Learn Japanese-Listen to Learn

New in 3.0: a kana trainer, 27 grammar lessons, 455 words with spaced repetition, verb forms, speaking practice and an on-device AI tutor.

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.