All-in-one application to learn Japanese. Hiragana, katakana, kanji, vocabulary, phrasebook, grammar, and MUCH more! Basic to advanced lessons. Smart progress tracking exercises to improve your writing, reading, speaking and listening skills. Discover surprising culture facts to think like a Japanese, and avoid embarrassing situations.
GENERAL IMPORTANT BENEFITS
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On-going project since 2011, you are sure to get continuous updates and improvements
★ All audio clips by a native Japanese speaker for
authentic Japanese pronunciation. No voice synthesis.
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No Internet connection required, almost everything is downloadable
★ Highly customizable quizzes paired with the scientific SRS system that tracks your progress.
★ Adapted for beginners to advanced learners
DETAILED INFORMATION
PROGRESSIVE JAPANESE LESSONS ✓ Ideal introduction to the Japanese language, and quick progress
✓ For each lesson: Japanese dialogue, vocabulary, grammar, exercises, and a culture page
✓ Take the final quiz to validate each lesson
✓ Many entertaining and explanatory illustrations
JAPANESE KANA, KANJI, RADICALS ✓ Phonetic information and audio recordings for each Japanese sound
✓ Over
6,000 kanji with stroke orders, meanings, word examples, and more.
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Kanji breakdown to analyze the composition of each kanji and remember it more easily
✓ Powerful
kanji search tools by radicals, meanings, on/kun readings, JLPT levels, etc.
✓ Detailed kanji radicals information (Kangxi number, position, meaning, frequency, etc.)
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Drawing tool to learn how to write kana/kanji/radicals with the right stroke order
✓ Learn by JLPT, Jouyou, or Kanji Kentai levels
✓ Create and manage your personal lists
JAPANESE PHRASEBOOK ✓ Over
900 Common Japanese phrases for real life communication grouped by themes
✓ Smart quiz to improve your Japanese
expression and comprehension skills ✓ Learn Japanese phrases with audio clips and words in context
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Each Japanese phrase can be broken down to get a list of words and detailed grammar explanation
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Record your voice, and compare it to a native speaker's pronunciation
✓ Create and manage your personal lists
JAPANESE AURAL COMPREHENSION ✓ Listen to entertaining illustrated situations
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3 levels of difficulty for each situation. Easy enough for beginners and challenging enough for advanced users
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Take the final quiz to validate your comprehension
✓ All words available in the vocabulary module to learn before listening to the text
JAPANESE CULTURE GUIDE ✓ Be ready for a
culture shock and avoid
embarrassing situations!
✓ Fun and surprising detailed information on various topics of the Japanese culture
✓ Get straight into the Japanese mind to understand how they think and behave. Japanese people will feel more comfortable with you.
JAPANESE VOCABULARY ✓
Thousands of words with audio clips grouped by themes
✓ Take audio,
writing, or even speaking quizzes ✓ Comments explain the word when necessary
✓ Search for any word with one easy-to-easy search box
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Record your voice, and compare it to a native speaker's pronunciation
✓ Create and manage your personal lists of Japanese words
AND MUCH MORE TO DISCOVER... ✓
Grammar: 185 easy to advanced grammar sheets with examples ordered by JLPT
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Japanese Particles: 168 different usages with examples
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Japanese Counters: 45 of the main counters with examples
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Verbs and Adjectives: basic and advanced conjugation
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Numbers: audio quiz, search tool, personal lists, etc.
An in-app paid version is proposed to support the investments for new features and contents - 3 new lessons 100% free for PREMIUM users
- Lessons: new dialogue and vocabulary pages
- Lessons: new page navigation system
- Lessons: improved search tool with a large number of additional keywords
- 3 new lessons - 100% free for PREMIUM users
- New audio recordings for the lessons dialogues
- Audio by native speaker for 500 new example sentences
- Audio in lessons not working for German/Italian/Indonesian/Spanish/Portuguese FIXED
- 3 new lessons, 100% free for PREMIUM users!
- Improved stability
- 3 new lessons, 100% free for PREMIUM users!
- Improved stability
- 6 new lessons, 100% free for PREMIUM users!
- Speech Recognition fixed
- Improved stability
- 6 new lessons, 100% free for PREMIUM users!
- Improved stability
- 6 new lessons, 100% free for PREMIUM users!
