![]() ![]() The editors have added the option to save new words and expressions into a study list for you to review later. It’s really an ingenious tool to see if you can spend a little bit more time reading in Japanese here and there.Īnother good way to track your progress is to review all those fancy new words you’ve just read. Satori Reader has just the right tool for you to check your time spent on the platform with their usage heatmap. If you’re like me, busy making them dollar dollar bills, the key to sticking to a new habit requires a way to track consistency. The creators behind Satori Reader are eager to help you get your Japanese to the next level and to get your feedback as well, so you also have the opportunity to send in a question or to start discussions from your account at any time.ĥ: You can keep track of your study progress The editors (a.k.a real humans who actually know what they are talking about) will answer you. If even with all the explanations you still find something hard to understand, you can leave a comment under the chapter you’ve just read. And help I need because even if I feel forever 25, my brain has clearly let me know it isn’t.Īnother nice touch is that when you review words in your study list (see feature five below) you can play the recording of the sentence in the series where you encountered that word. Recordings are at the slower end of the spectrum enabling you to hear the intonation and clear pronunciation of the text - great to help with memorization. Shadowing (= repeating like a parrot) will increase your chances of retaining the vocabulary. You’re also given the choice to download the audio as an MP3 if you prefer. Professional voice actors actually perform the parts in each of the stories so you can understand how the sentences would sound in real life.īefore each sentence, you can click on the play button to hear the text out loud. Satori Reader is about more than reading awesome audio content helps you with your listening and speaking abilities too, enabling you to engage with the stories in a different way. Brian Rak, Satori Reader Founder 3: Audio content enables shadowing to help your listening skills Literal-leaning translations avoid glossing over the Japanese sentence structure and help you to make sure you’ve understood the sentence correctly. It took me only a few chapters to tell that the editors of Satori Reader totally get this struggle and work hard to provide in-depth additional explanations along with definitions and translations.įear not if the translations look like broken English - that’s on purpose! You need to have some understanding of the cultural background and to see the world as native speakers do. Reading in a foreign language requires more than looking up definitions. In fact, it was a nice boost when I realized I actually knew more than I thought! 2: Fantastic in-depth definitions and explanationsĮver read something in Japanese that you didn’t understand, then looked up in the dictionary only to become more confused? I know I have. But even if the text display didn’t always exactly match my knowledge or lack thereof, I was able to get a real feel for my level and tweak things as I went along. Yeah… I haven’t been very thorough in tracking my progress. While setting up your preferences is definitely awesome, the minor setback is that I’m utterly lost when it comes to precisely knowing all the kanji I know. But you can also import the lists of kanji you know from third-party resources such as Kanshudo and Wanikani. When it comes to kanji, you are given several options to indicate your knowledge: grade level, frequency or books. The cool part is that you can do this from your account settings but also instantly while reading. One example is setting it to show the original text with furigana over only the words that contain kanji you don’t know. Detailed options mean that you can set your preferences for kanji, furigana, and spaces between the words. Satori Reader solves this issue by adjusting the text display to your knowledge level. But if you’re like me - stuck in stagnation - you get easily swamped by all the kanji you don’t yet know, making it difficult to do the very thing you need to do in order to improve. To improve your reading skills, you need to read (duh!). ![]() 1: Customizable display of kanji and furigana If you like to read during your commute, the app is definitely a good option and you don’t have to worry about your data usage as you’re given the choice to download content for use offline. Satori Reader was primarily designed to be used on a computer widescreen, but they also developed an app, available on both Android and iOS. I was offered the opportunity to try out Satori Reader for three whole months (woohoo!) After a few days of using it, I think I got a pretty good idea of what it was all about. ![]()
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