renshuu - Japanese learning

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4.8
10.1K reviews
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Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

A cute, ad-free, and enjoyable learning experience is waiting for you in the Renshuu community! The free version is unlimited: there’s no timer before you are forced to pay!

★ A path for every learning style and every goal ★
Whether you are getting started with the alphabets or have been studying for years, jump in exactly where you belong! Don’t waste time going through what you already know.

Renshuu maintains learning paths for most textbooks, the JLPT, Kanji Kentei, and for those who just want to learn. You can also carve out your own path! Our community has over 10,000 user-made lessons for even more focused learning.

★ Cute, relaxing, and fun ★
Our mascot Kao-chan is here to let you enjoy learning Japanese, whether it’s through collectible coins every time you quiz, a character that evolves as you learn, manga pages that you unlock, or hundreds of hand-made illustrations.

Additionally, we have both single and multiplayer games to help you keep your learning and reviewing fresh!

★ Personal service ★
We are just a two-person company - and we don’t use chat bots. That means that every question you have gets an answer directly from us.

★ Rich, in-depth materials ★
■ Vocabulary: over 15,000 native-recorded audio files, 17,000 hand-picked images, and 160,000 example sentences make understanding vocabulary a breeze. Our growing library of accent/pitch data can even help you with accent reduction.
■ Kanji: 12,000+ kanji, with no limits on what you can study! Over 2,000 colorful mnemonics help you to understand and retain the meanings.
■ Grammar: Over 800 different expressions, each complete with native-written model sentences, construction diagrams, audio, and over 7,500 hand-made quiz questions.
■ Sentences: Thousands of sentences complete with audio, divided by theme and difficulty levels.

★ A superior quiz system designed around Japanese ★
Our SRS-for-Japanese system doesn’t treat Japanese materials like flashcards to be memorized, and breaks every item down into individual components so you can understand, and not just memorize. Mastery schedules keep you studying only what you need to, pushing weaker materials to the front for you to focus on.

Dozens of different question styles keep things fresh, while a flexible input system (multiple choice, typing, or writing) lets you answer the way that you want to.

★ Customizable down to the last character ★
Renshuu doesn’t believe that there is a single way of studying that everyone should adhere to. Our expansive settings and customizations let you adjust the learning environment to what works best for you.
Updated on
Oct 30, 2024

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
Financial info and App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.8
9.64K reviews
Quinten Snijders
April 11, 2021
This app looked very promising but it feels as if it is made with intermediate students in mind. This app left me feeling confused or as if I am out of the loop most of the time. Finding lessons feels like a struggle. Everything in the app feels like it is missing structure. It feels as if someone took a ton of great study content and tossed them all in one big pile for you to scavenge through. Games look fun but lack explanation for beginners. App has potential but needs improvement.
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renshuu.org
April 11, 2021
Thanks for the candid feedback - I’m sorry that renshuu created confusion for you. Lessons are, for most users, completely contained within the schedules made during your initial setup. It’s possible that there was an error, or something that could be explained better. I’d be happy to directly help you if you drop me a line at [email protected]!
Lily
February 16, 2023
This app both has and is genuinely everything you could possibly look for when learning Japanese, whether you're a complete beginner, advanced, or self-taught. I could speak decently and listen pretty well, but my reading and writing was abysmal and my vocabulary needed work. This app allows me to choose what kinds of words id like to learn, what ways id like to learn them (kanji or word-focused), as well as any other aspect of the japanese language if I feel like leveling up even more.
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renshuu.org
February 17, 2023
Thank you so much for the kind and detailed review! I'm so happy that renshuu is working out for you, and as we continue to improve and expand our materials, I hope that it'll be able to keep helping you :) Should you need anything at all, do let me know! I'm always here at [email protected], or the ? button at the top of the app.
E.T. Phone Home
September 26, 2021
Edit: you know what I really like: that this is not word by word to the next level like other apps. Original: never had this much fun learning Japanese and it is the first app/learning method that covers sentences so well. It is hard sometimes, but if you click on the words you go to dictionary and bit by bit it makes more and more sense. And a reasonable price for advanced learning. Though the free options are plenty. I really like how you can ajust your learning speed. So it won't get boring.
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renshuu.org
April 9, 2021
Hello, and thank you so much for the review! I'm glad you like the sentence integration :). While no app can be perfect, I'm always aiming for that, so I'd love to hear about any glitches you've run into! You can reach me at [email protected], Help > Contact (in the app), or on our discord server (link under Community).

What's new

November refresh, renshuu pro sale until the end of the year, and tons of little fixes!