Learn Japanese with AJATT
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How I learned Japanese with the AJATT method, and what I used in the process.

🌍 site https://ajatt.top/
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🫐 Updated AJT Media Converter

Images are now converted in parallel (several at once) to improve performance.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1151815987

If the add-on stops working or crashes, report the issue in our chat and temporarily install an older release.

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Recently Arch Linux removed fcitx4 from the official repos and moved the packages to the AUR, so installing or updating fcitx4 now requires building it from source. That's inconvenient, so I updated our guide to recommend fcitx5 instead.

New version: https://ajatt.top/blog/how-to-type-in-japanese.html

Want to edit the article? Send pull requests here.

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πŸŽ…πŸŽ… New Years present! πŸŽ…πŸŽ…

The last few days I worked hard preparing your New Years present. And now it's finally here.

Your present: https://subtitles.ajatt.top/

This new site is AJATT's catalog of Japanese subtitles for anime, dramas, TV shows, and movies. Previously we only had a GitHub repository at https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/kitsunekko-mirror/, but that required downloading the entire repo (several GiB), which is inconvenient. This site can be browsed online.

On each entry page, I left a wget command you can copy and use to download the folder.

Unlike some other subtitle catalogs, ours works without JavaScript. You can disable JavaScript and still use it. The site does include some JavaScript, but the code is free and trivial. We do not promote proprietary software. Our immersion learning toolset is completely free/libre.

I find it despicable that some language‑learning resources advertise nonfree software. It's like selling tobacco to kids at a school. AJATT does not support that. With our new subtitle catalog, you can find subtitle files without running nonfree software or relying on nonfree JavaScript.

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πŸ‚ Updated subtitles.ajatt.top

1) The modification time is displayed in the local timezone (JavaScript must be enabled in your browser settings).
2) A new option to display only TV shows or only movies on the index page.

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🦝 Updated Mpvacious

When you add a new note to Anki via GoldenDict, Rikaitan or any other tool that works with AnkiConnect, mpvacious will automatically detect and update the note without manual intervention.

More info: https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/mpvacious?tab=readme-ov-file#new-note-timer

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impd β€” new package for Ubuntu

I'm excited to share that impd now provides a .deb package for Debian-based distributions. We finally solved the engineering challenge to deliver a native installer for Debian, Ubuntu, and other Debian-based distros.

It took us several years because until recently, I didn't know how to do this. Our README even asked for help packaging impd, but no one stepped up. So I spent time researching it myself and made it happen.

Give the new deb package a try and let us know how it goes in the comments!

https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/impd/releases

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🦝 Updated Mpvacious

- fixed custom sub filter by @j1g5awi in #155
- ffmpeg: added AVIF encoder fallback to libsvtav1 by kkullar in #157
- Enhance the custom sub filter implementation by @Assassin_Assassin in #156
- Added installers for GNU, macOS, and Windows. See Installation for details.
- New subtitle selector. Open menu and press v to select subtitle lines.

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🦨 Updated Card Management

The new version shuffles cards before putting them in learning queue. This should fix the problem when the order of cards is not randomized enough. by user1823

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1021636467

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🫐 Updated AJT Media Converter

Added context menu options when you right-click items in the media deduplication dialog:

- Copy filename to clipboard
- Search filename in Anki Browser
- Search filename in File Manager

Media references that were previously ignored (for example, files added by Rikaitan) are now handled correctly.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1151815987

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Transformers OCR is deprecated

Since 2022 and until now, transformers_ocr has been the main manga OCR app for AJATT. It's time to move on. Last week we published a new project, zala. Zala is a screenshot utility I intend to use as a dependency in our new manga OCR app. zala will handle screenshots, while the main app will perform OCR and integrate with Goldendict.

We replaced transformers_ocr for two reasons:

1) transformers_ocr lacks a built-in screenshot utility, so it had to support many external tools (maim, grim, gnome-screenshot, spectacle, etc.), different desktop environments, Xorg and Wayland, and various window managers.
2) Its architecture expected one component to run in the background while another sent commands to it via a pipe. That approach is brittle and often breaks.

The successor is Lancet. Check it out: https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/lancet

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Meet Lancet β€” AJATT's new OCR app for reading manga.

Lancet is the spiritual successor to transformers_ocr. It's an OCR app that uses PyTorch models to recognize Japanese text in images and works best with Goldendict‑ng or Rikaitan.

Like transformers_ocr, Lancet is simple to use. After installing Lancet, launch Goldendict and open a manga folder in nsxiv. Start Lancet and wait for the OCR model to load. Press the OCR shortcut (default Alt+O) to open the snipping window, then drag and hold the mouse to run OCR.

Lancet adds an icon to the system tray. Right‑click the icon for actions, including Preferences, where you can change the OCR shortcut.

Visit GitHub for details: https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/lancet

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🎠 Lancet 26.3.11.0 released

* Fixed an error when creating a region screenshot and saving it to disk.
* Lancet now exits if another instance is already running to avoid spawning multiple processes.
* Use Python's thread pool instead of QThreadPool to avoid conflicts with PyTorch threads.

Some users reported Lancet doesn't work on Wayland. I don't use Wayland (I use i3wm), so I wasn't aware. This is a Qt limitation, but it can be worked around by using an external screenshot tool. I plan to fix it soon.

https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/lancet

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🐴 Lancet 26.3.16.0 released

Added basic Wayland support. Tested on Sway 1.11.

Wayland support is incomplete. It works best on Hyprland and Sway, but on other compositors it fails to determine the focused screen and defaults to the first screen, so you may face issues if you have multiple monitors. Please suggest improvements via pull requests on GitHub πŸ™

https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/lancet

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πŸ›© Lancet 26.3.23.0 released

Added:
- Pan support
- Rotate support
- Zoom support

These features help when text in manga needs to be transformed to be recognized properly.

https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/lancet

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Recently, our subtitle catalog at subtitles.ajatt.top started eating up money on Yandex Cloud. I'm not sure exactly why, but it's probably because the number of users increased.

I moved it to free GitHub Pages. Users shouldn't notice any difference. It should actually be better, since synchronization will take less time. Previously, we had to push the site files to the bucket during every update.

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πŸ¦† Updated subtitles.ajatt.top

You can now select subtitle files on each entry page using checkboxes and download them in bulk by clicking the "download selected" button.

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