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

I just started learning and its been fun. I'm trying hard and studying everything on the side as well. Now i can read simple sentences and can say what I'm reading. It's a perfect place to start for beginners and seam to really want to build you up to a proper level of comprehension. Love it.

love this app!!!!!! I'm using it to learn vocabulary. I turned notifications on just now, I'm unsure if there are reminder notifications, but it would be great if there were maybe a widget with kao-chan and maybe the daily challenges so that you can remember to learn? would be a cool feature, but it's not something THAT needed!!! :D small glitch where I can only see the definition of a word if I use my stylus. unsure what caused this issue.

it is a great tool for learning Japanese. the best I have come across by far. the only really things are that when doing the kanji quizzes it is very inconvenient to see the stroke order. I wish there was a way to toggle stroke order for quizzes or have questions relating to stroke order or something. it would also be great if more things have audio. remembering the various readings of kanji might be easier if I actually hear them. oh and a streak count somewhere would also be great!

What’s new

Tons of server-side fixes, but this app update is to help with regional server support that is coming later in 2025!