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It's our favorite time of the year here at Kanshudo, and we're delighted to help you celebrate with a fantastic bargain: 50% off one year of...
As these bundles show, we cannot always be strong and dominant. One collection spotlights the inevitable process of weakening and dying,...
Trees soar to great heights in two new bundles. One focuses on what the cherry, pine, cedar, and willow symbolize to the Japanese. The other...
Two new bundles put the spotlight on animals. One focuses on what the dragon, tiger, crane, and turtle symbolize in both positive and...
From pride to shame, two bundles illuminate powerful emotions. The insect bundle (which includes essays about the mosquito and bee)...
We're very excited to announce the beta of a major new section of Kanshudo: the JLPT Practice Center. The new center will enable you to take...
The four newest bundles provide a crash course in the Japanese arts. One focuses on manga, another on calligraphy, and a third on the...
One of the best things about learning kanji is seeing how the Japanese take symbols for objects (from eyebrows to bubbles in this selection)...
We are delighted to announce that we are increasing the number of AI credits included in all 2024 pricing plans! Prices are staying the same...
When multiple kanji represent a concept, how do you know which one to use at any given time? Two of these bundles showcase characters with...
We hope you are all enjoying our latest AI feature, AI Sentence Correct ! We have some enhancements for Sentence Correct coming soon, as...
Thematic Bundles help you see differently! See the world from mountaintops! See time sliced up in unexpected ways! See through the soft haze...
We are very excited to announce the latest complement to Kanshudo's AI features: AI Sentence Correct ! AI Sentence Correct is your personal...
We've bundled 16 more Joy o' Kanji essays to show you the connections between kanji. Bundles 15 and 16 largely focus on water. The first...
We recently introduced Thematic Bundles, which enable you to make connections that you might otherwise miss among groups of Joy o' Kanji...
It's holiday season, and time to celebrate with a fantastic bargain: 50% off one year of Kanshudo Pro access! 2023 has been an exciting...
We are very excited to announce a new way to access in-depth kanji information: Thematic Bundles, from our partner Joy o' Kanji! Thematic...
It's been a while since we've posted an update as we've been busy working on some very exciting new features! We will have more to share...
We hope 2023 is off to a good start for you all, and your Japanese studies are progressing well! Kanshudo's learning community has been...
It's the most wonderful time of the year ... and this is your chance to set up 2023 as a wonderful year for your Japanese, with 50% off one...
As rain and early evenings descend on our HQ in San Francisco, our Japanese team is looking forward to the next Japanese holiday, 文化の日, so...
We hope you are enjoying our new Topic Lessons ! We're continuing to add new lessons, as well as new games and features to the lessons...
We are very excited to introduce a huge new part of the Kanshudo system for learning Japanese: Topic Lessons . Lessons are available for...
As usual we've been hard at work making improvements and adding features to Kanshudo. To make it easier to find them, here's a quick...
Here's a quick round-up of new features and improvements we've made over the last couple of months. Of course, one of the biggest was...
We are delighted to announce a major new addition to Kanshudo – the poems of Kaneko Misuzu, one of Japan's most famous and enduring...
We hope 2022 is treating you well so far! We've had a busy January, and we'll be announcing some big new features soon. In the meantime,...
Happy New Year to you all! We wish you the best for your Japanese studies in 2022. We have some exciting plans for 2022, including new...
Save 50% on a Kanshudo Pro subscription! It's that time of the year ... time to be merry, time to celebrate the successes (the end?) of...
We are very excited to announce that our updated Intermediate Lessons are now officially out of beta*, and fully ready to use! The new...
We're very excited to introduce our newest game: Kanji Keywords! Kanji Keywords brings together two of the most important learning...
Since we introduced the usefulness ranking for Japanese vocabulary four years ago, the most comprehensive analysis of Japanese usage...
Chopsticks are among the most useful and important implements in daily life in Japan - you literally need them to eat! Learn about the...
The crane plays an outsized role in Japanese culture, and we are delighted to present a number of new resources to help you become...
Drawing a kanji by hand is one of the best ways to truly cement it in your memory. We are delighted to announce that Kanji Draw is now...
We're delighted to announce a special June promotion with our partner Joy o' Kanji! Just post something nice about both Kanshudo and Joy o'...
We're very excited to announce a new partnership with Japanese literature expert Bunsuke. Every few days we will be bringing you a short...
Learning to count in Japanese can be tricky, and we've added some new tools to make it as easy as 1-2-3! Japanese uses a system of...
We're very excited to announce a major new addition to Kanshudo: support for pitch accents, a core component of Japanese pronunciation.We've...
We've been busy over the last few months! We've been working on many different areas of the system, so even regular users will probably find...
We are excited to introduce our latest standalone game: Answer Type! Answer Type is a great way to practice and test your Japanese...
If you have a lot of flashcards or a lot of flashcard sets (or both!), you may have noticed that the counts of cards to learn or review have...
Save 50% on a Kanshudo Pro subscription!As this tumultuous year comes to an end, let's look forward to a fresh start and new challenges in...
