Learn Japanese with Tako

Needs more practice time when drawing characters. Also if you use your finger on the screen, the characters don't exactly come out right and the app doesn't let you correct the error in drawing it. The app automatically makes it wrong. If these were corrected it would be a good app. Really like the challenges. The games are not really my thing in learning. It like showing the symbols and trying to show which one is which and how to say it.

It's all I've been looking for. I never thought I'd get so hooked in this game. Learning is also quick! There's only a 2 things that I hope get improved on in the future, but they're not game breaking: A small few letters are sensitive in writing. The restaurant minigame has a rare bug where the first food on the top goes behind the table layer, making it impossible to tap.

Honestly dissappointed, its too simple, it doesnt give a lot of learning or indept information. Its just straight memory repetition and most of the mini games do not help, they're mostly just matching. Plus the food game would occasionally glitch on me. I should have did more research before buying this but i've read plenty of reviews online that said great things. The graphics are amazing and it will be useful for learning the alphabet, but there are better free apps.

Fantastic app to learn to read and write hiragana, katakana, and kanji!! I use it and so does my 8 year old and 6 year old. We haven't had any trouble with writing detection. We're using Samsung Tab A 10.1 devices and a Pixel 3XL. Using the Samsung pen makes it even better! We've tried many, many, many different Japanese learning apps and this is the best one!

Its a good app but it has its flaws; - An option to select groups of kanji, hiragana or katakana for Study, Minigames or Dojo would help a lot. Right now you can not focus on newly learned signs or ones you have trouble with. - The dojo has a problem with its Randomizer. The answer is most often the first or third option. The forth one is used sporadically and the second one is never used to my recollection. - Sometimes the app is too picky on the length of a line during the drawing of a symbol.

Fantastic learning tool, fun and totally worth the money. There are a few glitches though, sometimes one of the bowls gets stuck behind the counter and if you change speed or screen pressure too much while writing it will fail you, it can be very annoying but when you get used to it it's ok.

The accuracy of the writing detection is abysmal, majority of the time you can be perfect within the guide and it will fail you, I've been more accurate making squiggles than try to follow the prompts. The mini games range from ok to very annoying. The worst being the memory minigame where you need to remember a the order in which the characters are displayed then repeat them. It's definitely geared towards younger kids, but I think even t they would be frustrated by some of the inconsistencies.

This app is wonderfully done! It integrates writing, listening, reading and lots of mini games. I have studied hiragana and katakana before, so cannot say how great it is for beginners in that area, but the kanji section has already taught me so much that other apps have glossed over (different pronunciations in different contexts?? What!) I would definitely recommend this app!

Drawing these characters out with your finger on a phone screen is not great. It's like trying to write with the pencil in Paint on PC's. It's even worse if your someone who usually writes small, because when you have to draw out the Hiragana characters without the outline to follow, you still have to draw it with your finger the same size as the outline was. You could draw it perfectly, but if it's not as large as how it showed in the example, you fail. Not worth $5, I've seen better for free.

This game is so well made. Thr graphics are beautiful and the progression for learning is great. You can't just skip levels, you have to pass and unlock levels as you're learning. Thank you for putting in the time to creating such a captivating app!

It's a nice app but needs quite a bit of polishing. Some games become frustrating because control is bad, in the restaurant often the plate doesn't get picked up or dropped correctly, and why the mad tapping for batting?! As others said writing recognition is too temperamental at times, and they do not recognize/teach similar ways to write the same character. i.e the hiragana for ki is not accepted with the full leg. Ke is recognized with a straight line, but ko fails if there's no curve..

If you want to learn how to write in Japanese, this is the app for you. The minigames teach you quick thinking to rememember each and every kana or kanji; whilst Tako's challenges make sure you are able to write them from memory. From a baseball minigame, where you write the character correctly to hit a home run. To a simon says-like memory game. Tako Sensei provides a great variety for learning Japanese. The purpose of this app is to teach you how to write, that's all. And what a good job it does.

Some of the writing rwcognition is very imperfect. In addition, some characters are pronounced inaccurately (For example: じ and ち゛are for some reason pronounced the SAME in Romaji here. They are both shown as Ji. ず and つ゛are both also pronounced the same in this app. They both show up as Zu). These are crutial imperfections in the app. However, for practicing writing in Hiragana & Katakana this app is wonderful nonetheless. Because it is a great, portable, and fun platform for writing practice.

It's really well made and kept me entertained by sll of the fun minigames within the lessons. But it really lacked when it came to the writing portion since sometimes it'd glitch drawing a rather large line off to the side messing me up. It seems a bit too sensitive on the writing portion.

I really like this app and it helped me very much learning Hiragana. I really really hate the baseball minigame. I appreciate the idea but as it is now it doesn't add anything to the game, as it's just writing with extra steps.. it takes really long too. Maybe remove the tapping part at the end or change it to something else .

Great learning aid for new Japanese learner's. I also recommend "JA Sensei", "Duolingo" and "Japanese Kanji Study" for android apps along with the free online gramar guide by Tae Kim. Japanese is an extremely difficult language to learn. It takes serious dedication to get any where near fluent. Definitely worth while though, at least I think so.

I looked for a usable Japanese Hiragana and Katagana App, this one was recomended, so I got it, and I am happy to say, it is Awesome. I learn easy and quick how to write and read the letters, it is amazing easy, and it is fun too. I can highly recomend this App, it is worth it for sure... Spacial thanks to the developers, this App is really first class for learning...

One of the most well put together apps for I learning. Writing is sometimes a bit off and i wish i could in zen mode practise the ones i get wrong a few times before i move on. But again best I've found so far

I can not believe how helpful this is. I must be honest to say that I have already mastered hiragana and katakana before downloading this app, so I went straight to Kanji. I had always trouble learning kanji, in 3 months I had only learned around 2... but with this app... oh man, it feels so good learning 5 kanji within an hour!! I 100% recommend this game, it is fun and you actually learn a whole lot. I sincerely want to thank the developers for creating such an awesome app, bless you♡♡

Just what u was looking for. The games help with the memorization, and are actually kinda fun. I love the dojo zen mode as I can use it to repeat the characters I'm studying at my leasure until I feel comfortable with the characters

Honestly, the app is fun. I know some phrases and sentences, but I only knew 2 hiragana. Just in the first lesson you learn 4 of them. The app is engaging and helps you to remember what you learn in a fun, non formal way.

The app is well made, I am having an issue with the mini game restaurant then characters above the dishes are out the screen if you can fix this... Other than that the app is superb...

Nothing is perfect, yet this learning system is very close to it. Fun, entertaining and engaging... I just have three days using this app but I'm really looking forward for awesome results