Dr. Moku's Hiragana & Katakana

4.2
2.33K reviews
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About this app

** New app! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.drmoku.app **

Learn to read and write Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji in just one hour with Dr. Moku!

"After a half hour, I was blazing through each exercise: highly recommended for beginners". - The Huffington Post

The Dr. Moku system uses mnemonics to help you learn the Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji automatically and effortlessly. Mnemonics are memory tricks that use humor or a memorable personal connection to help you fix and break associations. Your brain has no choice but to remember.

Dr. Moku is perfect for the complete beginner or those struggling to memorize Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji.

FEATURES:

• NEW! We added some essential Kanji Mnemonics to get you started.

• NEW! Hear Dr. Moku explain each Learning Screen!

• NEW! Audio Charts for the entire syllabaries (Pro version)

• Animated writing guides.

• 2 different Learning modes: Manual (allows you to learn at your own speed) and Autoplay (Each symbol and audio clip play in sequence)

• 4 Quiz types: Visual Recognition, Audio Recognition, Writing Quiz and Reading Practice.

• Introductory guide to learning Japanese, with video and pictorial examples.

Each screen presents a Japanese Kana character along with a mnemonic clue. Read the clue, listen to the clip and move on to the next one.

With Dr. Moku you will be amazed at your ability to learn and recall Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji.

Don't believe it? Watch the demo video and you will be able to read your first word of Japanese in just 90 seconds.

This is a free app which includes 25% of both Hiragana and Katakana. You will be able to read basic words with this!

The In-App purchase unlocks the entire Learning Systems and more features such as Audio Charts and complex Quiz and Practice modes.
Updated on
Apr 30, 2023

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Ratings and reviews

4.2
2.08K reviews
Adam Brawn
July 12, 2020
This app is fantastic for making a connection between Hirigana characters and the english sounds. The quizzes are nicely laid out with multiple modes like reading, writing and sounding (I find the sounding part a bit hard to understand personally). I use the quick chart alot for just that...a quick chart! Nice addition. Contacted the developer suggesting a filter option for the quizzes and he got back to me right away with positive feedback. All in all I highly recommend this app!
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Dr. Moku
July 12, 2020
Thanks Adam! Yes the audio can sound tinny if played loud, have you tried with headphones? Cheers!
A Google user
April 3, 2019
Great concept, poorly conceived. The app freezes and crashes regularly. And instead of learning a few characters and then taking a quiz to test your knowledge, you go through the entire alphabet of flashcards (in the same order every time) and take a quiz of random characters. It could be awesome with some minor tweaks. I purchased the physical cards. Hopefully. Those will work better for me.
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Dr. Moku
April 3, 2019
Hi Chelsea! Wow thanks for buying the new cards. Please mail me at info@drmoku.com and I can fix your app issues. Thanks a lot.
Rebecca Harding
July 13, 2021
I've never studied languages with mnemonics before, I usually prefer more traditional flashcards. But after 3 weeks of constantly confusing only the first 15 hirigana, out of desperation I downloaded this app. Within minutes everything was making so much more sense, so I purchased the full version straight away. After two days of sporadic usage, I now know almost all of the hiragana and can read full words with relative ease. Totally worth the purchase. Thank you for a great app!
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Dr. Moku
July 13, 2021
Oh thanks Rebecca! This made my day. If you feel ready for Kanji, please try our new app. We only have a handful of Kanji at the moment but there will be 75 new ones added next week. Cheers!

What's new

Fixed some bugs and made improvements