renshuu - Japanese learning

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About this app

A cute, ad-free, and enjoyable learning experience is waiting for you in the Renshuu community! The free version is unlimited: there’s no timer before you are forced to pay!

★ A path for every learning style and every goal ★
Whether you are getting started with the alphabets or have been studying for years, jump in exactly where you belong! Don’t waste time going through what you already know.

Renshuu maintains learning paths for most textbooks, the JLPT, Kanji Kentei, and for those who just want to learn. You can also carve out your own path! Our community has over 10,000 user-made lessons for even more focused learning.

★ Cute, relaxing, and fun ★
Our mascot Kao-chan is here to let you enjoy learning Japanese, whether it’s through collectible coins every time you quiz, a character that evolves as you learn, manga pages that you unlock, or hundreds of hand-made illustrations.

Additionally, we have both single and multiplayer games to help you keep your learning and reviewing fresh!

★ Personal service ★
We are just a two-person company - and we don’t use chat bots. That means that every question you have gets an answer directly from us.

★ Rich, in-depth materials ★
■ Vocabulary: over 15,000 native-recorded audio files, 17,000 hand-picked images, and 160,000 example sentences make understanding vocabulary a breeze. Our growing library of accent/pitch data can even help you with accent reduction.
■ Kanji: 12,000+ kanji, with no limits on what you can study! Over 2,000 colorful mnemonics help you to understand and retain the meanings.
■ Grammar: Over 800 different expressions, each complete with native-written model sentences, construction diagrams, audio, and over 7,500 hand-made quiz questions.
■ Sentences: Thousands of sentences complete with audio, divided by theme and difficulty levels.

★ A superior quiz system designed around Japanese ★
Our SRS-for-Japanese system doesn’t treat Japanese materials like flashcards to be memorized, and breaks every item down into individual components so you can understand, and not just memorize. Mastery schedules keep you studying only what you need to, pushing weaker materials to the front for you to focus on.

Dozens of different question styles keep things fresh, while a flexible input system (multiple choice, typing, or writing) lets you answer the way that you want to.

★ Customizable down to the last character ★
Renshuu doesn’t believe that there is a single way of studying that everyone should adhere to. Our expansive settings and customizations let you adjust the learning environment to what works best for you.

Ratings and reviews

decided to try and relearn the Japanese alphabets after many years. this app is so good!! it's great at giving many ways to learn and practice and everything feels paced to your natural pace. only downside is that there's so much info it can be hard to navigate sometimes, but if you go a little bit at a time it makes things easier. the community aspect is really sweet, and i love how cute everything is!

This is a great app! If I had any complaints, it would be that the graphic design feels a little dated and the menus can sometimes be confusinf to navigate, but those are hardly nitpicks. This app has great lessons, interesting learning minigames, and really cute character designs. Especially when considering ithere are only 2 people running the entire thing, it's an extremely impressive app.

renshuu is well thought out, well designed, and very helpful. The interface is easy to navigate with a little effort and could use some cleaning up to promote ease of use for first time users. Otherwise, the interface elements are cute, the information is presented to the user in creative and easily absorbed ways, and the content inspires repetition that is fun and fresh; even after long term use. It's incredible that it was developed by two people and I'd highly recommend renshuu to anybody.

What's new

-New hints added to renshuu when loading the app!
-Minor change due to ending of support for Android 7.0 and below devices. For more information, please check out the forum post here: https://www.renshuu.org/forums/topics/11880/