Learn to read Japanese, one group of five at a time.

Hiragana, katakana and the 80 kanji Japanese children learn in first grade, built for people who learn by ear, by hand and by logic rather than by pictures.

• Hear everything. Every character, word and story has recorded audio.
• Shapes explained, not imagined. Each character is described stroke by stroke, with the exact rule that tells it apart from its lookalikes.
• Learn by hand. Trace each character; every stroke is checked for order and direction.
• Read real stories that only use the characters you already know.

See how it works: try a lesson and hear a story →

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