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title: kyoubenkyou（今日勉強）
date: 2022-01-01
summary: A set of Japanese language learning utilities, started in 2022 to replace my Anki kanji deck with a tool tailored to how I like to study, and rewritten on Phoenix (Elixir) in 2024.
published: true
image: kyoubenkyou-home.webp
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https://www.kyoubenkyou.com/

I started working on kyoubenkyou originally in 2022 because I wanted to replace my Anki kanji deck with my own tool tailored to how I like to study. In 2024, I revisited the app and rewrote it on Phoenix (Elixir).

The name is 今日勉強, where 今日 (kyou) means "today", and 勉強 (benkyou) means "study". I really liked that it's a kind of syllabic palindrome.

To start, I figured that I could write some smaller tools that would be useful for studying Japanese in general, and keep adding new tools until I have a compelling suite of study tools.

![A screenshot of the homepage](kyoubenkyou-home.webp "The hiragana and katakana quizzer")

The site speaks best for itself! You can take a look at [kyoubenkyou.com](https://www.kyoubenkyou.com).