Renshuu.org - Study Japanese Online

• JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test, Levels N5 through N1)
• Kanji Kentei (Kanji Proficiency Test, Levels 10 through 2)
• Genki I and II (textbook)
• Intermediate Japanese (textbook)
• Japanese for Busy People I, II, and III (textbook)
• Yookoso I and II (textbook)
• Adventures in Japanese I, II, and III (textbook)
• Tobira (textbook)

Not enough? Make your own lessons! Over 350 user-made lessons are already available.

Renshuu's resources offer kanji and vocabulary materials for beginners to advanced studiers. The JLPT and the Kanji Kentei are two of the most well known proficiency tests in Japan, and renshuu offers support for many of the most popular textbooks used in high school and university classes.

If you want to make your own lessons, renshuu has a simple lesson builder that helps you quickly look up terms so you don't spend hours typing in definitions and making lists before you begin studying.

These are just a few of the dozens of ways that answers are generated for the site.

Japanese is a complex langauge, with many ways (hiragana, kanji, onyomi, kunyomi, etc) to read and interpret words and kanji. Knowing that, should quizzing really be limited to simple 'flashcards' like this?



Renshuu creates quiz questions that let users study individual terms in many different ways so you can create a complex and lasting representation of that information in your head.

Answers to questions are generated on the spot, so you don't trick your mind into thinking you know something simply because you've seen a set of answers before. Some answer sets use other vocabulary/kanji, while others use a misspelling system to create similar terms. Kanji and hiragana are analyzed to create new answers that appear visually similar to help you reinforce materials.

Green bars show sufficiently studied materials, while red bars show materials that need to be studied.

You might have heard of spaced interval studying, where you study a term less and less as you become more familar with it? It's a great system that allows you to study your weakest terms the most without wasting time on materials you know well.

While most spaced interval systems focus on a single level for an entire term, renshuu.org's system has multiple mastery levels for each term that work to measure different ways of understanding a Japanese term.

While there are many different ways to study materials on renshuu.org, the most popular is by far the mastery schedule. Mastery schedules are fully automatic, telling you what to study and when.

All users can take advantage of auto-reviewing, where the site automatically reviews you on previously studied materials while you study new lessons. Feel like last year's vocabulary is getting a bit fuzzy, but you don't want to dig out that old textbook? Let renshuu.org handle all the bookwork for you, so you can focus on studying.

Most Japanese studiers use several textbooks to prepare for any number of proficiency tests. With the thousands of words you need to master Japanese, there's really no time to waste restudying words you already know just because they appear in a new set of materials.

Terms studied on renshuu.org are stored in a single personal record, regardless of where you study it. Anytime you start a new set of materials, the site already knows what you've studied, and will not waste your time with terms you've mastered.

Of course, the site's user settings does allow for light reviewing so previously studied terms will not be forgotten.

Renshuu.org also offers a premium service called 'Renshuu PRO' for users who would like to take a step into more comprehensive studying and personal tools. Need to practice listening to over 9,000 of the most common Japanese words? What about studying vocab while reading it in natural sentences? Want kanji quizzes that are more like puzzles than questions?

These new quiz modes and a load of new features, enhancements, and tools are available on the renshuu pro main page.

• Sentence-based quizzes
• Advanced kanji quizzes
• Listening quizzes
• Grammar quizzes
• Personalized worksheets
• Additional quiz settings
• Quizzing history graphs
• My term center
• Super jumping
• Search & sort lists
• Dictionary history
• Enhanced mastery schedules