'Favorites' are one of Kanshudo's most useful features - just click the icon next to any kanji, word, grammar point or even example...
We are delighted to announce our most advanced learning tool yet: Kanshudo Boost.
One of the hardest aspects of Japanese for learners is that inflections can be combined to create complex forms. It is very common to see a...
Quick Study is one of Kanshudo's most powerful features: you can use it to quickly review material to identify what you need to work on, or...
We are delighted to announce three new additions to the Kanshudo Reading Corner, which together comprise a delightful story by 小川未明 ...
We're pleased to announce that you can now play Kanshudo Sentence Builder for a specific grammar point, just as you can with Kanshudo...
Have you ever wanted to check how an irregular verb conjugates? Or quickly see how an inflection differs for two Japanese verbs? Or just...
In the five years since Kanshudo was founded, we have become one of the leading Japanese language learning platforms. Tens of thousands of...
One of the best ways to practice your understanding of Japanese grammar is to actually build sentences yourself. As its name suggests,...
The best way to learn Japanese kanji readings is to learn the most useful words that use them. In the same way, it is easier to learn words...
Regular users of Kanshudo will know that clicking any kanji or word in search results will bring up a 'quick view' with key information ...
We know ... Kanshudo can be hard to navigate! It is a complex system, and there is a lot to find. We hear you, and we've made some...
The Kanshudo Component Builder has been a key feature of Kanshudo since very early on in Kanshudo's history. Its core function is the...
As we write this, the whole world is struggling with the covid-19 pandemic. Cities (including our own San Francisco) and countries are...
We're delighted to announce several improvements to the Drawing center. Drawing kanji yourself is a great way to cement them in your mind,...
Flashcards are a great learning tool, and with the modern convenience of phones and computers, more accessible than ever. Kanshudo includes...
Celebrate the end of 2019 by locking in a year of the best online Japanese learning platform available: one year of Kanshudo Pro access for...
We're thrilled to announce our very first grammar game! As requested by many of you for a long time, Grammar Match makes it possible to...
In this post we're going to dive a little deeper into the relationship between your kanji mastery score and your Japanese mastery level....
We are delighted to formally take the wraps off our comprehensive new approach to learning Japanese, the most exciting update and...
As part of our transition to the new Japanese Mastery system, which tracks your progress with grammar and vocabulary as well as kanji in...
It's been a few months since we've posted an update, because we've been hard at work on some very exciting improvements to Kanshudo. We're...
Kanshudo's Textbook Companion enables you to use all the features of Kanshudo with your favorite textbook. Similar to our own lessons, you...
Kanshudo's Kanji Wheel is a unique way to visualize your knowledge of kanji. You can instantly see how well you know kanji of all levels of...
We've made some big improvements to the Reading Corner, Kanshudo's Japanese/English bilingual reading library.We've doubled the number of...
Valentine's Day is a big event in Japan, but the customs are somewhat different to what you might be accustomed to. To help you prepare for...
Ever since we started Kanshudo a few years ago, one of the most consistently requested features has been for help answering questions like...
This has been another big year for Kanshudo, with several major new features and many improvements to the system. To celebrate, we are...
The Kanshudo Japanese Grammar Library now contains nearly 500 articles, with comprehensive coverage of JLPT levels N5, N4 and N3, and...
Introducing the Drawing Practice Center: a new system which lets you practice drawing hiragana, katakana, and the most common kanji...
We are very excited to announce a brand new way to build and test your Japanese vocabulary: Kanshudo Word Quiz.In high score mode, graded...
We've made some more great improvements to the flashcard system recently. Here's a quick summary:Snooze a set: you can now 'snooze' an...
Read our new point of interest article on the forthcoming 海の日, one of Japan's 16 annual public holidays! As with all our feature articles,...
Inflections - modified forms of verbs and adjectives - are one of the most complex parts of Japanese. Verbs alone have several basic...
We are delighted to announce some exciting new developments designed to help you with a critical aspect of learning Japanese: reading.
To celebrate the launch of our exciting new Challenge feature, we are holding a 'nearly new year' sale: 50% off Pro membership for an entire...
Today we are delighted to introduce a major new feature on Kanshudo: the Kanshudo Challenge! Kanshudo Challenge has been in development for...
We are delighted to introduce a new tool on Kanshudo: Sentence Translate / Analyze. Enter full sentences: Kanshudo will provide an English...
Kanshudo's flashcard system has received a host of improvements in the last few weeks. We've made some big changes under the hood which have...
Today we've introduced a great new feature: you can now tag any example sentence in Kanshudo as a favorite ...
A guest article on studying Japanese by our founder, Jonathan Kirk, was published recently on Tofugu, one of the leading blogs on all things...
We're delighted to announce another great collaboration: visualizations of kanji components from The Kanji Map. From the details pages of...
Kanji Builder, along with a conversation with our founder Jonathan Kirk, was featured on Joy o' Kanji, the kanji 'deep dive' website. Joy o'...
