# Easy Japanese for Beginners — user reviews > 66 indexed App Store user reviews of Easy Japanese for Beginners by Phong Nguyen, rated 4.75/5 from 230 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/easy-japanese-for-beginners/id917403457/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/easy-japanese-for-beginners/id917403457.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 190 · 4★ 30 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 4 ## What do users think of Easy Japanese for Beginners? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Great for beginners - 👍 Easy to understand - 👍 Helpful for learning Japanese - 👍 Good educational tool - 👍 Nice audio and teaching - 👍 Explains language well - 👍 Useful scenarios and dialogues - 👍 Free resource - 👍 Engaging speakers - 👍 Good pedagogical framework **Cons** - ⚠️ Frequent commercials/ads - ⚠️ Audio sometimes doesn't work - ⚠️ App not updated recently - ⚠️ Intrusive ads - ⚠️ Full intros every lesson **Commonly reported bugs** - Audio doesn't work - Sound does not work - Cannot hear anything - Lesson 4 doesn't play - Sound player does not work anymore **Most requested features** - Option to turn off Roman letters on syllabary - More lessons - Option to remove all ads ## Newest reviews (16 of 66) ### 5/5 — Sou chef *2022-09-07, version 1.5.6* Good for beginner ### 5/5 — Great app *2022-07-31, version 1.5.6* I love this app it helped me learn the basics of Japanese. I have no problem with this app it’s great! ### 5/5 — Awesome *2022-07-31, version 1.5.6* Great app ### 5/5 — great *2022-07-28, version 1.5.6* Good would be few: its the best ! ### 5/5 — Easy Japanese *2022-07-04, version 1.5.6* I appreciate the extra advice about best practices for use of words and phrases and am enjoying the onomatopoeia lessons! Thank you! ### 5/5 — This is the best app I have ever seen. *2022-06-08, version 1.5.6* It will be more effective of there are more lessons. ### 5/5 — Excellent Japanese Language Learning Tutorial *2022-04-05, version 1.5.6* Easy Japanese is a must! ### 5/5 — Great app for beginners! *2021-09-19, version 1.5.6* I really enjoy this free app! ### 5/5 — Great for beginners! *2021-09-04, version 1.5.6* A great resource for those with an elementary understanding of Japanese. ### 5/5 — The app is constructed well for learning *2021-08-05, version 1.5.6* The elements needed to retain the Japanese construct are available in the side notes tab. Really good breakdown ### 5/5 — Best Japanese learning server for beginners *2021-08-01, version 1.5.6* It’s so easy to understand and did help me improve a lot in Japanese. Love this app!! ### 5/5 — Bubbles 2473 *2021-07-16, version 1.5.6* Nice app for learning and practicing how to speak ### 5/5 — Heyyy *2021-06-29, version 1.5.6* I think this is helpful for beginners ### 4/5 — Great lessons for beginners *2021-06-17, version 1.5.6* The lessons are excellent. The only thing I don’t like is too many ads, but it is ok. ### 5/5 — Great *2021-05-09, version 1.5.6* It’s a great app for those who are just beginning in Japanese it’s fun and easy to listen too, the podcasts feel like a talk radio show and you always walk away learning one new phrase or even grammar tips when writing in hiragana or katakana ### 5/5 — Coool⭐️ *2021-04-16, version 1.5.6* Cooool ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No sound *2017-09-28, version 1.5* Sound does not work in app ### 1/5 — Cannot hear anything *2017-09-23, version 1.5* Cannot hear anything ### 1/5 — 為何完全沒有發音? *2017-08-07, version 1.5* 為何完全沒發音 ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2015-03-07* Sadly this app is ruined by intrusive Google ads constantly interfering at each and every stage, with no option to purchase for an ad-free version. ### 1/5 — Unusable due to the number of ads presented *2015-02-03, version 1.3* Shows way too many ads. ### 3/5 — Good beginning app *2019-10-31* I like the various scenarios but get annoyed at the full intros re narrators every single lesson. ### 4/5 — An Improvement *2023-09-26, version 1.5.6* Love the app. Suggestion: an option of turning off the Roman letters on syllabary of hiragana katakana. ### 4/5 — This is okay! *2023-04-12, version 1.5.6* I’ve used it a little, and while their is no writing practice and it throw you right in, it gives you grammar lessons and words through scenarios. ### 4/5 — Pog *2022-07-20, version 1.5.6* It’s good, it actually explains how the language is spoken and how each word ties in with each other ### 4/5 — Excellent resource! *2021-07-13, version 1.5.6* Thank you for offering this free resources! Very helpful! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good *2024-03-21* Very good ### 5/5 — Amazing program *2024-03-17, version 1.5.6* This program is awesome! Each lesson is about 10 mins long and a great educational tool for the beginners like me! ### 5/5 — great *2023-10-31, version 1.5.6* Good would be few: its the best ! ### 5/5 — Love baby *2023-08-09, version 1.5.6* Love it and thank you!! ### 5/5 — Japanese *2023-07-31, version 1.5.6* Great program! ### 5/5 — Topper app *2023-07-30* Looking for an app to suggest for s’one I have stumbled to this gem thus by curiosity I immerse myself into study for good:)obviously networking required to hear the dialogues.Only one negative about the frequency of commercials however works well if you get over it…arigato ### 5/5 — Good *2023-07-04, version 1.5.6* Good ### 5/5 — Very nice and useful! *2023-02-23, version 1.5.6* The audio it has is really nice, and the teaching is great. I like how there’s that American guy(I think lol) in it he honestly kinda helps and his commentary is useful. But I kind of wish that the audio just kept playing into the next episode… but overall its super worth it! I enjoy the story like and the little situations! 10/10!! ### 5/5 — Very informative! Especially when combined when listening along with the podcast! *2023-01-10, version 1.5.6* Very informative! Especially when combined when listening along with the podcast! ### 5/5 — Park Inah *2023-01-03, version 1.5.6* I'm Korean and started learning Japanese by myself. I've never found this app and am already excited about this learning, so I can speak Japanese when I visit Japan next time. I will do daily as much as I can. Thanks for this opportunity for me. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-25.*