Learn Japanese - Haruto

Learn Japanese for beginners the way it sticks: by speaking it. Haruto: Learn Japanese is your AI conversation partner at a small café in Tokyo. Practise real Japanese conversation, learn hiragana and katakana, and build JLPT N5 vocabulary and grammar through a daily story and chats that feel like texting a friend.

Most apps teach you words. Haruto teaches you to talk. Every day a new story scene brings you back to his counter in Shimokitazawa, and each scene teaches one small grammar point you use straight away. Then you text him, and he answers with words you already know.

HOW YOU LEARN JAPANESE WITH HARUTO
• Daily story lessons: 30 days in Tokyo, each with one grammar point, romaji, translations and audio.
• Japanese conversation practice: chat with Haruto any time, in Japanese or in your own language. He replies with words you know and shows you how a native would say it.
• Help me say it: write what you want to say in English and get natural Japanese you can send, with romaji and a tip.
• Gentle corrections: pick the wrong answer and Haruto explains why, so every mistake becomes a lesson.
• Hiragana, katakana and kanji made easy: romaji under every line until you can read kana, and furigana over kanji.
• Listening and pronunciation: hear every line of the story, slowly if you like.
• Japanese vocabulary that sticks: Memory Book flashcards use spaced repetition to bring words back right before you'd forget them.
• Everyday Japanese phrases: 73 phrases for ordering food, shopping, trains, making friends and getting unstuck. Try each one with Haruto.
• Learn in your own language: meanings and tips in more than 30 languages, including Hindi, Spanish, Indonesian, Portuguese, Arabic and Vietnamese.
• A daily message from Haruto, at the time you choose.

A STORY THAT GROWS WITH YOU
As your Japanese improves, your friendship does too. Haruto starts out polite, speaking to you with です and ます like any customer. Day by day he moves to casual speech, nicknames and first names, so you learn how Japanese really changes between strangers and friends.

MADE FOR
• Complete beginners starting Japanese from zero
• JLPT N5 learners who want speaking practice
• Anime and manga fans who want to pick up the Japanese they hear
• Travellers getting ready for a trip to Japan
• Anyone who learned words from flashcards but still freezes when it's time to speak

HARUTO PREMIUM
Start with the first story days and 10 chats a day. Haruto Premium unlocks all 30 scenes, his voice in chat, the Memory Book, everyday phrases and up to 150 chats a day. Choose yearly, with a free trial for new subscribers, or monthly. Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel them in Google Play.

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