TAMAGO · はじめての にほんご
タップしてはじめる — tap to start

たまごの つかいかた

たまご starts you at zero: kana first, then words, then grammar. No romaji, no rush — it decides when you review, so you just show up. Works offline; everything saves on this device.

🈁 かな — start here

Meet five characters at a time: see it big, hear it, trace it. Then the drill: listen and tap the kana you heard. Get it right and it loads into the trace pad — five traces for a new one, one or two for an old friend. Hiragana all the way through, then katakana. Finishing hiragana is a real milestone. 🎉

📖 ドリル — words by ear

Everyday expressions first, then real sentences with native voices. Listen → guess the meaning → check. Grade honestly: もういちど = missed it, むずかしい = barely, いいね = got it, かんたん = instant. Two new words a day, plus whatever's due. Words only show up once you can read every kana in them.

📝 文法 — one lesson a day

Read it, tap the examples to hear them, pass the 3-question quiz to earn the ✓.

📺 見る — finish with listening

The chips are your recent words — hearing one in a video locks it in forever. Log your minutes.

📊 レーダー

Your progress, the egg's cracks, and the Backup card: export now and then and keep the text somewhere safe.

🔥 The one rule

Never miss two days in a row. A bad day = five kana + one video. That counts.

🙏 Credits

Words, sentences and voices: the Core 2000 Japanese deck — a long-standing free community deck. たまご is a free personal project with no ads and no accounts; all progress stays on your device.

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ぶんぽう — grammar lessons

👂 words to listen for

Your recent drill words. Hearing one in the wild locks it in — tap a chip to hear it first.

📺 beginner listening

⏱ log your minutes

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🎧 music

Volume
A quiet rainy-cafe loop. It dips automatically whenever a word, a sentence or Marin's voice plays, so studying always comes through on top.

⚙️ pacing

New words per day
Two a day is the plan — it adds up to a lot in a year, and it never feels like a wall. Bump it up on good days.

🐣 your senpai

Name
She cheers you on from the corner of the screen. Change her name any time.

💾 backup

🔊 voice

Words and sentences use real human recordings. This voice reads kana, expressions and grammar examples.
⭐ = high quality. On a Mac: System Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → System Voice → Manage Voices → download Kyoko (Enhanced), then reload.