Ōkini: Learn to Read Japanese

In 2 to 3 weeks, you read a real Japanese sentence, with no spaces and no help. Ōkini teaches you to read Japanese step by step. You start with hiragana and katakana, from あ all the way to sentences written the way Japanese is really written, then move on to your first kanji and everyday grammar. Five minutes twice a day is enough to keep moving, and you can go on as long as you like. NOTHING TO GUESS There's no multiple choice: you read a word or a sentence, and you type what it says. If you can't read it, you can't get it right by luck. The characters you miss keep coming back on their own, until you know them. REAL WORDS FROM DAY ONE From your very first series, you read everyday words, more than 900 in all, and whole sentences about food, home, the station or greetings. Every word you read goes into your dictionary, with its sound. EXPLAINED WHEN IT MATTERS Why は is read "wa", what the small っ does, how vowels get longer: each point is explained the moment you meet it. When you get it wrong, the correction splits the sentence word by word and shows you where it went wrong. The kana chart is always one tap away, until the day you stop needing it. ONE PATH, SEVEN TEMPLES The kana path goes through seven temples, and each one gives you its goshuin, the seal Japanese temples give their visitors. At the start, you make a wish and paint your Daruma's first eye; you'll paint the second the day you can read every kana. THEN, EVERYDAY LIFE Level 2 teaches you to read what you see in Japan: prices, dates, timetables, menus and signs. Along the way you learn your first kanji and the basic grammar, with the same method. CALM AND SERIOUS There are no lives, no points, no mascot and no ads. The answer is read aloud on the correction screen, and everything works offline, on the subway: your progress syncs when you're back online. WHAT'S FREE All of level 1, hiragana and katakana, is free for good, and so is the first chapter of level 2. The rest of level 2 and every level to come are part of Ōkini full: a monthly subscription, a yearly one with a free one-week trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; you manage and cancel it in your Apple account settings. Your email and your progress are used to run the app, nothing else. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://okiniapp.com/privacy