Welcome to JLDrill
JLDrill is a program for helping people drill various aspects of the Japanese language. Current features include a kana drill, a vocabulary drill and a dictionary cross reference tool.
The goal of JLDrill is to become a super drill tool for the Japanese language. It will do drills and only drills. But it will do every kind of drill imaginable. If you have ideas, please get in touch with me.
WARNING: This is alpha software. That means that I think it is good enough for someone to use and get a benefit out of it. But it is far from finished. Please report any bugs you find. Also feel free to request features that you would like.
NOTE: JLDrill will be undergoing some significant changes in the near future (see news). Check back later to see what’s up.
News
Friday, Nov 2 2007.
- お久しぶりね. What happened here? No updates for 2 years. Well, as it turns out, I wasn’t happy with the scheduling algorithm. At the time I was just starting to learn about spaced repetition and I didn’t know how to implement it. In the end I started using Mnemosyne for my daily review. It took me 2 years to figure out what I wanted to do. Now I’m ready to make some significant changes.
Tuesday, Jan 29 2006.
- New CVS update. This is a performance improvement for reading the edict dictionary. It should load 2-3x faster now. Version 0.2.0 is a little late (been studying Japanese too much ;-) ). Expect it in the next week or two.
Monday, Dec 19 2005.
- Updated the usage instructions for Windows to better reflect how to start the application. If you were having troubles before, see the Usage page.
Saturday, Dec 17 2005.
- Version 0.1.0 is released! This is the first public release of JLDrill.
Friday, Dec 16 2005.
- Lots of updates. All functionality required for the first alpha release is completed. Just need to finish the documentation. Hopefully it will all be done tonight.
Monday, Dec 5 2005.
- New look web page thanks to Webgen Yes, it’s still ugly (that’s not Webgen’s fault…). I thought I’d get cute with the colours, and well… graphic designer I am not.
- New icon for JLDrill (look to the left of the title) Umm… see the point above about me not being a graphic designer? If you want to help and you don’t know how to program, here’s your chance! I’ve done the basics, please make it not ugly.