- Improved stability
- Kana Odyssey (kana module): statistics section added
- Logging in issue on old devices fixed
- Technical updates for Android 14
- Several minor bugs fixed
- 2313 new example sentences + authentic audio
- Grammar: track and organize your progress
- Reading and Dialogues: grammar section added to Study References
- Vocabulary: 1627 words added with audio
- Review notification bug fixed
- Payment system updated
Drawing system completely rewritten
Detailed drawing feedback
Search by drawing a kanji
620 new words with audio
Drawing system completely rewritten
Detailed drawing feedback
Search by drawing a kanji
620 new words with audio
Drawing system completely rewritten
Detailed drawing feedback
Search by drawing a kanji
620 new words with audio
Drawing system completely rewritten
Detailed drawing feedback
Search by drawing a kanji
620 new words with audio
Drawing system completely rewritten
Detailed drawing feedback
Search by drawing a kanji
620 new words with audio
- Kanji: improved Kanji Extractor tool with images and OCR features
- Kanji: filter added to searches
- Lessons: fixed dark mode issue
- Kanji: improved Kanji Extractor tool with images and OCR features
- Kanji: filter added to searches
- Lessons: fixed dark mode issue
Phrases: detailed AI-generated analysis for ALL sentences to help you understand syntactic structures
- Culturebook: 26 new articles on Japanese culture with 100+ illustrations.
- Culturebook: new search tool based on keywords.
- Reading module: another batch of 8 new stories!!
- Bahasa Indonesia language added
- Turkish language updated
- Minor bugs fixed to improve stability
- Reading module: learn and take quiz on words and kanji used in each story
- Reading module: display furigana only when selecting a sentence
- New module TEXT READING
- New Module LEARNING TIPS
- Dark mode: a few visual bugs have been FIXED
- Crash on startup on a few devices FIXED
- 2,956 new words with audio recording added to the dictionary
- 42,262 new examples associated to tDahe words
- List of words provided for all example sentences
- Text highlighted in search results (kanji, vocabulary, phrasebook modules)
- Grammar: thousands of new examples for each grammar document
- All example sentences can now be broken down to understand their underlaying syntax.
- 800+ new audio recordings for example sentences
- Dark mode integrated
- Vocabulary: hands-free mode added
- Quiz review calculation, minor bug fixed
Grammar: 71 new documents covering JLPT N3 and N2
Grammar: 226 new example sentences with audio
Verbs: self validation mode added to the quiz
Vocabulary, Kanji, Radicals: Spanish and Portuguese translations integrated
Fixed: all translated data were not always installed
- Audio available for all example sentences (more than 10000!)
- Pronunciation training for all example sentences
- Particles: German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese integrated
- Module Management: Samurai Unlimited content added with purchase
- Kanji: sort your items by number of strokes, meaning, JLPT/Jouyou levels, and review progression
- Vocabulary: sort your items by meanings, JLPT levels, and review progression
- Quiz options: choose exactly how many new items you want to learn at a time
- Verbs: Ichidan/Godan quiz could crash when selecting some verbal forms. FIXED
- Verbs: results to quiz tracked and synced across devices
- Grammar: conjugation quiz for sheets dealing with verbs
- Kanji: kanji extractor tool improved
- Kana: improved word examples
- Exercises for the lessons translated into German and Italian
- Kanji and Vocabulary: editing tool added to propose or improve the meanings and translations
- Verbs: Ichidan/Godan quiz could crash when selecting some verbal forms. FIXED
- Various other minor bugs fixed for better stability
- Verbs: new exercise Ichidan/Godan
- Verbs: 119 conjugation forms + link to grammar sheet if available
- Vocabulary: 2 new lists to learn common verbs
- Lessons: navigation buttons between pages added + 1 free lesson on verbs
- Kanji: 1 list added to learn kanji used in some easy verbs
- Verbs: new exercise Ichidan/Godan
- Verbs: 119 conjugation forms + link to grammar sheet if available
- Vocabulary: 2 new lists to learn common verbs
- Lessons: navigation buttons between pages added + 1 free lesson on verbs
- Kanji: 1 list added to learn kanji used in some easy verbs
- New notification system that reminds you every day to review what you learned
- New centralized screen to easily track and review all your kanji, words, etc.
- 4000 new example phrases (total 9200!) carefully selected to illustrate word usages
- Stability improvement
- Vocabulary: 5200 carefully selected example phrases added to illustrate word usages
- Kanji: added Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese information
- Kanji: added tags for hyougai (uncommon kanji), jinmeiyou (kanji used in names), shinjitai and kyuujitai (new and old forms of kanji)
- Kanji: improved On/Kun readings in flashcards
- Lessons: quiz display fixed
- Updated Italian interface
- Stability improvement
- Kanji: Better word examples, and words are now selectable
- Vocabulary: Display JLPT color and number of each kanji in words
- Vocabulary: Added part of speech and frequency for each word
- Counters: improved detailed sheet
- Kanji: Better word examples, and words are now selectable
- Vocabulary: Display JLPT color and number of each kanji in words
- Vocabulary: Added part of speech and frequency for each word
- Counters: improved detailed sheet
Brand new Flashcard mode for the Kana, Kanji and Vocabulary modules!
Brand new Flashcard mode for the Kana, Kanji and Vocabulary modules!
