lot of tedious things that makes getting into new methods of learning much easier such as being able to
readpronounce and write in Hiragana and Katakana, and even various Kanji even though I don’t quite understand what it is I am reading.An app for Android I cannot live without is JA Sensei, I think it was like $4 but I don’t remember. But it also has a decent website at http://www.japan-activator.com/ as well that I think it rather useful for the small sum I paid for the app but I believe the website is mostly free with some features that you need to pay more for.
The app is what I love as I don’t generally use the site anymore. I bought a Nexus 7 tablet just for learning how to properly draw Kanji and this helped tremendously, and it’s essentially turned learning into a kind of game to me. There are other free apps such as Obenkyo but it didn’t keep as much track of what I’ve done plus the JA Sensei app has additional features such as a large list of vocabulary to go along with a very customizable listing of Kanji and Kana. My favorite ability is learning vocabulary which allows you to add the Kanji from the vocab to your Kanji lists for practice, and the Kanji listings show various vocabulary you can learn. It’s definitely not perfect in how it does this but after getting used to it, I can’t put it down. It’s become my all in one app for Japanese currently.
Obenkyo also deserves notable credit for a clean and simple interface(too many apps have childish designs) and good writing recognition, it has other features but it’s been a while since I’ve used it, plus it’s free.
As I recall the rendering and loading on the Silk browser is done on an Amazon server and sent to your device and I can imagine this is causing the problem. There may be a setting in the Silk browser to render on the device.
I just looked it up quickly, it does seem to do this to speed up page loading(and maybe for marketing purposes?), this is an older article but I’d imagine the process is similar if it has been changed. Basically, turn off page loading acceleration.
I wonder if that will help, worth a shot at least.
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