Dragonfly Japanese

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4.5
736 reviews
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Everyone
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About this app

Practice Japanese! This app targets the following beginners:
 ・Those who are about to start learning Japanese ABC (i.e., Hiragana and Katakana).
 ・Those who are aiming at the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test N5, N4 level.

Also, this app is designed to be able to learn real Japanese efficiently, even for beginners. For example, all Kanji in the example sentences have how to read. Additionally, this app has a dictionary, so you can effortlessly search by just touching the example sentences or choices of questions. Moreover, this app has plenty of example sentences that have voices by Japanese native speakers. So you can acquire standard and natural Japanese. In short, this app is easy to practice. Now, let's try it out.

The following methods are available for learning.

Kana table
In the Kana table, you can check the following items of Hiragana and Katakana:
 ・Letterform
 ・Stroke order
 ・Pronunciation
 ・Romanization notation
The strokes are animated smoothly. The pronunciations are Japanese native speaker pronunciations.

Flashcards
Flashcards have words on the front and information such as meanings and example sentences on the back. You can check them repeatedly until you memorize them. This feature can also play pronunciation. Therefore you can use it not only for memorization but also for repeating and dictation. Besides, you can select the flashcard to use by the card you do not memorize, the part of speech of the word, etc.

Practice
The form of questions for practice includes the following:

 Question of Hiragana / Katakana
 ・Hiragana→Katakana
 ・Hiragana→romanization notation
 ・Katakana→Hiragana
 ・Katakana→romanization notation
 ・Romanization notation→Hiragana
 ・Romanization notation→Katakana
 ・Voice→Kana

 Question of words
 ・Meaning question
 ・Reading question
 ・Orthography question
 ・Filling question
 ・Paraphrase and synonymous question
 ・Usage question

Then most of the question choices change every time. Therefore, even if you try the same question repeatedly, you will not get bored. Then you will not be able to answer correctly every time if you do not memorize firmly. Besides, you can select questions by the question type, part of speech, the question of the not yet correct answer, etc.


Also, the following features are available to support learning.

Kana pronunciation display feature
This app can display Kana pronunciation on top of sentences. This display feature we developed is compelling. With this app, you will not be troubled without knowing how to read Kanji.

Learning history
This app records your daily learning status. Thereby, you can check the study time, the correct answer rate, the weak words, etc. Also, this app displays the understanding of individual word, unit, and overall as a graph. So you can understand the situation at a glance.

Review feature
This feature intensively presents the Kana and words which are weak based on learning history. So you can practice efficiently.

Search feature
You can search for all word information, including example sentences. If you don't know the word in the example sentence or the question, you can search for it simply by touching the word without having to type. Also, if you know the pronunciation, you can check the corresponding Kanji.

Bookmark feature
You can bookmark the words or questions about which you care. Thereby you can check them later, or challenge them repeatedly.

My goal
By displaying your goal and the deadline, this app improves your motivation.

If you learn using this app, you will be able to learn new words surely and pronounce naturally.
Updated on
Jan 20, 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.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.5
708 reviews
A Google user
August 22, 2019
Very solid app and really helps with reading and listening skills; however, some pronunciations during the listening sections are very misleading or hard to hear. For example, デジタル sounds like テジタル and so on. The audio quality of the voice can be pretty bad at times; if these can be rerecorded along with a female voice option that would be fantastic. Thanks!
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Amalin
August 23, 2019
We apologize for the inconvenience. For デジタル, we re-recorded. If you use this app after clearing the voice data cache in the app settings, the latest data will be downloaded. And since these sounds are by a native speaker and can be heard correctly by native speakers, we hope you continue to practice with this app.
A Google user
September 10, 2019
Great teaching method, I just can't stand the pinging noises. They give me a headache the more questions I get right. Also the audio recordings are a bit hard to understand. They echo & distort quite a bit. I always have to play them several times before answering. But I loooove the comparative teaching method. Could you please add writing lessons? I can't get up to use paper & pen.
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k da (mk05)
October 20, 2020
I was surprised and happy about the new updates, being able to access my n4&n5 purchased lessons even offline is a great improvement. This app is really good for drilling vocabulary and usage in actual sentences used in everyday life in Japan. Also, I can now save my progress. This app is almost perfect. It was worth the pay! My comprehension has improved a lot thanks to you guys. Keep up the great and helpful work! ALSO I hope you add N3 & higher lvls soon! Thanks a lot.
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What's new

Corrected Korean.