- Vocabulary: Samurai Unlimited users on the website can download JLPT N1 (3450 words)
- Various minor bugs fixed
- Lessons: 5 reading lessons added with quiz and vocabulary
- Vocabulary: Samurai Unlimited users on the website can download JLPT N2 (2006 words)
- Vocabulary: Samurai Unlimited users on the website can download JLPT N3 words
- Improved list loading speed
- Various minor bugs fixed
- Vocabulary: Samurai Unlimited users on the website can download JLPT N3 words
- Improved list loading speed
- Various minor bugs fixed
Phrasebook module redesigned
Phrase analysis with vocabulary and grammar details
Create your personal lists of phrases
SRS quiz to track your expression and comprehension progress
Voice recorder improved
Kanji / Vocabulary
- Multiselection tool
- Add/remove multiple items at a time into/out of your personal lists
- Rename/merge/delete your personal lists
- Manually redefine the quiz review intervals (SRS) for each item
Vocabulary
- Improved the loading speed of lists
- Words ordered alphabetically
- Kanji: new search tools
- Kanji: meanings reorganized by importance
- Kanji: quiz sessions will focus on main meanings to optimize your learning time
- Kanji: system updated for new languages
- General: welcome to the Italian, Portuguese, Turkish and Arabic users! Many thanks to all the contributors (list available on the credits page for each language)
- Radicals: new QUIZ mode integrated
- Data reorganized for multi-language integration
- New translation download system
- A lot of new German and Spanish contents
- Several UI issues fixed
- A few minor bugs fixed
- Aural Comprehension: fixed crash when starting the module on tablets
- Aural Comprehension: fixed crash when opening a couple of texts on some devices
- Fixed the "switch" buttons that wouldn't work for some users
- Code reorganization to prepare the upcoming versions
- New Kanji Self Validation quiz mode
- Aural Comprehension: Added furigana and romaji to the audio transcription
- Aural Comprehension: Possibility to spaces out words
- Aural Comprehension: Integrated Pack 4 with 10 new situations (30 audio texts) and 800 extra words
- Search tool for Grammar, Counters and Particles updated
- Added the missing Vocabulary lists for the latest lessons
- Fixed various minor bugs and a couple of more important ones
- Improved responsiveness on some slow screens
- New module for Radicals!
- Use of SVG characters for Kanji/Kana/Vocabulary
- New kanji lists (JLPT, Kentei, Counters)
- New kanji list selection system
- All vocabulary for the Aural Comprehension module
- Updated icons
- Read the "About" section in the app for a list of all new features and improvements
- Vocabulary: during quizzes, possibility to display several Japanese writings and to get audio support
- Aural comprehension: added possibility to unlock the script without validating the quiz
- Kana: fixed inadequate grid for compound kana during writing quizzes
- Improved the integration of one's profile's picture (didn't work on some devices anymore)
- Fixed the German interface mistakes (thanks a lot Florian!)
- Drawing tools improvement
- Grid added to the background
- Display the number of the stroke being drawn
- Starting position and direction for each stroke in the Learning mode
- Display each stroke number in the Learning mode
- Progressive bar to display and animate a model of a Kanji/Kana in the background
- Drawing tools improvement- Grid added to the background- Display the number of the stroke being drawn- Starting position and direction for each stroke in the Learning mode- Display each stroke number in the Learning mode- Progressive bar to display and animate a model of a Kanji/Kana in the background
- Drawing tools improvement- Grid added to the background- Display the number of the stroke being drawn- Starting position and direction for each stroke in the Learning mode- Display each stroke number in the Learning mode- Progressive bar to display and animate a model of a Kanji/Kana in the background
- 30000 new word examples for JLPT and Jouyou kanji- During a vocabulary quiz, comments now only appear for ambiguous words- Kana: 15 typographical examples- Vocabulary: theme "House" now free for all users- Kanji: choose to hide romaji for word examples
<ul><li>New quiz system with two distinct modes Learn & Review</li><li>The Kana, Kanji and Word sheets redesigned and load much faster</li><li>Added icons to Kana and Kanji items to indicate when they should be reviewed</li><li>New ""Intensive Review"" mode in the quizzes</li><li>Added comments in Vocabulary quiz sessions to distinguish some words</li></ul>
<ul><li>New quiz system with two distinct modes Learn & Review</li><li>The Kana, Kanji and Word sheets redesigned and load much faster</li><li>Added icons to Kana and Kanji items to indicate when they should be reviewed</li><li>New ""Intensive Review"" mode in the quizzes</li><li>Added comments in Vocabulary quiz sessions to distinguish some words</li></ul>
New illustrations added for the the lessonsFor Samurai Unlimited members on the website, now possible to install 182 extra exercises for the lessons