Learn Japanese-Listen to Learn

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.