Two kana systems
Hiragana and katakana need to become sounds you recognise directly, not symbols you repeatedly convert through rōmaji. Short reading bursts, audio matching and mixed-script words build that automatic link.
A JAPANESE LEARNING APP FROM N5 TO N3
Japanese learning app.
Learn Japanese from N5 to N3.
Learn Japanese with one structured course for beginners and returning learners. Grammar, vocabulary, kana, kanji, reading and listening build on each other from your first lesson to JLPT N3.
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48units built around real outcomes
240step-by-step lessons
20k+searchable words offline
N5–N3one path, every core skill
ONE COURSE, ONE MEMORY
Stop rebuilding your study plan every time you sit down.
Most Japanese resources solve one part well. The difficult work is deciding what belongs together and what comes next. Japanese connects each new word, grammar pattern and kanji to a lesson goal, then brings it back through reading, listening, recall and production.
Learn it → meet it again → use it without the answer. ✦
WHAT MAKES LEARNING JAPANESE DIFFERENT
The difficult parts need different kinds of practice.
Japanese combines three scripts, unfamiliar sentence structure, context-dependent forms and dense connected speech. A strong Japanese learning app should identify each problem instead of sending every mistake to the same flashcard queue.
Kanji with several readings
A character can sound different across words. The course prioritises common vocabulary and teaches the reading that belongs to that word before expanding to new compounds and patterns.
Particles and flexible word order
Japanese marks relationships with particles such as は, が, を, に and で. Contrasting nearby sentences makes the role of each particle clearer than a translated rule alone.
Verb forms and politeness
Tense, negation, connection and register change the end of a Japanese sentence. Conjugation practice stays tied to an intention: what happened, what did not and how politely you need to say it.
Listening without visible spaces
Known words can disappear when Japanese is spoken naturally. Replay, dictation and transcript comparison reveal particles, shortened sounds and boundaries that text made look obvious.
Turning knowledge into an answer
Recognition grows faster than production. Changed prompts remove the example and ask you to retrieve the sentence pattern with a new person, time, place or reason.
The goal is not to make Japanese look simple. It is to make the next step clear enough that you can understand, practise and eventually use the real language.
WHAT A CONNECTED COURSE CHANGES
The same Japanese keeps working after the lesson ends.
A feature list does not create progress. The sequence between explanation, practice, feedback and later recall does.
Learning momentIn a scattered study stackInside Japanese
Next stepChoose another video, deck or chapterContinue the lesson for your level and current goal
New languageMeet a word or rule once in isolationRead it, hear it, retrieve it and use it in context
Wrong answersSee the correction and continueUnderstand the error, keep it and train a changed example
ProgressCount cards, taps or time spentSee what you can recognise, read, hear and produce
The course carries the connection for you, so your attention can stay on understanding and using Japanese.
A COMPLETE JLPT N5–N3 COURSE
Start from zero. Build toward connected Japanese.
Across 48 units and 240 lessons, each level expands the messages you can understand and create — not only the lists you have covered.
JLPT N501
始
Build a foundation you can use
Read kana, form your first sentences and handle introductions, time, food, shopping and directions.
12 units · 60 lessons
JLPT N402
進
Connect everyday Japanese
Talk about plans, experiences and reasons — and follow longer exchanges without losing the thread.
16 units · 80 lessons
JLPT N303
話
Understand the idea behind the words
Follow longer speech and texts, recognise register and nuance, and explain what you think with support.
20 units · 100 lessons
Already studied Japanese?
Compare levelsA five-minute placement check finds the first unstable skill and recommends a sensible starting point. You can review the result before accepting it.
WHAT YOU LEARN INSIDE THE COURSE
Every core Japanese skill, taught as one connected system.
The curriculum does not split Japanese into unrelated decks and drills. The same language moves through script, vocabulary, grammar, kanji, listening, reading and active recall.
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Hiragana and katakana
Learn both kana systems through sound, recognition and short words, then phase out rōmaji before it becomes a crutch.
Useful Japanese vocabulary
Build a core vocabulary around people, time, food, travel, study, work, feelings and the situations where those words belong.
Grammar that carries meaning
Understand particles, verb forms, sentence order and nuance by comparing what changes inside complete sentences.
Kanji through real words
Connect characters to common readings and useful compounds instead of memorising isolated symbols with every possible reading.
