Hiragana Memory Hint [English]

The Japan Foundation

About this app

1. Description

Study hiragana the fun way using mnemonic pictures
and check your understanding with a variety of quizzes!

Recommended for:
Complete beginners in Japanese
Anyone interested in Japanese letters

2. Features

-Features pictures, sound and animation to help you remember the hiragana characters.
-Includes quizzes for checking your understanding of the hiragana you've learned.
-Includes simple explanations about the Japanese writing system and the characters used in it.
-Ａ hiragana table allows you to tap each hiragana to hear how it's pronounced.

3. Tested Devices

Android：Samsung Galaxy S5 ,Samsung Galaxy S4 ,Sony Xperia Z Ultra ,HTC J ONE ,Lenovo A916 , Asus ZenPhone 2 , Huawei Ascend G620S , LG Nexus5 , Asus Nexus7 2012 , Sony Xepria Z3 SOL26

4.Update
[V1.0.1]
- We have made some minor adjustments.
[V1.0.2]
- We have made changes to some of the illustrations.
[V1.0.3]
- We have made corrections to some of the wording.

5.Contact the Developer

If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to send
them to us at the following email address.
[e-mail]

Ratings and reviews

The app is really well done. It is functional and well designed. It is easy to use and it fulfills the purpose of helping and simplifying the process of remembering the hiragana alphabet with simple and fun mnemonics. The use of color as transition between letters is useful and pleasant. It gives also options to choose from for learning and quizzes, so it is not monotone. As a beginner in learning Japanese language I like the app and find it helpful. Thank you for your effort.

This app alone has allowed me to identify characters through mnemonics, but you must remember the images are based on the Japanese pronunciation of English, which is confusing at first but you get used to it. For example: Look is actually Ruuk phonetically in Japanese spoken English. L does not exist in Japanese. My only gripe is that it does not cover variants, combinations or being able to increase the quiz beyond 10 characters. It's also from the Japan Foundation so no annoying ads!

There is good and bad. The way they teach you mnemonics is by phonetic english, meaning you may pronounce it right (depending your dialect..) but SPELL it wrong!! That's very, very bad. Good is their varied quiz system gives you more options than most. I wish longer quizzes was possible than 10 at a time and more accurate results than "100% correct" every time.. They also lack the varied kanas; ga, gi and so on. So can't use it alone but combination with other teaching apps it's ok.

What's new

We have corrected minor bugs.