QL Japanese Hiragana/Katakana

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4.3
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About this app

QL Japanese Kana helps you learn to read the Japanese phonetic alphabets of Hiragana and Katakana. Keep playing to learn, earn game coins and unlock new chapters.

The three main modes for each chapter are (in logical order):
- Study / Statistics
- Practise
- Reverse Practise.
- Test

In Study, you review the characters of each chapter, practise your reading by checking out the examples and track your progress by looking at the statitistics.

In Practise, you practise what you learned by choosing the correct answer for the character on display.

The recommended setting for practise rounds is to use adaptive difficulty. After a few rounds, characters you seem to know well will start getting more answer options, increasing the challenge. If you happen to give a few incorrect answers, the difficulty for those characters will go down. That way each character gets a suitable level of difficulty to maximize the learning experience.

In Reverse Practise, you are provided with a sound (for instance "ka") and a number of hiragana/katakana characters to choose from.

In Test, you get to choose the correct answer from 6 different options. At the end of the test round you get a grade, and if you get an A you unlock the next chapter.

That way you get the chance to study and practise one chapter at a time, and verify that you have learned it before moving on.

Completing a practise or test round earns you coins to help keep you motivated. Faster answers, higher difficulty settings and more correct answers will score you better rewards.

The coins earned can be used to purchase new button styles for the main menu and the practise mode screen, as well as to purchase new pens and checkmarks to use when taking a test.

For more Japanese learning apps, check out https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=nili02


Audio credits notice:
- The click sound when navigating menues is by http://www.kenney.nl
- The coin sound is by Hansjörg Malthaner, http://opengameart.org/users/varkalandar (played at random pitches).
- The wrong answer sound is by LokiF, https://opengameart.org/content/gui-sound-effects
- The correct answer sound is by http://wobbleboxx.com

The paper background image in the test screen is based on https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/white-empty-canvas_1038705.htm which is Designed by Kues1.

All fonts used in this application are licensed as free to use, including for commercial purposes.

This application was developed using the libGDX framwork (http://libgdx.badlogicgames.com).
Updated on
Jul 11, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, Personal info and 4 others
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.3
100 reviews
Maëlyss Vincent
December 16, 2022
I absolutely love this application! I already tried to learn hiragana and katakana long time ago but never succes. I think it's way better to learn alphabet this way (all the A, all the I...). Personally, I learn hiragana in one week, and I'm slowly trying to learn katakana right now (I now A and I, it's been two days only!). I absolutely love this concept, for real. Do you think it's possible to do the same application with differents alphabets ? Like korean or thai : it will be helpful please!
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der Danny
December 6, 2020
Edited: The app is really good, first you have only one category to "play" and thats all "a" hiraganas and if you complete a test there, you unlock the "i" category and there you only learn the "i" hiraganas so i thought it would be good, if there would be a function to practice multiple categorys at once so that if there is a character that you are not sure about, you cant go "ah yes i learn the a catergory so it can only be this". BUT THERE IS ACTUALLY SUCH A FUNCTION it unlocks after "i"
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nili02
December 6, 2020
Dear Danny, thank you for your feedback. Once you have unlocked the first three chapters of either Hiragana or Katakana, you will automatically get three new "chapters" allowing you to practise your 25 worst characters (based on your previous performance), 25 best characters and 25 fully random characters from all the chapters you have unlocked.
Mel Wieland
July 1, 2020
LOOOOVVVEEEE littrealy the best app ever. it's sooo fun :3 i use it constantly and i'm learning so fast. Thank you :D ((If you did this (in an other app) with vocabulary like "learn the colors" "clothing" etc it would be amazing. I would defenatly download and use it. ))
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What’s new

- Updated library versions.