Levelled listening
Move from careful lines to connected speech, using replay, dictation and transcript checks to find what your ear missed.
Graded Japanese reading
Read dialogues, messages and short stories with optional furigana and word help that never replaces the original Japanese.
Recall and production
Turn English intentions, changed details and spoken prompts into Japanese without selecting from visible answers.
JLPT readiness
Check vocabulary, grammar, reading speed and listening by level, while keeping everyday Japanese at the centre of the course.
A connected syllabus matters: the word you learned in a lesson can return as kanji in a reader, as sound in dictation and as an idea you must produce later.
YOUR FIRST MONTH OF JAPANESE
A realistic beginning, week by week.
Progress depends on study time and review quality, so this is a direction rather than a promise. At roughly 15–20 minutes most days, your first month can establish a useful learning rhythm and a genuine N5 foundation.
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Read your first Japanese
Begin hiragana, essential sound patterns and greetings. Build short sentences with は, です and question forms.
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Talk about your world
Add numbers, time, locations and everyday nouns. Ask and answer simple questions without relying on a script.
03
Make actions move
Use present and past verb forms, basic particles and high-frequency kanji inside daily routines and short dialogues.
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Connect the skills
Read a complete N5 passage, follow a short exchange and complete a changed-prompt mission using what you remember.
Miss a day? Continue with due reviews and the next lesson. The course adjusts to the work you complete; it does not punish you for breaking a decorative streak.
One lesson8–12 minutes01Learn
02Practice
03Recall
04Use it
ONE LESSON · 8–12 MINUTES
Understand it, retrieve it, then use it.
Every lesson begins with a practical situation and ends with a changed prompt. You cannot finish by copying the example: the person, time, place or intention changes, so the language has to become yours.
- Learn meaning, reading and sound together
- See why a wrong answer failed
- Finish with listening, writing or production
REAL OUTCOMES, NOT ACTIVITY COUNTS
Every unit ends with Japanese you can do something with.
The mission changes the prompt and removes the model answer. That is where remembered vocabulary and understood grammar become useful language.
Meet someone for the first time
Introduce yourself, ask a simple follow-up and respond without reading a prepared script.
Find your way — including the answer
Ask for directions, understand landmarks and confirm where you need to go next.
Make plans that survive a change
Suggest a time, react naturally and explain why another day would work better.
Say what you think and why
Connect facts, reactions and reasons so your Japanese can carry more than a short answer.
The situations grow with the level. N5 handles immediate needs, N4 connects everyday events and N3 develops explanations, register and supported opinions.
CHOOSE THE RIGHT STUDY MODE
One app for a full lesson, a quick review or deeper Japanese practice.
Your available time changes from day to day. The learning system stays connected whether you have five minutes to review or half an hour to read, listen and produce.
The home screen recommends one useful next action without locking the rest of the course.
Continue the structured course
Follow the next lesson in the N5–N3 sequence so new language arrives with the knowledge it depends on.
Clear due reviews
Use a short SRS session to repair fragile meaning, reading, listening or production connections.
Train one weak skill
Choose kana, kanji, conjugation, grammar, dictation, sentence building or a level check.
Look up and keep moving
Search the offline dictionary, save the useful word and return to the sentence that made it matter.
Read or listen for longer
Open a graded passage close to your level and practise following the complete message, not isolated answers.
A FOCUSED 20-MINUTE JAPANESE ROUTINE
Use a short session to move Japanese forward.
You do not need to touch every feature every day. A useful session repairs yesterday’s weak point, adds one connected lesson and finishes with Japanese you produce yourself.
On a five-minute day, do the due reviews. On a longer day, add reading or listening after the core session.
- 2–4 MINSTEP 01
Repair what is due
Begin with a small review queue. Say the answer before revealing it and notice whether meaning, reading, sound or production failed.
- 8–12 MINSTEP 02
Complete one connected lesson
Learn a manageable amount of vocabulary and grammar inside one situation, then practise it through several skills before moving on.
- 3–5 MINSTEP 03
Produce one changed answer
Repeat the final task with a different detail. Speak or write the answer from the intention rather than copying the model sentence.
- WHEN AVAILABLESTEP 04
Add wider input
Read a graded passage, listen again without the transcript or explore a saved word. Longer exposure works best when the course has already made the language accessible.
FOCUSED JAPANESE PRACTICE
Practise the skill that actually caused the mistake.
