Migaku Dictionary

Code for this add-on is open source for the kind person who wants to port it to anki versions above 2.1.35. Taking something that WAS free and making it paid in a world where everything is now a subscription is a great way to alienate your users and fans.

If you want to use this add-on you need an older anki version. Don't waste your money paying for their subscription services.

For any newcomers wanting to try this add-on, be aware that the devs have abandoned this add-on in favour of an all-in-one version:
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1846879528

However, it looks like the all-in-one version does not support the full dictionary functionality without getting the browser extension which is under a paid subscription. So if you want the full dictionary add-on experience for free you have to keep your Anki downgraded forever at version 2.1.35 and stick to this one.

As much as I enjoyed this tool, it would be great if there was more transparent communication around this.

Abandoned in favor of third party paid subscription service

Cannot recommend.
Was originally a helpful piece of software, however it no longer works on the current version of anki and the author has decided it will not be updated, it has instead been replaced by an updated addon with a web browser dictionary which also charges a subscription. I don't see why would anyone want this, the best part of this addon was having a dictionary within anki, if we migrating to the browser we may as well just use jisho/kotobank. Hard pass from me and quite disappointed one of the best addons for anki has been gutted.

Migaku is no longer updating this addon. They have condensed their addons into one universal "Migaku Anki Addon". Unfortunately, this addon, the dictionary, is not part of the Migaku Anki Addon and never will be. Instead, they expect you to buy a subscription to their browser extension, which provides the features of the dictionary addon. In other words, they have killed this addon so they can sell it to you via their browser extension.

"Contact Author" lead to a broken page, so posting this here. Will a user guide be uploaded to github or anywhere soon? Your last comment said it would 2 months ago. For could only find video guides here, but the dictionary ones don't look anything like this add on and don't explain how to add dictionaries, I'm looking to just use the dictionary, not a browser extension: https://www.migaku.io/video-guides

Edit: Found old guides here, https://legacy.migaku.io/tools-guides/migaku-dictionary/manual/

Doesn't work on 2.1.49
Am I supposed to get the older version?
I saw a youtuber trying to sell this very hard but it's not that it is necessary anyway

I have a problem with the addon. The contact author page takes too long to load so I want to report it here instead. The google image and forvo functions aren't working. I don't know how to fix that. I'm on version 2.1.35 as it required.

Both the quick start guide and the user guide lead to a page-not-found. If, from there, you go to the home page, you discover that the only way to get the add-on is via a monthly subscription. If this is a paid add-on it should be made much clearer here.

I really wanted to keep using this, but it's already more than 3 months past when the last dev cycle was. It seems like they might be changing the flow to use a browser extension now, which I could just use Yomichan if I wanted to do that, as I only really need a simple automated way to add definitions to cards.

I'm afraid I'll have to say goodbye to migaku if this doesn't get any more updates, and I think that's the reality right now. :(

Massive help! Cannot thank the creators enough!

good

So people mentioned here updating meta.json so they can use this on newer versions as well. How do you do that? I already have Anki 2.1.35 and I don't want to downgrade. I looked into the github repository, it doesn't contain the file nor any instructions on how the source code is actually built into an add-on

Incredible work

Awesome

hello, could you add the feature to edit the dictionary? i would like to put my own meanings in dictionaries in my own native language, sorry for my english, i'm not fluent.

It makes the process of creating anki cards so much easier

This is a good add-on to support leanring language

i have tried to downgrade but i failed .so i will just downlaod migaku. if i became a patrion and downloaded migaku browser ex10tion do i really need to downgrade to use migaku.

no 2.4 support

fyi it works fine with 2.1.43 for me, you just need to change the version cap in meta.json

I wanted to install this along with the other Migaku Add-ons and installed the latest Anki version 2.1.43 but all I get it error messages. Could you please update? Thank you in advance! I'm also going to join your Patreon next month and looking forward to the Migaku Chrome Extension!

I love the progress so far, but a monolingual dictionary for French and other languages would kill it. There was a comment on 1/1/2020 of how it could be feassible, hope it gets implemented :D

Great set of language learning tools!

it not support anki version 2.1.43 ?

Fantastic must-have that only gets better and better

The add-on is amazing, but i'm having a problem with the white mode when using anki in dark mode: https://imgur.com/a/Qq9NUiY
and the add-on's night mode is illegible IMO, so i did some changes in the color of the HTML/CSS file(named: dictionaryInit, line 1271) and the result is this: https://imgur.com/a/UasyYHx when you change to dark mode. (i'm not a programmer but if it can help anyone i'll be glad)

Please help!

Using Migaku MPV to export cards to Anki, keep getting the following error everytime, tried out a lot of things but nothing helped.

Error
An error occurred. Please start Anki while holding down the shift key, which will temporarily disable the add-ons you have installed.
If the issue only occurs when add-ons are enabled, please use the Tools > Add-ons menu item to disable some add-ons and restart Anki, repeating until you discover the add-on that is causing the problem.
When you've discovered the add-on that is causing the problem, please report the issue on the add-on support site.
Debug info:
Anki 2.1.35 (84dcaa86) Python 3.8.0 Qt 5.14.2 PyQt 5.14.2
Platform: Windows 10
Flags: frz=True ao=True sv=1
Add-ons, last update check: 2021-04-15 13:09:17

WARNING:tornado.access:404 GET / (127.0.0.1) 1.00ms

I am already using the latest version of ImmerseWithMigaku browser extension, Migaku MPV and Migaku Dictionary. Please help!

One of the most powerful language learning add-ons, period. Instant lookups and card creation.

This Addon is amazing, I use it every day and really like it. I was wondering if you could add a button on the front of the dictionary to turn always on top on rather than having to go into the settings every time. It would be nice if there was a button I could just press to turn it off and on.

