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Yokoso
Japanese for the life you're actually living in Japan
Free Japanese learning for real life in Japan. Yokoso adapts around what you know, teaches signs, prices and grammar in context, imports WaniKani progress, works offline, and has no ads, streaks or locked lessons.
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Hi Product Hunt, I’m James, the person behind Yokoso. I started building it after moving to northern Japan and realizing that most beginner apps were teaching Japanese in an order that had very little to do with the life happening around me. I needed to read signs, understand prices, recognize counters, and make sense of the grammar inside useful phrases. I also did not want to start over every time I tried a new tool. Yokoso opens directly into learning and adapts around what you already know. New material arrives as a lightweight probe. When you know it, the app skips the lesson. When you do not, it teaches the answer and explains why. It can also import WaniKani and Bunpro progress so those learners keep the work they have already done. The app is free forever, with no ads, streaks, lives, paywalls, or locked lessons. Optional supporter contributions unlock nothing. I would especially value feedback on two things: 1. Does the first five minutes make it clear why Yokoso is different? 2. Which real-life Japanese situation should the app teach better next? The web app works offline and without an account, and the iOS app is live. Thanks for taking a look.
About Yokoso on Product Hunt
“Japanese for the life you're actually living in Japan”
Yokoso launched on Product Hunt on August 4th, 2026 and earned 84 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #18 on the daily leaderboard. Free Japanese learning for real life in Japan. Yokoso adapts around what you know, teaches signs, prices and grammar in context, imports WaniKani progress, works offline, and has no ads, streaks or locked lessons.
On the analytics side, Yokoso competes within iOS, Education and Languages — topics that collectively have 204k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Yokoso performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Yokoso?
Yokoso was hunted by James Ketola. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Reviews
Yokoso has received 1 review on Product Hunt with an average rating of 4.00/5. Read all reviews on Product Hunt.
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