If you already have the Totale iPhone app then yeah, of course download this. You can’t really select what aspect of the language you study because RS has decided that its cumulative method is best.
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It’s a robust app full of useful vocabulary and phrases, but isn’t as intuitive as I’d hoped it’d be. I bought the Rosetta Stone Totale subscription when I knew I was moving to Japan, and the app is free when you purchase for the year (about 235.00USD). This is the beginner app to bust out when you feel like you should be studying, but are to lazy to really study. iKana is a simple and effective alpha practice app that uses basic recall methods to check your memorization of Hiragana and Katakana. Step one: anyone starting out in Japanese needs to learn the alphabets.
Every app has good and bad points, and I’ve yet to find one that covers everything I want perfectly, so having a mix makes a lot of sense and keeps my ADD happy. I have an iPhone so I can’t test the Android versions, but someone who has one will certainly step up and share in the comments below. Here are the handful of the best apps I’ve come across, either through nerdy research on tech blogs or just asking my friends who’ve been here longer than me. I spend about ten hours a week on the train, and have dedicated a chunk of my daily commute to learning Japanese on my nifty array of apps. A while ago, I wrote about some of the unlikely things you should know before you move to Tokyo, and number one for me was all the time you spend on the train.