Learn Japanese with Onibaba

Team Onibaba

About this app

Are you new to the Japanese language and its alphabets? Then you're in the right place. Onibaba will drill you in all the hiragana and katakana, plus your first Japanese kanji, until you can read without guessing. Mastering the ABCs lets you go on to learn Japanese wherever and however you like.

✍️ Every chapter will test you with more than 15 different tasks in bite-sized lessons. You will memorize the different kana and kanji by tracing their strokes, writing, drawing, listening, matching and spelling.

📖 To be prepared for learning Japanese, you're also taught special rules that often trip up beginners: doubling sounds, long vowels, combination sounds and more.

⚔️ Every chapter ends with a boss fight. Beat it with what you’ve learned to unlock the next letters and win a trophy for your collection.

🎲 Bonus modes make learning feel fresh and engaging:

• The Sandbox is an endless, relaxing stream of tasks.
• In Drop Zone, kana fall from the sky and you drag each one onto its reading before it lands.
• In Lying Lady, you have to catch old Onibaba bluffing about hiragana, katakana and kanji.
• You can also build your own lessons for extra kanji practice, or for the letters you struggle with.

🔊 Every letter and word is read aloud in natural Japanese pronunciation, with a female or male voice to choose from, so you hear how the language really sounds.

📵 There are no ads.

What’s new

• New bonus mode: "Drop Zone".
• New tasks: find the kana twins and match kanji sets.
• Two new chapters.
• Over 100 new words with audio, and more words of the day.
• Fixes and polish.