Free iPhone App from The JapanShop

Posted on 20. Feb, 2009 @ 11:45 am by in Gadgets, Language Views: 239

I think this is “pointing-JapanNewbie-readers-to-free-stuff week”.

The JapanShop has come out with a free iPhone or iPod Touch application for Japanese learners.

You can upgrade from the free 400 phrases to the complete 800 phrases for $3.99. Also, if you upgrade you get a $5 coupon good for anything at TheJapanShop.com. Yes, the product costs less than the coupon is worth.

The application is pretty neat. The phrases are in neat categories, and every phrase is spoken at the touch of a button. It also has useful flashcard-based study methods and quizzes. This application is oriented to beginners, so there isn’t much here for an intermediate to advanced Japanese learner. Hopefully they’ll make some advanced stuff in the future! This kind of application is really handy. Here are some screen shots right from the application.

Why yes… I like you very much!

If you decide to upgrade and want to use the $5 coupon for something immediately, but don’t want to spend any more actual money, I would recommend giving their $5 download on 40 hand-related idioms a try.

This isn’t an iPhone application. The download has MP3s, PDFs, and a Flash file, example sentences, and the English translations of everything. Quality stuff, and it is highly unlikely that even an advanced learner would already know everything in the set.

Happy downloading!

- Harvey

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  • jonesy

    I’ve been using the iphone for a year, so I’m assuming I know how to use the app store. But after downloading their app, I tried to upgrade and found no actual upgrade button/option. I even emailed them to ask about this (no response). If I’m missing some obvious or secret upgrade method, please let me know.

  • http://www.thejapanesepage.com/iphone Clay

    To Jonesy–Sorry if I missed your email. It may have been eaten up by the bulk-mail-monster. :(

    We just came out with an upgrade to the free app which has a tap to upgrade link to the paid version. But if you have any questions, please give us a call (866)-837-3607.

    Sorry for the trouble!

  • Clive

    Cool app. Be aware you need iPhone 2.2.1 to download it.

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