Learn Japanese! - Kanji Way

You can read 日 on a sign and still freeze with a pen in your hand. Recognising a character and being able to produce one are separate skills. Almost every app trains only the first. This one trains the second. Each character is drawn from real stroke-order data. When the turn comes, the app watches the whole motion: where the pen goes down, which direction it travels, the shape, whether it finished. Begin a line at the wrong end and it says which end was right, because "wrong" on its own teaches nobody. HOW A LESSON GOES Four characters, three short rounds, about five minutes. 学 Meet them — each draws itself, beside a word it appears in 書 Write them — trace the guide, green dot to gold 読 Prove it — reading and meaning from memory, two options Only a run with nothing missed earns 皆伝. INSIDE • 1,750 characters across 439 lessons, N5 through N1 • 8,131 words, so nothing is studied in…