Lirer: Learn Japanese

Name: Lirer: Learn Japanese
Rating: 4.72395 (547 reviews)

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Lirer: Learn Japanese

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User Reviews for Lirer: Learn Japanese

A great thing ruined by functionality bugs

Update: In addition to all the other bugs I mentioned, now my review is broken and I’m not being shown over half the lessons I’ve done for review. Such a shame this app is completely abandoned. Let me start with the positives. This app is one of the best resources for learning Japanese vocabulary that I’ve found in my nearly 10 years of study. It has a robust vocabulary list and flash cards that effectively teach kanji, meaning, and the reading. Lessons are appropriately sized and never feel overwhelming. BUT this is all ruined by the app’s many many bugs. Multiple lessons can’t be completed because answer options won’t show up, my phone vibrates nonstop every time I have to type in Japanese, some reviews will freeze and you have to close the app and reopen it. I really really want to love this app just like I love Bunpo but these “game breaking” bugs need to be fixed before I can.

Chrokeefe, Nov 06, 2023

Really great app, minor issue

So far the app has been great. Easy to use with great examples and pronunciations. I haven’t got very far but poking around the future lessons, they appear to be extensive, so I’m looking forward to it. One gripe I have with the app is the 3 second delay between answering a question and the pronunciation. I really want to hear the pronunciation but don’t want to have to wait after each answer.Another annoyance I encountered was during the input section. It vibrates each time you input something as “wrong” even though the eventual answer is right. This is pretty obnoxious and wish it was removed or at least give me an option to disable this.

diegoz281, Oct 30, 2022

I give up

I've been using this app for a while, and the whole thing I like about its concept is being able to build up a review word list that I can go through and keep things fresh in my mind. It doesn't let you just add words to the list, you used to need to earn them by increasing mastery with other words, now you have to complete lessons.When they switched to the lesson format I lost my whole review word list but I thought the new system would be pretty helpful so I bought an app membership. Remembering vocabulary is the hardest thing for me and I'm learning on my own, no classes.But from the beginning I was having trouble with the review list. It would not add new words for days. Words seemed to drop off of it never to be seen again. And then last week, my whole review list just got wiped, I had like 2/3 of the jlpt3 words on there. They said they'd look into it, but I don't even know what that means. This app just isn't useful without a stable review list. I'm sad.

Estarianne, Jul 03, 2022

Too many bugs and errors

I wanted to love this app so much. I loved Bunpo and thought this app was exactly what I was looking for for studying words. However, due to bugs and errors, it is NOT reliable for studying Japanese in its current state. Many times my review questions have been correct but counted as incorrect in the final review score. This means I have to keep studying those same words without making progress. It’s incredibly frustrating. I am by no means an advanced learner of Japanese, but I have found several furigana mistakes throughout the app, mainly in the example sentences. For example, a word with the kanji 行 in it had an い as furigana when it should have been こう. This is alarming!! A studying app should be accurate!!I’ve sent many messages from within the app about this. I’ve also sent an email about this, with no response yet. I’m very disappointed right now. Please fix these problems and respond to my email. Thank you.

Ev_Mar, Oct 27, 2021

It’s like a secondary to Bunpo.

I used Bunpo, the app developer’s first Japanese learning app, and I did learn a lot. I found out about Lirer and downloaded it too. To me, it looks like a compilation of all same lessons as in Bunpo, just in a dictionary-like format. This is a good app for reviewing and to look back to, but not really good for learning. I suggest their previous app Bunpo if you truly want to learn Japanese.

EveryUsernameisAlreadyTak3n, Apr 14, 2021

Motivating

I’ve been using this app for eight weeks now, and I can definitely see an improvement. I am convinced that I want to really study Japanese vocabulary and Lirer gives me that platform to buckle down and get right into it. While at first I found the lesson to be kind of repetitive, I was also picking up new skills and refining old ones. It offers different learning styles (audio quiz, typing quiz, multiple choice quiz… etc) for Japanese hiragana, katakana and JLPT(N1-N5). Even for N1!! I am definitely pleased with how this app is working for me. Gives it a try and you can see for yourself!

gijoeaway, Apr 22, 2022

Love the app but…

This is one of my primary ways of learning Japanese, highly recommend it, but one thing that bothers me is there’s a glitch. When we do lessons where we need to select the two matching answers for example Hirigana 2 Lesson 9 it is actually impossible to complete. If we need to scroll down to select an answer and both of your choices are not on the screen at the same time, it does not acknowledge that both answers have been selected making certain lessons completely impossible to finish. Of course this doesn’t effect us learning and still love the app, but for me personally I found this problem stressful because I want to see everything completed. Love the app and still highly recommend it. Would be 5 star if not for the glitch.

J4C03 119, Dec 23, 2022

Not bad but

There are a lot of inconvenient things about this app. Which makes it disappointing because it has so much potential. —Can’t review frequently. I should be able to review whenever I want in some way or another. I have to go back through each section rather than just having a place to review all the words Iv study thus far. Some days I don’t want to learn new words and I just want to review. — it makes no sense that the audio doesn’t play after you have answered incorrectly. I need to HEAR why I missed it. — the answer choices are too easy. Okay I can understand it being easy for N5-N3 but common on now… if I know the answer starts with お, even if I don’t actually know the answer … I can easily guess because no other answer starts with お—So basically all these problems intertwine because I’m breezing by the words, even if I don’t know it , I can easily guess l, if I get it wrong, I get no audio conformation and in a few hours or even the next day I can’t even review it!! Really hope some changes are made. Oh and N1 learners like pictures too yah know. A lot of nouns and verbs can have pictures…

Manduhpooh, Jan 15, 2022

Some bugs that prevent you from finishing a section

Overall, I really like this app. I want to love it, but there are some bugs that prevent you from finishing a section. You can’t progress to the next part until it finishes either. I haven’t look at other levels but the N5 level has a couple sections that end up blank so you can’t submit an answer to move on. I’ve sent in flags/bug reports multiple times, but I still haven’t heard anything back yet. I hope they fix it soon. This would be a 5 star for me, but I have to give it 3 stars due to the inability to progress in certain sections / lack of response after asking for help.

SeanTDMD, Mar 07, 2022

Implement flashcard/ SRS function?

Ive purchased the lifetime subscription of Lirer and Bunpo as my on-the-go study tools for over a year now. I have to say I never regret that decision. It was money well spent since I am almost using the APPs on a daily basis. Recently I realize there is an issue, the vocabularies that Ive been learning arent retaining especially those I haven't gone back to review very often. And for this reason, I am hoping the developer could update the APP to include a quiz/ SRS function for us to review all the vocabularies learned within that category or better yet the entire JLPT Nx level. This could reinforce our memories and better retain the vocabularies that we have learnt. Thank you

SIUKIUUUUU, Apr 28, 2023

Description

Learn Japanese words the fast way with Lirer.  On Lirer you can: * Learn Japanese words from basics to JLPT N1 level. * Practice Japanese Alphabets (Hiragana and Katakana) * Listen to thousands of audio files voiced by native speakers * Search through the Japanese words dictionary. * Enhance your studying with a personalized review. WHAT’S INCLUDED * Explanation and exercises for all the Japanese words of JLPT N5, JLPT N4, JLPT N3, JLPT N2, JLPT N1. * Japanese Alphabets quiz. * Audio voiced by professional native speakers. * Lessons created by Japanese teachers and writers. SUBSCRIPTION PRICING AND TERMS SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Lirer offers an auto-renewing monthly subscription at $6.99/month and an auto-renewing yearly subscription at $19.99/year to provide you with unlimited access to the Lirer courses while you maintain an active subscription.

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