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Everything on Nihoner

The tools, games and reading built to get you from your first kana to reading a real book.

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Today’s Mission

One thing to do today, chosen for you. For the days when deciding what to study is the hard part.

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Your Mastery Map

Everything you have learned, laid out so you can see the shape of it.

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Can-do Roadmap

Not levels. Actual things you can now do in Japanese, and the next one within reach.

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Error Passport

The mistakes you keep making, collected, so they stop being invisible.

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Contrast Lab

The pairs that feel identical until someone shows you the difference side by side.

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The Library

Real Japanese books with furigana, word help and audio. Graded so you can find one you can actually finish.

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Writing 書く

Draw a kanji and have it scored stroke by stroke, in your browser. Nothing you draw ever leaves your device.

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MOST LOVED

The Reader

Japanese written for you, at your exact level, using the words you already know and a few you nearly do.

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Keigo Clash

Polite, humble, honorific. The register that decides whether you sound respectful or strange.

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Speech Practice Lab

Say it, hear it back, see where the pitch went wrong.

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Conjugation Dojo

The part of Japanese that actually stops people. Every form, drilled until it stops being a decision.

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Particle Battle

は or が, に or で. The small words that decide whether a sentence sounds Japanese.

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Sentence Builder

Word order, built by hand, until Japanese order stops feeling backwards.

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Counter Dojo

ほん, まい, にん. The counters nobody teaches you properly, because they have to be learned one by one.

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Stroke Order

Which stroke comes next. The order is the answer key, and it makes every kanji easier to remember.

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YOUR HOME

Your Progress Dashboard

What you know, what is slipping, and the kanji to work on next. This is your home now.

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Japanese History

The context behind the language, written properly rather than scraped.

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Kanji Duel

Four modes, including the sound-alikes that catch absolutely everyone out.

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Chimei — The City Game

1,651 Japanese cities. Learn the country and its place names at the same time.

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Kaiwa Dojo

Hold a real conversation out loud and be told exactly what your mouth is doing differently.

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Not sure where to start?

Your dashboard picks the next thing for you, based on what you actually know rather than what you have clicked.

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