Reviews for Learn Japanese! – kanji app?

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1. There are free similar apps, e.g. [https://www.ringotan.com](https://www.ringotan.com).

   However, if you don’t care about being able to write kanji yourself (a useless skill for most people, since we type electronically), then the best way to “learn kanji” is to simply start learning vocabulary and only doing individual kanji study as needed. Many people find that they can remember vocabulary without learning individual kanji first. Should you want to add some kanji study anyway, a lightweight/fast approach would be going through an RRTK Anki deck while learning vocabulary.

2. I really like japanese kanji study by chase colburn in the Google play store.

   Idk if they have an app for apple.

3. Hi! I’ve been using that app for 10 months now, doing two lessons a day. I have to be honest with you though, I am not using it to “remember” or learn the kanji. I mean it helps, but my knowledge is not retained by using it. The only thing that really helped me with kanji, was drilling it with wanikani, as I find being forced to remember and actually type kanji/words using the interval they provide was the best way to learn for me personally.

   But as I said, I have used that app for a long time, and I love it! It’s also very cheap if I remember correctly. My primary objective with it is to get good at writing, and I also find it really fun (which is also why I use it, to learn Japanese using multiple ways to make it more exciting)! By using it consistently since august of last year, I’m now able to write out a lot of the “easy” and simple n5/n4 kanji without looking it up, and I’m also able to just take a glance at a more complex kanji, and recreate it in no time. My writing is also very pretty now.

   It might work differently for you though, and you might be able to actually remember each kanji you learn, as brains works differently. But that’s my experience at least. Good luck with learning!

   Also sidenote, I’ve been using my iPad as I prefer to write with a pen, but I learned kana using their other app by using my phone and fingers, which worked fine!

4. i use wanikani and i think it’s fantastic.

5. I use Wanikami, works wonders! Its paid though.

6. Are you on android? I’m developing completely free [Kanji Dojo](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ua.syt0r.kanji) specifically for learning kanji

7. I have been using the app for the last year, and I like it a lot. I am an American who learned Chinese in Taiwan, so my main purpose is to drill Japanese readings of characters and build my vocabulary.

   I like that you really need to write the characters freehand from memory. I am definitely old school, as I learned Chinese with pen and paper. While hand writing is not particularly useful in his day and age, writing helps you to remember the characters.

   I use it in combination with the Chinese dictionary app Pleico https://apps.apple.com/app/id341922306 and the “Nihongo” Japanese dictionary app https://apps.apple.com/app/id881697245

   Pleico supports the Japanese variants, so I hand write a character to look it up and match it and match it against the Chinese character that I know and see how it may vary. I use the Outlier Chinese etymology add In dictionary, which gives me mnemonics that are based in history instead of made up. It’s fairly common for Japanese to use a relatively unusual meaning, as it might have come in 1000 years ago.

   The data in “Learn Japanese” can be quirky, particularly at the N1 level. I consider it more of a mnemonic than a full explanation of the meaning. Using the “Nihongo” dictionary helps me get a complete understanding of the Japanese.

   I am happy with the app and how I have been using it in conjunction with the other tools. It’s been a good match for my background.