Back in March we announced that the Japanese side of the site now had audio prompts. However, due to a misunderstanding, we had to take them down shortly after the upload.
Now Japanese audio is back and it’s here to stay. We have recorded our own set of Japanese audio with a young woman here on Oberlin’s campus, Kaori Mitsushima. The new audio set incorporates a little more than 9,300 words that cover all the vocab in the JLPT and textbook lists on Skritter and around a thousand of the most frequently used Japanese words.
The recording went so well we’re thinking about potentially doing more to expand both Chinese and Japanese audio sets. We don’t have set plans yet, but it would be great to have the option to hear both languages pronounced by both a man and a woman (especially Japanese).
We are planning on opening up these sounds for others to use in non-commercial projects; we’ll write another blog post when that’s ready.