kawaiiNihongo: Learn Japanese

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4.6
33.6K reviews
1M+
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PEGI 3
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About this app

Learn Japanese for free in English with the kawaiiNihongo! kawaiiNihongo helps you to learn Japanese faster and read and write Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji with cute flashcards, learning games, and mnemonics learning techniques.

kawaiiNihongo is perfect for beginners who want to learn to read and write Japanese. Try kawaiiNihongo and you’ll be amazed at how quickly you can learn Japanese Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji!

kawaiiNihongo learn Japanese app offers the following features:

Completely free!
▸ All lessons are free to use without the need of unlocking or paying for them. Learn as much as you want!

Learn
▸ Learn to read Japanese by covering all Hiragana and Katakana.
▸ Expand your Japanese grammar with JLPT N5 grammar.
▸ Learn Japanese vocabulary with JLPT N5 Kanji.
▸ Explore over 450 learning cards with unique illustrations.
▸ Bite-sized lessons, so you can learn regardless if you have a lot of time or just quickly on the bus!
▸ Take lessons for listening comprehension and writing and drawing Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji.
▸ All lessons are voiced from Japanese native speakers.

Play
▸ Make learning Japanese fun and engaging with interactive learning games.
▸ "Kana-Memory", "Nihongo Dash" and "Foxes vs. Gangsters" will help you to memorize and recognize Hiragana and Katakana, as well was train your vocabulary skill!
▸ We are constantly expanding our selection of games!
▸ Best of all, learning games are always free!

Customize
▸ Customize your flash cards with different layouts designed by various artist, and fit them to your learning preferences.



For support, contact: [email protected]
Updated on
Jan 12, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.6
31.4K reviews
A Google user
April 20, 2019
very cute and nice way of learning basic japanese. nice concept and very well worked out. i expected a more visual novel kind of thing, since the beginning starts like this, but have as of yet not seen any other visual novel parts. besides that its a great app and i fully recommend it if you're looking to learn japanese in a fun way!
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Tamara
February 10, 2021
Ive just started using this app since a few days ago, and I already really like it. From what it seems, there are grammar lessons as well, not just words and random sentences. The structure of the app is somewhat like Duolingo, but this app teaches you everything from the beginning. Instead of teaching you sentences like "the boy is a cow", this app starts with hiragana and katakana. There are fun games to play and I really like the storyline with riko. Up until now I've really enjoyed it! 5/5!
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Gerjo Bakker
June 23, 2020
Good story, good game. May want to revise the drawing exercises. Checking what the player actually wrote is what I advise. Also putting a faint picture of the syllabe in the background. Make it more faint over time of even removing. Causing the player slowing drawing it good and understandable. I hope the devs take in my advice. Thanks in advance. Love your game, it helps me with learning Japanese
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What’s new

Riko takes a break from learning Japanese and takes care of some bugs instead! She is sure you will enjoy learning Japanese even more and it makes the experience better for everyone.
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