A familiar word may still fail in audio. A clear grammar rule may disappear during production. Each practice mode targets a specific connection and feeds the result back into review.
Production
Build the answer yourself
Use changed prompts, dictation and sentence building so recognition becomes active Japanese.
Vocabulary & SRSReview the weak connection
SRS separates meaning, reading, sound and recall instead of repeating every card equally.
KanjiLearn kanji through words
Connect each character to a useful reading, real vocabulary and the sentences where it belongs.
ReadingRead at the right level
Follow graded Japanese with optional furigana, audio and word help only when you need it.
GrammarChoose grammar in context
Compare nearby forms, see why one fits and rebuild the idea with a different detail.
ListeningHear what the text hides
Levelled listening and dictation reveal missed particles, endings and connected sounds.
20,000-ENTRY OFFLINE JAPANESE DICTIONARY
Resolve the sentence, save the useful word, keep reading.
Search by kanji, kana, rōmaji or English. Common inflected verbs and adjectives lead back to their base form, while course links show where the word becomes useful.
- Common meanings before rare specialist senses
- Reading, pronunciation and examples together
- One tap from lookup to personal SRS review
No signal required. The complete compact dictionary stays on your device.
Explore the Japanese dictionary 食べるEN
食べるたべる · taberu
＋to eat; to consume
朝ご飯を食べます。
あさごはんを たべます。I eat breakfast.Appears in 4 course lessons
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JAPANESE SPACED REPETITION
Review what is fragile — in the form that is fragile.
The same item can be easy to recognise and hard to hear or produce. Japanese tracks those connections separately instead of treating one successful flashcard as complete mastery.
Recognise it
You understand the Japanese when the answer is already in front of you.
Read it
You reach the sound from kana or kanji without depending on rōmaji.
Hear it
You catch the same language when it appears inside connected speech.
Produce it
You retrieve the word or pattern yourself when the meaning comes first.
A wrong answer changes the next review.
How SRS works The app identifies whether meaning, reading, sound or production failed, explains the relevant error and schedules a changed example to prove the correction later.
FOLLOW ONE WORD THROUGH THE APP
Vocabulary becomes usable through repeated, different encounters.
A word is not learned because you tapped the correct translation once. It becomes available when form, sound, meaning, grammar and recall continue to reconnect in new contexts.
食べる is more than “to eat”: it is a reading, a sound, a verb pattern and a choice you can make inside a sentence.
Meet it in a situation
食べる first appears where the action is clear: choosing breakfast and talking about what someone eats.
Connect form, sound and meaning
See 食べる, read たべる, hear the pronunciation and notice the kanji inside the same learning moment.
Change the grammar
Use 食べます, 食べました and 食べない in sentences where tense and politeness change the message.
Retrieve it later
Recall the word from audio, meaning and a new sentence prompt. The weakest connection returns first in review.
GRADED READER · N5
雨の日のカフェA café on a rainy day
今日は雨です。駅の近くのカフェに入りました。
Today it is raining. I went into a café near the station.
駅近く入りました
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GRADED JAPANESE READING · N5 TO N3Explore Japanese reading practice
Read for the message, not one translated line at a time.
Short stories and practical texts stay close to your course level. Read once for the situation, reveal help only where meaning breaks down, then reread the complete Japanese for flow.
Support only when requestedReveal furigana or a meaning without replacing the Japanese text.
Hear the same passageConnect familiar written language to Japanese sound and rhythm.
Return after lookupResolve the decisive word, then continue with the wider idea.
OFFLINE-FIRST BY DESIGN
Your next Japanese lesson does not need a signal.
Lessons, practice, reviews, saved words, progress and dictionary search remain on your device. Store purchases and app updates still require the relevant platform connection.
What works offline20k local entries0 adsN5–N3 offline course
WHO THE JAPANESE APP IS FOR
Start where your knowledge actually is.
The same structured course supports three common starting points without forcing every learner through the same opening sequence.
The complete beginner
Begin with Japanese sound and kana, then add vocabulary and grammar in an order that does not assume prior knowledge.
The returning learner
Use the placement check to find the first unstable area, rebuild the missing connection and keep the knowledge that is already solid.
The JLPT-focused learner
Study the language required by your level while continuing to produce sentences, follow messages and use Japanese beyond question formats.
Your goal can change without resetting your progress.
Study for travel, rebuild after a break or move toward JLPT N5, N4 or N3 while keeping the same vocabulary history, saved words and review memory.
