Tanuki Sensei

Learn Hiragana and Katakana for free with focused practice. Explore beginner Kanji, vocabulary, grammar, and Japanese numbers as you progress.

Tanuki Sensei is a focused Japanese practice app for beginners.

Build a strong foundation through structured free practice in Hiragana and Katakana, with additional practice in beginner Kanji, vocabulary, grammar, and Japanese numbers.

Train reading, listening, recognition, writing, and recall through a variety of short, focused exercises.

The app adapts to your progress, bringing back the characters, words, and concepts you are still learning while reducing repetition for the ones you already know.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• Free Hiragana and Katakana practice • Beginner Kanji with readings, meanings, audio, and tracing • Vocabulary, grammar, and Japanese numbers • Exercises for reading, listening, typing, tracing, matching, and sentence building • Adaptive reviews based on your performance • Daily missions, XP, levels, and streaks • Start practicing without creating an account

Open Tanuki Sensei and begin your first practice session in under a minute.