Kanji Garden Japanese 1.3

Designed specifically for Japanese second-language learners, Kanji Garden is an exceptional app that caters to a wide range of language proficiency levels and time commitments. It offers a personalized study experience that adapts to your individual goals and strengthens your memory using proven techniques such as spaced repetition.

With Kanji Garden, you have the flexibility to set a daily target for the number of kanji you want to learn. The app then generates a customized study plan, prioritizing the kanji you need to reinforce. This intelligent system ensures that you review forgotten kanji more frequently, while marking correctly answered reviews as progress. Once a kanji's progress ring is full, you won't have to review it again for an entire year. This allows you to make steady progress with hundreds, or even thousands, of kanji while maintaining a manageable daily workload.

Kanji Garden also excels in its approach to reviewing. It challenges you with tests on all the common readings for each kanji, incorporating vocabulary words that consist of kanji you've already learned. By contextualizing the learning process, the app enables you to practice comprehension in real-world scenarios. Multiple-choice questions include intentionally confusing options to help you identify and rectify any mistakes. Alternatively, you can practice your Japanese input skills by typing in kanji readings.

The app adopts a highly effective learning order, placing emphasis on breaking down kanji into their individual components. By mastering these components, even complex characters with numerous strokes become easily recognizable. Additionally, this approach allows you to take advantage of phono-semantic components that provide valuable hints about a character's meaning and pronunciation.

For example:

• 建: Build
• 健: Health (亻: Person + 建: Build)
• 鍵: Key (金: Metal + 建: Build)

In this case, the phonetic component 建 indicates that all three kanji share the same on'yomi reading, which is ケン (ken)!

Kanji Garden also places significant emphasis on easily confused kanji. It presents these characters together and tests your ability to differentiate between them right from the beginning, ultimately saving you from future frustrations.

Impressive statistical features are also included in Kanji Garden. You can visualize your unlocked kanji history and upcoming reviews through an intuitive graph. The app tracks your learning streak and rewards you with grace days as you study more consistently. Furthermore, you have the ability to time travel through your learning history and even save a wallpaper image or an animated video showcasing your current progress.