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Great app, just a few little bugs
This is a really effective app for learning Japanese. Just a couple of issues such as some of the hiragana writing practice can be super sensitive and not let you ‘pass’. For example trying to write ‘o’ or ‘me’ it never accepts my attempt even though I am super accurate. Also when translating sentences in the ‘verbs’ section sometimes it gives you a short sentence to translate which is fine, but then there are blank spaces for two sentences and lots of elements to choose from but no clue as to what the second sentence is that needs to be translated. With a bunch of trial and error you finally work it out. But a very effective app and well worth the $12.Show lessTorupill
Excellent for this beginner
I’ve used this app daily for 20 minutes routinely, since July 2018 to begin learning Japanese. I like the easy access to individual character sets, charts and the revision reminders. I like traffic light system showing which characters are still not know well yet or have been forgotten, shown in red. I love the full sensory learning, read, listen, say, write. I had no idea of the bredth of the Japanese written language and its deep historical connection with the Chinese language, amazing! It is now November and I feel I can remember and write with support of this app, the entire hiragana and katakana charts in the app which is a great start to beginning to recognise words and so I am slowly picking up vocabulary and simple sentence structure quicker that if I had tried to just randomly pick up sentences here and there. I am beginning to recognise a few of the kanji symbols because of this app. Knowing the hiragana chart, and the katakana chart helps immensely with forming and recognising words, then forming structurally correct sentences amd matching these with the Kanji.
Downside
If I’ve been on for more than an hour the app starts glitching. So I have had to shut the phone down to reset or delete and reload the app.Show lessPaapere
Great app, important bugs
Overall, I love this app. I learned Japanese so quickly due to the convenience of having it on the phone. The tutorials are well informative however, there are a few bugs that are annoying and important to address. First, the writing feature is great however there are times where I mis written the word, but it counts it as correct. This is due to the fact that the app only accounts on the # of strokes that are being applied per word, which creates very inaccurate result. This can also affect words where you do get it correct, but marks it as wrong. Additionally, there were couple of times that the app crashed during mid session which results in me having to do the lesson again.
Overall, it’s an amazing app and yields excellent results, but does have its problems along with it.Show lessdaichisakane
High quality
Only $3 to learn Hiragana I love it. An amazing app. I am travelling to Japan for a month and want to be able to read some things. Fun to learn and lets you draw the characters. I haven’t done the katakana or kanji yet and I’m sure they’re fabulous too.Sgtpepper1119
Should have more options
I have been studying Japanese for a while, and decided to download another app. This is really helpful for learning how characters are written. However, I already know all hiragana and katakana. I think you should be able to choose your current level of how far you’ve gotten of learning Japanese. For instance, you could have “Level 1” as not knowing any Japanese, so you have everything to learn. Level 2 could be when you know Hiragana and Katakana. Level 3 could be when you know basic phrases/structures.
If you already know kana, you could select a level 2 so you don’t have to practice kana, because you’ve already learned them with something else.
I would love it if you could take this into consideration!Show lessRedLightningStrike
App overview!
I enjoy using this app! I am beginning to teach myself Japanese and I’m starting off with Hiragana first. I love how it’s broken down into Hiragana-and has lessons with using Hiragana. Also, with Katana it has the lessons to go along with each specific part! I also use this with my daughter so she can listen and follow along as well!!! This has helped me so much and I will be purchasing the full bundle in order to have access to everything within the app! I need to invest in getting some hiragana and katana writing practice sheets to work on my writing (currently using two notebooks) one for vocabulary and grammar! I would recommend anyone to get this app and see if you like it! It’s great for beginners in addition to the other Japanese learning apps that I have I’m learning at a very fast rate with the hiragana so far! Love, love,love it!!!Show lessJessiesays
Honestly, worth the money.
I am a college student and I have been trying to pick this language up for years. I have tried around 11 different apps and although some have helped me learn the alphabet, none of them stuck and I had to rely more on basic memorization than actual activity based learning.
I have never bought any app. Never. And I have never made any in-app purchases. This is my only exception. I learned really quickly with the first lesson, and it felt effortless. It has writing, pronunciation, and reading all in one.
I really enjoy this app. Made it quick to learn this language and without much effort. Truly worth the 8$ I paid for all the lessons.Show lessVeg or gag
Good.
Good for beginners.Beethoven the dog
Very impressed
I tried the first lesson of the hiragana corse and I was impressed at how simple the app made it. On each level, (hiragana, katakana, kanji, basics, questions, verbs and adjectives) you got given a small ‘taster.’ I couldn’t help but pay to learn all the lessons in each levels. At first I thought “it’s going to be very difficult” but I can easily say that once you’ve got the first two down, (hiragana and katakana) it makes everything else so much easier! Definitely worth the money and if you think you won’t be able to remember all the symbols then it would help to practice writing them down as you go. However, the app tells you what you need to improve on as you’re going. I can easily say that I love it and I would definitely recommend to people that have an interest in the language!Show lessskipstream
Almost perfect
Great app for learning Japanese. It has an occasional glitch where it will repeat the audio clip for the previous word/phrase instead of the current one.
Also, with the small screen on iPhone SE, I had one instance where one of the words you needed to tap to build up a sentence was on top of the “show hint” button at the bottom of the screen. Every time I tried to tap the word, the hint pop up would get shown instead. I eventually managed to tap the word by tapping the very edge of it (the part not on top of the hint button).
If they can fix the audio glitch and make the hint button smaller or move it to the corner - this would be 5 stars.Show less22ash
