GENKI Conjugation Cards

The Japan Times Publishing

About this app

Note: This app is available for both the 2nd and 3rd edition of GENKI.

Firmly master the conjugation of Japanese verbs and adjectives!
This app helps you to master the conjugation of elementary verbs and adjectives through practice at your own pace.
It marks the third official app for "GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese," a best-selling series of Japanese learning materials boasting more than 2.5 million copies sold.

Advantages
•You can view the cards and listen to the recordings as you like, enabling you to study at your own pace.
•The different conjugations are mastered through two types of practice: saying the conjugated forms aloud or typing them.
•All conjugation forms studied at the elementary level are covered: 18 for verbs and 10 for adjectives.
•As you go through each conjugation card deck, the cards answered correctly are automatically removed, allowing you to efficiently focus on the trickier words in the next round of practice.

Study methods
MyDeck: Practice each word by looking at the cards and repeatedly saying the conjugated forms aloud.
(1) Each card has a word and the conjugation type to be practiced. Say the word in the conjugated form indicated.
(2) Tap the sound icon to check whether you said the conjugated form correctly.
(3) Tap the ＊ icon to check the conjugated form in writing.
(4) Study the use of the conjugated form by referring to the example sentence and illustration on the back side of the card.
(5) Tap the Rule icon to see the conjugation rule.

Check: Test your retention of each conjugated form by typing in your answers.*
(1) Type in the conjugated form as instructed.
(2) If you entered the correct form, the card will be removed from MyDeck. Cards answered incorrectly or skipped will remain in the deck for further practice.
*To study with the Check method, you will need to add a Japanese keyboard to your device before starting. (We recommend using Google Japanese Input.)

Handy features

•List
All conjugation forms of each word are listed in this feature, with the words arranged in a-i-u-e-o order. A check mark is displayed next to each conjugation form that has been mastered and the MyDeck card for each entry can be opened, allowing you to review the conjugations via the list.

•Rule
This feature lists the rules for all 28 conjugation types covered by the app, enabling you to quickly look up the way to form conjugations such as the passive, the causative, the causative-passive, and the tricky te-form.

•MyDeck Shuffle Mode
Activating this mode will cause the app to display the MyDeck cards in random order, rather than the default order. Shuffling the deck will help you to more firmly master the material.

—Ads: The app does not display any ads that might interfere with learning.

*This software includes the work that is distributed in the Apache License 2.0.

Ratings and reviews

Does not have all the verbs/adjectives from Genki, only select ones. For example, the transitive/intransitive pairs are what drove me to download this app, but they aren't included. There is also no way to save cards you want to review later, so if I want to, say, review 3 words I have difficulty conjugating, I need to go through the 40 word deck...each time! Beyond that I do enjoy the sentence examples on the backs of the cards.

It's not worth $5.99.It's a very basic app, helpful but too basic for the price. It's great practice having to input the conjugations but you can't pick vocab used, you can't jumble verbs and adjectives, can't look up meanings of words while practicing, for the price it should at least give me quick option to look it up. Also if you get it wrong there is no help with correction or showing what would be the correct answer, it just repeatedly says wrong.

I'm not keen on having to write the answers for the test yourself feature. Why not just click to see the answer, like with the vocab app? Writing is too slow. Besides that though, it's a pretty useful app, especially because it has tonnes of example sentences for each grammar structure. You can listen and repeat the pronunciation too, which is useful for memorization. Not perfect, but a decent extra resource for Genki users. Worth the money.

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