Dr. Moku's Hiragana & Katakana

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4.3
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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

4.4
2.08K reviews
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.
A Google user
April 26, 2020
What a great little app, I have learnt the Hiragana with this app within a couple of days. I know there is an option to hide answers, but i was wondering how difficult it would be to add additional options to increase the multiple choice options from just 4 to 6,8,12 etc, so it makes it a little more difficult to choose the correct answer. Also wondering if you could add a "Pair Match" game where you have a large grid of about 50 squares and you have to match the Hiragana with its Romaji and as you match each pair they disappear. Maybe adding some timers to assist with learning to read faster. Hope this helps :) Any news on the Kanji app yet?
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Dr. Moku
April 26, 2020
Hey! Thanks for the feedback and ideas. I like the pair match idea but I think text input/spelling games would be more useful? The Kanji app is out but it will be absorbed and remade in a new app this year providing I don´t grow into my sofa.
A Google user
July 9, 2019
I decided to look for this app again after a few years since i first bought the app back around 2013 or 2014 when I first had Japanese class. It really helped learn hiragana and katakana really quickly. I decided to revisit it because i started to forget some of them and they added some really good things to it but its also more restrictive unless you pay for more... and i guess what i paid for all those years ago doesn't count for this version. Still i would recommend trying this app out!
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Dr. Moku
July 9, 2019
Hey Sarah! You must have bought the old version which was released waaaay back in 2011. So yes they are considered separate apps. Please drop me a line at info@drmoku.com and I can refund your previous purchase.

What's new

Fixed some bugs and made improvements