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Elementary School Kanji Drill has been receiving positive feedbacks from many users.
This popular series is one of the long-selling apps on App Store’s education category.

About This App:
“The Fourth Year Kanji Learning Drill” covers all 200 kanji characters learned by fourth grade elementary school students in Japan.
You can acquire kanji reading and writing skills through interactive exercises, all while having fun. By learning proper stroke order, you will also gain beautiful kanji writing skill.

10 new kanji characters are studied per day, so it’s easy to build a good learning habit.
Completed exercises are marked and saved, so it’s easy to keep track of your progress.

Test function can be used to test your kanji knowledge and what you have learned.
When a kanji is written with improper stroke order, a “re-do” function allows you to learn the correct stroke order.
All kanji practices are saved, so you can start your exercise from where you left off. Memorized kanji characters are marked, so you can visually keep track of your daily accomplishments.

[App Function]
School-use setting (multi-user setting) is now available.
Administrator can enter a password to manage students’ information.

[How to use]
Turn on “school-use” in settings and enter administrator password.
Each student’s name and password can be registered.
Lists of school and student names are displayed. Students can select their name and enter password to start their exercise.

■Practice:
・ Learn to read and write all 200 kanji characters learned by fourth grade elementary school students in Japan
・ Study each kanji’s meaning and how to use it through a variety of example sentences
・ Stroke order is demonstrated through animations
・ Practice correct kanji stroke order
・ Both kanji readings, onyomi (sound reading) and kunyomi (meaning reading), are displayed
・ Each kanji character is practiced 5 times

■Kanji Writing Check:
・ Each kanji writing is checked
・ Practicing kanji have to be mastered before moving on to the next new kanji
・ Correctly written kanji characters are marked, so it’s easy to check your progress

■Kanji Reading Check:
・ Each kanji reading is checked
・ Get both onyomi and kunyomi correct before moving on to the next kanji
・ Kana chart can be used to check your hiragana writing

■Test Function:
・ Writing and reading skills can be tested with randomly selected kanji
・ Total of 20 kanji (10 writing, 10 reading) are tested and scored
・ Receive a medal based on your score
・ Challenge as many times as you like and score 100%

■Additional Test Function:
・ Additional exams are available to strengthen your kanji skills

■Score Function:
・ National score ranking chart is available, and it can be filtered by: age, gender or city
・ “National average” displays national average score, number of registered users and average user age
・ “City ranking” displays average score and number of registered users by city

■Setting:
・ Kanji Display Order Setting: Relevance/Stroke Count/Kana Syllabary/Custom
・ Audio: On/Off
・ Clear Practice Record
・ Skip Function
・ Display Kana Guide
・ Multi-user Setting

Elementary School Kanji app series (1st to 6th grade) took over a year to develop. Number of files created is over 104,351! All files including stroke order animations were carefully created by our team.

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App Changes

  • June 14, 2014 Initial release
  • August 02, 2014 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
  • November 03, 2014 New version 12.4
  • December 08, 2014 New version 12.5
  • February 11, 2015 New version 12.6
  • April 27, 2015 New version 13.0
  • April 27, 2015 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $1.99
  • April 30, 2015 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
  • June 17, 2015 New version 13.0.1
  • July 16, 2015 New version 13.0.2
  • November 21, 2015 New version 14.0
  • November 25, 2015 New version 14.0.1
  • February 10, 2016 New version 14.1
  • July 09, 2016 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $1.99
  • July 17, 2016 New version 14.2.2
  • November 06, 2016 New version 14.2.4
  • November 06, 2016 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
  • June 15, 2019 New version 14.2.7