Learn Japanese by talking

Verbsy is a speaking-first Japanese tutor you talk to out loud. It listens, answers, corrects what you got wrong, and remembers it for next time.

Japanese has a politeness dimension that textbooks explain and conversations enforce. Verbsy lets you practise choosing a register in real time, which is where it is actually decided.

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A Japanese conversation in the Verbsy app

What you can practise in Japanese

Handle a convenience store or a restaurant without freezing at the follow-up question.
Introduce yourself at work in polite Japanese.
Keep a casual conversation going with a friend without falling back into English.

How learning Japanese with Verbsy works

1
Tell the tutor what you want to be able to do in Japanese — order dinner, get through an interview, talk to family. It turns that into a goal with concrete steps.
2
Talk. Put your phone in your pocket and speak through your headphones while you walk or cook. The tutor answers out loud and corrects you as you go.
3
The words you stumbled on become flashcards drawn from your own conversations, and five skills are scored from how you actually spoke.

Japanese questions

No. Conversations are spoken, so you can start before you can read. Your flashcards come from what you said, and reading follows at your own pace.

Whichever you need. Tell the tutor the situation you are practising for and it will hold that register, and correct you when you slip out of it.

Yes. Beginners get slower speech, simpler sentences and more support in a language you already know, and the tutor moves further into Japanese as you keep up. You do have to be willing to speak from the first session — that is the whole method.

Verbsy is free to download and your first 30 minutes of conversation are free. That is a one-off allowance rather than a daily one. Verbsy Premium unlocks an hour of conversation a day at the price shown in the app.

No. Verbsy is built to be used with the screen off, through your headphones, while you commute, cook or walk. It is an iPhone app and needs iOS 16.1 or later.

Other languages you can learn

Verbsy teaches 16 languages. Same tutor, same hands-free conversations.

EnglishSpanishFrenchGermanItalianPortugueseDutchRussianMandarin ChineseKoreanArabicHindiPolishTurkishVietnamese

Start speaking Japanese today

Download Verbsy and have your first Japanese conversation in the next five minutes. The first 30 minutes are free.

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