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<blockquote data-quote="Hacker News" data-source="post: 76209" data-attributes="member: 365">Hey HN, it’s been 8 years since I posted on here about the launch of my Japanese dictionary app Nihongo [0] and I’m finally back with a new app: Nihongo Lessons!Think of Nihongo Lessons as the textbook to Nihongo’s dictionary. It’s an app for learning Japanese, specifically made for learners who are serious about becoming fluent, and want a guided set of content that will help them efficiently acquire vocabulary and grammar.The project came about when Adam Shapiro of Japanese Level Up (Jalup) [1] announced last April that he was shutting Jalup down. As a fan of Adam’s work I was bummed to hear the news, but realized I actually might be one of the few people in the world in a position to keep his work alive. So I reached out, and we came up with a deal where I would sell Jalup content in my apps.Originally it was envisioned as an add-on to Nihongo, but after starting to build this out it became clear that from a UX perspective it felt too bloated and tacked-on to just shove Jalup into Nihongo. Plus, given that Jalup is built around one-time content purchases, and Nihongo is a subscription, the purchases involved would feel convoluted, and people might be upset that they weren’t included in the Nihongo subscription.So, I started building a separate app that would become Nihongo Lessons. From a technical perspective, Nihongo Lessons is actually just a different entry point into essentially the same app bundle as Nihongo. This gives me a lot of the infrastructure (sync, error reporting, screenshot generation, etc.) of Nihongo for free, and makes it easy to share UI, which I do a fair amount of (flashcards, tutorials, settings). Everything that actually changes behavior between the apps is stored in a single file as an “app variant” configuration, so if I decide to create another companion app in the future, it should be even easier.It’s iPhone-only for now, but iPad will be coming soon. No plans for an Android release at the moment.Download: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/id1640204242" target="_blank">https://apps.apple.com/app/id1640204242</a>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10094326" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10094326</a>[1]: <a href="https://japaneselevelup.com" target="_blank">https://japaneselevelup.com</a><hr />Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33822950" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33822950</a>Points: 8# Comments: 3<a href="https://lessons.nihongo-app.com" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hacker News, post: 76209, member: 365"] Hey HN, it’s been 8 years since I posted on here about the launch of my Japanese dictionary app Nihongo [0] and I’m finally back with a new app: Nihongo Lessons! Think of Nihongo Lessons as the textbook to Nihongo’s dictionary. It’s an app for learning Japanese, specifically made for learners who are serious about becoming fluent, and want a guided set of content that will help them efficiently acquire vocabulary and grammar. The project came about when Adam Shapiro of Japanese Level Up (Jalup) [1] announced last April that he was shutting Jalup down. As a fan of Adam’s work I was bummed to hear the news, but realized I actually might be one of the few people in the world in a position to keep his work alive. So I reached out, and we came up with a deal where I would sell Jalup content in my apps. Originally it was envisioned as an add-on to Nihongo, but after starting to build this out it became clear that from a UX perspective it felt too bloated and tacked-on to just shove Jalup into Nihongo. Plus, given that Jalup is built around one-time content purchases, and Nihongo is a subscription, the purchases involved would feel convoluted, and people might be upset that they weren’t included in the Nihongo subscription. So, I started building a separate app that would become Nihongo Lessons. From a technical perspective, Nihongo Lessons is actually just a different entry point into essentially the same app bundle as Nihongo. This gives me a lot of the infrastructure (sync, error reporting, screenshot generation, etc.) of Nihongo for free, and makes it easy to share UI, which I do a fair amount of (flashcards, tutorials, settings). Everything that actually changes behavior between the apps is stored in a single file as an “app variant” configuration, so if I decide to create another companion app in the future, it should be even easier. It’s iPhone-only for now, but iPad will be coming soon. No plans for an Android release at the moment. Download: [URL]https://apps.apple.com/app/id1640204242[/URL] [0]: [URL]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10094326[/URL] [1]: [URL]https://japaneselevelup.com[/URL] [HR][/HR] Comments URL: [URL]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33822950[/URL] Points: 8 # Comments: 3 [url="https://lessons.nihongo-app.com"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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