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You Can Kana - now on macOS
🍎 You 🍏 Can 🍎 Kana 🍏 Functionality: 🍏 Steam cloud save transfers between macOS and Windows 🍏 Intel 🍏 M1 🍏 M2 If you're enjoying You Can Kana and appreciate these free updates, please recommend the game on Steam!…
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Dec 22 update: graphics tablet support
Improved graphics tablet / touch-screen support (tested on Wacom Intuos). Now, a pen can be used to navigate the menus and complete the stroke order sections. Note: even on graphics tablet, the stroke order section is s…
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Word explainer hotfix
Added click audio to word explainer ESC key now closes Word Explainer
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'Word Explainer' Update
Summary Added the Word Explainer, an interactive way to view the valid inputs for a word. Multiple improvements to the translation system If you're enjoying You Can Kana and appreciate these free updates, please recomme…
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You Can Kana 2022 Update 1
Hi everyone, a new update for You Can Kana is available! Thanks again to everyone who submitted feedback, I do read through it all and try to address what I can. Apologies for the large gap between this update and the l…
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Training Mode Update
Hi everyone, hope you're all enjoying You Can Kana! It's been a while since the last update, hasn't it? I've been very busy working on a new game, which I'm hoping to announce some time next year. But I still have somet…
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JLPT Challenge Mode
Change summary: Added JLPT Mode, a new form of Challenge Mode Hiragana and katakana are both active at the same time in this mode Choose which JLPT levels to limit vocab to Complete both hiragana and katakana campaigns…
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22nd August Hotfix
✔ Fixed characters that won't rendering in tooltips in the skip summary. ✔ Fixed a crash that happened during the multiple choice section of katakana lessons. ✔ Made it so that in review and test mode, we always priorit…
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Minor patch: ッ / small tsu (katakana)
Removed words with consisted solely of a small tsu, followed by a vowel. In the case that these do show up in game, they can now be inputted as e.g. 'aa' or 'xtsua' for 'ッア' Made the ッ character show smaller to better d…
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Update Notes for Aug 16th
Support for more romaji inputs Skip mode: made the mode quicker to complete Skip mode: added warning Skip mode: prevented the player from disabling challenge mode by skipping backwards Added more words and JLPT N level…
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You Can Kana is out now and on 10% discount!
You Can Kana is out now! Thank you so much to everyone who has bought the game so far. The 10% launch discount lasts until Aug 18 so please take advantage of it. I want to make You Can Kana the best kana learning game i…
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Handwriting Update
Hi everyone, thanks for playing the demo. You Can Kana is due to launch at the end of July and I'd like to share what I've been working on since Steam Next Fest. Please give the game a wishlist if you're enjoying the de…
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Making it easier to input long vowel sounds
Strings like "イイー" or "シーイー" can now be answered with only vowels (in this case, iii/ii- or shiiii/shi-i-) Thanks to soka-chan for pointing out this bug! Hope everyone's enjoying the demo :) James
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