Learn Japanese · with your own AI sensei

Learn Japanese for real — and actually finish.

Example-first, visual lessons led by an AI sensei who grades every sentence you write, with spaced repetition that never lets you forget. The classroom experience — minus the boredom and the falling behind.

No credit card to start · Example-first, JLPT-aligned lessons · Works in your browser

✈️ Flying to Japan soon? Start with Japanese travel phrases instead — free, by situation, with what staff say back.

Watch the example, then you try — 一緒にがんばろう!
tsukue no ue ni hon ga arimasu — "there is a book on the desk."
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Speaking practice 🎤
わたしは がくせいです
いいですね! おしごとは? 🔊
ii desu ne! o-shigoto wa? — "Nice! And your job?"
Vocabulary — see it first
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book
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cat
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car
Real-life scenes 🎬
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eki wa asoko desu — "the station is over there."
N5
live now · N4 coming soon
AI-graded
type or photo your writing
Built-in SRS
no decks to make
Mastery-gated
you never fall behind
侘寂
Our philosophy · 侘寂 wabi-sabi

It's safe to make mistakes here.

Wabi-sabi (侘寂) is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and impermanence — the cracked bowl, the worn stone path, the sentence that comes out a little wrong on the way to coming out right.

We built that idea into how you learn. Here, the mistake is the lesson. You'll write imperfect Japanese, say it out loud before you feel ready, and get gentle, specific corrections from a sensei who never sighs, never judges, and never makes you feel behind.

Like kintsugi — the craft of mending broken pottery with seams of gold — we treat every mistake as something to repair and grow from, never something to hide.

🌸Our promise: a calm, judgment-free place to be a beginner — for exactly as long as you need to be one.

Everything a great sensei does — built in

The depth of a classroom and a private tutor, in one app — organised around how you actually learn: take it in, produce it, then never forget it.

Take it in — see it and hear it first, comprehensible input the way it's meant to work.

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Your AI sensei

A guiding character who explains, reacts, and corrects you in plain language — the teaching of a human tutor, any time.

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Visual kanji

Radical → kanji → vocabulary with picture mnemonics that actually stick (き = a 🔑 key), inspired by the best of WaniKani.

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Audio on everything

Hear every sentence, word, and kana at a learner-friendly pace — pronunciation built into every step.

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Learn by immersion

Surrounded by Japanese from day one — audio, visual scenes and conversation — so it sinks in naturally.

Produce real Japanese — the part most apps skip: you make sentences and get them checked.

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Writing & handwriting grading

Type a sentence or upload a photo of your handwriting. The AI reads it, grades it on a clear rubric, and shows a corrected version.

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Situational scenes

End each chapter with a short real-life scene — finding the toilet, ordering coffee — that puts the pattern to work.

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Speak with your sensei

Hold a real conversation out loud — the cat talks back, listens to your voice, and coaches your pronunciation. Try it →

Remember it — mastery-gating and automatic review make progress actually stick.

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Spaced repetition, automatic

Every new word and every mistake becomes a review card on its own. You never build a deck — just show up and review.

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Master to unlock

Pass a short check to open the next chapter — and a miss never blocks you, it just becomes a review card. You move on only when it's truly stuck.

Try the Sensei Preview — a real N5 lesson, free

Our no-sign-up Trial Mode: start with hiragana and the very first grammar patterns, meet the kanji and numbers modules, sit a mini mock. No wall, no credit card. The cat's waiting.

Open the Sensei Preview →
mizu o nomimasu — "I drink water."
Module 3 · Verbs · 80% to unlock the next chapter
Fast-track · choose your persona

Going to Japan soon? Pick the route that's you

Two goal-shaped crash courses that front-load exactly what you need — then keep going if you catch the bug. Plane Hopper is live today — try it free in 30 seconds, no account needed.

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Plane Hopper

Survival & Street Smart. For the adventurous traveler flying out next week. No grammar drills — just ordering, directions and being polite. Try it free → · ₹1,659 to own it all

Coming soon

Speedrunner

Language Hacker. For the impatient geek. Pure immersion — hack the core grammar matrix, deep-dive kanji etymology and start consuming native content. Preview the route →

✈️ Plane Hopper is live — free scenarios to try now, ₹1,659 one-time for everything · ⚡ Speedrunner is launching soon.

Pick your destination, own the road there

All of N5 is free, forever — 37 chapters, start right now, no card needed. When you're ready for real everyday Japanese, the 32-chapter N4 track is one payment, for life. (Traveling instead of testing? Plane Hopper is already live ↑)

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All of N5 Free

37 chapters · your complete foundation
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no card, no trial timer · start in 30 seconds →
  • Every N5 chapter — all grammar, kanji & a 200+ word vocab bank
  • Animated skits — each chapter's dialogue plays out as a mini-anime
  • A story in every chapter + the Reading Studio's graded readers
  • AI grading & conversation on your own sentences
  • Smart flashcards (SRS), typed recall & the Conjugation Gym
  • Homework packs, the N5 mock test & a placement quiz
✨ Start the whole N5 course — free
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Fluency Bridge · N4 + N3

79 chapters · where Japanese starts sounding real
₹2,999
one-time · lifetime access · full N3 track included
  • Plain form — the casual Japanese textbooks skip and everyone actually speaks
  • んです, 〜たことがあります, conditionals, 〜そうです — the real N4 core
  • Passive, causative & keigo — both directions, with the traps called out
  • The complete N3 track — 44 chapters: そうだ/ようだ/らしい nuance blocks, である & formal Japanese, さえ/こそ, ざるを得ない and friends
  • Reading & Listening Labs — skim/scan strategy, natural-speed announcements, a mixed gauntlet and the N3 capstone 🎓
  • N5→N4 and N4→N3 Bridge modules, mock tests, Readers & the Conjugation Gym
  • Buy once, own it forever — every future chapter free

✨ N5 is free because the fastest way to know if this works for you is to use it. Pay only when you’re ready for N4. · Start free →

Why we built this

"In a classroom, people quit after missing a few lessons — they get confused, fall behind, and feel too embarrassed to come back. Learning on your own has the opposite trap: you can memorise and recognise words, yet still freeze the moment you actually have to write a sentence of your own. Wabi-Sabi Japanese is built to close both gaps. It teaches with examples, makes you produce real Japanese every chapter, grades it gently like a good teacher would, and won't let you move on until you've truly got it — without ever making you feel behind."

— The Wabi-Sabi Japanese team

Free guides to get you started

Teacher-written, example-first guides — the same method as our lessons, free to read.

Browse all guides →

Questions, answered

Yes — the entire JLPT N5 course is free: all 37 chapters from kana to the capstone, with animated skits, AI grading, audio, the mock test and spaced repetition. No credit card. You only pay if you carry on into N4 (Fluency Bridge).
None at all. You start at the very beginning — hiragana and katakana — with picture mnemonics and audio, then move into your first sentences.
You type a sentence (or upload a photo of your handwriting). The AI reads it and scores grammar, particles, word choice and naturalness, then shows a corrected version and a fresh example — like a patient teacher.
The course is built around the JLPT levels — starting with N5, and a mastery gate means you genuinely learn each step. It's aligned to the JLPT; it isn't the official exam.
Yes — it runs in any modern browser on desktop or mobile. Your progress and reviews sync to your account.
N5 is live today. N4 is coming in the next few months, and we'll add further levels from there — we'd rather ship each level properly than over-promise.

Your sensei is ready when you are.

Start with hiragana today. Finish with a JLPT pass.

Start learning free →