01 · MEET IT
A word, explained properly
When to say it and to whom, its parts and literal meaning, or the one trap foreigners fall into. Tap to flip romaji to kana, then kanji.
Learn Japanese by scrolling
Japanese, one swipe at a time.
One word, one sound, one line of a real chat per card. Say it and get scored. Then pick a character and play a manga scene.
Free for your first week, every chapter open. Then one purchase, no subscription.
How it works
No lessons to sit through. Just the next card.
The feed deals one small thing at a time and checks it a few cards later, so nothing slides past you. Swipe when you are ready.
02 · SAY IT
Scored out of 100, sound by sound
Tap the mic and say it. Matcha Chat tells you which sound to move and how. Not "try again". Which sound.
03 · PLAY IT
Then live it in a manga scene
Pick a character. Their lines play, you say yours. Scored on the sounds and on the drama.
Manga Talk
Our own comic strips, played like karaoke.
Read a strip panel by panel and learn its lines. Then pick Kai or Ren and play the rooftop scene, four times, each round taking a little more away.
- 1Full lines. Read them off the panel.
- 2One word missing from each of your lines.
- 3Two words missing. No hearing it first.
- 4From memory. Just the picture and the English.
Every line carries a mood. A battle cry said as a remark is wrong even when every sound is right, and the app tells you so: louder, flatter, faster.
NEW · START HERE
konbanwa
kon-BAN-wah
good evening
Evening greeting for anyone, polite and neutral.
INSIDE THE WORD
kon (this) + ban (evening) + wa. Literally: as for this evening.
Every word explained
Not a flashcard. A word you understand.
979 words and phrases, each with a sentence you would actually hear, a note on when and to whom, and the word taken apart so the next one looks familiar. Konnichiwa is the same shape with "day" in it.
Polite or casual? Register cards show both forms side by side and ask which fits the moment.
Fourteen chapters
The Japan you will actually stand in.
Start anywhere. Every chapter is a place, with the words people say there and a culture bite between the cards.
👋Start Here
🏪The Konbini
🍜Ramen Shop
🚉The Train
🏮Izakaya
♨️Onsen
🌸Cherry Blossoms
⛩️Shrine & Temple
🎆Summer Festival
🏠New Apartment
📱Phone & Wi-Fi
💊The Pharmacy
🔊Sounds of Japan
⚔️Manga Talk
979words and phrases
18grammar rules, with drills
25kana sound units
6games from your words
21medals
One price
A free week, then it is yours.
Every chapter open for seven days.Then one purchase unlocks everything, for good. No subscription.
- The whole course, all fourteen chapters and How Japanese Works
- Pronunciation scoring on every Say It card
- Manga Talk scenes, games, the collection and medals
- Restores on any device you sign in on