In 24 Hours Learn Japanese

I’d been looking for an app that had rote repetition of basic phrases and this does the trick. I’ve only just unlocked the additional free lessons but look forward to going through all of them. The interface isn’t the most attractive but it gets the job done. What keeps this from a 5-star rating for me are the inability to chain lessons or loop them and the flat reading of the Japanese voice. While accurate it lacks the tone of conversation and the important rising intonation of questions.

As a student in a college Japanese class, I thought I could use this to review some of the things I learned. However, this app really needs to better explain connotations. For example, in Lesson 1 they use あなた (anata) to mean "you." While this is technically correct, almost no one actually uses it in Japan as it has a connotation meaning something similar to "dear" or "honey" in English. It is for this reason that only couples tend to use it. Most people would use きみ (kimi) if you're being informal or そちら (sochira) if you’re being formal. きみ would translate to “you” in an informal way (used when talking to friends), but そちら would translate to something along the lines of "there (near you)." そちら refers to the space someone is occupying and is considered more polite because it doesn't reference the person directly. Lastly, when using "you" you can never go wrong by just using the person's name. In English it's weird to continuously use someone's name after already mentioning it, but in Japanese it's quite normal. TL:DR this app doesn't explain certain connotations with certain words and it could make things awkward when talking to a Japanese native speaker.

Im doing this review so I can get more then 3 lessons for free because I am really liking this app. This is a beginners course which is great because books and audio that I listen and look at expects you to know a little of the language and I know completely nothing. This app is amazing and I recommend it. BA53A897FD That is the review I wrote in late 2016 to get a couple free lessons. Now they are gone and I'm back to my free 3 lessons when they got me 9 free lessons. I tried to hit restore premium but it just swirls around not doing anything because it was not a premium. I have to exit completely from the app in order to see my 3 lessons again. I don't know what to do because I want my 12 lessons back but I don't know how to do it. This is still a good way to learn so I don't want to give it a bad score or scrape it all together but it looks like I have to if I don't get the rest of my lessons I received.