RECOMMENDED EXPERIENCE
Desktop / Laptop Guide
Best for the Guided Japanese Course, handwriting workbook, and the larger reading/Language IDE workspaces—especially when comparing two reading panes.
Open desktop guide →
HOW TO USE MANABI KŌBŌ
Your guide to the learning workbench
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.
Learn→Practice→Read→Build→Apply
CHOOSE YOUR MANUAL
Same tools, different screen experience
PHONE · TABLET · FOLDABLE
Mobile / Foldable 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 →WHERE SHOULD I START?
Pick the tool that matches the skill you want to reinforce
道
Want a complete learning path
憶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.
Need usable phrases
積Build timed recall for thoughts, everyday language, and professional situations.
Ready for guided reading
⇄Read curated bilingual material or import an Anki deck as a synchronized front/back reading book.
Read the wider web
</>Compare supported English or Spanish web content with Japanese in Kanji, Furigana, Kana, or Rōmaji.
Think like an engineer
あCompile and debug Japanese using software-development metaphors.
Need kana foundations
釣Use short drills when hiragana or katakana recognition needs reinforcement.
Want faster word recognition
Catch the matching reading with arrow keys or touch while practicing complete internal-monologue phrases.
YOUR OWN PHRASES
Import once, practice in two tools
ANKI · JSON · CSV
Shared Manabi phrase bank
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.
GAME + RECALL
Kotoba Fishing · ことば釣り
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 →ANKI READING BOOKS
Turn a deck into a synchronized Reading Nook book
TSUNDOKU · ANKI
Import Anki deck as book
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 →A SIMPLE STUDY LOOP
Use fewer tools with more intention
- 1Choose one skill for the session.
- 2Spend 10–20 focused minutes in the matching tool.
- 3Save one phrase, pattern, or reading insight worth reusing.
- 4Apply it in your course, notes, conversation, or work context.
