JA Sensei: Learn Japanese JLPT

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About this app

JA Sensei is a complete and structured method for learning Japanese, from beginner to advanced level.

Since 2011, JA Sensei has supported learners with rich, progressive content that is regularly improved: lessons, kana, kanji, vocabulary, grammar, conjugation, listening comprehension, Japanese culture, quizzes, and review tools. This content has been carefully developed over the years, checked and validated by native Japanese speakers.

JA Sensei helps you build confidence in all essential skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking), while helping you understand Japanese cultural codes to avoid common mistakes.

Why choose JA Sensei?


An app specialized in Japanese, designed for this language and its unique features

A clear and progressive learning path, suitable for beginners as well as more advanced learners

Audio recorded by native Japanese speakers, with no text-to-speech

Smart reviews with spaced repetition to help you memorize more effectively over time

A large part of the content can be used offline after downloading

Original and varied exercises to turn your knowledge into automatic reflexes


Lessons, kana, and kanji


Progress step by step with lessons structured around dialogues, vocabulary, grammar, exercises, and cultural pages.

✓ Dialogues and clear explanations to learn in a natural context

✓ Exercises and quizzes to validate what you have learned at each step

✓ Hiragana and katakana with phonetic information and audio

✓ More than 6,300 kanji with readings, meanings, examples, and stroke order

✓ Search by radical, reading, meaning, JLPT level, Jōyō, and handwritten input

Memory Words, composition analysis, and a writing tool to help you memorize kanji more effectively


Vocabulary, dialogues, stories, and listening


Learn Japanese in context through words, sentences, dialogues, and stories with native audio, vocabulary, and grammar explanations.

✓ Thousands of Japanese words organized by topic and JLPT level

✓ More than 17,000 example sentences to understand words in context

✓ A phrasebook with 900 essential expressions to prepare for travel

150 dialogues to understand Japanese in natural conversations

30 reading stories to make progress with lively and accessible texts

✓ Listening comprehension exercises with illustrated situations and several difficulty levels


Grammar, conjugation, and advanced tools


Deepen your understanding of Japanese with clear explanations and practical tools to analyze the language.

✓ Hundreds of grammar sheets with examples organized by JLPT level

✓ Japanese particles explained with many uses and examples

✓ Verb and adjective conjugation, from basic forms to advanced forms

✓ 45 Japanese counters with examples, illustrated objects, and exercises


Japanese culture


Learning Japanese also means understanding the culture that comes with it. JA Sensei explains Japanese habits, behaviors, and cultural codes through real-life situations to help you avoid mistakes and communicate more naturally.
Updated on
Jul 4, 2026

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Ratings and reviews

4.8
42.5K reviews
Proteus Avatár
May 21, 2026
I like this app, but there is an occasional issue that is quite vexing. When writing some characters, they're almost always marked as being incorrect even if I trace them exactly as depicted. Ultimately, when I get it "correct," the final result can be skewed and distorted. Sometimes, this gets fixed in an update, but then a formerly correctly recognized character breaks. Also, the "retake review quiz" feature never works. It just says that there are no items left to review.
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RaphaelW
June 9, 2026
Please install version 6.1.0, the retake feature should be fixed. I'll check again later this year to improve the drawing recognition. Sorry about that. In the new release, you can enjoy brand new tools to learn Japanese counters, and also much improved on/kun readings information for kanji.
Al Christian Galura
June 22, 2026
Been using the App for almost a year and it's really great specially the built in SRS. However quiz coverage is still limited, like for example there is no srs quiz for grammar, you cannot choose how many items per form in verb conjugation. But all in all it is still great, I've been learning so much 日本語 with this app.
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Grey Space
May 4, 2026
Okay, I'm rewriting this completely. This'll be the last time I update unless something goes downhill. To date, every issue I've had was a user error or was promptly fixed. You get a massive amount in this app. Not to mention the creator being very helpful. Overall, my favorite Japanese learning app. Thanks for your considerable effort in creating this.
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RaphaelW
May 4, 2026
Thank you so much for your kind comment. The next version is already around the corner, with minor fixes and a couple of features.