a word crammed once is a word forgotten. a word reviewed at the right moment sticks.
perapera teaches japanese from both ends: 12,691 words from N5 to N1, and 238 N5 and N4 grammar points, all explained in english. you type your answers on the keyboard, in kana or kanji: no forgiving multiple choice where you can recognize a word without being able to produce it.
GRAMMAR, IN SCENES
51 lessons that mix N5 and N4 in the order you actually need them, not all the particles at once. each point first appears in a scene by the river, with Hana and Mira, then comes back in reviews just like a word. nuance duels pit commonly confused points against each other: one sentence, two answers, one right choice.
A KOI TO FEED
your vocabulary lives around a pond. every review feeds your koi, and it grows through twelve forms all the way to a dragon. words are sorted by theme into aquariums.
AN ORGANIZED MEMORY
spaced repetition brings each word back right before you'd forget it. ten stages, from 4 hours to four months, from apprentice to the final rank, 永, engraved. every word moves at its own pace: the one you keep missing comes back sooner, the one you've got spaces out.
CONJUGATION, WITH THE FERRYMAN
knowing 食べる without knowing 食べなかった means knowing a word you can't actually use. seventeen forms, from polite forms to the causative-passive, across 3,892 verbs and adjectives. nine of these forms, the polite ones, the plain ones, and て, are free. every verb class is checked against the source, because 帰る, 走る, and 入る look like ichidan verbs without being one, and an app that gets this wrong is worse than no app at all.
NINE GAMES AT THE RIVER FESTIVAL
かるた, the word is read aloud, grab the right card before time runs out. 神経衰弱, japanese memory, word against meaning. しりとり, chain a word onto the last syllable of the one before. 紛らわしい, lookalike words face to face, which of the six さす is it? 語順, put the japanese sentence back in order. plus: fill-in-the-blank, tile puzzles, a 60-second blitz, and the haunted house.
A PATH, NOT A LIST
登竜門, the carp that swims up the river and becomes a dragon. twenty stations from the river mouth to the waterfall, and every word you learn moves you forward.
WHAT TEXTBOOKS DON'T TELL YOU
48 illustrated onomatopoeia: ぺこぺこ doesn't mean "hungry," it's the hollow feeling in your stomach used as an adjective. 27 proverbs, one a day, with the gap between the literal words and the actual meaning. 643 groups of words that sound identical and get mixed up constantly, put face to face. the pitch accent of every word and its kanji breakdown.
AND ALSO
timed mock exams, from N5 to N1. three pixel art palettes: soft candy, blue hour, milk tea. stats and review forecasts. iCloud sync across all your devices. a bilingual french and english app, everything works offline.
PERAPERA PLUS
the 783 words of N5 are free forever, plus 150 more words wherever you want them, at a pace of ten new words a day. all of N5 grammar and ten N4 points are free too. the other 11,908 words, a slider up to fifty words a day, the other 123 N4 grammar points, the eight advanced conjugation forms, and mock exams from N4 to N1 are part of perapera Plus: a monthly or yearly subscription, with a free trial.
staying free, and staying free for good: the nine games, the koi, the river, the N5 mock exam, stats, and iCloud sync.
what the free tier gave you stays yours, subscribed or not. what the subscription unlocked pauses if it ends, never deleted, and handed back exactly as it was, srs level included, if you come back.
perapera is built by one person. no studio, no investors, your subscription directly funds the next words and the next features. thank you for supporting it.
ペラペラ, may it eventually come out on its own.
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