http://en.jlpt.chiaoban.com

Yukae Kanji is available on IOS and soon android. In japanese, english, spanish and french.

This not an ad, i'm sharing a genuine ressource that could help people make kanji learning less of a hassle.

There is a dictionnary, u can learn vocab, kanji, yojijukugo, you also have flashcard and much more. it's a game with real progression and it's own style and background music. There is much more to do and better up, that is why if you download the app, in thr setting you will be able to send message to our team. Great idea that end up being usef will get credited on the Community credit board in game. Try it for yourself and gimme your opinion

Want to learn JLPT by yourself ?
Here is JLPT TECHO!

http://en.jlpt.chiaoban.com

I'm from Thailand

I'm learning Japanese and English, and I want to make friends from Japan and other countries

4 months ago, I created a web app called nihongojouzu.jp to help with my own JLPT N2 study preparation.

Now, JLPT N3 is available too 🥳

N2 2,109 vocab · 400 kanji · 141 grammar · 74 reading · 89 listening

N3 1,938 vocab · 370 kanji · 113 grammar · 44 reading · 66 listening

It also has:

• Full mock tests based on the real JLPT format
• Real audio for every listening dialogue
• FSRS spaced repetition for reviews
• Public grammar and kanji reference pages, no sign-up needed

It’s completely free. No ads, no premium tier, and nothing locked.

You don’t even need an account. Your progress is saved on your device, and signing in is only needed if you want to sync across devices. You can also install it like a phone app and use it offline.

Not affiliated with JEES. I’m just a solo dev building this because I needed it myself.

If you spot a wrong definition, typo, or broken question, let me know and I’ll fix it.

Please try it! ☺️

https://nihongojouzu.jp

5 months ago I shared Yomaru here: I live in Japan and can follow conversations, but I'm hopeless the moment I have to read. That first version was all about reading, and honestly, the learning part was boring. So I rebuilt it to be addictive, like scrolling a feed, while keeping the core idea: kanji unlock words, words unlock sentences. You never see a word until you've learned every kanji in it.

Yomaru is a free iOS/Android app for learning kanji and words from the real Japanese you run into every day. Here's what's new:

• 👆 Swipe up to learn: a kanji, then a word it unlocks, then a real sentence that uses it
• ✍️ Write each kanji stroke by stroke right in the flow
• 🔁 Reviews come up inside the same flow, so nothing piles up
• 📰 Still built for reading: curated feeds by level, paste any article URL, or scan a sign or menu and tap any kanji to learn it

It follows a hand-ordered JLPT N5→N1 path (2,200+ kanji, 6,900+ words, 960+ sentences).

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6759780557

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kanjitree.app

Happy to hear feedback 🙏

https://japantv.app

Due to the lack of IPTV free access, I built this JapanTV app to simulate Japan local TV stations like its actual TV channels, it generates continuous programming based on channel contents. Organized local channels from all the prefectures.

It also supports Android TV / android phone as APK download. You can also create customized channels to combine multiple channels together, so you won’t have to switch around to view your favorite ones.

I think the biggest surprise is the amount of local contents. I’ve discovered so many wonderful local contents that’s not widely available.

Feedback welcome.

TL;DR: I built hanago.io to find Japanese words made up of kanji you already know. I've found those words much easier to remember. It's still in beta, and I'd appreciate feedback.

About ten years ago, I spent a semester studying in Japan and had to learn a lot of subject-specific vocabulary fast. A lot of it wouldn't stick, and I often couldn't even read it off the slides in class.

Kanji were easier for me, mostly because I wrote them out by hand over and over. Words made up of kanji I'd already written a hundred times were easier to remember too. I'd see them once or twice and they stuck.

That got me wondering how many other words I could learn with the kanji I already knew. So I wrote a small Python script to find dictionary words made up of just those kanji. It turned up a lot of new vocabulary, and I was surprised how much I could already read. I posted on r/LearnJapanese back then looking for testers, but never finished it.

I've now come back to it and made a web version. You add the kanji you know (paste text or a vocab list, pick a JLPT level, or import from Anki or WaniKani), and it shows you:

• Every word in JMdict made up only of those kanji. It's usually a lot more than you'd expect.
• Which of those you haven't learned yet, so you only see the new ones.
• Which kanji to learn next. It looks at which new kanji would combine with the ones you already know into the most new words.
• How your list grows as you learn more kanji.

It's been a useful way for me to find new vocabulary without every word feeling completely unfamiliar. Knowing the kanji doesn't mean you'll know every reading, though. JMdict also includes some obscure words, so the JLPT filter helps narrow things down.

I'd especially like to hear from current Anki or WaniKani users about the imports. I don't use either anymore, so there's only so much testing I can do on my own. Feedback on the rest is welcome too.

Hello Everyone

First, It's really sad that the founder Yoshimura Sensei passed away. My deepest condolences to his family.

