10 Minute Japanese User Reviews

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Latest update caused problems

For some words the spoken word does not match the kanji/kana on the screen. Needs to be fixed immediately!

Response from developer

Good afternoon! Could you point out which words have the wrong pronunciation?

Subscribe before try?

Apps that ask for you to subscribe to a cost package before you’ve even tried a single thing get immediately deleted from this phone and given one star reviews.

Response from developer

Hello! The condition for activating the test period is the activation of a paid subscription. The subscription terms explicitly state that the first 7 days are free, after the trial period is over, payment will be charged. You can cancel your app subscription before the end of the trial period. If the user cancels the subscription before the end of the trial period, no funds will be debited. Please note that the application only offers to connect a subscription, and connecting a subscription implies your consent and confirmation using your account password. We use standard Apple subscriptions. In accordance with Apple's payment policy, subscription management is on the platform side for security reasons, developers do not have access to transactions and data of users who have signed up for a subscription. You need to cancel your subscription to the app yourself. You can read more about subscription management in this guide: https://support.apple.com/HT202039 Have a nice day!

It’s great but could use some work

If the devs continue update the app I think it is amazing so far the only things I wish were added are
-How to actually read konji
-specific word search ( per category or all )
-beginner shouldn’t assume the person know’s how to read and write konji maybe for the next difficulty setting, I want to do it after I’ve learned how to read and pronounce but it’s a bit hard now

Over all I love the category system and I’ve been writing my work down and really giving it my all and I’m having fun so I can’t wait to see where this goes
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Paywall

You have to be pay to use the app, why don’t they just charge upfront. Don’t appreciate getting tricked

Wants $ upfront- don’t water your time

Would like to get those 5 minutes I lost answering questions only to be confronted with a 2 month minimum paywall.A free trial should truly be free, not predatory in the hopes I forget to cancel and get charged. If I was responsible enough to remember to cancel something, I wouldn’t be using an app to learn Japanese in ‘10 minutes’ ごにょごにょごにょ!
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Response from developer

Good afternoon. Thank you for your feedback. The application's terms of use are posted on the application's page in the App Store, which you can review at any time. The application sends notifications to the user about the end of the test period, if the application has been given permission to send notifications, so the user will definitely not forget about the end of the test period. Additionally, the user receives an email from Apple notifying that the trial period is ending.

Very good

Really good if you don’t have huge amount of time to learn during the day

Badly put together

The choice of words seems to be quite random, with some outlandish words coming up that most people wouldn’t need in the early stages of learning a language.
What’s more, the words are all presented in kanji, with a Japanese recorded voice which is often difficult to understand even when played back slowly. Presenting the voices in both kanji and romaji would help enormously since obviously no one who is a Japanese beginner (or even intermediate) will be able to read kanji, and memorising kanji is something that should happen at a later stage. An app like this should provide an easy and fun way of learning useful Japanese vocabulary and in my opinion this one fails completely.
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Response from developer

Hello! I have forwarded your comments to the relevant department. Thanks for the feedback!

Don’t waste your money on this

I am a native Japanese speaker and checked this app for my wife to learn Japanese as it was advertised in my Insta feed.

All the words seem to be translated using Google translate. Since Japanese is a highly contextual language, simply auto translating words won’t be too helpful especially when they are inconsistent or plain wrong.

I won’t recommend it even if it’s for free.
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Response from developer

Hello! Thank you for your interest in our program! Together with language schools from around the world, we are constantly working on vocabulary in the application. All words added to the application are added after agreement with native speakers.

Not free at all😒

I’ve been trying to find a app that can teach me Japanese and this was free to download it asked me all these questions like it was serious but after these questions you don’t get the lesson you have to pay $14.99 a month unless you get the free trial I have a photo of proof

I saw an ad ad on instagram

They said “download for free”, well in that sense is guess that they weren’t lying because you could download it for free, but the content is still locked behind a paywall.( unless you did the free trial that is)

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