Needs romanji for sentences and a little polishing, but still solid. – Japanese LS Touch Review

Doofus, this does have verbs. I've been playing this application for a couple of hours and it definitely does test both verbs and compound (multiple character) words. Having bought Kanji LS previously and liked it for its direct input of Kanji characters (as Jan Bogner's Japanese Apps are the only full featured Apps I know that provide this), I bought Japanese LS just for its inclusion of example sentences tests. It also includes the advantage of testing multiple character words, wheras Kanji LS tests only single Kanji elements of words. Japanese LS succeeds greatly at this second point. Unfortunately for the testing of example sentences, you can't easily extract the full meaning of the sentences tested because the phonetic reading is not given for all elements in the sentences (which would aid in looking up unknown words). Other problems for this key testing mode include that the English meaning of sentences disappears after you enter your answer and the number of characters for each answer is not listed clearly (such as would be in the game of hangman, wheras there would be a blank for each syllable. Example: 'kanarazu' would be 'ka na ra zu,' there are four blanks to fill in). On the positive side, the testing of multiple Kanji and compound words in Japanese LS is a big improvement over the single Kanji input limitation of Kanji LS. It would also help if the learning sets were divided into more reasonably sized sets, such as 10 to 30 words at a time, instead of the formidably sized JLPT sets (The smallest of which is JLPT 3 - 664 words). If this application is polished a bit more, especially given the advantages of its direct input, which no other Japanese learning App does, it could easily become one of the greatest written Japanese learning Apps out there. For spoken Japanese, Japanese Sensei definitely wins out for now, but still, Japanese LS is uniquely instructive for its direct input testing and will definitely be worth its pricetag if these couple of small hiccups are remedied. A strong Application nonetheless.
Review by Japaneseisatatsytreat on Japanese LS Touch.

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