10 Minute Japanese

I’m thinking about going to Japan and I will know all the words🥹thank you

After a few minutes on the app after having spent several months now on another language learning app I can say this is not a good app for beginners whatsoever. The app does not break down the individual kanjis, hiragana, or katakana. It throws words at you and you just have to hope to learn. Another issue is the speech recognition. In my other language app the speech recognition is far better and actually picks up what I say, and in both translation apps I have on my phone the speech recognition is also far better. I have nothing positive to say about this app. Hope to stop seeing adds for it.

I discovered this app after it was advertised on Instagram claiming it was for free, so I wanted to check it out because I’m learning Japanese. But after I finished answering some questions, I was forced to do a 7 day free trial. At least free apps like Duolingo don’t force you to pay for a free trial.

Please avoid this app at all cost. The app content is completely different than what is advertised on social media. App requires subscription without any free content available for preview. Once you make a payment and see the real content there is no way to revoke purchase anymore.

Easy to learn

It does a good job boosting vocabulary with spaced repetition. I wish that it offered the option to turn romaji off, because having them on every word makes internalizing kanji much more difficult. The pronunciation tests are not useful. They often count words wrong for being pronounced in hiragana rather than katakana, which if you’ve studied Japanese you know doesn’t make sense. In general this is fine for practicing basic vocabulary but will not teach you the language or even simple sentences.

It seems like this was produced without actually testing the product on any users. I set my skill level as beginner and all of the new vocabulary cards are in kanji - not hiragana - and the app is asking me to carefully read them? How is a beginner supposed to know the kanji for a vocab word they’ve never seen before? I’m especially irritated because I accidentally signed up for an 80 dollar description for this absolutely garbage app. Am I missing something?

Stuck with romaji on, no clear setting to disable it. Romaji is super distracting

I normally would just delete the app and move on, but I found it very annoying and a little shady that there's nowhere to cancel the free trial on the app. I ultimately cancelled through the App Store subscriptions menu, but to me if you advertise "cancel anytime" which they did then there should be a way to cancel anytime. Didn't like this.

Pretty good overall but DESPERATELY missing the ability to confirm the meanings of kanji while studying. Would be a real hit with that included.