[wahnfrieden]

This is why I built Manabi Reader (currently only for Japanese)

https://reader.manabi.io

It helps you discover reading material suited to your current knowledge. It’s better to acquire new words within colorful contexts, and then use flashcards to review them after learning the material. (It has its own flashcard companion app or you can use Anki.)

Soon I am working on making the activity of reading words in native texts also count as reviewing those words in current and future flashcards, using FSRS. So that you can spend more time reading and not see it as detracting from catching up on your flashcard review workload. And because the reader tracks every word and kanji you come across, it can start to find and suggest the most effective passages to revisit or read for the first time from your personal corpus it currently accumulates from what you load in.

But next I am working on adding manga and video to enhance the fun of it, as OP mentions being important too.

I’ve recently managed to go full-time on this project and hope to bring it to more languages and platforms before long.

[ranger_danger]

> only for Japanese

and only for Apple devices...

[Anonyneko]

For Android there's Jidoujisho https://github.com/arianneorpilla/jidoujisho.

It's essentially Ttsu reader + Yomitan (née Yomichan) + Ankidroid integration packed into one app. You have to find your own reading material though, but there's plenty of that go around. Jidoujisho has some OCR support for reading manga too, although I never found those tools to be working well enough in any app.

For websites on Android (e.g. news or Aozora Bunko) the same can be achieved with Firefox + Yomitan - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yomitan/ - as Yomitan has an Ankidroid integration of its own. Or any other browser with extension support, whether desktop or mobile, desktop versions integrate with desktop Anki.

In theory, Yomitan supports other languages as well, although making it work with Finnish took me quite some effort a year ago (maybe it's easier now).

[wahnfrieden]

Jidoujisho seems like a great asset for Android

[wahnfrieden]

Correct