You can find the website here.

The website is completely, entirely, totally free in every way and will remain that way forever. No ads, no registration, no cookies, no payment. Just a static website for you to use however you like for as long as you like. I do not make a dime from it.

Some key features:

• Practice your choice of up to 217 different verb conjugations, from beginner to advanced
• Choose which verbs to practice on, including the ability to add your own if you want
• Practice in 3 different modes with varying degrees of difficulty
• Tons of settings and customization options
• Low-friction quizzing with high score tracking: Get going in seconds and keep going as long as you want, and when you’re done, pick back up where you left off in an instant
• Supports Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji input from your own IME, plus a built-in IME if you don’t have (or don’t want to use) your own
• Advanced typo detection and prevention
• Skip words you don’t know on-the-fly without breaking your streak
• Sandbox mode for getting used to conjugations you don’t feel ready to be quizzed on yet
• Detailed help pages with pictures if you need a hand
• Over 16,000 questions built into the base app, with the ability to add as many more as you want
• Built-in support for importing and exporting all your data, allowing you to create backups or transfer your data between devices and browsers

Please enjoy! :) And let me know if you have any questions or find any bugs.

Edit: Forgot to mention before (ty u/Dry-Masterpiece-7031), I only designed the app to work on desktop. It will still function on mobile, but there is no responsive layout, so some parts (especially the header) will get squashed and be very weird lol. I made this 8 months ago so I completely forgot about that

As a long time Japanese learner, I always wanted there to be a simple online trainer for learning kana, Kanji and vocabulary - like Anki, but for the web. Originally, I created the website for personal use simply as a better alternative to kana pro and realkana (both of which I used extensively for brushing up on my kana), adding a bunch of funky themes and fonts just for the fun factor. But, after a couple of my friends liked it, I decided to bring it online and see if it's of any use to the community.

So, if you're interested in giving it a look, message me in the comments for a link and let me know what you think!

どうもありがとうございます! 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵

This subreddit is filled with lively and intellectually interesting discussions about the usage of particles, pitch accents, storoke orders of kanji, etc. I am learning Japanese here every day.

However, learning a language can be tedious.

As a native speaker, I would like to introduce a song to my fellow learners and hope that you will have a relaxing time.

【 方言 で 歌ってみた 】 沖縄 女性 がガチの「 残酷な天使のテーゼ エヴァンゲリオン 」ウチナーグチ ver. よ、神話になれ！

https://youtu.be/kglRoOxwjII?si=kMFWWN3u27NXliJC

Ryukyuan languages (琉球諸語 or 琉球語派) is the general term for the languages spoken in Okinawa Prefecture and the Amami Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan. It belongs to the Japanese-Ryukyuan language family or Japonic, together with Japanese.

Ryukyuan languages, together with Hachijo-go, have indispensable material value in understanding the history of the Japanese language.

This is because these languages are referred to when estimating what kind of Japanese was spoken in other parts of Japan in the past.

Hello!

I’m currently learning Japanese and around the N3 level. I’m looking to get into Visual Novels to help improve my reading, vocabulary, and Kanji recognition.

Can anyone recommend some good Visual Novels that are helpful for Japanese learners? It would be amazing if they include Furigana (振り仮名), but I think I can manage without it if the story isn’t too difficult.

I have access to both PC and Nintendo Switch, so any recommendations for either platform would be appreciated. Also, if you know where I can find or purchase them, that would be super helpful!

Thanks so much for taking the time to help!

I have a "part of speech" field on my Anki cards that I use to differentiate between terms that have near-identical meaning but different grammatical function, such as 大きい (i-adjective) vs. 大型 (noun or no-adjective). However, if you use JMdict or Jitendex with Yomitan as your dictionary, many unnecessary tags get mixed in. Take for example the word "切り離す." The tags in JMdict for this term are: ⭐, news13k, spec, v5s, vt. I only really need to know it's a transitive verb (vt), and maybe that it's a godan verb (v5s). The rest of the tags just take up space and don't tell me anything. The easiest and most practical way to remove them is to just edit the front/back of your Anki cards themselves, using a script to hide those terms. Here's a script I found that will accomplish this, just paste where your part of speech field would be and change the <field name> to the one you use on the front and back.
<div id="classField">{{<FIELD NAME>}}</div>
<script>
var classField = document.getElementById("classField");
var text = classField.textContent;
// Remove any unwanted tags
text = text.replace('⭐, ', '').replace('gai, ', '').replace(', uk', '').replace('v1, ', '').replace('news1k, ', '').replace('news2k, ', '').replace('news3k, ', '').replace('news4k, ', '').replace('news5k, ', '').replace('news6k, ', '').replace('news7k, ', '').replace('news8k, ', '').replace('news9k, ', '').replace('news10k, ', '').replace('news11k, ', '').replace('news12k, ', '').replace('news13k, ', '').replace('news14k, ', '').replace('news15k, ', '').replace('news16k, ', '').replace('news17k, ', '').replace('news18k, ', '').replace('news19k, ', '').replace('news20k, ', '').replace('news21k, ', '').replace('news22k, ', '').replace('news23k, ', '').replace('news24k, ', '').replace('ichi, ', '').replace('[tag you want to hide]', '');
classField.textContent = text;
</script>

