Guides
Japanese learning guides
Everything here is grounded in the app's real implementation and catalog, with sources cited. New guides ship regularly.
The method
- About Moji - Learn Japanese Daily Moji - Learn Japanese Daily is an iPhone app for Japanese vocabulary and kanji by independent developer Huy Bui. FSRS-6 scheduling, JLPT N5 to N1.
- FSRS vs SM-2, and what Moji actually runs Moji runs official FSRS-6 with all 21 parameters and 90% target retention. What that means, why it beats SM-2, and why there are only two buttons.
- How we curate Japanese vocabulary The sources, standards, and review passes behind Moji's 7,435 curated Japanese vocabulary entries, with the real numbers from each pass.
- What order should you learn Japanese words in? Why frequency order beats textbook order in your first months of Japanese, how Moji orders its first 500 cards, and why particles arrive early.
Honest comparisons
- Anki alternative for Japanese: an honest comparison Anki is more powerful and free on desktop. Here is a straight comparison with Moji, a curated 7,435-word Japanese app running FSRS-6 with no setup.
- The Best App for JLPT N5 Vocabulary (Honest Answer) N5 has no official word list. Here is what the ~800-word convention actually means, what Moji covers, and when Anki or Renshuu is the better pick.
- What to Use After Duolingo for Japanese Finished or plateaued in Duolingo's Japanese course? Here's the honest next step: a small specialist stack for grammar, vocab, kanji, and reading.
Reference
- How Many Japanese Words Do You Need to Be Fluent? What corpus research says about Japanese word coverage: the top 1,000 words cover about 60% of text, and why the last stretch costs so much.
- The 100 Most Common Japanese Words (With Readings) The 100 most common Japanese words with readings and meanings, plus what a frequency list cannot tell you, starting with why the top 10 are all grammar.