Hanashi - Learn by Speaking

Studio Mirai

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About this app

Hanashi is a language learning app built around real speaking practice, not boring study. Instead of spending most of your time on flashcards, grammar drills, or reading exercises, Hanashi gets you using the language in real conversation from the beginning.

Whether you are learning Japanese, Korean, Chinese, English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian or Arabic, Hanashi is the only app that will get you actually speaking the language.

Hanashi's method is simple:

1. Find your level and goals.
Hanashi starts by learning where you are now, how confident you feel, and what you want to achieve.

2. Learn through guided speaking lessons.
Hanashi lessons are designed to actually teach, not just test. Your tutor introduces useful words, phrases, and sentence patterns, explains them clearly, and then gets you to use them yourself. You learn by speaking, responding, and building confidence one step at a time.

3. Get feedback while you practice.
As you speak, Hanashi gives real-time help so you can adjust and improve as you go. Your tutor adapts to your level, keeps explanations clear, and helps you sound more natural.

4. Use what you learned in a real life scenario.
After learning key ideas in a lesson, you put them into action in a real world roleplay scenario. Hanashi helps turn study into usable speaking ability.

5. Keep improving with structured progress.
Hanashi gives you guided progression, and speaking practice that grows with you over time. Whether you are an absolute beginner or already conversational, the experience is designed to keep moving you toward real fluency and confidence.

Why learners use Hanashi:
- Real speaking practice instead of boring study
- Guided lessons that teach and check understanding
- Adaptive tutoring based on your level
- Immersive roleplay and conversation scenarios
- Instant feedback to help you improve naturally
- A speaking-first approach built for real-life use

Hanashi is especially strong for learners who want to stop freezing when it is time to speak. If you struggle to actually use the language in conversation, Hanashi is built for you.

Whether you are learning Japanese, starting Korean, improving Chinese, or practicing any of our supported languages, Hanashi helps you move from understanding the language to actually speaking it.

A subscription is required to unlock the full Hanashi experience.

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Ratings and reviews

$15/mo is a lot for whats basically chatgpt with limited tracking. The lessons are very basic. Why ask me my level then give me "introductions" and "は particle" as lessons anyway. The conversations would be fine if there was any structure to them but they go on seemingly forever until you just quit. The tracking is just your activity history. Also, the instruction started off in Japanese and randomly switched to English after 2 lessons. Assumed it's due to making Japanese errors, but say that.

This app is great for practicing but could use some quality improvements. Sometimes the app will get stuck and you can no longer look at definitions by highlighting characters. If you switch apps to look up a definition or something you will lose all progress in your chat and have to restart. All kanji even in the beginner section does not have any hiragana above it. When you press the help button it will give you suggestions on what to say next but no help on how to say it.

it's actually nice though, I'm still starting to learn Japanese and doesn't know how to hold a conversation yet due to lack of knowing many Japanese word, i don't know if i did something wrong that's why it directly started a chat for me, when i can barely talk back, it's helpful though, i got to force myself to speak and understand as much as possible. this is only my opinion, it's still pretty nice and helpful so i do recommend it.

What’s new

This version of Hanashi - Speak Japanese includes small tweaks and improvements to help you learn Japanese even better.