Learn Japanese hiragana, katakana and kanji, and test yourself by drawing, or multiple choice.
This application helps you memorize:
- Japanese syllabary :Katakana & Hiragana, with flash card, keyboard, or drawing recognition
- Numbers, in romaji, Hiragana, or kanji
- 2300+ japanese kanji's (level 1-5 JLPT or Jouyou 1-7) with stroke animation (source KanjiVG), translation, readings (Source KanjiDict) with flash card and drawing game.
- 14600+ japanese words (in english) from EDICT with flash card test
- Experimental gramatical particle test (around 100 sentences from project Tatoeba) central to japanese language.
- Tae Kim Japanese Grammar guide.
- new locales (German, Spanish, Russian, Portugues, Thai, Polish, Chinese, Swedish and French), if you can help me adding new locales please contact me.
SD write authorisation for write Database to SD card
Analytic (Flurry.com) and Ads can be disabled in the settings.
-- If at install you have an error "unknown 18", try to remove your MicroSD car and install again. If it still don't work try to send me a mail (thanks for the help Matthiew)
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Ioli Moutsopoulou
Favorite Japanese learning app Love this app, it literally puts everything that I need together, it's an amazing guide. It's not easy to use if you're a complete beginner but if you know what you're looking for, there's no way Obenkyo doesn't have it.
Isyraq Abu Bakar
good and fun app but not perfect its fun to learn using this app but there are quite a few errors. for example letters like き , originally are not written like this, if typed using computers it is connected but in writing it shouldnt connect, so it shouldn't be 3 strokes. other error is spellibg of JA is ちゃ instead of じゃ.
Kyle Hall
Good for what it is The app is pretty conprehensive. It contains learning tools for both hiragana and katakana as well as tools to test yourself on said alphabets. However, this is not a replacement for a teacher. For kanji, the app places the information about a particular character, a pretty impressive list of info I might add, and expects you to memorize it. This is not particularly useful for people who have trouble finding a way to study (i.e. me). Granted, I do not expect more than that from a free app.
Brian Cumminger
Love it This is so far the best kana learning app I have used. It is not recommended to absolute beginners, as unlike some apps, this one does not focus on zero-knowledge training (there are many apps that do this however). If you have learned the bare basics of reading kana/kanji, I have not found a better app for review and further learning. Only given 4 stars because of the lack of tools for absolute beginners, otherwise, HIGHLY recommended.
Stu H
Great app Very convenient but some of the kanji are a bit buggy with the new font in the latest release in "test" mode. Eg: 細, 春, 写. Perhaps this is an Android problem however as i can see the same stroke issues when typing the kanji here in this box. Changing to 5 stars ;-). Only other comment I would make is setting up your tests in the menu is a bit unintuitive. Perhaps make a video on Youtube with a tour will help new users
cocos hmimo
Mostly great Really all this app needs to be perfect is a skip option in the written kanji tests, otherwise when the recognition system tells you you're wrong in one or two, you get those two kanji again 30 times out if the 50 of the test. Really frustrating... Or for an option like in quizlet where if you're wrong u can tell the up nah I'm right and it counts it as correct.
User reviews
good and fun app but not perfect its fun to learn using this app but there are quite a few errors. for example letters like き , originally are not written like this, if typed using computers it is connected but in writing it shouldnt connect, so it shouldn't be 3 strokes. other error is spellibg of JA is ちゃ instead of じゃ.
Good for what it is The app is pretty conprehensive. It contains learning tools for both hiragana and katakana as well as tools to test yourself on said alphabets. However, this is not a replacement for a teacher. For kanji, the app places the information about a particular character, a pretty impressive list of info I might add, and expects you to memorize it. This is not particularly useful for people who have trouble finding a way to study (i.e. me). Granted, I do not expect more than that from a free app.
Love it This is so far the best kana learning app I have used. It is not recommended to absolute beginners, as unlike some apps, this one does not focus on zero-knowledge training (there are many apps that do this however). If you have learned the bare basics of reading kana/kanji, I have not found a better app for review and further learning. Only given 4 stars because of the lack of tools for absolute beginners, otherwise, HIGHLY recommended.
Great app Very convenient but some of the kanji are a bit buggy with the new font in the latest release in "test" mode. Eg: 細, 春, 写. Perhaps this is an Android problem however as i can see the same stroke issues when typing the kanji here in this box. Changing to 5 stars ;-). Only other comment I would make is setting up your tests in the menu is a bit unintuitive. Perhaps make a video on Youtube with a tour will help new users
Mostly great Really all this app needs to be perfect is a skip option in the written kanji tests, otherwise when the recognition system tells you you're wrong in one or two, you get those two kanji again 30 times out if the 50 of the test. Really frustrating... Or for an option like in quizlet where if you're wrong u can tell the up nah I'm right and it counts it as correct.
Best App for mass Vocabulary learning The vocabulary tools are good for learning lots of vocab. The filters are great for focusing on the tough words and then going back to your whole set. Helps get over the overwhelmingly daunting feeling of keeping all words in check. I will get there with this, and I am sure you will too; once you know how to use it effectively.
I don't normally review Holy crap this is a good app. It's best to have some basic knowledge of how to pronounce Japanese, but that's way easier than English anyway overall. I literally don't believe how this app is free. I don't remember seeing any ads. This is like a dictionary+flashcard tests+some grammar and general info. It even has stroke order animations for all of the kanji, and breaks up what individual kanji makes what word if applicable. Good rabbit trail fun.
