Don’t just memorize Japanese—understand it.
Sounds familiar?
You recognize lots of words, but real sentences still don’t “click.”
Practice feels repetitive—and doesn’t improve real-world understanding.
You’re juggling separate apps for kanji, grammar, vocab, and audio.
Lessons and explanations use too many linguistic terms you don’t understand.
Penglo fixes this with sentence-first practice that changes context every time and grows with you.
Why learning in isolation fails
Studying words, grammar, and kanji in separate apps trains recognition—not use.
You can memorize a lot, but when you meet a real sentence or conversation, it doesn’t come together.
How Penglo solves this
- Builds on what you know. We prepare sentences that include the words and grammar you’re currently due to review.
- Fresh every time. Each appearance is a new sentence, so you keep learning something new instead of falling back on memorization.
- Recognition → use. Items due in those sentences get turned into fill-in-the-blank reviews, so you retrieve and use them in context. If you’re stuck, hints are sentence-specific, not cookie-cutter.
- Always the right load. As you improve, the same items reappear in new sentences and richer forms (base → counters/compounds; plain → conjugated). We also adjust how many blanks you see in each sentence, so practice stays smooth and challenging.
- Plain language, zero jargon (no pun intended). Every word is annotated and explained thoroughly, but simply.
One app instead of five
All you need in one place. No app juggling.
Save hours each week by keeping everything together and all your progress in one place.
Difficulty grows with you—from complete beginner to advanced—so you never outgrow Penglo.
How Penglo works
Start from you
Your current review items set the focus.
- Built from what you know—we find sentences with the words and grammar you’re due to review.
Find the right sentences
We find sentences that contain those items and blank the due words and grammar in them.
- Fresh every time—each appearance is a new sentence, so you keep learning, not memorizing patterns.
Helpful when you need it
Stuck? Each blank offers sentence-specific hints—no cookie-cutter explanations.
- Clarity over jargon—plain-language annotations make meaning obvious.
Keep the right load
Over time you’ll see new sentences and more complex uses of the same items, so progress stays smooth and engaging.
- Difficulty that fits—complexity increases naturally across forms and structures.
- Hear and follow—audio with synchronized highlighting supports comprehension.
What you’ll notice in week 1
Sentences start making sense because they’re chosen around what you already know.
Practice never feels repetitive—different sentences each time.
You see progressively richer uses of the same word or grammar, so understanding deepens.
Less tool-hopping, more real progress.
Frequently Asked Questions
Ready to feel the difference?
Try the 30-second demo and watch sentences start to click.