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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. 1 - Consider havin

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. 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. 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 Hope the site takes off, I would love to use and support it in the future.

nv-vn 10y ago
As someone with very little knowledge of the language, I definitely agree with your first point. It's hard for me to figure out if the product would be useful for me at my level since there's no "Easy" book available for free. I imagine that for an advanced learner it would be similar not knowing whether there's actually any new knowledge to be gained at their level.
- fuzzythinker 10y ago
  Actually, there is a book marked as "Easy" for free [1], it's 5 pages. [1] https://languageinmotion.jp/library/10 https://languageinmotion.jp/library/10
- njrc9 10y ago
  nv-vn, as fuzzythinker pointed out, an “Easy” marked book has been added to those you can read for free. Hope that helps!
njrc9 10y ago
Thank you so much for the feedback everyone! I posted this yesterday evening (in Japan) and so catching up now the next day. kevining: That is a very good point about having free access to a book of each difficulty level. You are absolutely right, since with only an intermediate level book available for free, subscribing is a gamble as to whether there are books suitable for you (definitely don’t want to put people in that position). I’ve updated the site now so that you can access 3 books (1 of each level) for free. > 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 This is definitely something I’m thinking about. I toyed with the idea of translating each page myself and making that available at the bottom of each page. But scrolling to the bottom of the page is a hassle so I’d want to figure out something more integrated. I also wasn’t sure how useful whole-sentence translations would be since I figured people using this would probably already have a good understanding of grammar. But perhaps these books are advanced enough to warrant whole-sentence translations regardless? Thoughts?

nv-vn 10y ago

As someone with very little knowledge of the language, I definitely agree with your first point. It's hard for me to figure out if the product would be useful for me at my level since there's no "Easy" book available for free. I imagine that for an advanced learner it would be similar not knowing whether there's actually any new knowledge to be gained at their level.

fuzzythinker 10y ago
Actually, there is a book marked as "Easy" for free [1], it's 5 pages. [1] https://languageinmotion.jp/library/10 https://languageinmotion.jp/library/10
njrc9 10y ago
nv-vn, as fuzzythinker pointed out, an “Easy” marked book has been added to those you can read for free. Hope that helps!

njrc9 10y ago

Thank you so much for the feedback everyone! I posted this yesterday evening (in Japan) and so catching up now the next day. kevining: That is a very good point about having free access to a book of each difficulty level. You are absolutely right, since with only an intermediate level book available for free, subscribing is a gamble as to whether there are books suitable for you (definitely don’t want to put people in that position). I’ve updated the site now so that you can access 3 books (1 of each level) for free. > 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 This is definitely something I’m thinking about. I toyed with the idea of translating each page myself and making that available at the bottom of each page. But scrolling to the bottom of the page is a hassle so I’d want to figure out something more integrated. I also wasn’t sure how useful whole-sentence translations would be since I figured people using this would probably already have a good understanding of grammar. But perhaps these books are advanced enough to warrant whole-sentence translations regardless? Thoughts?