I am still not the best with kana (especially with the katakana since I focused on hiragana first) so I was wondering if you could add a setting that if you hovered over a word or kanji reading it would display the romaji sound (kind of like how in grammar if you hover over a word you can have it display the dictionary entry)
mostly so I can use that to sound it out in my head for extra reinforcement (and it would help with my ability with the kana themselves),
In my opinion romaji should be avoided at all cost. If you still have trouble with kana, you should focus on drills and reading practice. Easily accessible romaji would do way more harm than good in the long run. Your brain needs to stop "translating" kana into romaji and start recognising them as sounds directly, as early as possible. You should focus on tackling the issue, not trying to add training wheels.
I've had a similar problem with furigana — if they're there, I end up reading them instead of the actual kanji. The same thing happens with hover dictionaries: instead of taking a few seconds to recall a word's reading, it's tempting to take the easy way out and just look it up. Over time, this habit can seriously hurt your progress.
"Your brain needs to stop "translating" kana into romaji and start recognizing them as sounds directly" the idea is not for the actually romaji but for the sound behind the romaji (romaji is just the medium since you cant see sounds). if you don't know the sound for a kana it is impossible to work on recognizing them as sounds. (I don't always have access to audio plus lots of words don't even have audio this is kind of a work around).
"You should focus on tackling the issue" I actually disagree here since this is something that you don't need 100% before learning words, kanji, and grammar. I feel its a lot more effective to get to a point were you just need these training wheel and slowly work on it on the side plus I do think its more valuable to practice connecting the kana to the sound in context of words and sentences (especially for particles like は and を or things like です since it gives a outline of when the alternative sound is used so instead of working on は having the sound "ha" and sometimes "wa" you can think of it like it having the sound "ha" however when its the particle it is instead the sound "wa") this is the main reason why I am good at hiragana and not katakana since hiragana is used a lot more which by practicing words and grammar helped naturally connect them (I am of the opinion that if you can work on it naturally/on the side without negative consequences then that's how you should do it since there is lots of things you need to learn)
While there is the temptation that's why I do think it should be a setting not on all the time nor should it be like furigana (if you can't handle the temptation or don't need it just disable it) for me that's not really a problem but that's probably just because of my personality (I don't like furigana either for the same reason however for me the hover dictionaries are fine)
