Japanese Konbini & Café Simulator
The clerk speaks, you answer: お弁当温めますか, 袋はご利用ですか, 店内でお召し上がりですか. Sixteen real counter lines read aloud, with furigana, a listening mode and the reason behind every reply.
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Seven free tools that do what a blog post cannot: train your ear on おばさん and おばあさん, practise a real konbini and café conversation, put new words on your lock screen, conjugate any beginner verb, find your level, check your kana and test whether you can read the signs in Japan.
The clerk speaks, you answer: お弁当温めますか, 袋はご利用ですか, 店内でお召し上がりですか. Sixteen real counter lines read aloud, with furigana, a listening mode and the reason behind every reply.
おばさん or おばあさん? きて or きって? Hear one word and pick it from a pair that differs by a single sound. A new Daily 5 every day, the same for everyone, with a streak and a shareable result.
Put three Japanese words, with the reading and the meaning, on the screen you check a hundred times a day. N5 words, N4 words or everyday phrases, five colour themes, iPhone or Android size.
111 beginner verbs, 15 forms each — ます, ません, ました, ない, past, て-form, たい, potential, volitional, ば and たら — with the kana reading and the exact rule or sound change named on every line. Then drill them, with wrong answers built from the mistakes learners actually make.
Twenty-five questions, five per level from N5 to N1, mixing kanji readings, vocabulary in context, grammar choice and whole-sentence meaning. Scores each level separately and returns a tailored 30-day plan.
Drill the 46 base kana, the dakuten row and the combination kana — hiragana, katakana or both, in either direction. Ends with a list of exactly which characters keep catching you out. Full charts included.
Not exam kanji — the 56 labels actually bolted to walls and printed on boxes: stations, konbini, appliance panels, warning notices, medicine boxes and building notices. Scored by surface, with the reading and the reason behind every answer.
If you have never formally tested yourself, start with the JLPT level test. It is the fastest way to stop guessing which textbook, which vocabulary list and which grammar set you should actually be working on — and knowing your level is what makes every other decision cheap.
If you are in the first weeks, the kana quiz is the one that matters. Reading hiragana and katakana without hesitation is the single prerequisite for everything else in Japanese, and the quiz tells you precisely which characters are still slow.
If you are travelling to Japan or already living there, take the everyday kanji sign test. It measures something the JLPT never examines: whether you can read the fixed labels that run daily life. Plenty of people pass N3 and still cannot start a washing machine.
Testing is not just measurement — retrieving an answer from memory strengthens that memory far more than re-reading the same information does. That is the whole mechanism behind spaced repetition, and it is why every one of these tools makes you answer before it explains. A wrong answer you had to commit to teaches more than a right answer you were shown.
The natural next step after any of them is to turn the gaps into a review schedule. That is what the Kanjijo app does: exclusive mnemonics for every kanji and vocabulary word, an SRS engine that times each review for the moment before you forget, an OCR scanner for reading the real world, home and lock screen widgets, and a full N5–N1 path with grammar, JLPT reading and listening practice, mock tests, conversation, shadowing and dictation.
Learning more than Japanese? The sister apps host the same tools for their languages:
Kanjijo is the app these tools point at: OCR scanner, home, lock screen and interactive test widgets, exclusive kanji and vocabulary mnemonics, an SRS engine, the full N5–N1 kanji, vocabulary and grammar banks, JLPT reading and listening practice, mock tests, conversation, shadowing and dictation. Free on iPhone.
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