Good add-on as all other migaku anki add-ons, some bugs but the devs fixes them quickly and the project is well mantained, keep up the good work, and thanks!

Up and running! Thanks a lot for this great add-on. Keep it up with the amazing job you guys are doing.

Help! There is no dictionaries folder in user_files and if I attempt to create one, dictionaries imported are not recognized. I'm on Anki 2.1.35

Spent 30 mins trying to make the global hotkey work but with no success. They used to work just fine with the older version. I am using Anki 2.1.35 with a windows 10 machine and Migaku Dictionary v1.2.9. I have uninstalled the add-on deleted its files and then re-installed but nothing is working.

Error
An error occurred. Please start Anki while holding down the shift key, which will temporarily disable the add-ons you have installed.
If the issue only occurs when add-ons are enabled, please use the Tools>Add-ons menu item to disable some add-ons and restart Anki, repeat until you discover the add-on that is causing the problem.
When you've discovered the add-on that is causing the problem, please report the issue on the add-ons section of our support site.
Debug info:
Anki 2.1.35 (84dcaa86) Python 3.8.0 Qt 5.14.2 PyQt 5.14.2
Platform: Windows 10
Flags: frz=True ao=True sv=2
Add-ons, last update check: 2021-04-03 23:39:55

Caught exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\tayeb\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1655992655\main.py", line 215, in trySearch
showAfterGlobalSearch()
File "C:\Users\tayeb\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1655992655\main.py", line 223, in showAfterGlobalSearch
mw.migakuDictionary.setWindowFlags(mw.migakuDictionary.windowFlags() | Qt.WindowStaysOnTopHint)
AttributeError: 'bool' object has no attribute 'setWindowFlags'

I get this error when I select autimatically add defintion
An error occurred. Please start Anki while holding down the shift key, which will temporarily disable the add-ons you have installed.
If the issue only occurs when add-ons are enabled, please use the Tools > Add-ons menu item to disable some add-ons and restart Anki, repeating until you discover the add-on that is causing the problem.
When you've discovered the add-on that is causing the problem, please report the issue on the add-on support site.
Debug info:
Anki 2.1.35 (84dcaa86) Python 3.8.0 Qt 5.14.2 PyQt 5.14.2
Platform: Windows 10
Flags: frz=True ao=True sv=1
Add-ons, last update check: 2021-03-23 00:51:53

Caught exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Hp\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\Migaku Dictionary\cardExporter.py", line 299, in saveAddDefinitionChecked
self.mw.refreshMigakuDictConfig(config)
TypeError: refreshMigakuDictConfig() takes 0 positional arguments but 1 was given

Recommend this add-on!

Upgraded to 2.1.35. Went smoothly, however there is problems that make me downgrade to 2.1.22.
1. Deconjugation is broken. (This has now being fixed!)
2. Not having the dictionary always on top option enabled, makes searching globally, flash and glitch the dictionary window, and sometimes even resize.
3. The linked selection between the dictionary and the card exporter has being broken/removed. You can nolonger select either the card exporter window and have the dictionary come to the surface of other windows, or vice versa. (This window behavior was in previous versions since the beginning and is suddenly no longer working)

Hope you can address these issues eventually.
Edit 3/22/2021 : problem 1 seems to be fixed(the biggest problem). Problem 2 and 3 persist and are personally still enough of a problem for me to continue using 2.1.22 as they interrupt workflow I've had for over a year.

Thanks for new update, bro!
I feel the program more stable when I search terms

(Saudações brasileiras!!)

had to downgrade anki which kinda sucked... (yes i know about the 6 month cycle thing).

also, i just wanted to use it for the forvo/image adding thing but it kept giving me this dumb popup on startup saying that i have zero dictionaries. i tried installing yomichan dictionaries via the method in the guide (unzipping json files into a regular file and then putting them into the dictionary file in the addon as shown in the video), as well as using the dictionary linked on the website but neither of those methods worked, nor got rid of the popup...

i did at least get the image/forvo thing working in the end though so it is faster than going to forvo/using google for every card.

Good update

It says code is invalid. My anki version is 2.1.40 (window). Maybe need an update for the latest version? Cheers

Awesome so far.

Doesn't work on Anki 2.1.39

very good

I think that this add-on could be even more efficent if you added a way to have preset values (i.e. I don't have to change the fields everyday to the same thing when I go to make new cards). Other than that, this a superb add-on.

Very useful addon, significantly speeds up flashcard making.
Nonetheless, is there an option for sending definitions to the target field without the definition header? I would manually tweak the code, but cannot find the location of the commands for this process.

Addon works well, but author keeps spamming me with ads for his videos.

Where do I get more russian dictionaries?

useful, ty

best addons ive found

Dev is kind of a douchebag:

Regarding promoting YouTube videos within the addon. Yuck.

"The video promotion was a test that we wanted to do and gather data from, and if we decide to do a similar test again we will do so."

Passive aggressive douchebag behavior:

"You really don't seem like a good fit for a user of our software so we would advise an uninstall. Thanks and best wishes!"

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add conjugation arabic please

y

vietnamese dictionaries please!

is there anyway u can add the word classes from the JMdict?? i'm talking about "verbs", "nouns", "adjectives". they don't appear at all while using this addon to export the definitions.

Do the following to stop the ads permanently (for the version uploaded on 2020-12-17 at least).

In the Migaku Dictionary addon's directory, edit the following file (make a backup copy first):
__init__.py

Make the line:
from . import main, miUpdater, migakuMessage

Look like:
from . import main, miUpdater


I don't use any other Migaku addons, but likely you have to remove the migakuMessage import from all of the relative __init__.py files to make it work.

