Learn Japanese with Tako

The app is clean and aesthetically pleasing. I have two issues with it, however. First, as many others have pointed out, the chalkboard needs some improvement. There needs to be a little more leeway one how characters are written. My second issue comes from the perspective of an intermediate learner. I already know a good deal of kanji so I would like the ability to either mark kanji as known or test out of them. It's too time consuming to have to go one by one from the beginning.

AMAZING app for learning Japanese! I've been looking for something like this for a long time! It costs money, but PLEASE do yourself a favor and buy it. I'm usually the type of person to ignore an app if it costs more than a dollar, but if I knew how good this app was beforehand I'd pay $20 for it. If you really want to get a foundation with Japanese, do it!

I'm trying to learn, but having a very hard time keeping the characters to memory correctly. Would be nice to have alot more time to read the info at the bottom of the screen in between lessons. I can't read all that within just 1 or 2 seconds, would like to have a continue button added, so I can press it when I'm done reading the info at the bottom.

So far so good. It's been a couple weeks and I've learned more in that time then in months using other programs. My only quip is that my phone broke and while my achievements restored, my progress did not. So starting from scratch, which is bullshit but it's another review I guess.

The game were fun to learn, but one day when I try to use it the app doesn't work at all. It stay black screen please fix this issue and thank you

Would give 5/5 if it wasn't so sensitive for the writing part, following the lines and it keeps stopping halfway through and goes back to the start of that stroke.. Other that that, it's amazing! This (along with a couple other sources) is great for beginners.

The chalkboard is off center and unevenly placed. The writing impatiently cuts off your lines before finishing the curved tips. It needs an option of a recreate-able graph made of 4 big squares, starting at the edge of the chalkboard, each divided into 4 smaller squares. (So you can reproduce kana IRL.) Kana use very organic shapes that need a precise graph to duplicate. Also, you should be able to trace each kana as much as you need before writing. Tracing twice isn't enough for accurate recall.

I love that it teaches you with animation the order of the strokes. Mini games are fun but get so repetitive after a few lessons, I hope you could update it with new ones, and further lessons than N4 kanji. Also it'd be great to be able to skip some lessons when you already know the characters and It'd be specially useful to have a cloud save option for when you use one or more, or if you change devices. Overall I really love and recommend the app

It's totally worth the price! If you can't quite afford it, use something like Google Reward to pay for it. It shows you hiragana, katakana, and Kanji in a super helpful and easy way.

I got this app for wrighting practice and am currently on ka. Its been super helpul. This is kind of silly but could you guys add a pause button on the loading screen my nexus 7 outspeeds my readimg speed so im missing the triva.

Game is repetitive. Not in the "practice makes perfect sense". The sound clips and songs are fairly Limited and eventually become annoying after you hear them for the 100th time. There's also only four games so they can get fairly tedious. However, overall I would recommend this game, but I do wish there were a way to turn off the blue dots telling you where to start drawing from. At least outside of the first demonstrations.

Really like it. I however have a real problem seeing the 'lamps' when the light up in the 'arcade game'. Maybe this is something that could be improved, making it more distinct?

This is not the language learning app, this is strictly for help in memorizing characters. It is a wonderful tool that will help learn to read and write in the proper stroke order. Would recomend for anyone who is studying or wants to learn the basics.

The only thing so far is that I would like to take like a quick test for each level to complete them faster since I already know Hiragana and Katakana..it can be quite slow at the beginning if you are coming with something already learned..other than that is very interesting!!...I have to also thanks Ruben from the periscope #almorzandojapones and Tony from #japondesdejapon for this amazing app that I just won! Keep up the good work!

Love this app . The Lessons and games are very well put-together :) one star off b/c when I got My new phone I used My same E-mail account and it did not save My progress from before... not a terrible glitch since I Needed a review but still frustrating since I did pay $$$ for this app and it cannot even sync right :P And I pretty much never pay for any apps SO this sadly just reinforced that practice :P

I was learning Japanese right before this app but it took me a while to remember every word. This app made me forget about the problem!

