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Ask for a text
Short, medium or long. Beginner to advanced. Pick the topics you care about, and whether you want a story or a conversation. Hiragana only, or the kanji too.
Japanese reading practice
Something new to read, at the level you are actually at.
Ask for a passage — how long, how hard, what about — and you get one written for you. Every word in it is tappable for its reading and its meaning, every kanji is broken down into what it means on its own, and anything you keep comes back later until you know it.
10 texts a day on the free account. No card.
A generated passage
きのうは雨がふっていました。
Tap any word.
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Read it, and tap what you don't know
Each word gives its reading, its meaning and what part of speech it is. Words written in kanji are taken apart character by character, so the next compound is guessable rather than new.
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Keep what is worth keeping
Anything you keep is asked about again — on sight, from the meaning, and written out — further apart each time you get it right, and sooner when you do not.
Free to read, no account needed
The reference half of the app is open. It is the same material the drills ask you about.
Kanji library
845 kanji by JLPT level, with readings, stroke counts and radicals
Hiragana and katakana
Both charts in full, laid out the way they are taught
Verbs
Every form of 20 verbs, built in front of you from the rule that makes it
Particles
16 of them, and the pairs that get mixed up
This and that
これ, その, あそこ — the grid, and which shape goes where
Numbers
Counting, the ranks, the five sound changes and the counters
Start with one text
It takes a minute, and you will know by the end of the first passage whether this is how you want to study.