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

27 comments:

  1. Only about three of them I've got and they are puppet pals; fruit ninga and la di da. They are really fun games!

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  2. i love fruit ninja! The river test is really confusing

    Sarah 6N

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  3. i have fruit ninja and 1or 2 more

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  4. I love the river test its confuffleing! I also love frute ninja my top score was 213. also the other apps were some fun



    From Felix 4m in beauy primrey

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    1. It is a bit confusing. Did you know that some companies get their prospective workers to try this game to see whether they should hire them for the job?

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    2. really i nearly made it

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  5. I think the river test is good because it is confusing!! i love catch the fly though it is quite addictive! :D

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    1. I can never catch any flies Ilhan so you're doing better than me!

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    2. I love the game FRUIT NINJA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    3. I love FRUIR NINJA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  6. TalkingCarl and lets write japanese are the awesome ones
    From Lara 4A
    PS Sensi have you tryed all these games?
    Please reply!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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    1. HI Lara
      I've tried all of these games. I try them to see which ones would work best in Japanese class. Thanks for trying lots of things on the blog:-)

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  7. thank you for putting the apps on this page i can now get better at my Hiragana

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    1. You're welcome Nick. I'm glad you're using them.

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  8. I really liked the blog, now I am better at my Hiragana.

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  9. I used the Ikana app at home and it really helped me with my Hiragana!

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  10. I love the ikana app because I love doing Japanese writing.
    I'd like to get glow draw it looks like great fun.
    zen brush is great too, in class I like doing it I should buy it.

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  11. I am hoping to get one of those apps soon. Hopefully they will help me with my hiragana. And i will get my orangi belt!!

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  12. I like Fruit ninja the best!

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  13. fruit ninja is boring.

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  14. fruit ninja is lame

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  15. puppet pals is fun

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  16. Katelyn and summer have been on Zondle. We have been trying to bet vincent and nico. we've been first place been first place before but now they have over token us.we also have played on the quick quiz and other games. we have had so much fun on zondle!we do it all the time. Katelyn and Summer 3C

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    1. That's great girls. I went onto zondle last night and l was amazed by how many zollars everyone has!! Well done :-)

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  17. my favourite app is ikana whats yours sensi

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    1. I Like ikana too. I also like zen brush :)

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