You may be asking yourself, who or what is Jappleng and what is its
purpose? What is this wiki, clubs and so on..? This is the place to
start!
We want to provide an amazing website to those interested in the
Japanese language, lifestyle, and culture. The closer to Japan you
can get from your screen, the better! (And perhaps you will find
yourself in Japan one day!)
Good question! While there are a few sections available right
now, many more will become available soon (As they were during our
beta release).
Learn Japanese / Education
Learn Japanese or about the Japanese culture through many
of our available courses. All courses at the moment are free to
use. In the future, we hope to entice teachers around the world to
use our learning management system to accelerate people's
education.
Club Jappleng
Create and join clubs around the world with Club Jappleng. It
doesn't have to be strictly school club activities or study
groups, but anything you would like such as fan clubs.There are no
limit to how many clubs you can create or join. Have fun!
Practice & Games
Ever wanted to learn Japanese with games? This is the section for
you. Our game library may be small at first but we are developing
many new games to make learning a lot more interesting. Kana-Pop,
Flashcards, KuNo! to name a few of our most popular and exciting
apps!
J-Spot Social and Other Community Feature
Don't like
Facebook or Twitter so much but want a nice friendly community to
socialize with? Jappleng is the way to go with J-community features
in mind. There's many things to do and many more to come in the
future.
We also have our own chat application called IMChat as part of the
website (Click J-Community then Chat).
Jappleng originally released in January 2006 as a blog. It has
gone through various transitions and became the world's most
popular J-Community forums in 2007. In 2008 Jappleng had shutdown
due to the owner unable to find time to work on it much, and it
returned in 2012 as a more advanced services.
In 2014 development of a new Jappleng was pushed with significantly
better features and by June 2017 Jappleng was ready to be used.
However it did not support mobile and super resolution devices and
as a result needed improvements again. There was no time ton
implement these features until January 2018.
Late February 2018, Jappleng released as you see today. While most
features cannot be used or seen, nor are most section available; in
the eventual time should the website become more popular, these
sections and features will return.
"It was a wild ride, a concept that came about in 2005 at a time
when I had virtually no knowledge of web development, finally
became a reality in 2018. But then there were some complications
with mobile devices and 4K displays, the interface was very
confusig and the project had to be rebooted. On February 21, 2020
the website launched in the state of "Pre-release". It took many
revisions, but if people use it and can benefit from it, then it
was well worth it."
November 17, 2020: The project has been in Hiatus between March
- October 2020. Many changes have been made and the project is
being polished and more functional. Many new features and
improvements have been made and by November 20, Jappleng will be
considered ready for the mass-market.