# Nihongo Sensei: Minna — Japanese N5 kanji, verbs, kana > Japanese N5 kanji, verbs, kana (iPhone/iPad app by Paul Campos Gil.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nihongo-sensei-minna/id6789333985 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Paul Campos Gil](https://appshunter.io/developer/6789333987) - Category: Education, Reference - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.0 · 180 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-04 - Data updated: 2026-08-26 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nihongo-sensei-minna/id6789333985/reviews.md ## What is Nihongo Sensei? The companion app for Minna no Nihongo — the 25-lesson beginner Japanese course. Every word, every example sentence and every kanji reading from the course, organised the way your textbook is, lesson by lesson, so what you study in class is what you practise on your phone. WHAT'S INSIDE · 994 words and 966 example sentences, with the English and Spanish meaning · Kanji readings, kana and vocabulary, split by lesson · Studio-quality audio for every word and sentence: two voices, two speeds · Numbers, from zero to a million THE DOJO Studying is not enough. The Dojo is where you practise, in six rooms: · Verbs — all four forms, and the rule you need when you get one wrong · Adjectives and nouns — is, is not, was, and how they go before a noun · Sentences — the lesson's pattern, with the verb in the form it asks for · Kana — the whole of hiragana and katakana, and the pairs everyone confuses · Listening — hear a word, write what you heard · Numbers — including the readings that change: 300, 600, 800, 3000, 8000 Get one wrong and it does not just say "incorrect". It names the rule, and shows you the other words that follow it, so the next one is not a guess. "My rules" keeps track of what you are weak at and what you no longer miss. NO ACCOUNT, NO INTERNET, NO DATA COLLECTED Everything runs on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is tracked, and there is nothing to sign up for. Your progress lives on your device. IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH Switch the interface language whenever you like. — Independent study aid. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the publisher of any textbook. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.4 — 2026-08-26 THE DOJO Studying is not enough. Now you practise. Six rooms to train what you have already seen in the course. · Verbs — all four forms, and the rule you need when you get one wrong · Adjectives and nouns — is, is not, was, and how they go before a noun · Sentences — the lesson's pattern, with the verb in the form it asks for · Kana — the whole of hiragana and katakana, and the pairs everyone confuses · Listening — hear it, write what you heard · Numbers — from zero to a million, including the readings that change My rules shows you what you are weak at and what you no longer get wrong. Plus audio: over a hundred words regenerated and checked one by one. ### 1.3 — 2026-08-21 A new voice for all the Japanese in the app. Words and example sentences are now recorded with a natural voice: the same on every phone, and offline. • Choose a woman's or a man's voice • Slow the audio down right from the study screen, no settings needed • New button to report a problem Before, each phone used its own speech engine — on many it sounded wrong, or nothing played at all. ### 1.2.1 — 2026-08-16 Minor fixes. The info screen now shows the correct app version. ### 1.2 — 2026-08-14 Reviews - Today's session no longer comes out of the same block of words. It now mixes words from every level and every due date, so two sessions in a row won't repeat a single one. - Getting a word wrong no longer drops its level on the first miss. You have to miss it twice in a row, and one correct answer in between clears it. A word you've known for weeks won't sink because of one slip. - Levelling up takes half as many correct answers. Progress actually moves. - And weak words leave the list as soon as you get them right once. Progress - The progress screen reads at a glance: words are split into Starting out, On the way and Weak, and all three numbers move as you study. Before, almost everything fell into a single group and progress was invisible. - The N0–N5 labels are gone — they clashed with the JLPT levels. - The home screen no longer shows how many reviews you've piled up. Just today's. If you've just started - The app tells you where to begin, how many words the lesson has and how long it takes, instead of showing you a screen full of zeros. - While a lesson is unfinished, that's what you see first. - And it explains, once, that reviews come back on their own and new words are learned by opening a lesson. Quiz - Words are now accepted without the polite prefix: べんとう works for お弁当, かね for お金. Family terms still keep their distinction, because there the difference is the lesson itself. - Fixed the answer field staying selected when answering with the Japanese keyboard. - Skipped words now show in amber, the same colour the app uses to count weak ones. Content - Eleven meanings corrected that were giving the answer away: some spelled the word out in romaji inside the explanation, others gave its kana reading. - "Due" is now called "To review", which is what it means. ### 1.1 — 2026-08-08 What's new - Flashcards: new "Test yourself" mode. Swipe each card to sort it into what you know and what you don't, with a counter and undo. - Training is now a single screen, simpler and without options that got in the way. - The lesson view and the quiz are cleaner: fewer rows, fewer categories that added nothing. Quiz improvements - With the keyboard open you can see the prompt, the answer field and the buttons at the same time. The top bar, with the counter and the exit button, never disappears. - Kanji are shown at full size, never clipped. - The kanji quiz accepts any of the valid meanings: if a word has several, you no longer have to type them all. Content - Hiragana and katakana tables are aligned in columns, the way they appear in a textbook. - Meanings are shown in full, including the notes that tell similar words apart. - Several romaji corrections in the example sentences. --- *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 2026-08-26.*