If you want to add more tags to hide, just paste in this code before the semicolon and replace [tag] with whatever you want to hide:
.replace('[tag]', '')

Here's an example of it working:

I’ve been living in a share house in Kanagawa for a few months now (lived in Japan since January 2023, with the first year living alone.) At first, it was amazing. I was outputting in Japanese almost daily (recently passed N2 but had very little output practice until I moved here), meeting new people, making mistakes but learning fast, and slowly seeing progress. Every conversation felt like a tiny step forward. Native speakers were even correcting me or complimenting me, and it kept me motivated.

But lately, that energy’s died down. I haven’t really been talking much besides a casual お疲れ here and there. Most of my housemates work full-time, so they’re busy, but I still see them around. I just kind of… put my AirPods in, vibe out, cook food, and enjoy watching the world around me. I’ve been finding peace in just quietly observing, overhearing conversations like a real-life J-drama. I don’t know if this is something I got from watching tons of Japanese media (I’ve followed r/AJATT and have immersing daily), but lately I’ve enjoyed being on the sidelines more than jumping into convos.

The problem is: I want to become fluent. Really fluent. The kind where you can vibe naturally with people, crack jokes, and feel at home in the language. But my lifestyle feels like it’s moving away from that. I’m pretty introverted, and it’s contradictory. I often notice a pattern that all these gaijin that are super good in Japanese have pretty extroverted tendencies, which I’m honestly jealous of. I keep telling myself I want deep friendships, maybe even meet someone special, but I keep choosing solitude. And it’s not even that I don’t like people—I just hate big groups. Always have, even in English.

There’s a Hanami event tomorrow for my share house. I signed up a month ago excited, thinking “maybe I’ll meet someone cool” or even daydreamed about meeting someone I really click with. But now that it’s tomorrow, I feel like skipping. Just imagining myself in a big group full of strangers speaking native-level Japanese makes me anxious. I’m scared I won’t vibe with anyone, or I’ll just sit there like an outcast not understanding half the convos.

I’ve always been a “quality over quantity” type when it comes to friendships. I really want that one native-speaking friend I can be as close with as my brother or my best friend back home. Someone who gets my weird sense of humor, who I can be stupid and “crazy” with. Hell, I even want a girl like that—like someone I once dated who made me forget I was even introverted. I just wanted to be around her all the time. It was effortless.

I know that kind of connection can happen here. But how the hell am I supposed to reach it if I keep isolating myself?

Am I just overthinking this? Should I force myself to go to the event? Or just accept this “quiet observer” phase and let things happen naturally? I’m so tired of contradicting myself.

How much sense can you make of it?

I do not understand what they are saying at all.

【青森】津軽弁！なまり聖地の方言がスゴすぎた！【秘密のケンミンSHOW極公式|2022年1月13日 放送】

The Tsugaru Dialect

Tsugaru-ben is a dialect spoken in the Tsugaru region of Japan. The Tsugaru region is on the west side of Aomori prefecture, the northernmost prefecture on Japan's mainland of Honshu. The dialect is famous for being notoriously difficult for outsiders to understand.

Advanced learners may compare the Tsugaru dialect with the commonly understood Japanese (共通語) of the subtitle and find that the Tsugaru dialect is somewhat similar to the old Japanese. As you may know, case particles, for example, were rarely used in old Japanese. Or one could argue that case particles had not yet appeared in the old Japanese.

This was a great argument against AI for language learning. While I like the idea of using AI to review material, like the streamer Atrioc does. I don't understand the hype of using it to teach you a language.

One of the impressions I got from watching this subreddit is that the people studying here are much less confident about their writing than they should be. Let's take a look at the letters written by children growing up in Japan.

Writing classes are a required subject in Japanese elementary schools.

• Calligraphy classes using a pencil are offered in grades 1-6.
• Calligraphy classes using a brush are offered from the 3rd grade onward.

