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This app teaches Japanese kana, vocabulary, and sentences through a typing game. It features a smart review system and multiple game modes to help users progress. The app works offline and is designed with user privacy in mind.
✓Learn kana, vocabulary, and sentences
✓Smart spaced-repetition review
✓Built-in mini-IME with romaji input
✓Journey, Time Attack, and Practice modes
✓7,000+ words and example sentences
✓Offline functionality
✓Privacy-focused design
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What's New in Nihongo Ride
1.36
October 26, 2026
• Word Lists: on a list's page, words written with kanji now show their reading underneath, as the dictionary search results there already do, and a long meaning wraps instead of being cut off. • Word Lists: the Saved list's row shows its star once instead of twice. • Corrected 22 example sentences where a number and its counter were read wrong: for example, 四月 is now read しがつ, 九時 くじ, 三千円 さんぜんえん, 十分 (ten minutes) じゅっぷん, and 四人 よにん.
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What is Nihongo Ride?
Nihongo Ride is a typing practice app designed to teach Japanese kana, vocabulary, and real sentences. It offers a calm and focused learning experience with features like smart review and multiple game modes.
How does Nihongo Ride teach Japanese?
It teaches by having users type the correct readings of kana, vocabulary, and sentences. Mistyped words are intelligently reviewed later, and the app provides meanings in English and Chinese, along with example sentences.
What are the different modes in Nihongo Ride?
Nihongo Ride offers three modes: Journey, an immersive experience across Japan; Time Attack, a 60-second speed challenge; and Practice, a distraction-free mode for drills and passages, including an optional blind challenge.
Does Nihongo Ride require an internet connection?
No, Nihongo Ride works fully offline. It is designed with privacy in mind, requiring no sign-up, tracking, or analytics, and all progress is stored locally on your device.
What content is available in Nihongo Ride?
The app includes over 7,000 words covering JLPT levels N5 to N1, with English and Chinese meanings. It also features example sentences and 233 reading passages, supporting katakana loanwords.
Is Nihongo Ride suitable for all Japanese learners?
Yes, Nihongo Ride is designed for learners at all levels, from beginners starting with JLPT N5 to advanced learners polishing N1. It turns daily typing into tangible Japanese progress.
Does Nihongo Ride have ads?
No, Nihongo Ride is ad-free. It is designed with user privacy as a priority and does not contain any advertisements or tracking.
What is the pricing for Nihongo Ride?
Nihongo Ride is free to download and use. There is an optional in-app purchase handled by the App Store for additional features or content.
