Knowing 1,000 Japanese words unlocks your ability to consume Japanese content
This is the way to start to understand anime, manga, movies, and music to make language learning fun.
The key
“Studies on language frequency suggest that knowing 1,000 of the most common words in a language can help you recognize 50–70% of words in typical conversations.”
Why you are stuck in a ‘beginner loop’ (add image pointing to this and defining what a beginner loop is)
Studying is not fun
You don’t know enough vocabulary to get to the fun part of language learning: Watching anime, movies, making friends, and playing games! This is why you started learning in the first place and it feels so far away.
Most flashcard apps suck
I’ve tried them all. Most are way too complicated to set up (hello Anki) or focus on the wrong words that you don’t want to learn.
You can’t learn what YOU want
When you come across a word in an anime or game you want to remember, it can be hard or even impossible to add that to your flashcard app. So it just gets forgotten and your stuck learning ‘o genki desu ka?’ for the 100th time.
Wrong focus
Apps with gamification are great, but if you don’t focus on an effective way to learn the language then it doesn’t matter how much you play with the ‘bird app’, you won’t make progress. This is disheartening.
What you need to succeed
An easy to use app
When you can make studying easy to do, then you will do it more often. When you do it more often it becomes a self sustaining habit.
The best word list
Start with the most common words of course, but also the words that YOU choose to study. It’s your customized word list.
Gamified motivation
There are days we don’t want to study, and having that bit of ‘extra’ motivation in the form of fun gamification can help (designed by a real gamer, not a corporation!)
WordSen will break you out of the ‘beginner loop’ and on to the fun part of consuming native content
There’s no way around it, in order to start understanding Japanese content without subtitles you need to know a certain amount of words (at least 1,000!). Flashcard apps and spaced learning methods are one of the most effective ways to do that. But as you’ve probably found out, most flashcard apps suck.
I built WordSen to solve my own problem. I wanted an app that could let me study the most common words in Japanese, let me easily add words I came across in native content, and had some sort of game elements that was fun enough to motivate me to study even if I didn’t really want to that day.
Why WordSen is what you’ve been looking for
The best way to learn new words
World class Spaced repetition system. Most common words, audio with it, example sentences. Words build on each other.
Add words to study easily
(add image of this). Add words you come across in video games, anime, or any content. Automatically generate audio and example sentences.
No more struggling to add cards to your anki system.
Kitsune for motivation
There’s no way around it, in order to start understanding Japanese content without subtitles you need to know a certain amount of words (at least 1,000!). Flashcard apps and spaced learning methods are one of the most effective ways to do that. But as you’ve probably found out, most flashcard apps suck.
I built WordSen to solve my own problem. I wanted an app that could let me study the most common words in Japanese, let me easily add words I came across in native content, and had some sort of game elements that was fun enough to motivate me to study even if I didn’t really want to that day.
Why WordSen is what you’ve been looking for
Best word list
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