I was a patreon as it was still MIA, but because of all this forced adds everytime a new video releases i downgraded to an old backup and will no longer support this. the fact that the author ignores the wished of the user to not be notified and forces you to "notice him" is not worth my money!

+

Meh addon, also has a long loading time at the start. Fix that and I'll give it a good.

Makes sentence mining fast.

All of Migaku add-ons are amazing and helpful.

Regarding the review about searching ほど, using the default "Forward" mode does not show the entry for 程, but using the "Exact" mode does have the entry. Ideally, the "Forward" mode would also include it, but for now I mostly just stick to "Exact" mode.

Muchas gracias.

Where can I find more russian dictionaries?

these migaku addons are simply among the best addons for anki, great work. I will join the Patreon after the holidays.

despite the biyearly update that he promises it has been more than 2 months since what should've been all the addon's update to the latest version of anki.

the whole concept of this dictionary is cancerous to learning

Thank you for this add-on, it is very helpful and has saved me a lot of time. ignore these haters. Your the Best!!!

It is very good, but there is a big limitation currently that users should be aware of if you're learning Japanese. There is a big difference between this addon and yomichan, If you search something written in hiragana than yomichan will also search using kanji with that reading, this addon however does not. Let's say for example I want to learn the word "ほど".

if you search this in migaku dicationary with JMdict what you get is ほどちかい【ほど近い】 "near, nearby, not far off".
Yomichan with JMdict will give you the accurate definition: ほど【程】"degree, extent, bounds, limit"

Migaku dicationary will also give you the accurate definition if you search "程", but a lot of japanese subs will use hiragana randomly, so in reality you're better of using yomichan to check what the word means, and then copy the kanji from the accurate word to the migaku dictionary search.

Thanks!

Really great addon for all languages. Currently learning German, and it helps me look up words pretty fast. Making Anki Cards feels way less of a burden now, and this has really increased my productivity.

Big chunga boonga ooga booga I like migaku kaooehfouweo

Really nice, but Google Images and Forvo (especially forvo) take quick a long time to load and there are times they don't even load. Not sure if it's because I messed up any configuration though. By the way, if anyone is struggling with that annoying pop up when starting anki, just move your taskbar to the left or to the right and you'll able to see the "Don't show me this again" button as you can't resize the window.

Your greed has not only damged the quality of your product but also the reputation in the community

This is literally the BEST Addon for Anki. If i had to pick only one addon , it would be Migaku Dictionary

I love this add-on! The only addition I'd really like to see is an option to mass-export the dictionary search history to a text file or spreadsheet; I like to memorize the unfamiliar words I find in the definitions, but currently only one term at a time can be copied and pasted from the history so processing a long list can be a bit tedious. Overall, this is a wonderful study tool I'd strongly recommend to anyone learning a language with Anki.

wow

Very useful add-on. This has replaced other dictionary programs for me.
One minor gripe:
It's nice that you can ignore stuff in brackets, but I think you should also be able to ignore spaces (at least in languages like Japanese). Trying to look up '貢[みつ]ぎ 物[もの]' tries to search for '貢ぎ 物' instead of '貢ぎ物' for example. The space throws it off, and it can't find any words.

You started your new brand by damaging it, all by yourself.

Amazing dictionary !!!

Good for chinese.
I use it in Ubuntu with KDE with no problem.

Thanks Yoga !

Packed with value. Can't wait to combine with the browser extension

Good add-on

Update: the popup window is very large and extends far beyond the bottom of my screen. I cannot resize the window, scroll to the bottom, or move the window to access the "don't show again" option

Edit: no solution yet, will let you know if I find one; also removed previous negative comment as I guess it does not really apply now since there is technically an option to stop showing the popup

Video and messages about how we should feel bad for you are completely unecessary. If your supporters want to know the details you have Patreon and Youtube. It's a great add-on and you're helping people with your tools, but the unprofessionalism spoils it a bit. This should simply be an extension of your talents to help others, not an opportunity to continue to disparage Matt and pull more people into the drama.

Essential resource for optimizing language-learning workflow.

I don't really use the add-on but since other people went out their way to down vote it even though they the add-on just because the developer tried to defend his income, I figured giving it a up vote is also a fair game.

dude needs to grow up. rebrand yourself fine, explain yourself in a video fine. do it in a way that doesn't make yourself look like a petty man child. Be grateful for the exposure your former partner gave you and then go your separate ways.

both versions of the add on are very useful though, just downvoting the manchilds video.

I'll keep using this because its a useful add-on, but fuck you yoga.

was forced to watch a video of a fat autistic manchild

I love your add-on's they are truly amazing and I will continue to support your work. I just want to update my review to say that I don't approve of the way you handled your conflict with Matt. These kind of conflicts should be handled in private and there is no reason to create any unnecessary drama. Blaming and breading your business partner and the old brand is not how you should separate. It seems that the truth is that that partnership wasn't working out for either side. Your differences made working together difficult and as such there is no shame in leaving: it sounds like it will be for the best for both of you. There is no need to trash your partner. I believe that both you and Matt have a lot to bring to the language learning community and I am excited to see all the things that you do now as you continue on a different path.

Now with this brand I can say that I want to 磨く my Japanese

Migaku > MIA

I'm amazed you guys did all these add-ons for us. I am very grateful. :)

Ultra Useful

I love the efforts you put on your add-ons and your videos, you kick ass.
Too bad it doesn't have a swedish dictionary
Best regards.

Great add on, now I can look up for word inside of Anki without opening the browser.

Works really well. But for some reason on Mac, and for Mandarin, the Forvo dictionary is loading the user info of the audio file, but the audio file is not playable.