It won't run on my device. All i can see is a black screen. I use alcatel one touch idol alpha

Great app for learning Japanese writing. Well worth the money. Mini games can be a bit repetitive but could easily be fixed by adding a couple more.

Really cool! A little slow (not mechanics but just the whole process) but still five stars!

This is the push I needed to not just memorize but LEARN. I never buy apps, so I was nervous about it, but this was worth it.

I love it! It's great besides sometimes when drawing the script it will say you got it wrong when it was right but that's minor. Great Job!!

This game is really worth the money! It has good exercises / mini games that help you remember the characters. I also like the fact you can go straight into kanji if you already know kana. It would be nice to see maybe an expansion (I'd pay extra) that follows this layout for verbs & more vocab to. Maybe a sequel?

This app is just what I need to practice and learn hiragana. Would also be great for children. I am taking Japanese classes and reading out of a book just doesnt help me. I need something fun to keep my mind interested and this does just that. Even though the app is $5 it's extensive... it also has katakana and kanji for future use. Once I have learned the characters it will also be great for a refresher so that I dont forget it from lack of use. I wish you guys create a language app! Arigatou gozaimasu

I play this on the train to various places in Japan! I find myself slowly being able to read some of the signs here! Wonderful app!

This is definitely one of the best learning kanji app ever made, the games are really simple and repetitive so you're able to memorize everything but it doesn't feel like study. 10/10

I cannot begin to express how helpful this little program has been for me. I'm learning how the characters sound, as well as how to read and write them! Perfect program for me as a complete beginner! The interactive ui is the best!! Great job devs! If I learn Japanese, it will be because of this lovely prog teaching me the basics.

For some reason, it won't let me imput the "ge" hiragana. It keeps making me try again, over and over. Please fix this, as I enjoy the game other than this one problem. Edit: Found a way to imput it without triggering the try again response

I absolutely love this app. It's much better than any others I have tried. One of the best advantages of this over other programs is that you don't have to write 100% perfect the way the example is to get credit for a correct answer. There is a disadvantage to this too in that sometimes it cuts off the tail ends of the letters (the brushes or jumps) when you are writing so you can't finish the way you see in the example and want to. That doesn't happen often. One thing I would like updated is the review reading game. At least for Katakana on the arcade mode almost all answers are the first button and almost no answers are the last button. I'd like that to be more random. As it is, if I'm not sure I know that it is 90% likely that the answer is the first button.

The game's fun to play. It can be repetitive, but that's to be expected from a language learning game. The writing challenges can be a little frustrating as the app doesn't allow much room for error. Children will find the game very entertaining and they'll be learning without knowing it. I hope the developer continues beyond the N5 Kanji. I would purchase future levels.

Enjoying the concept so far, seems like a great way to begin learning. I've been learning for about a month myself. The only gripe I have with the app is that sometimes the "chalk board" (feature that lets you draw characters and grades them on accuracy of strokes) can be a bit harsh/finicky with some characters. Other than that it's a great app and definitely worth picking up to learn, or in my case, review.

Works great now! Used to crash for me, not anymore. Very easy lessons! Only problem I have is that while it teaches you the characters... It does not teach you how to form sentences (that I have noticed anyway) I hope they make a game for that!

Funny and educational.i use it to break the monotone of learning constantly from stuffy textbooks.

This app continues to be one of my top fav. It is great for anyone needing to study kanji and fun for kids to get into the language as well. (My 3yr old and 9 yr old love it.) So happy I put out the money for this one!

The game were fun to learn, but one day when I try to use it the app doesn't work at all. It stay black screen please fix this issue and thank you

I love it. Easy to follow and understand. ありがとうございます。

Only done hiragana so far but loved it. I have to say the big flaw is that the reading practice of hiragana is broken as the correct option is often in the first position :(

The only reason it isn't 5 starts is that I'd like to be able to read what is on the cut screens. If they're was somewhere in the app to be able to take my time and read them it would be wonderful.

Very helpful and didactic. Best part: no annoying ads or subscriptions!

I'm revising my Japnese, and this is a fun way to do it. It's made me learn to write too, as I'm better at read in than writing. Very good buy, I recommend this app!

It's a very good app if you are already learning Japanese and have trouble remembering some kana.