Hibi: Learn Real Japanese

Back from Japan and still thinking about it? Start with the Japanese you couldn't read. Hibi teaches you to read Japanese: hiragana, katakana, your first sentences, and your first kanji. Then it keeps you in the language with short, real Japanese clips you can read along to. FOUNDATIONS, IN THE RIGHT ORDER Hiragana first, with grammar woven in from the fifth lesson: sentences with です, questions with か, then は, の, を, で and に, and finally your first short story. Every kana lesson teaches real words alongside the characters, so the grammar always has something to stand on. Katakana next, the script of menus and shop fronts: コーヒー, ビール, ラーメン. You meet every character four ways: see it, hear it, trace it stroke by stroke in the order Japanese schools teach, then write it from memory. Already read some Japanese? Five placement questions find your level, and lessons you already know count as done. LISTEN TO REAL JAPANESE The Feed is short clips of real Japanese, picked by level: Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced. Follow the transcript with reading help, show English when you need it, and loop a line until it clicks. Save a word and it comes back in Review. REVIEW THAT TELLS THE TRUTH A review hides the answer. You read the character or the word from memory, reveal it, and rate yourself: Again, Hard, Good or Easy. Those ratings feed FSRS, the open spaced repetition algorithm, which schedules each card off its own forgetting curve. Get one right and it comes back later each time, from a day out to months. Miss it and it comes back soon. Reviews arrive once a day, in one batch, so they never pile up. THE TABLE Every hiragana and katakana, and every kanji you have met, each cell shaded by how well you know it. Drill a row, a level, your weakest, or a set you saved. Answer with four choices, type the reading, or draw the character from memory and have it checked. KANJI, BUILT FROM PARTS Once your kana have passed, kanji begins: each one built from parts you meet first, with one reading and a story that names its parts. 日 is 口 and 一: a mouth with one line across it, the sun. 33 N5 kanji across levels 1 to 3, with more levels coming as free updates. WIDGETS For Your Main Phone Screens Put today's character on your lock screen and it is there every time you pick up your phone. On the home screen, a small widget for today's character and a large one for your kana board, which fills in as you learn. Nothing buzzes unless you ask for one reminder a day. SUBSCRIPTION Hibi is a paid subscription. Start with 3 days free, then the subscription continues to give you all the features. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Privacy policy: https://learnhibiapp.com/privacy Terms of use: https://learnhibiapp.com/terms Questions, bugs, or feedback: team@learnhibiapp.com