Learn Japanese with Loquus
Japanese brings together a new writing system and ways of arranging a sentence that may be unfamiliar. Loquus gives you lessons, audio, and reference tools to explore them together. Start with a few useful words, then take time to look at how they are written and used.
Start with a greeting. Keep going from there.
Japanese writing uses hiragana, katakana, and kanji. The alphabet reference offers a place to explore the course's character material and hear examples. When you meet a word, connect its written form with the reading and audio instead of trying to learn the spelling on its own.
Particles help show how the parts of a Japanese sentence relate to one another. Use Grammar Center to explore a pattern and read its examples. Take a short phrase you are learning and notice what comes after each word as well as the words themselves.
Japanese wording changes with context and the relationship between speakers. Browse Phrasebook expressions with the situation in mind, and listen to how a whole reply sounds. Guided conversations offer a place to work with authored exchanges, replay the audio, and try an available response.
35
Chapters on your journey
72
Grammar Center topics
56
Authored conversations
See it in the app
Real screens from the first day of the Japanese course in the iPhone app.
Open the app and today’s session is waiting. The Japanese course begins with Sounds & First Contact, and the first lesson is Greetings & Introductions.
Your first word is こんにちは (kon'nichiwa), meaning hello. Each new word comes with its meaning and audio at normal or very slow speed, plus a reading in Latin letters.
Right after a new word, you repeat it after the voice. This is called shadowing, and it builds speaking habits from your very first lesson.
Typing steps bring their own keyboard, so you can write Japanese before you add a keyboard to your phone.
Explore the course’s writing and sound reference. Tap an entry to hear it.
A first taste
Tap a word to hear it, at normal speed or slowly.
Your path
The full course has 35 chapters. Your journey shows your progress in each one.
Grammar Center
A few of the topics you can open anytime, before or after you reach them in a lesson.
Alphabets & sounds
Tap an entry to hear it. Explore the writing and sound references included in this course.
In the app, start with three free lesson starts a day. Reference tools are included in free access. Loquus Plus adds unlimited lesson starts, section reviews, capstones and Arcade games.
14 languages. Your next step.
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