Hiragana Memory Hint [English]

The Japan Foundation

About this app

1. Description

Study hiragana the fun way using mnemonic pictures
and check your understanding with a variety of quizzes!

Recommended for:
Complete beginners in Japanese
Anyone interested in Japanese letters

2. Features

-Features pictures, sound and animation to help you remember the hiragana characters.
-Includes quizzes for checking your understanding of the hiragana you've learned.
-Includes simple explanations about the Japanese writing system and the characters used in it.
-Ａ hiragana table allows you to tap each hiragana to hear how it's pronounced.

3. Tested Devices

Android：Samsung Galaxy S5 ,Samsung Galaxy S4 ,Sony Xperia Z Ultra ,HTC J ONE ,Lenovo A916 , Asus ZenPhone 2 , Huawei Ascend G620S , LG Nexus5 , Asus Nexus7 2012 , Sony Xepria Z3 SOL26

4.Update
[V1.0.1]
- We have made some minor adjustments.
[V1.0.2]
- We have made changes to some of the illustrations.
[V1.0.3]
- We have made corrections to some of the wording.

5.Contact the Developer

If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to send
them to us at the following email address.
[e-mail]

Ratings and reviews

This is a very good app for learning and for quizzing yourself. It's clean and simple and works and as far as I have noticed there aren't any ads getting in your way which is amazing. I *really* wish it included dakuten and handakuten as those are what I keep messing up. It is a big omission. The memory hints are of mixed helpfulness because the sound the character makes sometimes doesn't match the clue word they in Eng. for the cue. Tofugo ones are better.

This app is awesome! I've used dozens of these kinds of apps trying to memorize this stuff, but they're usually just very dry flash cards. This is still basically just flash cards, but it's really well designed and organized. The little pictures make it way easier to remember and it gives you a reminder of the answer if you guess wrong, which is something that's strangely hard to find.

It's very good! It capitalizes on the power of mnemonics, and it does so for free! However, I think some of the images could be changed to represent a sound that is closer to the pronunciation of the word. Also, the layering of a letter and an image sometimes seem too distorted to make for a good mnemonic. I think the images should be reviewed, but otherwise, it's a great app, and I'd highly recommend it!

What's new

We have corrected minor bugs.