My passion for Japan and their culture has been growing bigger and bigger over the years. Probably was the countless hours I’ve spent watching anime or the taste of my BFF for Japanese music. Either way, I’ve fallen in love with this intriguing, different, and “strange” culture. One of the reasons I wanted to learn Japanese was because of a manga: Ao Haru Ride (Blue Spring Ride in English). I loved it soo much I wanted to buy it to have in my shelf, but it was only translated into French, German, and Spanish (at the time). I didn’t want to buy a copy just because, I wanted to be able to read it as well. And if I had to learn a new language to be able to do that, then I might just learn Japanese. I don’t want to become fluent in it, so far all I want is to be able to read mangas, nothing too complicated. All this adventure started a year ago. I learned the entire Hiragana table and was so impressed with myself that I became lazy to learn the Katakana afterwards. Not only that, but I also didn’t know what to do next. I wasn’t following any book or doing any course, so I suddenly stopped. Back in January, I was determined to learn Japanese again, but this time, I wasn’t doing it on my own. I searched for apps that could help me take the next steps and also have fun. And now here we are! Kana Dojo This app is great to start learning Japanese. It’s completely free, and you can learn at your own pace. It has both tables (Hiragana and Katakana), flashcards to study, and quizzes to test yourself. The flashcards and quizzes can be customized to which kana you want to focus on studying, instead of having to work on them all at once. It also has two games to make learning Japanese fun! The Match Maker is a memory card game where you need to pair the kana with the romanji. I was never able to play it on my phone, for some reason it kept freezing and kicking me out of the app. And the Eye Spy is a game to recognize kana. It’s quite fun, and a great way to familiarize with this new writing. You have 60 seconds to correctly identify as much kana...