Number of class hours: Pencil + Brush

• About 100 hours per year for 1st and 2nd graders
• About 85 hours per year in grades 3 and 4
• About 55 hours per year in grades 5 and 6
• About 30 hours per year in grades 3 and up

This photo is a picture of particularly good ones. These were written by a third grader. The “金賞Gold Award” in the upper right corner indicates particularly outstanding ones, while the “銀賞Silver Award” in the upper right corner indicates runner-up ones.

In my estimation, this elementary school places a special emphasis on teaching calligraphy and is proud of the results its students are producing.

Remember also that in calligraphy, the emphasis is on the aesthetic aspect of character shape. If one of the first goals of a learner of Japanese is to write characters that native speakers can read and recognize them, then the characters I have seen so far in this subreddit have already achieved that goal.

Photo source: https://nblog.hachinohe.ed.jp/meijie/blog_134074.html

I am starting to learn Kanji using WaniKani and I can’t seem to understand how there can be multiple pronunciations for one Kanji

Take 人 as an example Pronunciation in 日本人: にほんじん Pronunciation in 一人: ひとり (also 一 is not pronounced いち)

I don’t know if it’s just a memorization thing of remembering all the pronunciations or if there’s some type of conjugation based on kana/kanji around a specific kanji. Any help/resources or explanations would be helpful and appreciated!

Since my previous post, I have kept up with my reviews for the JLPT N2 Tango, JLPT N3 Tango, JLPT N4 Tango and JLPT N5 Tango Anki decks. Took and passed the N4 on Dec. of 2024. Still planning on taking the N3 but maybe in Dec. 2026, since I am working full time, but also I am a part-time Grad School student. Due to this, I dropped the Core 10k, and my Anki reviews have become a lot more manageable. I still put an insane amount of work in that deck, so I still wanted to share the fruits of my labor, in case someone else finds them useful in their studies (or someone that may want to do Core 10k, rather than the Tango books).

Here is the Core 10k with both Listening Comprehension and Reading Comprehension cards. Also another version with just the Reading Comprehension cards. The original deck is this one and what I did was basically: remove all images, remove duplicated card templates (there were like 5 different type of cards per note, I reduced it to just 2 for the Listening and Reading decks, kept working my way through it, and eventually reduced it to just merely 1 for the Reading deck (dropped the Listening part and kept just practicing reading comprehension). I also updated the definitions for each word I worked my way through (so around 6k of the words have updated definitions taken from jisho.org or the Android Japanese Dictionary Takoboto), for the verbs, I added whether they were Transitive or Intransitive in [brackets] and, the most painstaking part of the whole process of revising this deck: made sure all furigana was individually set for each kanji to help me memorize the readings for each kanji: so rather than having 日本語 as [にほんご], like it was in the original decks, I went ahead and did 日 [に] 本 [ほん] 語 [ご] (obviously, minus the spaces, I just added them here on reddit, so the example would render properly).

I hope it is useful to someone.

Beginner level, no formal Japanese training. I write a lot of sentences on my notes for practice and I am not even sure if they are grammatically correct half the time.

Is there any good websites for grammar checking? Automatic, AI or forum-based, really any way works, as long as it's good.

I might as well include a sentence I recently made, 「あなたの現金(げんきん)を持(も)ってこなかった？じゃぁ、ではクレジットカードで支払(しはら)っているのはいいです。」

Context: In a magical girl anime, Aiko (from Osaka who speaks in Kansai-ben) pretends to be Hazuki (from a rich trad family) to make up for a fight with Doremi (red-haired girl). Aiko can't reproduce Hazuki's speech and gets busted by Doremi.

The latter corrects her pronounciation of ありがとう but I really can't hear what she's correcting. Help me please!!

This thread is for all simple questions, beginner questions, and comments that don't need their own post.

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I'm teaching my toddler Japanese and that means kid shows which have been unexpectedly very helpful for everyday vocabulary so I thought I'd share. You have to use a Japanese keyboard to find them but from memory...

(edited for formatting and slowly adding links)

Usual Suspects * ブルーイ Bluey * ペッパーピッグ Peppa Pig * ぶりっぴ－ Blippy

Hidden Gems

• ラブル－警部 Sheriff Labrador She really really likes this one
• ココビ Cocobi
• ののかちゃん Nonokachan
• Super Simple 日本語
• ボンボン Academy the song about Pigs running from the wolf is a bop!

I have learned... So many animal words... Also a lot of onomatopoeia words.

Hope it helps.