15 COMPLETE JAPANESE LESSONS FREE
Try the actual course before choosing the full path.
The free N5 units are not shortened demo screens. Complete lessons, hear and produce Japanese, use the dictionary, clear daily reviews and finish real unit missions.
3 complete N5 units Placement check Offline dictionary Core practice & SRS
WHEN YOU ARE READY TO CONTINUE
One upgrade. The full N5–N3 path.
Unlock the remaining 225 lessons without moving your vocabulary, mistakes or progress into another system.
- All 48 course units
- N5, N4 and N3 level checks
- Full reading and practice library
- Future course additions
HOW THE COURSE MAKES DECISIONS
Five principles behind the learning design.
These rules shape lesson order, hints, feedback, review and level claims. They keep the app focused on durable Japanese rather than fast-looking activity.
Read about the learning methodJapanese stays visible
Translations and furigana are temporary support. The goal is to return attention to the Japanese sentence, not make the support system permanent.
One example is never the finish line
A changed person, time, object or intention proves whether you understood the pattern or only remembered the model answer.
Kanji belongs inside vocabulary
Characters are introduced through useful words, readings and sentences, then recycled across lessons, reading and review.
Mistakes should change the next step
Feedback identifies the failed connection and gives you a nearby contrast before scheduling a later proof of recall.
JLPT levels are targets, not guarantees
The course makes its scope visible and trains relevant skills without pretending that a secret official list or an automatic pass exists.
START WITH THE PROBLEM YOU WANT TO SOLVE
Find the right Japanese learning path for your goal.
Explore the part of the course that matches your immediate need, then return to the complete N5–N3 sequence when you are ready.
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I want to start Japanese from zero
A practical beginner path through kana, first sentences and everyday situations.
I want a clear JLPT study path
Compare N5, N4 and N3 outcomes, course scope and readiness checks.
I keep forgetting vocabulary
Learn how contextual vocabulary and connection-based SRS work together.
I understand grammar but cannot use it
Move from explanations and contrasts to changed prompts and production.
Reading Japanese still feels slow
Build flow with graded passages, selective help and repeated reading.
Spoken Japanese disappears too quickly
Train connected sound with levelled audio, dictation and transcript checks.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Specific answers to the important questions.
Beginner level, JLPT alignment, offline use, free access, study time and realistic expectations.
Visit supportIs this Japanese learning app for beginners?＋
Yes. The N5 path starts from zero with kana and your first everyday sentences. You do not need to know hiragana, katakana or kanji before lesson one.
Is this a JLPT course?＋
The path is organised around N5, N4 and N3 goals and trains vocabulary, grammar, reading and listening. Because the JLPT does not publish fixed official word or grammar lists, the app uses transparent level targets rather than claiming access to a secret syllabus.
Can I learn Japanese offline?＋
Yes. Lessons, progress, reviews, saved words and the 20,000-entry Japanese dictionary are designed to work offline. Pronunciation uses the Japanese voice on your device, so normal study does not require an external audio service.
What is included for free?＋
The first three N5 units — 15 full lessons — are free, alongside the placement test, dictionary, daily goals and core practice. You can experience the real learning loop before deciding whether Premium is right for you.
How much time should I study each day?＋
A normal lesson takes around 8–12 focused minutes. On a busy day, clear a few due reviews. When you have more time, add dictation, writing, focused practice or a graded reader.
Will completing N3 guarantee a passing score?＋
No app can guarantee an exam result. Japanese trains the relevant language skills and includes readiness checks, but consistency, wider exposure and exam-day performance still matter.
Does the app use rōmaji and furigana?＋
Rōmaji is available briefly at the beginning, then reduced as your kana reading becomes stable. Furigana can be revealed in supported reading, but stays optional so kanji recognition can grow.
Can returning learners skip beginner material?＋
Yes. The placement check samples reading, vocabulary, grammar and listening, then recommends a starting point. You can inspect the result, move backward for review or choose another unit yourself.
Is the Japanese dictionary separate from the course?＋
No. Dictionary entries link back to lessons and saved words can enter your review queue. A lookup becomes part of learning instead of disappearing into search history.
COMING SOON TO IOS AND ANDROID
Your Japanese should add up to something.
Send us a short email request and we will reply when the app is ready — from first kana to connected ideas in one N5–N3 path.
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