Good

*HELP* I am trying to install the Korean dictionary, from the mega link but my anki gets stuck on "importing dict 'krdict' into language: Korean Importing word 0 of 920254" for a very long time (hours) and does not work. Does anyone know what the issue might be? Things I have tried: re-installing the right version of anki for windows 10, all the addons and dictionary files too.

Very useful addon, awesome functionalities like export definitions on flashcard automatically ! But i leave a comment to report a bug that occur when using COMBINING APOSTROPHE on the US-international keyboard, it useful to make letter like "é à á". But it crash mia dictionary every time even when not using it.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\rabad\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1655992655\pynput\_util\__init__.py", line 162, in inner
return f(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\rabad\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1655992655\pynput\keyboard\_win32.py", line 236, in _process
key = self._event_to_key(msg, vk)
File "C:\Users\rabad\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1655992655\pynput\keyboard\_win32.py", line 267, in _event_to_key
key = KeyCode(**self._translate(
File "C:\Users\rabad\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1655992655\pynput\keyboard\_base.py", line 49, in __init__
self.combining = unicodedata.lookup(
KeyError: "undefined character name 'COMBINING APOSTROPHE'"

This is an amazing add-on. I began to use it to fill some fields, and it works really well, I think it's one of the best add-ons to learn languages. However, I'd like to know if there is any chance to tweak it. In the guide is written the following related to the Definitions headers
" Note: Previously, when part of the definition was highlighted, the Copy button would copy only the highlighted portion to your clipboard, without the definition header. This is reflected in the above picture, which was created before this change in functionality."

Is there any way to change back this functionality? Probably, others find the header in the definition useful, but I don't.

Also, I tried to find a German and French monolingual dictionaries, but I couldn't find them on internet. Is there any chance to get one? has someone found them?

Thanks so much.

Does what it says on the can

Great add-on! Thanks MIA!

Very nice. Works great for me and improves my workflow a lot. I just wonder if there's any way to change the font that is used inside the fields of the Card Exporter window? On my Window install it looks pretty ugly. The font inside the dictionary itself can be customized so that's fine.

Excellent App, particularly the Forvo lookup.. Prior to this I was going to Forvo, using a Chrome app to snapshot the audio, and then dragging the file to any new cards I had....Very tedious.

One suggestion would be the ability to set the Forvo language to each Dictionary group, rather than at the global level. That way when you select the language group in the drop down, Forvo is pointing to the right language. Not a big deal, but if you study multiple languages (or different dialects of Chinese), would be an improvement.

By the way, the latest update fixed the Google Image search, but seems to have broken the Forvo functionality!

Excellent addon, loving it. However, is there any way I can display indicators like 'noun', 'i-adjective', 'intransitive verb', 'adverb'... in the Japanese-English dictionary, not just definitions? I also use the English-Portuguese dictionary and indicators like 'noun' and 'adjective' appear normally. Jisho dictionary, as far as I know, uses the same Japanese-English dictionary as mia, but jisho has the indicators I mentioned and I like it.

This is hands down one of the most useful add-ons ever! I can't live without it now and it has become a key part of my routine. I especially love the integration of frequency lists combined with Forvo + Google Imagines.

Speaking of, as of around a few days ago, it seems the Google Images search is no longer working. It continues to return

```
No Images Found. This is likely due to a connectivity error.
```

I haven't updated any add-ons or Anki recently, I wonder if something has changed in the Google API that is causing this, or if its just me?

It's a great add-on, I have started using it alongside the MIA Japanese and Editor add-ons and I have seen my efficiency go up.
HOWEVER, (sorry if the all caps startled you) I am writing this review to point out this one thing from the dictionary that I think could be improved.

Suppose you have your sentence and you look the word up using the hotkeys, it puts the word into forvo, and into google images so it looks it up for you, and then it deconjugates it if necessary and puts it into the built in dicitonary.

The problem is that the order is wrong here. It should deconjugate it before putting it into forvo because forvo doesn't have a deconjugator so it reads the word and doesn't understand it, so I find myself having to go back to deconjugate the word manually so that forvo will show some results. It's just annoying and I think it could probably be easily fixed (maybe not at all, but yeah)

Anyway really appreciate your work Yoga keep it up.

Hi Guys! I love the add-on and both of your channels! I wanted to know if you guys were going to add more languages to the add-on someday (e.g. Swedish, the one I'm currently learning).

The single most useful add-on I've found. This has applications beyond language learning.

Love what these guys are doing

This is THE add-on! It makes creating high-quality flashcards as easy as humanly possible.

After a while, I'm just restart my Anki to the version of this addon. I can't see myself without this addon. Thankful for all people who work in this project. god blessed all.

That moment when you realize you don't applying this version more...

Why I was update my Anki, why...

Version 2.1.26 (70784154)

The batch generation aspect of this addon is superb. Batch adding audio for decks with morphman helps me get through dozens of new cards each day, not having to manually add so many definitions across different J-J dictionaries. Audio is somewhat useful as well.

I don't know how you guys do it, but each time you guys make an addon you make using Anki so much better. Cutose to Yoga for coding the most polished and featured rich addons I've had the pleasure of using in Anki, keep up the great work. I'd support you guys on Patreon but I'm a student and don't have a lot of money

Sorry, but "cheers bud" got me. xD

The guy is amazing!

Just amazing

This makes card creation so much faster and easier. It works fine for me on Ubuntu (bionic beaver) right now.

Thanks you very much for your great work, happy subscriber here.
NOTE: On Linux, I ended up getting the latest source from github and overwriting everything (outside of user_files directory, otherwise you'll have to rebuild dic db) to get google images to work, the regular steps of disabling the plug-in etc didn't work, maybe that's just me but I thought I'd mention it if anyone is looking for answers.

