Learn Japanese vs Language Book Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Learn Japanese
This app offers free video lessons for learning Japanese, covering basic language, challenges, and street Japanese. Track your progress with daily check-ins and share your thoughts with other learners. Developed by a qualified instructor, it's optimized for iOS devices.
- Free Japanese video lessons
- Basic language instruction
- 30-day learning challenge
- Street Japanese phrases
- Daily progress tracking
- Instructor-led content
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Free Japanese Video Lessons INCLUDES: * How To Learn Japanese * Basic Japanese Language Lessons * Japanese Language Lessons * Learning Japanese 30 Days Chanllenge * Learn Japanese Basic 1-2 * Streets Japanese Language You can also daily checkin to record your learning progress and share your opinion with others MORE: * Optimized for iPhone, iPad * Developed, performed and taught by a qualified instructor Get it! Become Japanese Expert!
Language Book Reader
Learn languages with AI-powered courses and guided imitation. This system breaks down content into repeatable chunks for fluent pronunciation and understanding. Access government-developed courses and turn any book into an interactive audio lesson.
- Guided imitation learning method
- Repeat and Learn system for pronunciation
- AI-powered audio narration
- Convert books into audio lessons
- Progress tracking for each course
- Offline course access
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The courses were developed by the government and used by government officials before being deployed to other countries. They are arguably some of the best language courses ever developed. People often ask. How do government officials learn a language so fast? The answer is that they study these courses. The courses use what is known as guided imitation. It's goal is to teach one to speak easily, fluently, with very little accent, and to do this without conscious effort, just as one speaks his own language without conscious effort. Language Book Reader makes these courses even better. It automatically traverses a course in the proper order without any effort on the student. It also implements what is known as a Repeat and Learn system. What this does is break up paragraphs and sentences into smaller chucks to allow a student to methodically repeat exactly what is heard from the audio. The course gives the student more control over how the course is played. The system also allows the student, once learned, to skip any study pages and concentrate solely on the pronunciation. A unit can be skipped or repeated based on the students preference. This enables a student to be able to more quickly speak the language fluently. It has been proven that once a word or phrase can be spoken fluently, it most certainly will be understood when someone hears it. Repeat and Learn. Hear it, say it, Done. The courses add AI intelligence to read aloud the study material. It would not be practical to try to study material on a mobile device. Language Book Reader will read to you the study pages and even describes charts and diagrams just as if an instructor was teaching you. This makes this very practical to learn a language on a mobile device. Language Book Reader goes one step further. It adds books that are not from the list of government courses and turns them into a Repeat and Learn audio book. For instance, the gospel of John is done in Spanish with English translations. Each chapter is done twice. Once as an audio book and also as Repeat and Learn book where each phrase is broken into smaller chucks to be repeated by the student. You can configure the book as an audio book, a repeat and learn book, or both. The fact that the courses were developed by the government, the cost for any course is cheaper than any other full teaching system. All courses are under $3.99. This includes cloud storage and unlimited band width for the courses for an entire year. Going to tour Europe? Download 5 language books for under $20. The app will keep track of the progress for each book starting you where you left off for each course. You take the courses with you. It is like having a language teacher in your pocket. Best of all, all courses are maintained on the web. Very little resources are used on your device regardless of how many books you have. Visit our website for more information and to download the full course PDF files at https://spacecoastwebhost.com/LanguageBookReader click on downloads to view all course contents
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Language Book Reader at 5.0 against Learn Japanese's 4.4. Language Book Reader also leads on ads (none vs shown). Learn Japanese's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (22 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Learn Japanese sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Language Book Reader sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Language Book Reader holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Learn Japanese has 22 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Learn Japanese ships an update every 5 days, Language Book Reader every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Learn Japanese | Language Book Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (22 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 旭 戴 | Randy Raustad |
Customer experience
Learn Japanese
Language Book Reader
In-app purchases
Learn Japanese
- Remove App's Ads(Lifetime)$1.99
Language Book Reader
- IntroductionFree
- Tagalog$3.99
- Spanish III$3.99
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- Spanish II$3.99
- Spanish IV$3.99
- Gospel of Matthew$3.99
- Gospel of MarK$3.99
- Italian$3.99
- Japanese Headstart$3.99
- Gospel of John$3.99
- Gospel of Juan$3.99
- Gospel of Luke$5.99
- French Basic Course$8.99
- Spanish I$8.99
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