For learners who want to have conversations.
When does all that studying turn into a conversation?
Here, your lessons are conversations built around why you’re learning. We have you repeat every line until you can do it on your own. Teaching you along the way.
- Your first lesson is free. No card, just sign in
- Lessons built around your goal, on topics you care about
- Say every line yourself, with a hint ready the moment you get stuck
- Conversations come back right before you forget, so they stick
You’ve done the studying.
So why does a real conversation still feel like this?
You freeze up.
You ace the lessons, then go blank in a real conversation.
You’re too slow.
You translate the whole sentence in your head. By then the moment is gone.
You still can’t talk.
You’ve studied for months. You still can’t order lunch without sweating.
Knowing the words and finding them mid-conversation are different skills. You’ve only ever trained the first one. Nobody freezes in a conversation they’ve had a hundred times.
How it works
Your goal, built into conversations, ten minutes a day.
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Set your goal
One tap says why you’re here. Your wife, a trip, your job, just for fun. It becomes one clear goal, and everything is built from it.
Your goal · Why are you learning Japanese?
TravelA trip is coming upPartnerIt’s their languageFamilyTalk with people you loveWorkUse it on the jobLearn Japanese to share it with your wife.
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We build it for you
Your goal becomes a path of real conversations, made for exactly what you want to say. No planning from you.
Your path · Built from your goal
Lesson 1 · Her language at home
Life with your wife
Good morning, sleepyheadCleared · review in 3 daysWhat should we cook tonight?
Up next · 6 turns
Her day, in her wordsup laterPlans for the weekendup later - 33
Have the conversation
Show up and answer, about ten minutes a day. Every reply is yours to come up with. Stuck? A hint walks you through it. Each conversation comes back until you can run it with no help at all.
Today’s drill · What should we cook tonight?
Narrator
You’re in the kitchen together. She turns to you.
Yui
今夜は何を食べたい？
What do you want to eat tonight?
あなたの返事…
Progress you can see
The reason you stopped before wasn’t willpower. Nothing showed you were getting anywhere. Here, every conversation you finish and every day you show up is right in front of you. You won’t quit this time.
Kenji
Drills Cleared
Replies sent
Practice time
Hints you asked for, and free hints on a miss.
Basic conversations. It moves as you clear drills.
First-try clears raise your rating most. Extra tries still earn XP, they just don't move it.
FAQ
Our 30-day guarantee
Show up 18 days out of 30. If you can’t hold 10 real conversations on your own by then, you don’t pay. The risk is ours, not yours.
Our 30-day guarantee. Once you upgrade, show up at least 18 of the next 30 days. If you still can’t hold 10 real conversations on your own, email support@stupidneko.com within 35 days of starting and we’ll refund your first payment. No hoops.
Free to start. Upgrade when you’re ready.
Take your first lesson free. No card. When you upgrade, your first 30 days come with our guarantee. After that, it continues as a regular membership you can cancel anytime.
Your first lesson is free: four real conversations, up to 20 drills to clear them.
$190 billed once a year. That’s about 2 months free compared to monthly.
Every paid plan includes
- Full access to your lessons, on any topic
- You say every line yourself. Miss one and a hint walks you to the answer
- Smart Review brings conversations back right before you forget
- Today’s Drills shows exactly what to run each day
- Progress dashboard: drills cleared, active conversations, streaks
Cancel anytime in account settings. No lock-ins.
Your first lesson is one sign-in away
Your first lesson is free: four real conversations, no card. The fastest way to know if this works for you is to say your first line right now.
Have your first conversation free- Free to start
- No card
- About 10 minutes a day
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