Hanashi - Speak Japanese

Studio Mirai

In-app purchases

About this app

Break free from textbooks and speak Japanese like a native with Hanashi – the ultimate Japanese speaking practice app.

With Hanashi, you can dive into real-life conversations and experience true immersion. Forget boring flashcards and grammar textbooks, Hanashi gets you speaking Japanese from day one.

Key Features:
👄 Speak Japanese naturally: Real-time AI conversations to sharpen your speaking and listening skills.

🎭 Fun characters from Japan: Practice with unique personalities from Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and more.

🎯 Immersive scenarios: Order ramen, prep for interviews, or chat about anime all in Japanese.

📚 Personal vocabulary bank: Save new words and let Hanashi weave them into future chats.

🧠 Smart feedback: Get pronunciation help and real-time corrections.

Whether you're prepping for a trip to Japan or just want to level up your fluency, Hanashi gives you the Japanese speaking practice you actually need, by speaking.

Download Hanashi now and start having conversations that count.

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.

From all the interactive apps that I tried, this one is the best and gives you actual, useful feedback. Unfortunately it's only one basic lesson, and after that it's 15€/month, which, if you're a casual learner is too much, imo. But otherwise it seems worth it.

What’s new

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