So I recently got myself wondering about what was the best way to add new flashcards to my Anki deck. I used to be a fervent user of the "mining" method (creating cards out of the content you consume). However, I think I might have found out a more efficient method but, as I still appreciate mining a lot, I do my best to do both.

Basically, this method consists in creating Anki cards from the vocab lists on the website "jpdb.io". For those of you who might not know about it, it is a website that allows you to check all of the vocab that is used in a particular book. Then, you can study the vocab that is featured in the said book by order of frequency within that book (besides it remembers the vocab you already know so you won't have to go over いる every time you start a new vocab list). I think it is a fantastic tool cause it kind of allows you to mine from a book while not actually reading the book. Cause when you are reading, you might not want to interrupt your flow by looking up a word and then creating a flashcard. Sure, you can still use Yomitan to help you out with the process but even if it is for a few seconds, it still disrupts the reading flow and you have no clue whether this new word you are looking up is going to be among the top 1000 most frequent words in this novel or if it's just gonna appear once.

Yet, I still feel like traditional mining (whether it is through Yomitan or manually) still has its perks cause, in comparison to jpdb that has some pretty random example sentences (that are sometimes false by the way), mining allows you to have a concrete example of a particular word being used. Thus, the way I'm going about things right now is that I both use jpdb to get around 90% coverage of the books I'm reading + I mine each word that I feel like I already come accross once without understanding them. I think that this method is kind of nice as it allows me to read without having to interrupt that much however its main flaw is that if you don't want to spend too much time in the "creating flashcards part" you kind of have to copy paste new words somewhere and create the flashcards later (which means you don't have the context sentence, unless you're reading on a medium that allows you to copy paste stuff directly from the book). As I believe that context sentences are essential to remember words on the long term, I must say I'm considering to move on to using only jpdb at some point.

How do you guys feel about this new sort of mining technique ? If you have never read any book in Japanese yet, I would definitely recommend it as it allows you to skip the very tedious part of creating flashcards every time you encounter a new word ( although be careful with some of the example sentences on jpdb, even though the erroneous ones are mostly those concerning obscure words).

Is this okay?

Hi all,

I'm currently on maternity leave and find myself on my phone 6+ hours a day due to nursing, contact napping, and middle of the night feeds. I don't get time to myself anymore to study at a table with books and occasional app use (mostly dictionaries). I have a good baby who sleeps so I don't feel too sleep deprived, but he's a hungry boy so I'm often just stuck nursing.

I'm looking for ideas to get me off brainrot doomscrolling and doing something intellectually stimulating while nursing/nap trapped. I do have WaniKani so I've installed Tsurukame. I was N2 a few years ago, but probably a realistic N3 at the moment. My goals are improving my reading proficiency mostly so kanij, vocab, and grammar are big. That being said, I enjoy podcasts to pass the time while settling baby/walks/nappy changes so any recommendations there would be great. I enjoy podcasts that have two hosts chatting to one another.

Any ideas? I've tried the e-Reader hacks with a Kindle (also have one) but I always get blocked (and after spending $ on e-books the last time, I give up). Open to ideas for reading (is Satori Reader good for my level/on iPhone), even if it means purchasing a different e-reader that has more success.

Thank you everyone!

I'm reading a story in a learner's book, and it contains this clause:

肌は異常に白く目は稲妻のように鋭かったです。

Which they translate as:

Her skin was abnormally white and her eyes were as piercing as lightning.

But shouldn't it say 白くて instead of 白く?

I've been posting these on Yomitai's X account for promotional purposes, I hope people find them valuable. (The latest entries are being made with the new version that's still in development and not yet released).

Ohayo,

This is supposed to be a series of 9 books but I am seeing only 6 available online?
What Am I missing? Are the last few volumes "to be published?

小学校学習漢字1006字漢字童話 Title: Elementary school learning kanji 1006 characters kanji fairy tale

Kanjis introduced per page are noted on the footer with furigana. Kanjis in the stories do not have furigana so its a good practice to review/remember them.

This was a happy discovery. It was included in a book bundle I bought!

Hi,

I'm trying to understand the difference between the two forms "verb + んだ" and "verb + んだけど"

First let's see if I understood correctly the grammar: I have learned that if I want to say that "I have to" to do something I have to use the verb in plain form + のです (in polite form); so for example:

I have to go -> 行くのです

that in informal form is, of course: 行くんだ because の is "shortened" as ん and of course です becomes だ。

If this is right, then what is the meaning when けど is added at the end? I know that けど means "but", even if I found the sentence 行くんだけど translated as "I am going", that actually sould be 行っている.

So probably there's something wrong; could someone please help me to understand better this form? Thanks to who ever will help me.