APPS

Hiragana apps
Ikana	$4.99	Best app for children learning hiragana and katakana –can choose individual characters  to practise		Both ipad and ipod
Momo’s learning Japanese	$1.19	Practise stroke order –annoying voice but children love this one
Touch the あいうえお	free	Good for recognition of hiragana
Hiragana bubbles	2.49	Children need to listen to the character and look at the romanji for the correct hiragana. Good revision
Kana balls	5.99	Fast paced game to help with recognition and recall of characters
Let’s write Japanese	free	Fun educational game that makes practising hiragana easy
Dr. Moku’s Hiragana	3.99	Mnemonics for hiragana
KanaKrush	2.99	Learn and practise your Japanese kana (hiragana and katakana) with this fun game. KanaKrush lets you crush the fleeing KanaBugs as you learn to read Japanese.
Hikachan	2.99	Includes picture mnemonics to help remember the hiragana, stroke order, ten ten and maru variations, sketch pad and quizes
Learn japanese	1.99	Fun app the children like. Recognition of characters, listening and matching game
Japanese hiragana free	free	Great app for learning how to recognise and read hiragana with cultural information as well
Vocabulary
Kids Japanese	1.19	Kids Japanese 1, they will learn basic daily vocabulary in categories such as animals, body parts, colors, food, fruits, insects, vegetables, wild animals and weather.
Kids Japanese 2	1.19	Kids Japanese 2: they will learn new categories such as cloths, furniture, holidays, music instruments, numbers, shapes, stationery, toys and transport.
Firstwords: Japanese	5.99	Vocab: transport, animals, house objects,colours and shapes. Good for listening and character recognition
Talking memory Japanese	1.19	3 different levels to practise different vocab using the memory game
Speak and read	.99	Vocab app, includes: Animals, body, actions, numbers, nature, personal belongings, stationery and shapes, transportation,  flags and countries, marine creatures. Has lessons and games
writing
Zen Brush	2.99	Beautiful app for writing characters, can adjust brush size and background. Can save pictures as well		Used for both ipads and ipods
Glow Draw	Free	Writing anything in different colours
Kokuban	Free	Chalk board for writing on		Ipad only
Stories
Stories2learn	14.99	Can input photos, Japanese text and voice to make books. Great!
Puppet pals	free	Easy to create own stories, can input own pictures. Can buy more expensive app which includes different characters and scenes
Talking/Speaking
Ladida	.99	Fantastic app, everyone loves. Can record.
TalkingCarl	.99	Fun app for children to speak into. Can’t record.
Manga
Comic Book	1.99	Great for ipad 2 with the camera. Students can design their own manga page using photos or drawings they’ve done. Insert script in Japanese.
Games
Fruit Ninja	.99	Cut up the fruit, miss the bombs Favourite one!
Edo ‘Samurai’ Catch the fly	free	Use the chopsticks to try and catch flies
Labyrinth lite	free	Fun game
The sumo	free	Tap the ipod/ipad to beat your opponent
River Test	free	Used for Japanese business to pass for a job interview Older students love the challenge of this one
Ispot Japan	free	Find the differences in the pictures
OishiShake	free	Game around Japan with challenges
Puzzle
Jigsawed	1.99	Take your own photo or upload a photo and create a puzzle.
Japanese music
Ikoto	1.99	App for playing koto (Japanese harp)
Vir2L Drums		Choose your own taiko and create your own music