Good. Still some errors with katana in the line where the target word appears in brackets.

Thank you for developing this addon making our life so easier!

I've been trying the add-on but the dictionary settings won't load. I can see the window as if it were loading if I hover over Anki on my taskbar, but it just stays like that. I don't know what other information to provide, so let me know what would be helpful.

https://i.imgur.com/iqhlADW.png

all hail Yoga!

Super useful add-on to streamline the card creation process.

Can someone explain how to install a mono-lingual Japanese dictionary? The tutorial only shows how to do Japanese/English. I can't find JSON files for a mono-lingual dictionary.

Life saving thank you. But I have a problem. while I enabled MIA dictionary, I couldn"t use pop_up dictionary addon. is it related to my setting or are they intercept with each other?

Thank you so much

I’ve tried to install Dictionaries in MIA add-on at latest version of MacOS. I've downloaded the dictionaries from the recommended list, placed them in zip format at the directory as suggested. The dictionary didn't show up when I tried to open Anki again as shown in the video. I get a message that no dictionaries are installed. Ive also tried to delete the add on and repeat the procedure, It doesn’t work. This looks like a great add on, but if I cannot sort this out.It is a great waste. I saw another user had same trouble using windows in the Anki forum.

Problem persists after pasting the Json files in the folder.

Changed the way I used anki.

The MIA dictionary has made making sentence cards a breeze. Great job by the MIA team!

It's all right. But I really need a JP-JP Dictionary. Can't figure out how to install one. Please link a guide to install a Japanese Monolingual Dictionary. Thanks.

I think the add-on is pretty nice but I don't have a lot of uses for it. There are no Jp-Jp or Eng-Jp dictionaries that I can find supported, but I've seen plenty of them through the add-on page and the guide. I'd like more dictionaries and a way to get more dictionaries in the future. If this has already been covered let me know. I'd like to give this add-on an upvote if I can use it. Thanks

(Also, Google Images isn't working and I tried the update from an earlier post)

Amazing add-on. Completely transformed my Japanese studies - making cards and looking up stuff in general is now considerably easier, thanks!

great

I originally had this as a down vote (operator error) because I was unable to download the MIA add-ons (not through fault of MIA but of Anki itself from not being able to update Anki through Anki itself but appear that it is up to date) YOGA_MIA was a great help and took the time to help this non tech savy noob figure things out so i can enjoy MIA's very helpful and awesome add-ons. It goes to show MIA care about what they do and want to help everyone out by making learning Japanese less painful. Thanks you guys!

Fantastic addon! I appreciate everything these guys are doing to help progress the language learning community!

I just don't understand how do I install the dictionary for MacOS, it is only explained for Windows users?!

Great tools but I am too undisciplined to stick with anything. Thanks a bunch for sure still.

MIA for the win!

Best addon on Anki.

It cuts out a lot of other tools and puts them all in one place, and removes a lot of other steps to make good cards. However, No matter how much I try to setup google image search it gives me this error "No Images Found. This is likely due to a connectivity error."

Edit:
The google image search still doesn't work, I don't know why. I change region and it won't wonk in any. The global search does work, It just seems to have an extremely small window for the keys to be pressed together than most other apps, to the point I still can't get it to work 100% every attempt, but I don't even know if that's something you guys have control over, it's not much of an issue though.

Extremely useful, even for someone like me who isn't following every step of MIA.

good

Pretty impressive! I would say the best addon to learn Japanese !!

First of all, this is a great add-on, thanks! But I'm having some issues with it and its functionality seems unnecessarily limited...

I want to bulk add definitions to a Japanese word list. For this, the "Export Definitions" feature seemed ideal, so I tried it out with some Anki cards. However, after more than two hours of learning how this add-on works, I discover that its doesn't always do what it says and can't do what it should...

THE BASIC PROBLEM
1) The "Export Definitions" feature doesn't work sometime, even when there selected dictionaries have an entry (杞憂, for example).
2) It stopped working completely for me one time, even for words that it worked for before (採用, for example).

LACK OF FUNCTIONALITY
1) Every time you use "Export Definitions" you have to set all the settings again. These should be sticky or in the case of fields, at the very least it shouldn't default to "empty".
2) Even though MIA comes with its own dictionary information structure, I cannot choose what precise pieces of information I want to add (for example, I would like to add the frequency stars to a specific field where I indicate information such as frequency scores on my own note type). It adds the definitions PLUS the frequency score PLUS the reading PLUS the word brackets. I can see how this might be useful for people only using this to extract single words from sentences. But even then having more control over the information you're adding on your cards would be useful. In theory, it should be easily possible to make "Export Readings", "Export Frequencies", etc. commands.
3) There is no shortcut for this command.

For the task that I wanted to complete, removing all the unnecessary information added and adding all the information MIA Dictionary doesn't give me a definition for, this add-on doesn't really save me time.


Still a great add-on, but it's just not as useful as it should be given how complicated it is.

One of my favorite add-ons. But when I updated my Anki to the 2.1.20 version and did a clean installation of the Dictionary add-on I lost my Forvo section. The audio control appears innactive (light gray). Besides this version of Anki seems still somewhat unstable for Mac (I work with MAC Catalina). I appreciate in advance if anyone can help me. Thanks Matt and Yoga for this incredible work!

Makes things much more easy

The add-on could use some overall streamlining and UI improvements. Nevertheless It is awesome. Especially if it is already planed to increase the number of dictionaries for other languages than Japanese. Keep it up guys!

Awesome Addon. Has literally halved my card creation time.

