messaged support and was greeted by an amazing developer that went above and beyond to expedite the issue and now it's working again!! old (It's neat so far but for some reason on my red magic pro 10 phone no matter what I say it doesn't pick it up. I've tried matching the words and when you reply it sounds the exact same but always says it's wrong. on other apps like Duolingo when I say the phrases it has no issues picking it up. Other than that I would give it a higher rating.)

So, you can do simple practices infinitely to help you learn hiragana (the "letters" of japanese), but if you want to progress through the "story" and get past simple interactions like saying hello and telling people you're a friend, you'll hit a paywall. You're also somewhat encouraged to do the story thoroughly with repeated practice by collecting coins, which you can redeem for little stickers. These stickers actually have value though, they tell you about interesting places in Japan.

App is slow, unresponsive, and inconsistent. During the first hour of usage I experienced 3 different crashes, several freezes and multiple long pauses between questions. The voice recognition is terrible. I had to rerecord the same exact phrase 6 different times for the app to finally recognize what I was saying. Absurd paywall, bad starting point. If I don't know the characters why aren't you teaching them to me instead of having me speak phrases I don't understand. Just as bad as Duolingo