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Manabi Kōbō now includes a complete Guided Japanese Course for beginners, supported by bilingual practice, reading, handwriting, technical vocabulary, and software-engineering-style study tools.
Articles & Notes sits directly below Home in Learn. The Guided Japanese Course, Adaptive Recall, and Tsundoku stay in Learn. Side by Side Reader and Language IDE now live in Practice & Tools, alongside kana, kanji, and sentence practice. The labeled icons work as visual landmarks—you do not need to know kanji to navigate.
New bilingual articles pair English or Spanish on the left with Japanese on the right. On a phone, each section stacks with its Japanese companion directly below it. Furigana shows kana readings above kanji; grammar colors connect words and particles to the legend below the reading. The Japanese is an adapted learning companion, so compare the ideas rather than expecting every sentence to match word for word.
Use the topic links on the article list to explore Japanese learning, developer tools, AI, and related notes. Add the RSS feed to your feed reader if you want new published articles to come to you. Future releases appear when their scheduled date arrives.
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Best for the Guided Japanese Course, handwriting workbook, and the larger reading/Language IDE workspaces—especially when comparing two reading panes.
Open desktop guide →
Learn the compact navigation, stacked workbenches, touch controls, and how the Side by Side Reader stacks its Japanese pane below the source on narrow phone ratios.
Open mobile guide →Start here for the structured beginner course. Lessons teach the concept, give practical examples, assign handwriting/workbook practice, and point you to the right Manabi tools for reinforcement.
Build timed recall for thoughts, everyday language, and professional situations.
Read curated bilingual material or import an Anki deck as a synchronized front/back reading book.
Compare supported English or Spanish web content with Japanese in Kanji, Furigana, Kana, or Rōmaji.
Compile and debug Japanese using software-development metaphors.
Use short drills when hiragana or katakana recognition needs reinforcement.
Catch the matching reading with arrow keys or touch while practicing complete internal-monologue phrases.
From Kotoba Fishing or Japanese Adaptive Recall, choose Import Anki / phrase file. Manabi inspects the file, lets you map Japanese, reading, rōmaji, meaning, and category fields, then shares the normalized phrases with both tools in this browser.
Use Manage imported decks at any time to remove one deck or all imported content. Removing a deck never deletes the built-in Manabi library. Study history is kept by default; select the history option only when you also want Adaptive Recall progress for those imported phrases removed.
Read the thought at the top, identify the highlighted target, then use ↑ ↓ ← → or tap the matching answer around the boat. Switch Japanese ↔ rōmaji modes from the top controls. A missed phrase returns at the end of the round until you complete a clean pass.
View Report shows practiced phrases, wrong captures, repeated failures, response time, and the items that were hardest to recognize. When your browser offers installation from the Fishing page, it installs Kotoba Fishing as its own PWA.
Open Kotoba Fishing →In Tsundoku, choose Import Anki deck as book, then map the field that should appear as the card front on the left and the field that should appear as the back on the right. If an .apkg contains multiple Anki decks, each deck becomes its own book.
Imported books use the same synchronized scrolling reader. Japanese fronts can still be viewed with Furigana, Kana, or Rōmaji. Imported Anki books are saved only in this browser.
Select an imported Anki book and use Delete selected Anki book to remove it later. Published Manabi readings are never deleted.
Open Reading Nook →
Open this page in Safari, tap Share, then choose “Add to Home Screen”.
Open this page in Chrome, open the browser menu, then choose “Install app” or “Add to Home screen”.