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Japanese Language Learning 4+
Learn Vocabulary and Hiragana
PLANB LABS OU
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Play with your words! Drops makes language learning effortlessly fun. Essential vocabulary is bound to your memories through beautiful illustrations and quick mini-games. Take the daily 5 minute lessons and ease yourself into the beautiful world of Japanese language!
Ingredients of the secret sauce?
100% illustrated: Pictures directly carry the meaning - you don’t have to use your native language at all! No intermediary. Faster, more effective and of course more fun for the Japanese learning process! :)
5 min sessions: limiting practice time sounds crazy but it makes it incredibly addictive - which is a cool thing for learning. The barrier of entry is close to zero so you can’t have any excuses: you’ll have 5 minutes even on the busiest day!
Effortless play: We know why games are fun and addictive and distilled the essence into Drops. The result is a truly immersive experience but it’s not a waste of your time while you play because you build valuable knowledge.
Quick: Keyboard typing is painfully slow. Welcome rapid swipes and taps! Trust us, you’ll need those extra seconds during the quick learning session ;)
Vocabulary only: Zero grammar, just handpicked practical words. That’s our focus and we do it extremely well. The app teaches the Japanese “alphabets” Kanji and Kana (hiragana and katakana) too!
Forge a habit: Drops wants to make you language learning addict. Effectiveness is nothing without a well established habit. We can help you build one!
We are extremely proud of our lovely word pronunciations by seasoned voice talents!
Drops is free for casual learners: more than 3300+ words in 150+ topics are all available for everyone. Hardcore language learners can subscribe for premium to progress faster with unlimited Japanese language learning time.
Our goal is to empower people of the world via language knowledge by providing a special tool that utilizes the universal language we all speak: pictures.
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Keep tuned as even more languages are in the works!
Payment information:
Length of subscriptions:
- 1 Month
- 12 Months
Price of subscriptions:
- 1 Month – $12.99 per month
- 12 Months – $89.99 per year
- Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
- Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
- Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal
- Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase
- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period
Have questions? Feel free to contact us at sup@languagedrops.com
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Privacy Policy and Terms of Use: http://languagedrops.com/privacypolicy.html
What’s New
Version 38.8
We’ve made improvements to the Drops app! This update contains bug fixes and offers you a better play experience. Happy language learning!
Ratings and Reviews
Impressed!
All the other Japanese learning apps I’ve tried have just snapped up my already non-existent motivation due to their laggy, unprofessional and frankly badly done interfaces and incorrect information. However, on Drops, my motivation levels have sprung up! The calming colouring and the game-like activities make it so much easier to learn - and the fact that it’s only 5 minutes a day makes it ten times better. Thank you for finally creating an app that helps!
- fuyu -
Developer Response ,
Hi, Thanks for choosing Drops to learn Japanese, we're thrilled to hear it has a positive effect on your motivation level! :) Keep playing and let us know if there's anything you would suggest us to improve on!
Good for memory, bad for writing
This helps a lot with memorising characters but I found that I had to use a different app to learn to write them, especially with the correct stroke orders. I also find that with a structure like this app's, the amount you memorise can be deceiving as you find that if you're asked to write out a hiragana or katakana character after being presented with the romaji (English alphabet), it can be more difficult than it was when presented with 4 options to choose from.
The subscription model is also frustrating as I can't afford it but have bought another app that works better in my view (entitled "Japanese!") that teaches both basic alphabets and makes you write them correctly with stroke orders...BUT it only costs about £10 and another £10 if you want their second app that teaches Kanji.
However, this gets 4 stars because it's aesthetically pleasing as well as being a good memory prompt.
Developer Response ,
Hi, Thanks for giving a try to Drops and sending us such detailed, constructive feedback! We constantly try to improve the app and the content, and user comments like yours help us a lot, so we appreciate you took the time to write a review!
Pretty good so far
Really good pricing, especially for the quality of the product that have seen so far. 5 mins free each day, and then either £8 a month so same as Netflix pretty much or the option for the year that’s less than £3 a month.
I like that it’s started introducing words straightaway of things I have around the house, can see and associate, also the multiple mini games of getting you to remember - all very pretty and sound nice also.
The writing feature is so cool! Like how you draw the letter on the screen and it guides you the first few times and then gives you freedom to draw how you want.
The only thing would be a nice improvement is if the kanji could be integrated into the images would be an amazing touch to help learn the writing as well as the words and sounds of them.
(That said I understand it’d be a lot more work finding images that fit multiple languages it would just be a nice touch)
It’s still early days so am just learning the letters and names of things at the moment, am interested to see how/if you teach grammar later on :)
Developer Response ,
Hi, Thanks for choosing Drops to learn Japanese! We really appreciate the constructive feedback! We'll discuss your suggestion with the team, and we'll see what we can do. Keep playing and let us know if there’s anything else you think we should refine!
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Information
- Provider
- PLANB LABS OU
- Size
- 308.8 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2021 PlanB Labs OU
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Unlimited time! £6.99
- Premium £8.49
- Premium £34.99
- Premium £69.99
- Premium £59.99
- Daily 10 minutes bonus £22.99
- Premium £81.99
- Premium £9.99
- Unlimited time! £59.99
- Premium £61.99