Japanese Kana – Vocab

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Learn everyday Japanese words and practice reading hiragana at the same time. Japanese Kana – Vocab is made for beginners on the way to JLPT N5: 502 words in flash cards, sorted into 15 topics, with writing practice and quick quizzes to check what you know. FREE TO START • Greetings & Phrases, 30 words, is free in Learn, Write and Quiz, with every quiz type and both directions • One purchase, Unlock Everything, adds the other 14 topics and 472 words. Buy once, keep forever, restore on any of your devices LEARN • 502 everyday words, most of them from the JLPT N5 list, in 15 topics: Greetings & Phrases, Verbs, Adjectives, Animals, Food & Drink, Around the House, Family & People, Body, Colors, Numbers, Time & Days, Weather & Nature, Places & Town, School & Work, and Clothes • Every word is written in hiragana, so each card is also reading practice (いぬ is "dog") • Tap a card to turn it over to its English meaning, with the romaji underneath • Tap the speaker to hear the word • Tap the check if you knew it or the cross if you did not; missed words go to your Practice pile • Switch between All and Practice, shuffle the deck, and see how many you knew at the end of each pass • Your progress in every topic is saved WRITE • Write every one of the 502 words with your finger, one word per page, each character in its own square (long words wrap into rows) • Watch the stroke order draw itself, character by character, with a numbered dot where each stroke starts • Trace over a faint textbook-style guide in one of three inks, erase, and hide the guide when you are ready • Tap the word to hear it, step word by word with the arrows, or jump to any word from All Words • Print a practice sheet for any word, with its romaji and meaning, for pen and paper practice QUIZ • Sprint: as many right answers as you can in 60 seconds • Survival: keep going until your first mistake • Two directions: read the English and pick the Japanese word, or read the Japanese and pick the meaning • Quiz yourself on every topic at once or on just one • Best scores for every quiz and direction, and a review of your wrong answers after a Sprint EVERY DAY • Word of the Day widget for the Home Screen and Lock Screen: tap it to open that word's card • An optional daily reminder at the time you choose • Apple Watch: flash cards by topic, and Sprint and Survival quizzes on your wrist MADE FOR EVERYONE • A calm cherry blossom design, in light and dark mode • iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch PRIVATE AND OFFLINE • No ads, no accounts, no tracking and no subscriptions • Works fully offline, and your progress stays on your device Part of a series: Japanese Kana – Hiragana and Japanese Kana – Katakana teach the two kana scripts and a Kanji app teaches the school kanji; the Switch button on the home screen opens them. Words are spoken by the Japanese voice built into iOS. Word readings and meanings are checked against JMdict, the Japanese-Multilingual Dictionary of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (www.edrdg.org), used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). Word lists: open-anki-jlpt-decks by Jamie Sinclair (MIT License), based on Jonathan Waller's JLPT lists (tanos.co.uk). Stroke order data: KanjiVG by Ulrich Apel (kanjivg.tagaini.net), licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.