Kanamon: Learn Japanese

Learn Japanese by connecting kana, vocabulary, reading, and play.

Kana Book helps you build a practical Japanese foundation through focused flashcards, interactive study tools, short readings, and fast-paced games. Learn hiragana and katakana, understand how words fit together, and use what you’ve learned inside stories.

Build a strong kana foundation

Study hiragana, katakana, dakuten, and yōon with audio, smart review, stroke-order animation, and drawing practice. Kana Book tracks both learned and mastered characters so you can see your progress over time.

Grow your vocabulary

Explore vocabulary decks organized by useful themes, verbs, particles, radicals, and reading level. Cards combine Japanese writing, kana readings, English meanings, and recorded pronunciation.

Read with confidence
Tap each word in a story to hear it and identify its meaning. Kana Book reveals translations as you work through each sentence, helping you recognize vocabulary, particles, and sentence structure. Generated KanaLibs stories use vocabulary you have already learned. Add names stored privately on your device to make each new story a little more personal and unpredictable.

Practice through play

Launch kana fireworks before time runs out
Match kana and readings in Kana Pop
Collect kana and solve radicals while escaping a yeti
Test your knowledge in Kana-Chan’s mysterious challenge