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You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana

98% positive of 282 Steam reviews

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Released
2021
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by James Moulang.

About the game

Learn and master the japanese phonetic alphabets at your own pace with this meditative language learning tool.

Tagged by players

  • Typing
  • Word Game
  • Spelling
  • Score Attack
  • Tutorial
  • Minimalist
  • Text-Based
  • Hand-drawn
  • Arcade
  • Cute
  • Puzzle
  • Casual

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What players say

  • Recommended
    I simply cannot overstate how much this game has helped me wrap my head around reading Hiragana (and hopefully soon, Katakana). I have pretty gnarly ADHD, and I typically have to gamify the educational process pretty hard in order to not just comprehend the material, but to memorize it as well. Because of this, the idea of learning a language in a non-Roman character language just felt beyond me. The devs have…

    2.8 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Good up to a point. For example, it forces you to *always* do specific types of typing for Hiragana or Katakana characters. For example, say you want to do something like ッド You could normally do that with "xtsu" and "do" but instead the only way it'll let you move on to do other parts is if you enter "ddo". Both are valid but it gets annoying trying to force you to use one specific method only where it'll block…

    9.1 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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