Greetings in Japanese
Use the greetings pack with Japanese words such as welcome, meet, friend, and tomorrow.
Preview the pack →English ↔ Japanese
Play your way into Japanese vocabulary
Build useful Japanese vocabulary through short challenges, visual prompts, and words connected to real situations—not a disconnected list.
A complete learning loop
From English word to Japanese recall
MemDecks turns the pieces of vocabulary learning into one playable loop.
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Meet
See a useful word with a picture, Japanese script, transliteration, and audio.
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Choose
Make quick recognition decisions and get immediate, forgiving feedback.
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Build
Combine familiar words into harder phrase and recall challenges.
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Keep playing
Save learned words to your collection and reuse them in other games.
What you get
What MemDecks supports for Japanese
Japanese is one of 16 study languages, each learned from English. Support depth differs between them; this is what Japanese has.
| Feature | Japanese |
|---|---|
| Script | Kana and kanji (日本語) |
| Transliteration | Shown under every word, in Latin letters |
| Audio | On every card |
| Grammatical gender | Not marked on cards |
| Phrase Builder lessons | 14 |
| Alphabet Quest | No |
| On-screen keyboard | Yes |
Real lesson content
14 Japanese phrases you learn in Phrase Builder
Each Phrase Builder lesson teaches one phrase and the words inside it. These are the Japanese lessons as published.
| English | Japanese |
|---|---|
| The mother gives tea to her child at home. | 母親は家で子どもにお茶をあげます。 |
| The student reads a new book at school. | 生徒は学校で新しい本を読みます。 |
| The man drinks cold water today. | 男の人は今日冷たい水を飲みます。 |
| The girl eats fresh bread in the room. | 女の子は部屋で新鮮なパンを食べます。 |
| My friend wants a sweet cake and milk at the cafe. | 友達はカフェで甘いケーキと牛乳を欲しがっています。 |
| The old doctor knows the name of this person. | 年老いた医者はこの人の名前を知っています。 |
| The family has a big house in the city. | 家族は街に大きい家を持っています。 |
| The father sees a black car on the road. | 父親は道で黒い車を見ます。 |
| The young girl goes to the small white house at night. | 若い女の子は夜に小さくて白い家に行きます。 |
| A visitor arrives at the station with a ticket on the platform. | 訪問者が駅のホームにチケットを持って到着します。 |
| The girl eats white rice, egg, cheese, and fruit for breakfast. | 女の子は朝ごはんに白いご飯と卵とチーズと果物を食べます。 |
| At meal time, the hungry student eats meat and rice and drinks juice. | 食事の時間に、お腹が空いている学生は肉とご飯を食べてジュースを飲みます。 |
| At the restaurant, my friend says the wine is good. | レストランで、友達はワインがおいしいと言います。 |
| The food for dinner is on the table by the door. | 夕食用の食べ物は、ドアのそばのテーブルの上にあります。 |
Word by word
70 Japanese words those phrases teach
Every word below is shown in the form it takes in its phrase, so it may be inflected rather than the dictionary form. In the game each one comes with a picture and audio.
| English | Japanese, as used in the phrase |
|---|---|
| mother | 母親 |
| give | あげます |
| tea | お茶 |
| child | 子ども |
| home | 家 |
| student | 生徒 |
| read | 読みます |
| new | 新しい |
| book | 本 |
| school | 学校 |
| man | 男の人 |
| drink | 飲みます |
| cold | 冷たい |
| water | 水 |
| today | 今日 |
| girl | 女の子 |
| eat | 食べます |
| fresh | 新鮮な |
| bread | パン |
| room | 部屋 |
| want | 欲しがっています |
| sweet | 甘い |
| cake | ケーキ |
| milk | 牛乳 |
| cafe | カフェ |
| old | 年老いた |
| doctor | 医者 |
| know | 知っています |
| name | 名前 |
| person | 人 |
| family | 家族 |
| have | 持っています |
| big | 大きい |
| house | 家 |
| city | 街 |
| father | 父親 |
| see | 見ます |
| black | 黒い |
| car | 車 |
| road | 道 |
| young | 若い |
| go | 行きます |
| small | 小さくて |
| white | 白い |
| night | 夜 |
| visitor | 訪問者 |
| arrive | 到着します |
| station | 駅 |
| ticket | チケット |
| platform | ホーム |
| rice | ご飯 |
| egg | 卵 |
| cheese | チーズ |
| fruit | 果物 |
| breakfast | 朝ごはん |
| meal | 食事 |
| time | 時間 |
| hungry | お腹が空いている |
| meat | 肉 |
| juice | ジュース |
| friend | 友達 |
| restaurant | レストラン |
| wine | ワイン |
| good | おいしい |
| say | 言います |
| food | 食べ物 |
| dinner | 夕食 |
| be | あります |
| table | テーブル |
| door | ドア |
Useful starting points
Build vocabulary by situation
These are three of 21 topic packs. A pack feeds you new words one at a time, each translated into Japanese.
Travel vocabulary in Japanese
Use the travel pack for Japanese transport and accommodation words such as plane, train, hotel, and room.
Preview the pack →Food vocabulary in Japanese
Use the food pack for everyday Japanese words such as apple, banana, orange, lemon, and grape.
Preview the pack →Questions
Learning Japanese with MemDecks
Can I translate Japanese back into English?
Yes. The translator supports the English–Japanese learning pair in either direction while keeping Japanese as the study language.
Do Japanese cards include transliteration?
MemDecks can show transliteration alongside Japanese script, helping beginners connect spelling and pronunciation while they learn the alphabet.
Can I choose which words to study?
Yes. Translate and save your own useful words, or follow a themed word pack and practise those cards through the app.
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