Learn Japanese vs NihonGO Manabi

Expand your Japanese vocabulary and kanji comprehension by getting in the habit of reading short, native content daily. Manabi Reader makes it easy to jump into interesting material without having to worry about your level: just one tap on any word you don't know to see its reading and definition. Tap again to add flashcards into Manabi or Anki. Don't waste time trying to find engaging reading material—a curated selection of news feeds, online magazines, blogs, folktales and ebooks are collected here for you. You can of course also open any webpage or RSS feed in Manabi Reader to help you through it. Make a habit out of getting your news in Japanese and you'll find your skills multiply. With even a few minutes each day, reading is essential to picking up Japanese. Memory is one of those things where it sticks best when you're having fun, so dive in! • Read native texts. • One-tap word lookups (with audio!). • Word tracking: you'll see how much of an article's vocabulary is already familiar. New words are highlighted for you. • Kanji tracking: we'll also track the kanji you're familiar with as you read articles. Check your progress within JLPT levels. • One-tap flashcard creation: memorize the words you look up. • Review flashcards from an article once you're done reading it. • Automatic furigana. • BYOC (bring your own content) via URL or copy/paste; or, choose from our curated selection of reading materials. • EPUB ebooks. • 3rd-party dictionary apps are supported. • Offline-friendly. • Respects your privacy like a web browser. ========================= The core app is fully functional without payment. Word tracking behaviors are limited to a subset as a preview. The companion Manabi flashcard app is limited to 10 flashcard reviews per day. Full word tracking functionality as well as unlimited flashcard reviews in the companion app may be purchased as a subscription. You may purchase a subscription, which will be charged to your iTunes Account upon purchase and will auto-renew within 24 hours prior to the end of the purchasing period. You can manage this in your Account Settings after purchase. Manabi Reader subscriptions are offered on a monthly or annual basis, with free trials—the annual subscriptions offer a discounted rate. This purchase supports the ongoing development of Manabi. We offer a substantial discount for students, educators, and parents. Privacy Policy: https://manabi.io/privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: https://manabi.io/terms-of-service/ Chat with Team Manabi: https://tawk.to/manabi

NihonGO Manabi is the intermediate Japanese textbook: the book that gets you over the hardest wall in the language, from a finished beginner course to reading real Japanese. Beginner textbooks are everywhere; intermediate ones are rare, and a complete free one did not exist. This is it. Two full books are in the app today, 学び I and 学び II, and the third is on its way as a free update. ONE CONTINUING STORY Follow a young reporter through her first two years on the job: twenty-four chapters of authentic native Japanese. Year one at a small newspaper in Kamakura, year two at a national daily in Tokyo. In every chapter, the first text is her reporting, the second the article she files. Furigana is one tap away, and an English line sits under every sentence on a switch you control. EVERY WORD IS A LIVE CARD Tap any underlined word and its card opens: meaning, reading, the kanji it is built from, an example sentence you can hear. Conjugated forms find their own dictionary form, so 歩いていた and 遅れたら open just like anything else. WHAT THE TWO BOOKS TEACH · Grammar: 194 N3 patterns in Book I and 175 more in Book II, which finishes N3 and covers every N2 pattern. Taught as families rather than scattered points, so you learn which one to reach for. · Kanji: 254 N3 kanji in Book I, 247 in Book II, which completes the N3 set and opens N2. Each is introduced by the chapter that needs it and can be written by hand. · Words: about 1,580 new words across the two books, most useful first, each one a card. Each book opens with a plain statement of what you will have learned and where that leaves you for the JLPT. SIX ROOMS IN EVERY CHAPTER ① an overview · ② the words you are about to meet, as tappable tiles · ③ the text, with audio · ④ the grammar behind it, in contrast tables · ⑤ a workbook where you write the Japanese yourself · ⑥ the chapter's kanji, written by hand. A WORKBOOK THAT ASKS YOU TO WRITE 4,299 exercises across the twenty-four chapters. You write the sentence, then see how it should have been written. Free, as often as you like. HANDWRITING, CORRECTED STROKE BY STROKE Write a kanji with your finger or an Apple Pencil and it is checked for shape, stroke order, direction and missing strokes, and you are told which part went wrong. Entirely on your device. IT COMES BACK A word or kanji you keep peeking at, a grammar pattern you keep getting wrong: all of it returns in a spaced review queue that schedules itself, and the writing pad keeps its own list of the kanji you miss. AN APPENDIX THAT IS ACTUALLY USEFUL Reference tables for conjugation, a grammar index from N5 to N1, counters, keigo, transitive pairs, kana and radicals; printable word and kanji indexes for each book; and a dictionary with three scopes: this book, every card in the system, and a full Japanese–English dictionary of 218,000 entries. ONE CARD REPOSITORY, THREE APPS The cards come from the repository that also powers NihonGO Dominos (the drill) and NihonGO Dokusho (the reader). Each app carries its own selection, but a card is the same card wherever it appears. BUILT FOR iPHONE AND iPAD On an iPhone it goes everywhere and the writing pad works with a finger; on an iPad, text, cards and contents sit side by side and a Pencil turns the pad into a desk. Also on Apple silicon Macs, better for reading than writing. WORKS COMPLETELY OFFLINE Every chapter, card and audio clip is on your device the moment you install it. Both books work with no connection at all. COMPLETELY FREE No price, no in-app purchases, no ads, no account, no tracking. Book III arrives as a free update. Your progress stays on your device and follows you to your other devices through your own private iCloud. OPTIONAL: YOUR OWN AI TUTOR Connect your own Anthropic account and the workbook will mark what you wrote, explain why, and repair it into natural Japanese. Entirely optional, needs an internet connection, and clearly marked wherever it costs anything. Everything else works without it.