Hands-Free Sensei Free app for iPhone and iPad

Following on from our successful Japanese My Way, is the next step in successful Japanese language learning.

Learning in class or at home is fun but, if youre like me, you spend a lot of time in the car or outside. Enter Hands-Free Sensei. Hands-Free sensei allows you to practice and drill Japanese vocabulary (and, later, kanji and grammar too) while driving, walking the dog, hiking, or anywhere you like. Using speech synthesis and voice recognition technology it will ask you questions and your answers will logged and your progress tracked to make sure youre always getting to practice the stuff youre having trouble remembering, not the stuff you can.

Hands-Free Sensei also allows you to speed up and slow down the speech so you can proceed at a speed that is comfortable for your level. You can also, pause, play, go back and forth, just like a CD player.

Of course, being hands-free, bluetooth headsets are fully supported and, for in-car use, recommended due to their ability to cut out background noise. There is also a muted mode, whereby instead of providing answers by using your voice, you can press and hold on the screen to select from thought bubbles. Great for those times when you might want to grab your headphones and practice in the local coffee shop.

Whats more with the paid-for version, if you can think it, you can practice it! Yes, Hands-Free Sensei allows you to create your own vocabulary lists to learn the things YOU want to learn.

The paid-for version of Hands-Free Sensei will be out soon, but please try out the free version here and let us know what you think. The free version contains a cut-down JLPTN5 vocabulary lists for practice. The paid-for version will contain all vocabulary lists for JLPTN5-JLPTN1.

NOTE: Please, please, please. If you are having issues, contact [email protected] and we will work with you to address them. With so many versions of iOS and devices now, there its impossible to test on them all, but we are dedicated to fixing any issues quickly. Thank you.