Hiragana: Vowels, K and S
け
ke (hiragana)
It comes back just as it starts to fade.
Each time you remember a word, Lymi waits a little longer before showing it again. A few minutes a day is enough, and the words you learned months ago stay with you.
- 電車TodayNew
- 電車Day 1Learning
- 電車Day 3Learning
- 電車Day 8Known
- 電車Day 21Known
- 電車Day 50Known
One kanji, seven sounds.
The same kanji sounds different in different words. Lymi shows the reading over the kanji until you know the word, then takes it away so you learn to read it on your own.
日 (ひ), 日本 (に), 毎日 (にち), 休日 (じつ), 日曜日 (び), 三日 (か), 今日 (きょう)
ひ · Sun; day
Same sound, different word.
はし can mean chopsticks, a bridge or an edge. Only the pitch tells them apart. Lymi charts it under the word, so you learn how it’s said as well as how it’s read.
箸はしあchopsticks
橋はしあbridge
端はしあedge
Start at あ. Keep going.
Free decks to take one after another. Each day brings a few new words, mixed in with your reviews.
Read Japanese Kana
211 cards
Hiragana, then katakana, a few rows at a time. Each sign comes with its sound.
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165 cards
Everyday words, from family and food to your first verbs.
Add to Lymi毎日Every dayJapanese N4 Vocabulary
284 cards
Feelings, travel and polite speech, once N5 feels easy.
Add to Lymi花見Cherry-blossom viewing
Hear how it’s really said.
Every card is read aloud by a native Japanese AI voice. It follows the reading on your card, so 明日 is あした and 今日 is きょう. Tap a word to hear it. If your deck has its own recordings, those play instead.
Type one word. Get a whole card.
Add a word from today’s lesson and AI fills in the reading, the meaning, an example and a hint to help you remember it. It only fills what you left empty, and marks what it wrote.
Term乗り換
ReadingAIのりかえる
MeaningAITo change (trains, buses)
ExampleAI次の駅で乗り換えます。No reading over 次 and 駅: you already know them.
HintAI乗る to get on, plus 換える to swap: you get on a different train.
Turn a textbook page into cards.
Take a photo of your textbook or notes. The new words become cards with their readings, and you pick the ones to keep.
- 電車Train
- 友達Friend
- 乗り換えるTo change trains
Bring your own AI.
Connect Claude, ChatGPT or another assistant once. Send it a photo of today’s page and it adds the new words, or ask what’s waiting for you tonight.
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IMG_2041.jpgPhotoToday’s page from my textbook. Add the new words to my Japanese deck.
Added 6 cards to Japanese, with readings. I skipped 電車, which you already have.日本語 · new乗り換えるTo change trains
How many are waiting for me tonight?
Eighteen. The new words will come up a few at a time.
Learning is more fun together.
Review a deck with your class, your tutor or a friend. One of you adds the words after each lesson and shares a link, and everyone reviews on their own schedule.
Tuesday Japanese class
12 learners
Added after this week’s lesson
- New
花見
Cherry-blossom viewing
- New
乗り換える
To change trains
- New
約束
A promise; plans to meet
Built with Japanese in mind.
The small things that matter once you’re a few weeks in.
Kanji in Japanese shapes
Some kanji look different in a Chinese font. Lymi shows your cards in Japanese forms, the way kanji look in Japanese books.
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese
Search by sound
Type でんしゃ or デンシャ and find 電車.
Readings only where you need them
In example sentences, furigana stays over the words you’re still learning and leaves the ones you know.
Bring your Anki deck
Coming from a deck like Kaishi 1.5k? Word recordings and pitch accent stay on the cards, and sentence translations come along too.
- Word recordings
- Pitch accent
- Readings
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昨日
yesterday
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悲しい
sad
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指定席
reserved seat
Japanese Essentials
Japanese for a trip around Japan, from station platforms and convenience stores to meals and unexpected problems.
90 cards9 sections
Open the deckA normal day
毎朝、何時に起きますか。
What time do you get up each morning?
Everyday Japanese Conversation
Start a simple conversation in Japanese: introduce yourself, ask about someone's day, talk about what you like, and make a plan.
48 cards6 sections
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近く
nearby; vicinity
Core Japanese Words
Build a first Japanese vocabulary for simple sentences about people, places, routines, and what you do each day.
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to do
Japanese Top 100 Verbs
Learn the 100 most common Japanese verbs in the order people actually meet them. Ranked from wordfreq's 6,000 most frequent word forms, each mapped to its dictionary verb. Every card shows the verb, a hiragana reading, an example and notes on its type and polite form.
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の
possessive; of (particle)
Japanese Top 1000 Words
Learn the 1,000 most common Japanese words in the order people actually meet them. Ranked from wordfreq's 6,000 most frequent word forms, each mapped to its dictionary word; particles and grammar words are included, names, numbers in digits and fragments are not. Every card shows the word, a hiragana reading, an example and notes.
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Questions before you start.
- Do I need to know kana first?
Yes, because every reading is written in kana. Start with the kana deck, and add N5 words once the signs feel familiar.
- Does Lymi show romaji?
Words show their reading in kana over the kanji. The kana deck is the one place with romaji, because there the sound is the answer.
- What does a card ask me?
One way at a time: the Japanese for its meaning, or the meaning for the Japanese. You think of the answer, turn the card over and say how well you knew it. There’s nothing to type.
- How does Lymi know I know a word?
When its card reaches Known in your reviews. From then on the reading steps aside, on that card and in example sentences across your decks. Forget the word once and the reading is back, and turning a card over always shows it.
- How does the voice know how to read a kanji?
It reads from the reading on your card, so a word that can be read several ways is said the way your card has it.
- Can I bring my Anki deck?
Yes. Cards keep their readings, their schedule and their word recordings. Sentence recordings stay behind.
- Does it work on my phone?
Yes. Lymi runs in the browser on your phone and your computer, and you can add it to your home screen. Your cards and progress are the same on both.
- What does it cost?
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