Love the idea behind the site! As an intermediate level Japanese speaker I think I could benefit a lot from it, but I had a few suggestions.<p>1 - Consider having one story from each difficulty available for free. The free intermediate article is a bit daunting for my current kanji level. I would be interested in signing up just for the beginner articles, but probably not without a preview.<p>2 - If time permits, consider having a button which can display a translation of the entire sentence. Satori reader has something similar and it's very useful when there's unknown grammar<p>Hope the site takes off, I would love to use and support it in the future.
I haven't been able to dig terribly deep into this, but I find this fascinating. I've been learning Mandarin and Japanese on and off over the years, and this is always the sort of thing that I wished I had.<p>The other was word for word translations of popular TV shows <i>along with cultural notes</i>. I remember watching a show called My Own Swordsman (武林外传) pretty regularly while living in Shanghai, and while I could follow the gist of some conversations, so much of what made it funny were cultural puns that I just couldn't grep.<p>Still enjoyed watching it though.
This is nifty. For absolute beginners, do you[1] recommend any resources?<p>Though, the pricing confuses me a bit. It mentions ¥1,000/month for all content, is that a comma in the American sense (¥1000), or a decimal (¥1)? Apparently in USD, that is ~$150 vs $0.15.. one is insanely expensive _(in my opinion)_, the other is insanely cheap. Pardon my ignorance :)<p>[1]: You, being the author.. or anyone i suppose.
Very cool project. I've been thinking about doing something like this for years.<p>However, I must ask, is there an option to display the definitions in simple Japanese/use the app entirely in Japanese?<p>Seems to me if you're reading short stories, you probably shouldn't be translating words to English.<p>Also, do you explain the nuances of the kanji themselves? There is a lot of connotation(?) not provided by the definition.
Besides reading, being able to speak and pronounce the text would be extremely helpful in learning a language. If I'm paying $10/mo, I would expect that ability to be added.