KanGenius - EZ Japanese Kanji!
* Skip kanji you already know and learn JLPT kanji and their words! Just click the tab at the top center and click Inventory.
Learn kanji from stories based on their parts in a fun game!
Features
- Learn kanji in daily lessons
- 5 at a time!
- Learn entertaining stories that tie together all the parts of the kanji, just like in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji"!
- No experience with Japanese necessary
- you can start learning Japanese like a pro in no time!
- You can even make and share your own stories!
- Assemble kanji from their parts and fight monstrous aliens in the process!
- An advanced mode for users who want to learn how to read kanji and hear their pronunciations!
- Hear spoken Japanese to understand pronunciations!
- Learn Japanese words!
- *NEW
* Learn JLPT kanji only if you want to do so! (Tap tab at top -> Click Inventory -> Click "JLPT Kanji")
- *NEW
* Skip kanji you already know! (Tap tab at top -> Click Inventory -> Find kanji you want to learn, click it, and tap "Warp to this kanji")
- In-app kanji lookup dictionary that works offline!
- Four modes of play
- Learn, Battle, Timed, and Words!
- Offline capability so you can brush up on kanji on flights!
- Progress is maintained if you get a new device or even switch to iPhone!
- Frequent discounts on famous scientists' birthdays!
- Music by Kid Moxie!
- A special surprise ending for anyone who gets through all 2200 kanji!
- Great for students, lovers of Manga & Anime, and anyone who appreciates Japanese food and culture!
No prior knowledge of Japanese required! Great for Kids and Adults alike! Power up your space ship and fight the Ignoramoid invasion! Learn as you go, using an innovative, simple lesson-based approach to this amazing language. Create Japanese characters, known as kanji, from their building blocks with a few clicks of the mouse in less than *FIVE
* minutes a day!
You'll be amazed at how quickly you can recognize kanji characters in anime, in tattoos, on sushi menus, and almost everywhere you look these days! Learn a new life skill that will let you travel the world and meet new, interesting people. People have already used this system to navigate around Japan like a pro!
And this isn't some quiz that someone called a game. This innovative system comes complete with a built-in dictionary where you can look up kanji by their meaning, pronunciation, and even by the shapes that make them up! Learn up to 2,200 kanji
- covering all Jouyou/jōyō Kanji
- enough to read a newspaper and figure out what your friend's tattoo *really
* means! KanGenius uses the method by Robert Heisig in his amazing book, Remembering the Kanji (RTK), volume 1. You can understand kanji based on their building blocks and make stories from them to never forget kanji! Best of all, it's fun! Use your skill to blast away aliens while you learn! Fun for all ages!
Open to all levels of learning, from beginner to advanced! Advanced learners can turn on a special Advanced Mode where they can utilize learning mnemonics and learn all meanings and pronunciations. Learn all Jouyou/jōyō kanji in order to pass every JLPT (Japanese-Language Proficiency Test)! Use the world-renowned Heisig method as seen in Remembering the Kanji (RTK), volume 1!
Recently, we added the ability to WARP to Kanji you may already know! You can also re-learn Kanji you have mastered
- great if you know most of the initial Kanji! Just click on the grey tab in the top-center, then click on Inventory. Find the Kanji you want to warp to or re-learn and click it, then press the buttons for Warp and Re-Learn in there!
What do you have to lose? Give it a try and show your friends how quickly and easily you can learn to read this amazing language.
Master kanji and become a KanGenius!
P.S. Current players and prior Kanji Learners
- go here if you'd like to skip ahead to Kanji more on your level: http://www.kangenius.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68:want-to-skip-ahead&catid=7&Itemid=489
Category : Educational
Reviews (25)
Fonts need to be more formal..
It says i need admin access because the game is still in test mode. I cant even sign in
The idea is innovative and the customer service is exemplary.
Every time I open the app, it move level 1, how to save my progress?
Interesting idea, but the robot dictionary reading is not good, and it's giving very similar definitions to choose from. Difficult to know the answer because of the dictionary explanation
I never got to try it. The app makes you sign in with either Facebook, Twitter or Google plus before you can even try it out. That's 'pants' as we say in London. I can't be bothered to go and hunt for my passwords and then transfer them to my tablet just to try an app out. I'll leave it there and try another Kanji app.
What's with all the English voice ? Should be Japanese voice from the start. Why did four appear at the right of the screen but it rejected 2+1+1 ? Definitely unintuitive. Uninstalling.
I do like the concept, it's a really good idea. But it doesn't work well. It's hard to navigate, the colors and the fonts makes it hard to read. And the design is very, very outdated.I also do not see the connection between the icon, which looks very promising, and the actual app/game itself. I will be installing this app at this point in time, I hope they can work on it and make it much better. For now I'll stick with the actual book and memrise.
Nice app but very primary Kanji and crashes all the time. Must have option to select kanji levels as per JLPT.
Originally downloaded it because the team followed me on Twitter. But I'm sorry I don't like the design and I don't really know if I'm really going to learn kanjis with it. Target is primarily beginners (50 kanjis for free if you want more you'll have to purchase them) and I'm way past 一、二、三、四。
Great concept and way to learn. Fun and the voice recogniton is great, but every 4 minutes it crashes/shuts down. Really annoying. Probably won't keep playing unless an update to fix comes soon.
Keeps crashing to desktop. The hassle is worth the fun since I can play for a few minutes before it crashes. Please fix and get 5 stars! Excellent for new and old users! See my profile for more great gems I found!
Great to use when I fly to Japan. I like the voice and speech features.
This game makes learning kanji fun! Takes dry subject matter and frames it as a game. My Japanese reading skills are already improving!
Very slow, on Nvidia tetra 3. When I got disconnected and then resynced as per app, it all seemed fine and I kept playing. However next time I logged in, I'd lost my place. Kanji and meaning on the right in battle mode disappear sometimes.
It could use some performance enhancements or the option to turn some of the effects off. It makes my phone run very hot and consumes battery like a full-blown 3D game.
The game tries hard but the theme doesn't work all that well.
Needs facebook account to play. I don't need any more spam.
I think that you can make hrianga it is better one but it is also not bad satyanarayan
It's not good, this cannot be an ad.
UI is bad, hard to use
I like it to learn Japanese
Awesome and great application
Its a helpful app
Love it. Exactly what I expected it to be. Make more games. You guys rock.