Helps me automate my deck creation

It got a lot faster after the last 2.1.20 Add-on update, very useful!

Convenient, easy to use

So far this is awesome, but I have one small request. Change the highlight color for example sentences. it's here:

./dictionaryInit.html: background-color: lightskyblue;

It is unreadable with dark mode.

The add-on is very helpful, the feature that I am using the most and is changing my learning process is Forvo.
The add-on has so much content that can take a while to learn how it works properly, but after 2 weeks I can say that it is worthy downloading it.
There were days where we could only dream of something like this! So thankful for Matt and Lucas for the huge effort.
A game changer

10/10

So convenient for looking up definitions and making new cards. There's some weird spacing when importing a definition to a non-MIA Japanese card format though.

I was a bit split as to whether or not to give a positive review as, as others have noted, the add on is full of bugs.
A few noteworthy ones:
With the newest anki version google image support no longer works. This is a real shame as while that was working it was incredibly helpful and was one of the main reasons I had for switching over to this as my main dictionary.
In my experience the send to field button doesn't work as it should. For whatever reason it treats empty fields as not being empty so that when I send something to that field it leaves two spaces at the top which I then have to manually delete. This of course defeats the purpose of the feature as I'd just be better off copying and pasting if I'm going to be doing it manually anyway. I know the problem is with it not seeing the field as empty as when messing around I set it to send "If Empty" and once I ticked that it wouldn't send. I even tried selecting the whole field and deleting everything in it to see if there were some invisible characters lingering in my cards but this wasn't the case. A shame since this is a pretty nice feature.
Those are the main two that I noticed and with them not functioning the add-on loses a lot of its value. That being said just having a dictionary in anki has still ended up being tremendously helpful and has increased the speed at which I make sentences and so I'm leaving a positive review as the add-on has truly done wonders for my language learning even with broken features. If those features worked it would be even more incredible.
One other thing I might mention as a suggestion; at the minute when you highlight a section from a definition and click the copy button (the scissors) it just copies what you highlighted. This seems pretty redundant since its quicker to just crtl + c in this instance anyway. Instead it would be amazing if, when a dictionary definition is highlighted the scissors would copy the dictionary's header for the word as well as the selected text to your clipboard, as the biggest problem I've noticed is that when I want to use a definition that's not the first one I have to manually copy the header and then the definition. This feature would deal with that problem. I don't know how feasible that is but I thought I'd just throw it out there.
Thanks for all the hard work you've put into the language learning community. I know a lot of people don't seem to appreciate it but just know that you've helped a lot of people like myself see their language skills flourish.

I'm sorry to tell you that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS doesn't work either.

Does not work on Anki 2.2.19 on MacOS Mojave 10.14.6:

When loading 'MIA Dictionary':
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "aqt/addons.py", line 97, in loadAddons
File "/Users/werner/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
from . import main
File "/Users/werner/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/main.py", line 593, in <module>
initGlobalHotkeys()
File "/Users/werner/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/main.py", line 583, in initGlobalHotkeys
mw.hkThread = ClipThread(mw, addon_path)
File "/Users/werner/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/midict.py", line 695, in __init__
from pynput import keyboard
File "/Users/werner/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/pynput/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
from . import keyboard
File "/Users/werner/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/pynput/keyboard/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
from ._darwin import KeyCode, Key, Controller, Listener
File "/Users/werner/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/pynput/keyboard/_darwin.py", line 29, in <module>
import Quartz
File "/Users/werner/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/keyboardMac/Quartz/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
import objc
File "/Users/werner/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/keyboardMac/objc/__init__.py", line 18, in <module>
_update()
File "/Users/werner/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/keyboardMac/objc/__init__.py", line 15, in _update
import objc._objc as _objc
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 2: invalid start byte

Unfortunately not able to get this working on my Mac - real shame because the features look great and the integration with Morphman is dreamy. Crashes Anki on opening, difficult to even get Anki open but once it loads, error message pops up as shown below and dictionary add-on does not work at all.
Running Mojave 10.14.2, Anki 2.1.19

Have tried installing previous versions of Anki 2.1.15 and 2.1.16, and while this fixes the issue with this dictionary add-on, it throws up errors from Morphman.
I don't know that much about programming but it seems the issue lies with the Objective C plugin for Python that is being used having encoding issues - was not able to fix this myself.

An add-on you installed failed to load. If problems persist, please go to the Tools>Add-ons menu, and disable or delete the add-on.
When loading 'MIA Dictionary':
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "aqt/addons.py", line 97, in loadAddons
File "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
from . import main
File "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/main.py", line 593, in <module>
initGlobalHotkeys()
File "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/main.py", line 583, in initGlobalHotkeys
mw.hkThread = ClipThread(mw, addon_path)
File "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/midict.py", line 695, in __init__
from pynput import keyboard
File "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/pynput/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
from . import keyboard
File "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/pynput/keyboard/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
from ._darwin import KeyCode, Key, Controller, Listener
File "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/pynput/keyboard/_darwin.py", line 29, in <module>
import Quartz
File "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/keyboardMac/Quartz/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
import objc
File "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/keyboardMac/objc/__init__.py", line 18, in <module>
_update()
File "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/keyboardMac/objc/__init__.py", line 15, in _update
import objc._objc as _objc
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 2: invalid start byte

works

FOR NON-WINDOWS USERS: You might have problems if your Anki is in the latest release (2.1.19 as of now). The add-on works fine if you are on an older version, I recommend 2.1.16 since it's the most up to date version that also works. You can download it from Anki's site (https://apps.ankiweb.net/downloads/archive/). Also run this command "sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5.qtsvg" to update python. I'm on Pop_OS! but this issue might happen with other distros and maybe even mac.