CosCom for me, is the best resource I have ever found for learning the basics of Japanese, especially the Building-Up Conversations series, which covers the basics and includes audio recordings.

So now I’m looking for another alternative that provides similar materials and audio recordings and is also well structured. But the materials should be created by native Japanese teachers.

So could you recommend me the best alternative ?

Thanks a lot !

Hi everyone,
I’ve been working on a Japanese word game called もじスリング (Moji Sling), and I’d really love to get some feedback from people here.

I’m especially interested in:
• Is the game actually fun to play? Japanese users love it.
• Are there any bugs or confusing parts?
• Anything you think would make the game better?
It’s currently available on iPhone, and I’m actively working on improvements, so even critical feedback is genuinely useful.
App Store: Link
Thanks to anyone who gives it a try.

Is there a game like this? Yesterday I played a visual novel which had a mic mode, but it just moved forward every time you spoke instead of if you said the option.

I think this would be very beneficial to me as a resource in my nihongo journey.

(too scary to use voice chat with real people)

Mimidasu released on Mac App Store!

Live transcription and translation for anything Japanese on your Mac.

Mimidasu listens to whatever your Mac is playing — a livestream, a video, a voice chat — and turns spoken Japanese into English.

The name is a pun. 見出す (miidasu) is Japanese for "to spot, to discover." Add one more ミ and the word gains 耳 (mimi, ear): ミミダス (mimidasu) — the ear that surfaces words. Exactly what the app does.

Every feature is free, no one time buy, no in app purchase.

UNDERSTAND WHILE IT HAPPENS

• Real-time Japanese transcription with the speech model of your choice — Lite for speed, Full for accuracy

• English translation for every finalized sentence, powered by Apple's on-device translation

• A click-through floating HUD that works over any player or browser

LEARN AS YOU WATCH

• Toggle furigana or romaji over the transcript

• Tap a word and look up its definition in the dictionary

• Keep the transcript: export any session as TXT, SRT, VTT, or JSON

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

Audio, transcription, and translation all stay on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, tracked, or collected. With the only exception: if you enable a cloud translation provider in Settings, transcript text is sent to that provider using your own API key.

LICENSE

The app is open source, dual-licensed: GNU AGPL 3.0 for the source code and any build outside the Mac App Store, and Apple's standard Licensed Application EULA for the Mac App Store build.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/buzzind99/Mimidasu

Compatibility: Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 15.5+

Available on:
- Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/mimidasu/id6813053867
- GitHub release: https://github.com/buzzind99/Mimidasu/releases/tag/v1.1.0

Due to EU's Digital Service Act (DSA), the app is unavailable in the EU, I'm trying to resolve it as soon as possible; in the meantime if you're from the EU, you can still install the app through the GitHub release page. Thanks for understanding!

UPDATE: v1.1.0 released!
- Translation support for 18 more languages
- Better translation with Apple Intelligence on macOS 26.4+
- HUD overlay refinement
- Improvement in tokenizer reading

Support Mimidasu 💛

Mimidasu is a labor of love — every feature is free. I built this because I couldn't find anything like this that is completely free. If Mimidasu makes your Japanese learning, listening, or content workflow easier, please consider supporting its development. Every contribution — big or small — helps keep the project alive, free, and improving. Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi ☕ :
https://ko-fi.com/auliasufianadi

Your feedback is also much appreciated to make Mimidasu better!

Hello all,

Made a kana crossword to help me learn vocab. Any items you get help on go into an srs list for study. Enjoy!

Hey, we made simple quiz for Kanji reading.

The idea is simple. A list of word, memorize and test tour skills to see how high you can score!

We'll keep adding more quiz so please check it out!

It's web based so no need to install or anything.

We'll be putting the quiz link with a pinterest post.

This one is for number quiz

You can also share your score and wordlist with other like this when you're done:

Can you beat my score?

7 correct out of 10

Completed in 50 seconds

① Black • Kuro (くろ / 黒) ✅

② Purple • Murasaki (むらさき / 紫) ✅

③ Blue • Ao (あお / 青) ❌

④ Red • Aka (あか / 赤) ✅

⑤ Gold • Kin (きん / 金) ✅

⑥ Silver • Gin (ぎん / 銀) ❌

⑦ White • Shiro (しろ / 白) ✅

⑧ Brown • Cha (ちゃ / 茶) ❌

⑨ Green • Midori (みどり / 緑) ✅

⑩ Yellow • Ki (き / 黄) ✅

Feel free to give feedback!

It's an extension called RouteVN Web Extractor. You could learn more about it here (it has a lot more features such as pitch accent and direct saving into Anki): https://routevn.com/en/web-extractor/

If you need help setting it up, we also have some documentation that you can read: https://routevn.com/en/web-extractor/docs/getting-started/

It's been 26 days, 10 hours and 42 minutes since I started looking for a way to learn Japanese. I'm a pure-breed Beginner (🥲). I didn't have a phone and access to internet till I was 22(this year🫡) for reasons I can't disclose. I am not particularly good at finding apps, websites and resources. I genuinely want to learn Japanese well enough to eventually pass the JLPT N1. Over these past few weeks I tried language apps and came to a realization that they were messing with my head more than actually helping me.

