Kanji Teacher - Learn Japanese

absolutely great app. i can’t believe such a complex app is even on the market offering so much for free, 0 ads, and no annoying email account requirement. One think i really wish was included though, is an audible reading of the question to more quickly associate the sounds with the kanji. I greatly respect this developer’s practice. This is the best way.

I never write reviews but I need to say this app literally taught me hiragana. I’m a bad student and don’t practice enough, but even after months of no practice I can read like 90% of hiragana I see. Now to tackle the other alphabets… 😭

I use this app alongside the jisho dictionary app. For every new kanji I learn, I find it more helpful to write out the kanji in the jisho app and study the most common words that use that kanji. I love that with this app, you can customize the definitions of the words (although it took me a while to figure out how to do that), and I love that you can edit the “mnemonics” screen—of which I just dump various common words that use that kanji, and copy paste example sentences from jisho into this app. If the example sentences don’t read quite right in English (and I’m becoming a better self-translator), I’ll use deepl to form a more accurate English translation. I will say, I find it difficult to use this app for anything other than kanji learning. The vocab and listening exercises are sometimes very ???, even when looking at N5 level. For example, under the listening games, “What did she say?”, one of the example sentences under N5 level is “She gave me the fish eye.” ??? another is “Scratch a Russian and find a Tartar.” ??? ちょっと待って… まったく意味が分からない。 However, the vocab, listening, etc, don’t subract from the overall usefulness of the kanji learning aspect. It’s very customizeable. And I’m sure there are things about the functionality of this app that I still haven’t learned how to do. I appreciate this app so much. As someone who is struggling with disabling chronic illness and お金がない, I thought it would be near impossible for me to learn Japanese. Thank you for making learning a language more accessible for people like me. 本当に、どうもありがとうございます。