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Learn Japanese 3.0 is a complete course, built around the kana chart and podcasts you already use: • Kana trainer: hiragana and katakana quizzes that bring back the characters you miss • 27 grammar lessons from です to keigo, with audio examples and quizzes • 455 words in 26 decks, from JLPT N5 to N3, with spaced-repetition flashcards • Verb forms: 63 verbs in 6 forms, plain and polite, with a typing drill (kana or romaji) • Kana and romaji under every word and sentence, and you can hide the romaji when you're ready • Speaking practice with an instant score, dictation, and an 80-phrase phrasebook • AI tutor and 12 role-plays (konbini, ramen shop, ryokan), privately on your device • A new bottom bar: Today, Learn, Listen, Practice, Me Your shows, downloads and the words you'd marked as known are all kept.
Learn Japanese from your first kana to real conversations: a kana trainer, short grammar lessons, flashcards with spaced repetition, verb drills, speaking practice, an AI tutor and 15 Japanese podcasts, all in one free app. START WITH KANA • All 46 hiragana and katakana, plus the 25 voiced sounds and 33 combinations • Tap any character to hear it • A quiz that brings back the characters you miss until you know them all GRAMMAR, STEP BY STEP • 27 lessons from beginner to intermediate: です, particles は・を・に・で, the ます form, い and な adjectives, the て-form, plain speech, potential, conditionals, giving and receiving, keigo • Clear tables and real examples you can listen to • A short quiz after every lesson that explains each answer WORDS THAT STICK • 455 words in 26 decks: greetings, food, travel, counters, polite Japanese, sound words (どきどき, ぺらぺら) and more • Spaced-repetition flashcards bring each one back just before you'd forget it • Kana reading and romaji under every word and example, and you can hide romaji once you read kana VERBS WITHOUT TEARS • 63 common verbs in 6 forms: present, past, て-form, ている, たい and potential • Plain and polite, positive and negative, side by side • A typing drill that accepts kana or romaji SPEAK AND LISTEN • Read phrases aloud and get an instant score • Dictation: hear a sentence, type it, see it marked word by word • An 80-phrase phrasebook for the konbini, restaurants, trains, hotels and work AI TUTOR (APPLE INTELLIGENCE) • Chat in Japanese with a patient tutor that corrects your mistakes kindly • 12 role-plays: order ramen, buy a train ticket, check into a ryokan, answer the phone at work • Writing check: get your Japanese corrected and explained • Runs privately on your device; nothing you write leaves your iPhone • Requires an iPhone or iPad with Apple Intelligence on iOS 26 or later LEARN BY LISTENING • 15 Japanese-learning podcasts, subscribed from day one, from absolute beginner to native speed • A-B repeat to replay a sentence, bookmarks, listening history, playback speed, sleep timer and offline downloads STAY MOTIVATED • Daily goal, streaks and gentle reminders • Progress charts, kana known and words mastered Also: an on-device translator (iOS 18+), dark mode, and layouts made for iPad and iPhone Duo. Learn Japanese is free and supported by ads. Podcasts are streamed from their publishers' public feeds.