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I knew how to write hiragana and katakana in my high school days but now I totally forgot. I’ve used numerous apps and even tried to write it out. It takes a bit of effort on my end because it’s not really knowledge I necessarily need so I fail to learn the writing system in its entirety. This app helps you learn fast casually whether you’re just sitting on your sofa because of how it challenges you to recall what you just learned. That’s what sold me to purchase this app because when I realized how fast I was memorizing the vowels, I figured, why not. If it costs me less than $10 to retain the knowledge, I’m on board.Show lessKoans808
Drop Duolingo !
I love Duolingo, I've been using it for years for my French, but it's garbage. It's great if you're a kid and have no money to spend, but if you have the money, use something else.
I was repeating the same first three hiragana lessons on Duolingo for weeks. I thought I was just too dumb to grasp it. After a day on this app, I FINALLY learned multiple characters that I couldn't grasp before ! Now my Japanese is actually moving along.
If you're learning more than just Japanese (like me, as I mentioned I also learn French), try Babble and Drops ! Drops is free vocabulary, Babble is a paid course. I believe Drops has Japanese as well.Show lessnauticalelliott
Perfect
Downloaded a few apps and played around until I was hit with a paywall and did not feel enough of an impression to pay for them. When I started using this one, its simplicity and fast pace actually really helped. I really enjoyed using the first lesson up to the paywall, and ran through it again before I decided this app is worth the $7 payment. Its simplicity just feels so clean and the lessons are very fun to do. Im actually taking away alot more than I thought I would. Anyone considering learning to read and write japanese, I fully recommend this app! The repetition is actually a serious help as I can breeze through a bunch of lessons because I taught myself to memorize characters and sounds from writing and hearing them over and over again. Im only about halfway through hirigana, but I feel as though it has already been money well spent. It will even tell you what you need to review from precious lessons to get better at the lesson you are currently on. Fantastic app!Show lessBrady0124
Great app!
I love this app!! I’ve been taking it steady by learning the hiragana vowels first on this app, then writing them out line after line on a bit of paper to soak it in. I then re visit the section I’ve learnt before moving on. I decided to buy the whole hiragana level one section because I like it so much but I didn’t realise I payed £7.99 for ALL the sections on the app, not just hiragana level one!! I’m so freaking happy right now with this app 😁Show lessJustAllexx
Better Than Duolingo
I’ve been interested in learning Japanese for awhile now, so I had downloaded Duolingo to learn since it’s free. However, I wasn’t really grasping much from the lessons and after only a day of using it, Duo wanted me to start learning Katakana, even though I JUST started learning Hiragana. In the end, I just kept on redoing the same lessons over and over again to try to learn Hiragana so I could move on, but it really didn’t help much and I couldn’t seem to learn any of the characters.
Out of curiosity, I started looking for other free Japanese apps and I stumbled upon this one and decided to give it a try. When I did the first Hiragana lesson, I found that it actually focused on just the characters so I could memorize them. That was just what I needed! I paid for the app after the first lesson because of how good it was and I was not disappointed. Because this app takes the time to help you learn each Hiragana character, I can now read Hiragana so much better than when I was using Duolingo, and the characters are sticking with me. I would recommend this app to anyone who wants to learn how to read Japanese, not just speak it (you can probably use Duo if you only want to learn how to speak Japanese).
This app has been really helpful so far, and I definitely recommend at least trying to free lesson. I haven’t had any problems with it yet and overall, it’s a great app for learning Japanese.Show lessYuzukiandFord
only one lesson is free...
i don’t want to be “that person” but this is ana amazing app and that makes you pay for every lesson after vowels. i really liked it and the way it’s set up lets you trace, match characters to letters, match letters to characters, and try on your own. you can also redo the lesson if you need. i was really learning and doing good and about to move on but to move to the next lesson i would need to pay. it made me upset because i am not in a position to be paying the app and i realize they need money but i was really hopeful for this app and out of 6 apps this was the most helpful.
i don’t want to give a bad review for money issues but at the same time i might have to delete the app and i wouldn’t recommend even downloading unless you are willing to pay for it because there isn’t any option to keep learning unless you pay.
i really wish i could give 5 stars because from what i see it’s an amazing app and well developed and extremely helpful for learning japanese but the least you could do is say like- a couple lessons a day instead of unlimited unless you pay. instead one lesson and you have to pay from then out. i really hope my review is taken into consideration and i can learn because as i’ve said it’s an amazing app and i don’t see anything wrong with it. you can go back and redo lessons if you forget and the design for learning is amazing. please make this affordable for those who can’t pay and i would gladly change my review but until then...Show lessPotato_AppleSauce
Developer Response
I’m sorry that I can’t make the app free. I would if I could. The purchases are not for each lesson but for 50+ lessons in each level. You can purchase one level at a time for just a few dollars rather than purchase the full set of levels. It’s a one time purchase instead of a subscription so you won’t need to pay again for that level.Pretty good
I find everything pretty easy to follow as I go and right now I’m learning all the hiragana pretty quickly. But there’s one problem, sometimes when I do a “review” on a set of characters, it glitches out after answering 1 characterrandom non
Incorrect hiragana for handwriting
This is generally a good app for quick revision and keeping the stroke orders fresh in your head. Unfortunately one issue is that when tracing the hiragana, it expects the printed form. This is fine for most characters, but incorrect for some. When writing SA さ it expects it to be written as two strokes, in the typeface style, however this would more frequently be handwritten with three strokes, where the bottom is not connected to the downward stroke. This can be frustrating when trying to revise, as often you’ve actually written the kana correctly, but it tells you it’s wrong. It should really recognise both the handwritten and printed/typeface forms.Show lessbhodgson
Perfect for beginners
A good grounding in the scripts and basic words and sentence structures of Japanese. With the bevy of language apps on the App Store this one has a minimal but smooth interface that prompts you to learn and review in a manner that you can handle at your own pace but certainly doesn’t lag when wanting to speed through to test yourselfShow lessklokwerk17
pretty good, just a little problem
it was going amazing up until i was told to write "ha" in which i did but it told me i was incorrect??? i had put in the write character and repeatedly tried toohananiak