My (now outdated) complete post:

Great add-on but it doesn't work on Manjaro and on Pop_OS!, running the latest version of everything. This shows up when I open Anki (I'm replacing my name with "USER"):

An add-on you installed failed to load. If problems persist, please go to the Tools>Add-ons menu, and disable or delete the add-on.

When loading 'MIA Dictionary':
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "aqt/addons.py", line 97, in loadAddons
File "/home/USER/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
from . import main
File "/home/USER/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/main.py", line 593, in <module>
initGlobalHotkeys()
File "/home/USER/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/main.py", line 583, in initGlobalHotkeys
mw.hkThread = ClipThread(mw, addon_path)
File "/home/USER/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/midict.py", line 695, in __init__
from pynput import keyboard
File "/home/USER/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/pynput/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
from . import keyboard
File "/home/USER/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/pynput/keyboard/__init__.py", line 49, in <module>
from ._xorg import KeyCode, Key, Controller, Listener
File "/home/USER/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/pynput/keyboard/_xorg.py", line 39, in <module>
from pynput._util.xorg import (
File "/home/USER/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/pynput/_util/xorg.py", line 40, in <module>
_check()
File "/home/USER/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/pynput/_util/xorg.py", line 38, in _check
display = Xlib.display.Display()
File "/home/USER/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/linux/Xlib/display.py", line 89, in __init__
self.display = _BaseDisplay(display)
File "/home/USER/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/linux/Xlib/display.py", line 71, in __init__
protocol_display.Display.__init__(self, *args, **keys)
File "/home/USER/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/linux/Xlib/protocol/display.py", line 84, in __init__
name, protocol, host, displayno, screenno = connect.get_display(display)
File "/home/USER/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/linux/Xlib/support/connect.py", line 72, in get_display
mod = _relative_import(modname)
File "/home/USER/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/linux/Xlib/support/connect.py", line 55, in _relative_import
return importlib.import_module('..' + modname, __name__)
File "importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
File "/home/USER/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1655992655/linux/Xlib/support/unix_connect.py", line 31, in <module>
import fcntl
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fcntl'

Edit: Sorry!!! I didn't know Linux was not supported, really doesn't make sense to downvote it then. Serves as a warning for anyone planning to do the same though, so I'll keep it here. The add-on is incredible but you might have to search for workarounds.

After installing this add-on on macOS (Mojave 10.14.6), Anki no longer starts, giving a long error description. Anki version is 2.1.19.

gold, the best addon tehre is

Very helpful to have a sophisticated dictionary within integrated with Anki!

:)

ty

street jesus

The amount of features packed into this addon is kind of wild, but even if you only want to use it for its basic dictionary features (as I do) it still dramatically reduces the amount of time you spend making cards, while keep the quality high.

just fantastic

Omg thanks

Great, so far it's a seamless experience!

full of bugs

Great addon.

21 positive reviews posted all on 1/6.... 0 reviews on most other days. Hmm it's almost like this shady AJATT ripoff is using shady tactics!

Very useful add-on, especially when paired with the other MIA add-ons. Only thing I wish is that the night mode for the dictionary more closely resembles the actual "Night Mode" add-on as to have continuity between the flashcards and the dictionary.

Fantastic. Easy to install and saves a lot of time. High quality like every MIA product.

Night mode's contrast is too high (literally white on black), and I would like to request monolingual dictionaries for the other languages as well, since I study French.

Has sped up my card creation a lot. Really helpful. Extra points for the frequency stars, makes it easier to evaluate whether a word should be learned yet. Easy to use too, once you get the hang of it.

I enjoy and think it is really useful for learing spanish. Mainly the frequency dictionary star system really helps.

Excellent add-on for language learning users espacially for Japanese. It needs a little commitment to understand how it works and to import your dictionnaries, but then the process of creating new cards becomes very smooth.
I use it everyday and I'm very satisfied of it.
The UI could somehow be enhanced but the features are great.

Unbelievably useful.

this will save you time

Makes creating cards much easier MIA Dictionary + Morphman is a godsend for quickly creating sentence minded cards.

Makes learning Japanese (and many other languages) extremely efficient and is very helpful

A real time saver

It really makes the workflow of adding new cards and recursively looking up definitions easy!

I also love that global shortcuts now work on Linux!
You rock!

This add-on is amazing for making Anki cards and just interacting with Japanese in the wild as easy as it is to look up any word you might find on the internet or in subtitles

On par with most dictionary viewers and has a ton of nice Anki integration

As someone who spent years making monolingual cards, this add-on makes the process of creating high-quality monolingual cards a lot more efficient than ever before. I have a hard time believing the people who say that it's not are being honest or have any sort of proficiency in language learning.

Fantastic addon, amazing to see such good tools put out there for free!

Best as always

Super useful!

Incredibly useful. Speeds up card creation process exponentially.

nifty

This add-on really changes the game as far as sentence mining is concerned. This shaves down the time from minutes to seconds when creating new cards. Good on the folks at MIA for this one.

I recently set this up and since i started it saves me a lot of time when i am making cards. One of the most useful add-ons i have used for anki in a long time!

Really useful for various language learning workflows.

Been using it for almost a week now. Saves so much time when making cards, especially when used with Morphman -- Morphman tells you which cards are ideal for you to learn, then you just mass generate all the definitions for those words.

Been using this since the beta stages and its such a great add on . the guy posting negative reviews and making new accounts . get a life bro XD

Once it's set up and you understand how to use it, it dramatically simplifies the process. This is a quality addon that has helped me immensely.

Works as it's supposed to! Incredibly useful and makes creating flashcards more enjoyable :)

Together with ShareX its really fast and comfortable to create cards from other media.
I also enjoy being able to add audio from forvo with two clicks.

