YuSpeak is a game-based Japanese and Korean language learning application for iOS and Android, developed by YuSpeak. It teaches Japanese through scenario-based lessons with anime-style illustrated characters, native speaker video clips filmed…

Learn Japanese! is a Japanese language learning application for iOS and Android, developed by Luli Languages LLC. It covers hiragana and katakana writing, vocabulary, and grammar through structured lessons and spaced repetition…

Learn Japanese Speak Language is a Japanese vocabulary and phrase learning application for iOS and Android, developed by LuvLingua. It provides 200+ lessons covering vocabulary, grammar, and conversational phrases through four exercise…

KanaOrigin is a Japanese kana learning application for iOS and Android, developed by Myoland Studio. It teaches hiragana and katakana by tracing each character back to the kanji it evolved from, using…

Kanji Card is a Japanese kanji learning application for iOS and Android, developed by AHA Lab. It teaches JLPT N5 and N4 kanji through picture-based mnemonic images that link each character’s visual…

Yomu Yomu is a Japanese graded reading and listening application for iOS and Android, developed by Sinamon. It provides a library of stories, articles, and courses at JLPT N5–N1 difficulty levels with…

Ling: Learn Japanese Language is a Japanese language learning application for iOS and Android, developed by Simya Solutions (marketed as Ling Learn Languages). It provides 200+ structured lessons spanning beginner to advanced…

iago is a Japanese language learning game for iOS and Android, developed by Iago Education. It presents Japanese grammar and conversation through a visual novel format — illustrated story scenarios with native-speaker…

FunEasyLearn: Learn Japanese is a vocabulary and phrasebook application for iOS and Android, developed by FunEasyLearn. It offers 6,000 vocabulary items and 5,000 common phrases organized across 200 topics and 120 categories,…

kawaiiDungeon is a free Japanese vocabulary learning game for Android, developed by MardukCorp. It teaches hiragana, katakana, and JLPT N5–N4 vocabulary through an RPG dungeon-battle format in which the learner defeats enemies…

Learn Japanese – Beginners is a free Japanese learning application for iOS and Android, developed by BNR Languages. It offers a structured beginner-through-advanced vocabulary and phrase course with offline access, image-based exercises,…

kawaiiNihongo is a free Japanese learning application for iOS and Android, developed by MardukCorp. It is designed for beginners and covers hiragana, katakana, JLPT N5 vocabulary, and JLPT N5 grammar through over…

Drops is a gamified vocabulary learning application for iOS and Android, developed by Drops Languages and acquired by Kahoot! in 2021. It covers over 40 languages including Japanese, using rapid visual-matching and…

ImmersionKit is a free web-based tool that provides a searchable database of over 500,000 Japanese sentences drawn from anime, visual novels, and Japanese dramas, each accompanied by its original audio clip and…

Mondly is a multi-language learning application for iOS and Android developed by Mondly (a Pearson company). It covers 41 languages including Japanese and offers vocabulary lessons, grammar modules, conversational dialogues, and speech…

Wagotabi is a paid Android role-playing game for Japanese learners developed by Wagotabi Ltd. Designed for JLPT N5 beginners, it was co-developed with over 300 Japanese language experts and prefecture tourist associations…

Kanji Dojo is a free, open-source Android application for learning Japanese kana and kanji developed by Yaroslav Shuliak. It uses spaced repetition to schedule writing and reading practice across 6,000+ characters, organized…

Shinobi: Read & Learn Japanese is an iOS and Android application developed by Shinobi LLC that uses illustrated original stories narrated by native Japanese speakers as the primary medium for building reading…

MochiKanji is a kanji and vocabulary learning application for iOS and Android developed by Mochi Tech. It applies a proprietary spaced repetition algorithm — marketed as the “Golden Time” system — to…

Japanese by Renzo is an offline Japanese dictionary application for iOS and Android developed by renzo inc. It provides 174,650+ dictionary entries, 52,000 example sentences, stroke order animations, handwriting recognition, SKIP code…

Yomiwa is an offline Japanese dictionary application for iOS and Android developed by Yomiwa apps. It combines a comprehensive JMDict-based dictionary with camera OCR recognition of over 4,000 Japanese characters, handwriting input,…

Jsho is a free, offline Japanese dictionary application for Android developed by Richard L. It uses the open-source JMDict dictionary database and provides multi-radical kanji search, pitch accent information, conjugation tables, and…

Todaii is a Japanese reading and listening application for iOS and Android developed by Mobile Learning. It delivers real Japanese-language news articles graded by difficulty from JLPT N5 through N1, with an…

Migii JLPT is a Japanese Language Proficiency Test preparation application for iOS and Android developed by Language Skills Studio. It provides mock examinations, vocabulary drills, grammar exercises, and kanji practice for all…

HeyJapan is a beginner-to-intermediate Japanese learning application for iOS and Android developed by Language Skills Studio. It structures its curriculum around the Minna no Nihongo textbook series and covers hiragana, katakana, vocabulary,…

