Probably alright for a beginner though I think perhaps there are better avenues in general
Positives: I like the art. I like the idea of there being an adventure of sorts. I genuinely think you can learn from this app. Negatives: The app is painfully slow and sluggish, everything just moves along at a snails pace not just the menu and UI but the lessons too, you’ll do a lesson and the cards will hang around way too long, the animation is painfully slow and the keyboard input is painfully slow and if you accidentally select the wrong answer by mistake your subjected to repeats of the item answer with seemingly no way to skip the unneeded explanation. Slowness is particularly annoying when you know probably 98% of all vocab for probably the next several handfuls of levels (if not the entire app) but can’t skip ahead due to gaps in knowledge in other areas such as grammar. I hate hate hate the keyboard, it does not use my IOS default keyboard but instead some variant which has a completely different layout… why? Don’t know… I try to switch to the Japanese keyboard but I seemingly only have one other Hiragana option which isn’t my preference (despite having more setup for use in IOS) . I also do not like the way the romaji is interpreted, partly because of the omission of the “x” due to the layout preventing me from making kana small in my usual (and standard almost everywhere else) way but also no self terminating ん when hitting space or other which can lead to frustrations as well as other interpretation “quirks” and as I mentioned earlier making unintentional errors and being subjected to to the painfully slow correction card animations and the problem being exacerbated by the English keys not being where I’m used to. I wish there was more character interactions. At the beginning there was a handful of conversations with characters at a few locations such as the arcade and temple etc. I found this to be a fun way to keep me motivated, Perhaps with the prospect being that the Japanese learned would maybe be utilised later in these interactions…. But since the start and I’m several levels in to the app now and there has been no further interactions and I’m wondering if there will ever be more, which then has me wondering what the point in these character and locations even was?? Maybe more to come in later levels but I’m not a psychic unfortunately ;) and tbh not sure I’ll stick around to find out. I thought the arcade would be great but that was the biggest disappointment if I’m being honest, Not to be harsh but I wouldn’t really call them