Warning: this is a highly addictive way to learn kanji! Build kanji from their components: choose the correct components from the supplied...
One of our most popular lesson games, Sentence Complete, is now available to play standalone! Sentence Complete is a fun way to test and...
We are delighted to announce a key new component to the Kanshudo system: a simple and effective way to prioritize your vocabulary studies....
Use Kanshudo to study and track your progress with the Routledge 5000 list! The Routledge frequency list of Japanese words is a set of 5000...
We are delighted to introduce our new 'how to' guide to writing Japanese, which introduces you to the standard strokes used to draw all...
Continuing our theme of making it easier to learn Japanese vocabulary, we've made several great improvements to Search and Flashcards. It's...
A new scientific study1 showed that using mnemonics, the main memory technique underlying Kanshudo's approach to teaching the kanji, a group...
Read our new feature article on the forthcoming 雛祭り, one of Japan's great annual festivals. As with all our feature articles, you can see...
Next in our series of new vocabulary study features: the iKnow! Core 6000 vocab list. You can now use Kanshudo to study and track your...
This year Kanshudo will be introducing a series of features to help you power up your Japanese vocabulary. Today we're announcing the first...
We're excited to announce a new set of kanji collections on Kanshudo: our 'core' collections. We've collected and organized full sets...
Save 50% on a Kanshudo Pro subscription!What could better Japanese bring you in 2017?A new job in Japan?A magical travel experience? Deeper...
We're excited to announce another major new element of the Kanshudo system for learning Japanese: a searchable grammar reference library....
A lot has happened on Kanshudo in the last few months. We've added many new features to help you master Japanese kanji even faster, and to...
Lessons and games that correspond with your textbook contentNow you can use Kanshudo with your Adventures in Japanese, Genki, Minna no...
We're delighted to announce some very useful improvements to the kanji wheel and to the flashcard system. Our flashcard system gets some...
We are very excited to announce a brand new series of lessons created especially for beginners and early students of Japanese: Kanshudo...
Quick Study is a great new way to learn Japanese effectively on Kanshudo. Now you can use a spare few minutes to focus on anything that...
Did you know that Kanshudo can automatically create word or kanji flashcards for you from a variety of popular dictionaries, or even just...
Study Japanese on Kanshudo more easily than ever! We've introduced a bunch of improvements to our search functionality. Now you can search...
Introducing Word Match, an incredibly fun new way to expand your Japanese vocabulary.Match each word with its correct reading, in the same...
Earn free Kanshudo Pro access just by studying!We want you to master Japanese. We want you to succeed in your dreams, whether they be top...
We're delighted to introduce our new navigation system, which makes accessing Kanshudo even easier and more accessible! The new...
We are very excited to announce the most powerful tool available for studying Japanese and the kanji: the Kanshudo Kanji Wheel™, and...
Today we released two great new features for our flashcard system:You can now just paste any text, and Kanshudo will automatically create a...
We've just added the companion to our Hiragana collection, the new Katakana collection. Now you can study both of the basic 'alphabets' ...
Today we've added a really useful feature to Kanshudo lessons: an interactive slideshow which provides details of every kanji in the lesson....
We've made a bunch of improvements to kanji readings which make them much easier to understand and learn! Here's a summary:On (音) readings...
We are on the move! More specifically, our kanji are now on the move: in the details page for any kanji, you can now see an animation of the...
The new Kanshudo Component Builder is one of the fastest ways there is to look up kanji. Quickly and easily build any kanji by selecting its...
Today is a big day: we are delighted to announce several major improvements to word search! Helping you learn the kanji is our central...
If you are just beginning your study of written Japanese, learning hiragana is one of the most useful things you can do. By popular request,...
We are delighted to announce some major improvements to our flashcards system, along with a new 'how to' guide with all you need to know to...
Whether you are just setting out on your journey to kanji mastery, or you are steadily climbing the mountain, it helps to see the 'big...
Today we are introducing the first of a series of step-by-step guides to the more advanced features of Kanshudo, focused on one of the most...
By popular request we have added a site index! This is mainly to make it much easier to find pages that can be hiding in different sections,...
One of the most requested features on Kanshudo so far has been a structured way to learn the kanji, enabling even absolute beginners to get...
For those of you actively studying Japanese, we have great news: a set of 42 collections of all kanji used in the very popular Japanese for...
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Kanshudo is your AI Japanese tutor, and your constant companion on the road to mastery of the Japanese language. To get started learning Japanese, just follow the study recommendations on your Dashboard. You can use Quick search (accessible using the icon at the top of every page) to look up any Japanese word, kanji or grammar point, as well as to find anything on Kanshudo quickly. For an overview, take the tour.
Search results include information from a variety of sources, including Kanshudo (kanji mnemonics, kanji readings, kanji components, vocab and name frequency data, grammar points, examples), JMdict (vocabulary), Tatoeba (examples), Enamdict (names), KanjiVG (kanji animations and stroke order), and Joy o' Kanji (kanji and radical synopses). Translations provided by Google's Neural Machine Translation engine. For more information see credits.
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