Pricing
Most of this site is free.
Nothing is for sale yetDays 1 to 30 of the daily lessons, every chart, all 831 words, the grammar reference, the situation guides and the printables are open now, with no account and no card.
Everything else is written and is being checked by a native speaker before it opens. Accounts and payment are being built, so there is nothing to buy on this page today. The prices below are what the plans will cost, published early so there are no surprises later.
- Without an account
- ✓Daily lessons, days 1 to 7
- ✓Hiragana, katakana and kanji charts
- ✓831 N5 words and the grammar reference
- ✓17 situation guides and the JLPT guide
- ✓Printable charts and practice sheets
- With a Basic account, still free
- ✓Daily lessons, days 8 to 30
- ✓Progress and XP synced across your devices
- ✓A review schedule that survives a cleared browser
- ✓The first 3 days of every other course
- ✓Everything in Basic
- ✓Daily lessons, days 31 to 90
- ✓The full kanji course, all 109 characters
- ✓The business, anime and manga courses in full
- ✓Unlimited spaced repetition and games
- ✓Every course released while you subscribe
- ✓Email support from a human
- ✓Cancel any time, keep the month you paid for
- ✓Everything in Pro, permanently
- ✓Every future course on this site, included
- ✓N4, N3, N2 and N1 as they are released
- ✓No renewal, no card on file, no reminders
- ✓Supports an independent build
Everything, side by side
| Feature | Basic | Pro | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free, with no account at all | |||
| Hiragana, katakana and kanji charts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vocabulary and grammar reference, 831 N5 words | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Situation guides, from restaurants to the dojo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Printable charts and practice sheets | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| JLPT exam guide | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Daily lessons, days 1 to 7 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| What a Basic account adds, free | |||
| Daily lessons, days 8 to 30 | account | ✓ | ✓ |
| Progress and XP synced across every device | account | ✓ | ✓ |
| A spaced repetition schedule that survives a cleared browser | account | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kanji course | 3 days | ✓ | ✓ |
| Business Japanese course | 3 days | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anime course | 3 days | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manga course | 3 days | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vocabulary games | 10 words | ✓ | ✓ |
| Handwriting practice, whole words | 20 words | ✓ | ✓ |
| What the paid plans add | |||
| Daily lessons, days 31 to 90 | · | ✓ | ✓ |
| The full 30-day kanji course, all 109 characters | · | ✓ | ✓ |
| The full 20-day business Japanese course | · | ✓ | ✓ |
| The anime and manga courses in full | · | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unlimited vocabulary games and drills | · | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unlimited spaced repetition, no daily cap | · | ✓ | ✓ |
| Courses released later: grammar, listening, N4 | · | while subscribed | included forever |
| Future JLPT levels, N4 through N1 | · | while subscribed | included forever |
| Email support from a human | · | ✓ | ✓ |
| The commitment | |||
| Billed monthly, nothing up front | · | ✓ | one payment |
| Cancel any time, in two clicks | · | ✓ | nothing to cancel |
| Renews automatically | · | monthly | never |
| No minimum term and no cancellation fee | · | ✓ | ✓ |
| 14-day refund on your first payment | · | ✓ | ✓ |
Questions people actually ask
Days 1 to 30 of the daily course, the first three days of every other course, every hiragana, katakana and kanji chart, all 831 vocabulary words, the grammar reference, the 17 situation guides, the review deck, the handwriting practice and the printable charts. All of it free, no account, no card. That is a real amount of Japanese and it is not a demo.
Because it is finished but not checked. Every Japanese item on this site is reviewed by a native speaker before it goes live, and that review is still happening. Charging for material we have not verified, or giving it away before it is right, are both worse than making you wait.
No, and there is deliberately no email box on this page. When the courses open they will simply be there. If you want to be told, the newsletter link in the footer is the only list we keep.
No. The free part stays free permanently. There is no clock on any of it, and nothing you can use today will be taken away and sold back to you later.
No. Monthly or once, nothing in between. An annual plan asks you to bet a year on a site you have used for ten minutes, and it mostly exists to make the monthly price look bad. If you want to commit, Lifetime is the honest version of that.
Everything on Learn Japanese Online Hub, for as long as the site exists, including every JLPT level as it is built. It does not include the other language sites in the network, because those are separate products with their own costs.
Any time, from your account settings, in two clicks, without emailing anyone or giving a reason. Cancelling stops the next payment and you keep access to the end of the month you have paid for. No cancellation fee, no phone call, no retention offer.
Email us within 14 days of your first payment and you get your money back. We would rather refund you than have you paying for something you do not open.