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Learning Japanese app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 6080 ratings )
Reference Education
Developer: Ronald Timoshenko
Free
Current version: 3.2, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 21 Jun 2010
App size: 29.95 Mb

Tae Kims Guide to Learning Japanese now available in the app store! Topics covered include:

- The Japanese Writing System (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji)
- Basic Japanese Grammar (Particles, Gobi, Tense, etc.)
- Essential Japanese Grammar (Polite Forms, Conditionals, etc.)
- Special Expressions (Causative, Amounts, Honorific, etc.)
- Advanced Topics (Formal Expressions, Volitional, etc.)

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A Japanese guide to learning Japanese grammar

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This guide is an attempt to systematically build up the grammatical structures that make up the Japanese language in a way that makes sense in Japanese. It may not be a practical tool for quickly learning immediately useful Japanese phrases (for example, common phrases for travel). However, it will logically create grammatical building blocks that will result in a solid grammatical foundation. For those of you who have learned Japanese from textbooks, you may see some big differences in how the material is ordered and presented. This is because this guide does not seek to forcibly create artificial ties between English and Japanese by presenting the material in a way that makes sense in English. Instead, examples with translations will show how ideas are expressed in Japanese resulting in simpler explanations that are easier to understand.



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Please note that this application does not contain Romaji. You will be required to learn the Kana (Hiragana and Katakana) to be able to fully complete this guide. Dont worry though, its covered in the "Writing System" section.

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Pros and cons of Learning Japanese app for iPhone and iPad

Learning Japanese app good for

its just an excellent way for a beginner, that show how write hiragana and taht have 2 voices (one girl one man) its small writes but we can zoom easily I would have like more voice but for a free thing its already a good stuff ;)
Itll force me out of using romanji ! <_< Its very good to explain the whole thing. I wish there were exercises so I guess Ill buy the other apps (which are at a very fair price compared to Assimil and stuff) Will we ever get an app where we should strike the kana and kanji on our phones/tablets and get graded on how well we follow the strike order and how close is it to the original ? :D
I downloaded the app because the sample pictures showed there were tests. There are very few, only with the first lessons. However, as a grammar reference, it is perfect !
Thank you so much, reading the explanations feel like hearing them, by a good, patient teacher. Hope you have or will publish training avtivities and tests (ready to pay for them!)
There are throughout explained in an easy to understand manner.
I love the external links for further explanations and the fact that you can click on a word written in kanji and learn its meaning and pronunciation. A must have!

Some bad moments

I like the guide a lot. It gets 5 stars. The app itself has a thing where the menu pops up a bit on the side, and it happens kind of randomly. Tbh its pretty annoying lol. I could just be swiping normally and it will start appearing, then I have to shoo it away. If it could change so that bringing up the pop up could feel more consistent, and less present, instant 5 stars.
Um, all this app does is cause my landscape screen to flip to portrait, then back to landscape without actually loading. Dont waste your money.