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Memrise
FreeiOS, Android, Web~50
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HelloTalk
-iOS, Android150+
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Kodansha Kanji Learners Dictionary
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Memrise

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dan clark
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It makes you write the words

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If you choose this option, writing is a very efficient way of memorization.
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Learn from natives

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Official courses have videos of natives, recorded recently, to help you along.
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Foreign keyboard on screen when necessary

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This saves you from having to copy/paste characters or worry about your keyboard settings.
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Android app can be used offline

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You can download courses to use offline with the Android app. Great for when you're traveling.
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Easy to use

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You will understand quickly what you should do, and you will begin to learn in less than a minute.
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Huge vocabulary

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The courses can teach you a very large vocabulary (for example, the first level Spanish course has 1705 words).
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Free account without a time limit

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The Basic account is totally free (has no time limit) and is very generous. An upgrade (with more features) is available for 9 USD / month.
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Helps grow your vocabulary quickly

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Memrise uses "mems" to increase your vocabulary, which is a way to connect a word to its meaning. A common example is associating a word with an image. Mnemonics are another one they use to help you remember new words. For example, "le parcours" (route or course) could be rem...
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Many courses available

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Many different courses are available depending on what you want to learn specifically. If you want to learn Keigo specifically, there's a course for that. If you only want to learn N2 kanji, there's a course for that.
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Great for learning Japanese words

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krraej
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Many languages

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Memrise offers a myriad of languages to choose from. If you want to learn a rare language, chances are you'll find a course for it on Memrise.
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Community-driven

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Because courses are created by the community, it offers variety and a wealth of content that puts most other apps to shame.
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Everything is unlocked right from the start

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In Duolingo for example, you have to unlock new paths as you go. In Memrise, everything is unlocked right from the start so you can learn what you want at your own pace and skip over the stuff you don't want to learn (yet).
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Courses can vary in quality

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Memrise is community-driven with limited content curation so some courses are optimized better than others.
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HelloTalk

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