Nihongo - Japanese Dictionary Reviews – Page 4
5/5 rating based on 52 reviews. Read all reviews for Nihongo - Japanese Dictionary for iPhone.
Nihongo - Japanese Dictionary is free iOS app published by Serpenti Sei LLC
Excellent
expatintokyo
This app is excellent. The Clippings feature is perfect for translation and reading longer texts. I had been using the "Japanese" app but switched as it hasn't been updated in years. Great choice. This works beautifully.
Has Potential, but Ultimately Disappoints
PortalPuzzle
I've been trying to learn Japanese as a hobby. I currently don't have enough money to buy a Rosetta Stone lesson, so I decided to learn via English-to-Japanese apps. After looking through several, I chose this one because I saw the flash cards and figured that would be a good way to challenge myself. Well, I was wrong. Not only are there words and supporting particles left out or described in a confusing manner, the flash cards are about as challenging as blinking. They don't help you memorize anything because they don't provide any challenge! All of the answers are correct, there is no point to even having them there. The crowning jewel of bad app design and the last straw for me was how it has been continually crashing and crashing, to the point of being practically unusable. I tried opening the app five times, and the app immediately crashed each time. Fix your app, keep your dictionaries and definitions updated, make a flash card game that actually requires cognitive function, and I will think about paying for the subscription. As of now, I'm deleting it.
Easy to use and actively maintained
aaron0meyers1
Nice uncluttered interface and great features like common/uncommon markings on words and auto vocab lists from pasted text. Looking forward to further updates!
Great tool for learning Japanese
QaXQaZ
Love the interface. Clean and easy to use. I'd like it more if we could create our own kanji deck or add certain kanji that we're reviewing into specific decks apart from it being automatically generated. Looking forward to more updates!
Most obvious need to fix
Peyu39
Most obvious need to fix: Default sorting method should be by frequency/usefulness (currently attributed by circle, diamond, star). Otherwise there's no point in anyone scrolling down that huge results list. Nitpick: Also noticed some matches are shown in light gray, and it's not clear at all what this identifies. Furigana is also occasionally truncated for readings with over 2 characters. Praise: Great direction with this. Especially showing relevant words in kanji entries, the clippings feature, and usefully using people's search history. Keep it up!
Excellent app
Gfwtesq
Very easy to use, very comprehensive. It sure beats looking up in Kanji in Nelson's dictionary....
Nice App
Navyblue16
Everything is fine, but when I type something like "no", the message that takes you to the meaning of the hiragana "no" doesn't work ( It worked before)