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Kana Foundations
Master all 46 hiragana and 46 katakana in under two weeks with stroke-order animations, audio and daily recall drills.
From your very first あ to confident, natural conversation — build real fluency with structured lessons, native-speaker audio, spaced-repetition drills and a community that keeps you showing up.
Six carefully sequenced tracks take you from total beginner to reading novels and holding real conversations — without the guesswork.
Master all 46 hiragana and 46 katakana in under two weeks with stroke-order animations, audio and daily recall drills.
Learn by radical and story, not rote memorisation. 2,200+ characters mapped to the official jōyō list with real example sentences.
Particles, verb forms and sentence patterns explained in plain English, then drilled until they become instinct.
Weekly live sessions with native tutors, plus shadowing exercises that train your ear and your accent at the same time.
Navigate business Japanese with confidence — humble, honorific and polite registers broken down by real workplace situations.
Full mock exams for N5 through N1, with timed sections, vocabulary decks and detailed answer explanations.
Every Japanese sentence you'll ever read is built from these 92 characters. Tap between the two syllabaries and start memorising today.
Tip: hiragana handles native words and grammar; katakana is used for loanwords like コーヒー (kōhī, “coffee”).
Click any card to flip it. These are the expressions you'll use in your very first week in Japan.
Five clear milestones, based on the official JLPT levels. Most learners reach N2 in around two to three years of consistent study.
Read kana fluently, introduce yourself, order food, ask for directions and handle simple daily exchanges.
Follow short conversations, read simple articles and manga, and express opinions about familiar topics.
The big jump. Understand natural-speed speech, read light novels and write coherent paragraphs.
Read newspapers, work in a Japanese office, and follow TV dramas without subtitles.
Understand abstract texts, formal writing and nuanced conversation — including keigo and dialect.
七転び八起き
“Fall down seven times, stand up eight.”
Japanese Proverb · ことわざ
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