Definitely makes adding cards to Anki seemless. Very powerful!!

Extremely useful for quickly looking up words and recording audio in real time

terrible ui design
just takes up space with no real purpose

Amazing

Great add-on, though I would love to have monolingual dictionaries for all these languages (German-German, French-French, Italian-Italian). Technically, this data could be mined from Wiktionary (free & open source) for most major languages, but it would involve downloading each language's individual Wiktionary database, opening in MySQL, and converting it to MIA's proprietary dictionary format. All of this is explained on Wiktionary's website (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Help:FAQ#Downloading_Wiktionary), but is unfortunately way over my head in terms of technical know-how. This add-on has the potential to save tons of time, and Japanese learners can benefit from it immediately. But the lack of monolingual dictionaries in other languages is unfortunately a deal breaker for me right now (I'm currently learning German). So I won't be switching over just yet, but I will keep an eye on future updates/releases. Great app, boys. I believe this add-on has the potential to be a game-changer. Hope to see more support for other languages in the future.

Not sure why some people are complaining about them promoting their project when this add-on is part of their project. The criticisms related to monetization don't make sense given that MIA is free and the Patreon is there if you want to support the creators (as is the case with lots of projects). Of course the add-on isn't necessary, just as it's technically not necessary to use Anki to learn words, but it's useful and saves time (esp. mass generation). I think the fair reader would agree that Matt and Yoga have done great work here in streamlining part of the card creation process.

clunky UI, and Nazeka for Firefox kind of makes it redundant.

Very helpful! Even as a standalone dictionary, it is very helpful as it is compatible with yomichan format, I would actually to have a similar dictionary on my phone, where I could import the files myself. The Anki integration then makes it very efficient at quickly creating cards, as I had to switch between many different tabs to check the definitions on my browser before.

Way better than the setup I was using before. Keep it up!

Life changing!

..way to prove the guy who left the negative review right. notice how he was immediately name-called by one of the followers (the same ones the author uses to spam the page with misleading positive reviews) for stepping out of line?

that and the defensive reply by the author to defend shameless advertising/monetization where it does not belong is going to have me take a hard pass on this one.

lmao at the hater/troll comment below. Awesome work!

Notice how, of all the people making great add-ons, they're the only ones pushing social media and trying to get you to pay them? The author will reply defensively, but it's true. There are also a few other issues:

1) I can already make monolingual J-J cards in about ~10-15 seconds. This is add-on is ultimately solving a problem that doesn't exist, is past the threshold of diminishing returns, and enters the territory of continuously working on the "perfect setup" by constantly tweaking around with tools rather than actually learning Japanese. He created this add-on to justify the existence of his Patreon, not because it was actually necessary.

2) He uses said Patreon to implicitly encourage his followers to spam his add-ons with positive reviews even if they have issues.

3) The UI is pretty bad, and the add-on title and favicon are branded with their obnoxious method (which ironically is just a cash grab modification of the pre-monetized AJATT that he used to recommend before he was financially motivated), as if they constantly have to advertise it for some reason. Creating cards for language learning is a universal thing that has nothing to do with any method.

This is amazing.

I absolutely love this add-on. I feel so much more productive in being able to look things up within Anki, and while immersing in the browser.

For users of Japanese, look up the matt vs japan video, "How to Get 10+ Dictionaries for Yomichan" for additional monolingual and pitch accent dictionaries.

For those using the macOS version: to get the global search hotkey working, you have to go to System Prefs > Security > Accessibility and grant Anki permissions. This is missing from the docs and took me a while to find out.

thank you guys, Matt and Yoga! It works great! Is there any ways to add etymology English dictionary?

MIA is making language learning so much better, just wow.

This plugin might replace most of my qolibri use. After converting the EPQINGs to Yomichan, it was very easy to get them imported into this plugin. I have found 2 things I hope will be changed. First, the UGLY, hard to read yellow used for the searched term, though the coloring can be disabled in the settings. Please allow this to be changed =). The other is right click closes the tabs. In a web browser and many other programs, middle click closes the tabs.

This addon is so good that has the potential to greatly improve all language learning anki decks...
truly game changing, I will be improving all my decks!!!

Holy crap. This is a game-changer. It used to take me like an hour to make all 20 cards for the day, now I can get it done in like 20 minutes. Allowing for almost 40 extra minutes of study/immersion per day. This is an INVALUABLE tool for anybody that is learning a language the correct way, which is some form of immersion method. Thank you so much MIA, I don't think I would ever get to the point of fluency in Japanese without you guys. But now, I'm very confident I'll exceed my expectations within the next few years thanks to tools like these.

Valuable and motivating to the language learning process

Amazing tool even for those learning other languages that aren't Asian - Portuguese in my case. Only downside (not the addons fault) is with European languages not being able to deconjugate. This can worked around if you know basic conjugation rules & searching forward.

Makes card creation while immersing so much faster and intuitive. Now I pretty much keep Anki open at all times just so I can use the card creation features. An essential element to the MIA pipeline no matter what language you're learning.

For those learning Japanese: if you have the MIA Japanese Support add-on installed and set up, this add-on will automatically add furigana to every sentence/definition/Japanese text included on your card.

Been using it for the last month or so (beta release) and I can say that it has saved me tons of time and is genuinely a useful plugin for making cards for your language learning.

Great addon, replaces the need for external dictionary programs and makes making cards super easy and fast.

The best anki add-on avalible for language learning by a landslide. If you are not using this, you are compromising your growth.

WHOA!! This add-on is a game changer. Definitely recommend checking out their site for a more detailed description of what it can do.

Increased the efficiency of my sentence card workflow process a lot

👍