I must admit I only have one problem with this app. The testing system is amazing, I couldn't ask for a better way to test myself. The problem is that there's not much you can do to study. If there were simple flashcards, such as for simple numbers to study, maybe it would be a more effective app. Otherwise, this is an amazing tool for intermediates.
Recurring recognition error When I first downloaded the app last year, the recognition was fine, but it changed suddenly so that even though my writing of a character was correct, it would not accept it as it wasn't an exact match. I find writing the characters extremely effective as a learner, so it's disappointing that the feature that once worked ideally is now unusable. If this could be corrected again (it's done this a few times and then reverted back to being able to recognise my characters), then I would rate the app 5 stars :)
The best, i got to improve in 2 days The tests are so useful and so fun, the multiple choices really helped me to memorize hiragana and katakana for a short period of time compare to other apps that i tried that are too complicated, this app is so user friendly and kinda (addictive when you feel that you're getting better everytime you use this app) to the point that you don't want to put down your phone :) ,and "IT'S FREE!" it really deserves to get 5 star, good job!
Excellent Perfect companion app to the textbook "Genki". The only compaint I read was the lack of pronunciation. I'll try to help. A sounds like "ah". E sounds like a hard "A". I sounds like a hard "E". O sounds like "oh". And U sounds like it does in sushi or soup. A few exceptions exist. U often sounds silent when Japanese is spoken at normal speeds. An example is desu, used to end a sentence formally. Beginners often pronounce it as it would sound when spoken slowly for emphasis, as "day-sue". It is usually pronounced as "dayss", not to be confused with the English for multiple days which sounds like "dayZ". Another important exception is R. That sound doesn't exist in Japanese, nor an L sound. Their R's sound similar to a combination or L and R. It's often hard to get used to, so it's recommended to listen closely to it spoken to understand. I hope this helps anyone that had questions on that! It helps greatly when learning the amazing collection of vocabulary and Kanji in this app.
Practical It doesn't sugar coat anything. It's very down to that basics and teaches you from the beginning. A great way to learn any language is with a great foundation and knowledge of the language and this app provides just that. It has very good resource guides too. Learning a new language takes patience and dedication. I highly recommend this app for people who are genuinely interested in learning the Japanese and Chinese language.
Two major flaws 1) Weird randomization for answer positions in the quiz. Some answers always stay at the same place. For example, answer for 急 was in the 6th position for 47 occurrences I had in JLPT4 and 5 tests. 2) Too many readings and definitions for kanji. As a result you have to scroll the answer list and you start to form incorrect associations by the length of the answer, not by it's meaning/reading.
The absolute best Whether you're learning Kanji or Hiragana, this is the app that will get you motivated to memorize everything. A great testing system, equally good and easy to use learning tool and overall, independent. It has everything you need in regards to vocabulary. The only experimental part is the drawing board, which will annoy you to the point you'll actually start writing the characters properly. A great app, spread it round for all learners of Japanese.
All you need, for free My favourite App. Very useful test options. Always had ads turned on but I never noticed any. Did not expect a grammar section but the explanations are way better than in my textbooks. Every now and then it crashes and the automatic recognition when drawing kanji can be really annoying, though.
The app is very good and the writing recognition helps a lot to learn. Only problem is when I want to learn numbers, only big numbers appears which is kinda problematic specially because it starts to be very easy the number. The probability should be the same to get a decade, a hundred, a thousand and so on.
Missing kanji from the jlpt lists There's 24 kanji in the jlpt 5 list missing, and do you think all of those are in the jlpt 4 list? No at least 1 is nowhere to be found. Also I noticed there is also kanji missing out if the jlpt 4 list, and I'm not going to dig through the lists to find it. Everything in the app works fine, except this, which is a huge problem. I was using this app as a quick goto for some extra flashcards for a friend, and when I realized it was missing kanji, that seriously screwed me over.
N2 Student: Best Japanese Study App. Period There are a zillion apps to learn your 123s and ABCs, but there is not much else for advanced learning. You NEED this app if you're serious about learning Japanese. Amazing for kanji and great as a reference for words. You can study the correct drawing order, keep track of your progress or create custom kanji lists (or import them from a text file). I recommend you combine this app with Mazec (hand-writing keyboard) and Anki (flashcards, you can find the flashcards for whatever book you're using)
Great for learning/refreshing I absolutly recommend this app for anyone interested in japanese. The UI is beautifully simple and to the point. You can pick how you like to test yourself with 4 different ways (there's more ways to customize the experience too). There's romanji to hirangana, hiragana to romanji, multiple choice, and drawing (drawing is my favorite one, goes for katakana and kanji as well). For direct learning for Hiragana and Katakana you can't have a better more straight forward app.
Great way to reinforce writing recognition! If you are learning Japanese and strugle with remembering that one character of hirigana, or want to be able to start recognizing Kanji, this is the app for you! This app has let me casually work ahead in class and my reading skills definitely improved after using Obenkyo.
Amazing Got this app last night and have already memorized 15 letters and how to write them. I especially love the fact that once I'm done with multiple choice with the letters I can take a quiz to actually write them out and memorize them even better. I started learning using Tae Kim's app, but I had no good way of practicing learning katakana/hiragana. This app definitely is a great tool to partner it with.
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What's New
3.3.3.4
Fix for 2.3 device crash
3.3.3.3 :
Support for Android 6.0 authorization model
fix for Portugese transalation
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