JA Sensei is an all-in-one Japanese learning application for iOS and Android developed by RaphaelW. Available since 2011, it integrates structured lessons, a 6,000+ kanji dictionary, vocabulary groups, 185 grammar sheets covering…

Japanese Kanji Study is an Android kanji learning application developed by Chase Colburn. It covers over 6,000 kanji alongside hiragana and katakana, organizing characters by JLPT level (N5–N1), Jōyō grade, school grade,…

Tobo is a Japanese language learning application for iOS and Android by Utku Uysal (Tobo Languages), targeting beginner to intermediate learners. It covers hiragana, katakana, JLPT N5 and N4 vocabulary, essential phrases,…

Bunpo is a multilingual language learning application for iOS and Android by Bunpo Language Learning, covering Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, and Chinese. The Japanese curriculum runs from hiragana through JLPT N1,…

Takoboto (たこぼと) is a Japanese-English dictionary application by Ondrej Benovsky, available on Android (1M+ downloads, 4.6 stars) and iOS. It uses the JMdict lexical database as its primary data source, with example…

Japanese Guru is a Japanese learning and exam preparation application for iOS and Android by Xamisoft. It targets learners preparing for JLPT, JFT (Japan Foundation Test), and NAT-TEST examinations, and includes a…

MaruMori is a Japanese language learning platform developed by Lucien Bos and Fox Labs, combining a gamified progression system with hand-crafted JLPT N5 through N1 study content. It covers grammar, SRS review…

Pocket Japanese is a free beginner iOS Japanese app developed by Skye Chivers, a professional Japanese tutor. Its hand-crafted curriculum covers hiragana, katakana, foundational kanji, and vocabulary aligned to both JLPT (N5/N4)…

Radical is a free kanji dictionary application for iOS and Android, developed by Carlos Ramos Fuentes, a Japanese language teacher. Its core differentiator is an explicit treatment of phonetic radicals (形声文字, keiseimoji),…

Sottaku is a free language learning application for iOS and Android, developed by Sottaku Inc., supporting Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and English. The app combines FSRS-based spaced repetition flashcards, grammar guides, a Japanese…

Tadoku (多読, “reading many things”) is both a Japanese language learning methodology and the name of NPO Tadoku Supporters, a Tokyo-based non-profit. The organization provides free graded readers from Level 0 through…

Tangoo is a Japanese dictionary and learning application for Android, developed by Daniel Ruminski. It combines an offline Japanese-English dictionary with grammar reference, spaced repetition flashcards, and a library of graded reading…

Yomikko is a free Japanese language learning application for iOS and Android, developed by Bibek Sapkota. It covers the full range of foundational Japanese study — hiragana, katakana, kanji (JLPT N5 through…

Mazii is a Japanese dictionary and language study application for iOS and Android, developed by Ghi Nguyen. It combines a Japanese-English dictionary of over one million vocabulary entries with JLPT study tools,…

Latin is an ancient Indo-European language that originated in Latium (central Italy) and became the dominant language of the Roman Republic and Empire, before giving rise through regional evolution to the Romance…

Kenya highland terroir refers to the set of geographic and climatic growing conditions found in Kenya’s elevated tea regions — primarily the slopes of the Great Rift Valley escarpment, the Nandi Hills,…

A cha ze (茶则, chá zé) is a small scoop used in gongfu cha to measure a portion of loose-leaf tea from its storage container and transfer it into the brewing vessel…

Erhua (儿化, érhuà, literally “er-ification”) is a phonological process in Mandarin Chinese — most prevalent in Beijing and northern Mandarin dialects — in which a retroflex r-coloring is appended to a syllable,…

A resultative verb complement (结果补语, jiéguǒ bǔyǔ) is a grammatical structure in Mandarin Chinese in which a main verb is followed directly by a complement that expresses the result or outcome of…

The coda is the final consonant or consonant cluster of a syllable, occupying the position after the syllable’s nucleus (vowel) in a tripartite syllable model that divides syllables into onset, nucleus, and…

The rime (also spelled rhyme in some analyses) is a constituent of syllable structure comprising the nucleus (the vowel core) and the optional coda (the final consonant). In the hierarchical model of…

The onset is the initial consonant or consonant cluster of a syllable, occupying the position before the syllable’s nucleus (the vowel core). In the syllable structure model used in phonology, each syllable…

How to Study Korean (HTSK) is a free online Korean language learning resource created by Billy Go, providing structured grammar and vocabulary lessons from absolute beginner level through advanced, covering the full…

Cantonese (廣東話 / 粵語, Gwóngdūng wá / Yuht yúh) is a Sinitic language within the Sino-Tibetan family, spoken natively by approximately 80–85 million people in Guangdong province, Hong Kong, Macau, and large…

Google Translate is a free neural machine translation (NMT) service operated by Google, supporting over 130 languages with text translation, image translation, audio input, and real-time camera translation. As the most widely…