Guides

How the app works, the two study modes, and how to actually stick with it.

The two phonetic alphabets — what they are, how they work, and how to learn them fast.

How kanji work, on/kun readings, the role of radicals, and how to learn them sanely.

How sentences are built, what particles do, and the politeness system.

Beyond は・が・を — the small words that wire every sentence together.

The three groups all Japanese verbs fall into, why it matters, and how to tell them apart.

i-adjectives vs na-adjectives — they look similar, conjugate completely differently.

これ・それ・あれ・どれ — the whole こそあど system for pointing at things.

Polite, casual, te-form, and the other forms you actually need first.

One verb form, a dozen jobs — requests, progressives, permission, sequencing.

Potential, volitional, passive, and causative — the conjugations Verb Conjugation deferred.

Why Japanese has two words where English has one — 自動詞 and 他動詞.

より, のほうが, いちばん, 〜と同じ — bigger, smaller, best, the same.

と・ば・たら・なら — four ways to say "if", and which one to reach for.

から・ので・のに・けど・し・たり・ながら・ように — joining clauses into real sentences.

Saying you want to, want a thing, have to, and don't have to.

Putting a whole clause in front of a noun — the backbone of real sentences.

でしょう・かもしれない・はず・そう・らしい・よう — guessing, hedging, and hearsay.

あげる・くれる・もらう — direction, perspective, and the favors built on them.

How to count, the giant-number system, and why "two cats" is harder than it sounds.

Greetings, daily phrases, and the cultural context that makes them work.

The honorific, humble, and polite layers — and how much a learner actually needs.