The only thing that we found a little irritating was the constant reminders to go Premium. This gives users access to grammar lessons, vocabulary trainer, an offline mode, and other features. A further upgrade to Premium Plus offers a personalized study plan and official certificates as well. Covering 39 languages, including Japanese, Drops offers an enjoyable way to learn with bitesize 5-minute lessons every day. The lessons use interactive images or drawings to help you learn and remember the words.
This allows to you can start with a lesson in a category that you relate to most or use the most in daily life. For each word in any category, you can either swipe up if you already know the word or swipe down to learn the word. However, you can access the words you have already learned and practice them again. The app is useful for those who have a grasp of the Japanese language and want to enhance their vocabulary.
Duolingo is definitely one of the most popular apps among language learners for its engaging, gamified lessons.
You can begin your course as a beginner or start with a placement test to know at which level you should start the course. The progression of the course is relatively slow, and if you answer a few questions wrong and lose your hearts that you gain by watching ads or practice lessons , you cannot proceed with your current lesson. However, the good part is that it detects typos quickly and awards you points even if you typed incorrectly, but the answer was correct.
Another unique feature is that you get Lingots, i. This is one of the few Japanese language apps that allows you to practice your Japanese writing skills using your finger on the phone screen through guided typing lessons and audio clips. The app offers six levels of courses: Hiragana, Katakana, basics, verbs, questions, and adjectives.
Learn Japanese works well for absolute beginners who also want to learn how to speak and write basic characters. The app first unlocks a subcategory like vowels which you have to clear first with practice before unlocking the other categories. The app helps you enhance your vocabulary by breaking up the words for pronunciation and offering a quiz-style teaching method. The best part about the app is that it keeps track of the characters you have become familiar with and the ones you still need more practice with, thus recording your progress.
While many other apps would help you master your Japanese language skills, these definitely caught our fancy. So next time, if you are out of activities to kill your time, download one of these apps, sharpen your language skills, and be on your way to becoming multilingual. Earthquakes , landslides, flash floods and tsunamis are daily — albeit statistically unlikely — threats that we should be prepared for.
It provides real-time updates and news on any tremors or other natural disasters in Japan as they happen. It will also send an alert to your phone in the event of an earthquake warning being issued.
Almost all phones issued by Japanese carriers have a native earthquake warning app, but of course, phones from abroad do not. So this NHK app makes a very worthwhile substitute.
A couple of important notes: This app is dependent on having an active data connection. Remember that in times of disaster, internet access may be compromised. Also, being an NHK app, the news updates will be in Japanese only. However, these updates are typically accompanied by graphs and other visual data that are easy for English speakers to understand, too.
Google Play. Japan Trains was one of the first Android apps I was introduced to when I came back to Japan in and got myself a new phone. Like most great apps, its beauty lies in its simplicity and ease of access. Japan Trains is a comprehensive train schedule checker, with real-time updates, to help you plan your route to perfection. Operating completely in English, you type in your departure station, your destination and either your departure time or intended arrival time.
The app will then present you with five or more different options, showing where you need to be and when, which platform you leave from and how much it will cost. You can also optimize your search by price, speed, local or express train and a host of other specific options. As far as free apps go, for traveling around Japan, this is an excellent first choice. One thing there is no shortage of on smart phones these days is language learning apps.
Its crisp, clear presentation also makes reading, and hopefully memorizing, the items you have looked up a lot easier. Not only does the app offer translations and advice on different readings, but it also shows you how to write the characters correctly using the appropriate order, with sample sentences also added to back up understanding and encourage regular usage.
Other foreign female users I spoke with had similar results, so this might not be a good choice if you are seriously looking to meet someone.
Thanks to numerous updates to a more streamlined, Tinder-like service, plus TV and online commercials in , Tapple has become a very competitive app, preferred by those in their 20s who are looking for a relationship that could lead to something more. Plus, the numbers of people who want to take things slowly and start online here make it ideal for those wanting companionship but not willing to head out on the town just yet. When you join, you are given an automatic points to use in order to meet and match with others based on your own search parameters.
Pairs is another online dating site and one that has had numerous TV and train commercials since going online. This site and its related app also uses your Facebook profile but allows you to hide your full name, enabling its users to go by initials instead. Zexy Koimusubi is a dating app that is part of a popular Japanese wedding services company. The app overall works on the same principles of matching based on shared interests and uses your Facebook profile to compile this data, but otherwise, it seems to have a fairly high success rate.
There are just over 25 million people on Happy Mail, looking for everything from pen pals to serious marriage partners. This is because they are quite literally trying to find you a suitable husband. Good luck in finding the best for yourself, ladies! Have you ever used a dating app or site in Japan? Share your experiences in the comments. Real Japanese Ghost Stories. By Hilary Keyes. By Kiri Falls.
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