Bunpo: Learn Japanese

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Everyone
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About this app

Learn Japanese with Bunpo!

Learn Japanese offline with fun and interactive lessons. Start learning Japanese now!

Bunpo is a fast and easy way to learn Japanese.

This Japanese learning app provides grammar explanations and lessons for learners of any levels, from JLPT N5 to JLPT N4, JLPT N3, JLPT N2 and JLPT N1.

Get JLPT ready with interactive lessons.
The app offers over 1700 example sentences and 8000 Japanese grammar quiz questions. All come with English-Japanese translations.

Key features:
Learn Japanese Alphabets (Hiragana and Katakana):
Study both hiragana and katakana easily
Listen how kanas are pronounced

Japanese grammar:
Learn Japanese grammar. Detailed grammar notes in all lessons.
The app contains explanations and exercises for all the grammar points of JLPT N5, JLPT N4, JLPT N3, JLPT N2, JLPT N1.
Japanese grammar courses are organized by its JLPT level.

Japanese Vocabulary:
Learn Japanese words in each lesson.
Tap on Japanese words to bring up the smart look up. (This feature makes you Japanese learning journey easy)

Learn Kanji:
Improve your kanji recognition by reading Japanese sentences.
Study kanji grouped by JLPT levels.
The app contains over 2500 kanji.

Read Japanese:
Learn to read Japanese language sentences in each lesson.

Japanese listening:
Listen to thousands of Japanese audio files to improve your Japanese listening skill.

JLPT:
Japanese grammar notes and exercises for any JLPT level N1 ,N2 ,N3 ,N4 ,N5

Japanese listening quiz:
Improve your Japanese listening skills by listening and inputting Japanese words.

Offline mode:
Learn Japanese, French German offline! Bunpo is an offline language learning app.

SRS(spaced repetition system):
Enhance your studying with a personalized flash cards powered by SRS (spaced repetition system)

Subscription of Bunpo Plus
Subscribe to Bunpo Plus and get access to the complete Bunpo courses, which has hundreds of premium contents, listening training and review system (spaced repetition system) to help you learn Japanese or French language anywhere, anytime.
Updated on
Apr 23, 2024

Data safety

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Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews

4.7
57.8K reviews
Kristi Centille
April 28, 2024
definitely grateful that I had spent some time in Duolingo before starting this. however, it is the perfect addition to what I had started there. this app is challenging and stretching me, but because of the great grammar explanations and the short bites of information, it's easy to learn and practice. there is an opportunity to both speak and write the words
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David Schendt
April 17, 2024
I started out really liking the app. Through the N5 stuff it's pretty good. But once you get towards the end of N5, every new grammar lesson is 75% words you've never seen before. It makes it almost impossible to learn the grammar when you know none of the words. There isn't a way to learn new vocab and the grammar practice is EXTREMELY limited. You get 6 practice examples for each major piece of grammar and that's it. For $40, I'd have expected a lot more practice exercises and whatnot.
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Bunpo - Learn Japanese
April 18, 2024
Hi David, thank you for commenting. We add that the lessons do contain dozens of words can that be tapped to reveal their definition. And, for many N5 sentences, they are short with English translations often matching closely with the Japanese. We'd be happy add quizzes and reconsider overly difficult content: android(at)bunpo(dot)app. Thank you!
J C
April 8, 2024
Introductory lessons were good until the paywall, but I paid up anyway. In learning the actual grammar, I'm coming across too much vocabulary that I havent learned in prior lessons, and it isn't clear if they'll be introduced in future lessons, or if I'm expected to learn the vocabulary on the odd example. I just don't understand why grammar lessons can't incorporate vocabulary the app has taught. I learned various country vocabulary, then end up with completely new words in unrelated lessons.
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Bunpo - Learn Japanese
April 9, 2024
Thanks for your comment, JC. Bunpo is designed to explain/drill grammar usage. Key vocabulary words are often defined, though this varies between levels/courses. Doing so allows Bunpo to introduce many example sentences on various topics, unlike traditional text books, which are often limited in the vocabulary (= content) they can introduce.

What's new

This update brings bug fixes and performance improvements.