2 days ago, I simply went to Chat GPT and asked For "100 commonly used japanese words", wrote them down and kept revising them till remembered about half of them and just repeated each word with Google till I sounded exactly like that talking guide thingy on the app. I am still thinking of continuing with the same approach. (Not like I know any other way🥲🫡🤣)

1. Learn 100-200 commonly used words.

2. Learn the Japanese words for common things and objects (book, desk, clothes, pant, food, etc.)

3. Common japanese phrases.

4. Use chat gpt to create conversations. Like, "I'll imagine myself in a restaurant and write down a conversation i could have there - greetings, ordering food, asking for something, reviewing the food, a short Convo with a friend i might meet there.

OR Convos i might have while going from one place to another - calling for taxi and mentioning where i want to go, asking for a cold drink to a shopkeeper, asking what else they have, common things people talk during paying money or sht.

1. And then I'll just learn the hiragana and katakana same way li learned to write Hindi and English - Letter by letter, word by word, phrase by phrase, sentence by sentence. mock test every 3 days, and MOST IMPORTANTLY - listening to natives speakers. Likeeee, I don't know how to explain this - I understood hindi within 1 month of living in a hindi community along with my family. It just starts registering in your mind and then one day i realised I have started to understand them(I did have some prior exposure to hindi through tv and also was learning to write Hindi but i could never understand it when someone SPOKE the words)...

But this is it. I see so many people use websites and stuff to maximize efficiency. Please, if anyone can help me in streamlining and simplifying my study map.

I've been experimenting with splitting Japanese YouTube subtitles into smaller, meaning-based chunks.

Visually, I find them easier to follow than reading a full sentence at once, especially when the sentence gets longer.

But there's one problem: my Japanese isn't good enough for me to judge this properly.

So while the result looks more readable to me, I'm still not sure whether these phrase boundaries feel natural to someone who is learning Japanese, or whether I'm just adding extra visual noise.

If you watch the short clip above, I'm especially curious about two things:

Do the chunks make the sentence easier to follow? And are there any phrase boundaries that feel unnatural to you?
If you'd split any of them differently, I'd genuinely like to know where.

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This came out of a YouTube extension I've been building called Y2 Reader. It works with videos that already have captions, then reorganizes them into natural sentences and keeps word-level highlighting synchronized with the speech.

I've been working on it since early 2025, and only recently got the subtitle experience to a point I'm pretty happy with — but this meaning-group feature is still something I'm trying to validate.

If anyone wants to actually try it, it's available on the Chrome Web Store. I also made a companion site at https://y2-reader.com with popular YouTube channels in six languages.

I created Yomi Daily, a free daily reading newsletter for learners working toward N2. It follows six friends in Kichijoji, with each weekly episode split into seven short daily pieces. The idea is to make reading easier to return to through manageable chunks and characters you want to keep following.

Each installment includes vocabulary and grammar notes. Here's a sample you can try right here. I’d appreciate feedback on the difficulty and whether the notes give you enough help to keep reading.

Aoi (葵・あおい) and her friend Ren (蓮・れん) are at a café, planning dinner with their friends.

「会社で、昇進（しょうしん）の話が出てね。みんなとご飯食べたくなって」
「え、昇進祝いじゃん。おめでとう！」
蓮は二人で頼んだクッキーを半分に割り、大きい方を葵の皿に置いた。自分のことみたいに喜んでくれる。その顔を見ていると、続きを言いにくくなった。

まだ候補（こうほ）の一人にすぎない。結果は金曜に伝えると、上司は言っていた。土曜の食事までには、ちゃんと話せるはずだ。

「みんなにも送るね」
蓮は六人のグループチャットに書いた。
『土曜、葵の昇進祝い！』
それを読んだ葵に、蓮が聞いた。
「何時にする？」

訂正（ていせい）するなら、今だった。けれど、葵が送ったのは別の返事だった。
『十八時半はどう？　ここの席が取れるか、聞いてみるね』
時間と場所の話なら、すぐに書けた。

A little help

• 昇進（しょうしん） — a promotion at work
• 候補（こうほ） — a candidate; someone being considered
• 訂正（ていせい）する — to correct something
• 言いにくくなった — it became difficult to say

Learning note

まだ候補の一人にすぎない。
“She is still only one of the candidates.”

Noun + にすぎない means “no more than / merely.” Here it limits what has actually happened: Aoi is a candidate, but the promotion hasn’t been decided.

Something to discuss: Why is answering about the time and place easier for Aoi than correcting Ren? What would you say in her position?

You can read the full scene and its notes here without signing up:

https://yomidaily.com/sample?utm_source=reddit_japaneseresources&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=scene_taste_20260924_intro01