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[headerl]Here's an important question: "Why is Jappleng
Free?"[/headerl]Jappleng is massive, it is unique and it has so
many incredible features but yet why is it free? Where are the ads
and is my information safe? I understand those sentiments, it
sounds too good to be true but it is. Jappleng is a one of a kind
website developed as a hobby by Mark Greig as a solution to what
was missing from the Japanese-centric world. If you search for
learning Japanese websites, many of them will be broken or not
recently updated, and overall lacking in information. There are too
few websites that actually good at learning Japanese and that’s a
problem. Finding information about the Japanese culture is also
tedious and all over the place, in fact there is a lot of
misinformation scattered around the internet and something had to
be done. Learning a language by oneself isn’t fun and it’s easy to
lose motivation and so community features had to be implemented,
but not just any community features but state-of-the-art features
that would interest onlookers and benefit members. Essentially the
goal for Jappleng was to fill in a void, a very big one and to do
that it needed to be free. It had to defy the very reason why
anything exists by being selfless. With this much effort put forth
into a project, it would have normally cost hundreds of thousands
to millions to develop, but this project was done for free over the
course of tens of thousands of work hours. There are no ads, there
are no selling of personal information, it is all for YOU, the
community. Japan needs our help to become relevant again, and what
better way than to spark global interest than with Jappleng? As our
community grows, so will the interest for Japan and perhaps one day
many will find themselves in Japan capable of understanding
Japanese thanks to what was learned here.