こんにちは、今日はどうですか？（Hello, how is your day?） Six months ago I started learning Japanese properly through structured courses, weekly lessons, immersion - the works. The courses are excellent, and I wanted to get the most out of them. That meant having somewhere to study on my own terms between lessons - drill the kana & kanji over morning coffee, run a practice test when it suited me, keep the daily habit ticking over. Nothing quite fit, so I built it. It's called Nihontomo (日本友). It's a web-based study companion designed to sit alongside your Japanese course, currently built for beginner and intermediate learners (JLPT N5/N4). What it does: → Drills for kana, kanji and vocabulary - 700+ N5 words, every N5 kanji, and 750+ kanji to grow into → Custom tests you build around your lessons and areas of focus → Sentence practice - read and write real Japanese, with instant AI grammar feedback (beta) → Spaced repetition reviews that resurface words right when you need them → Progress trackers & N5 JLPT readiness score, so you always know where you stand It's free, no ads, and I use it every day for my own study so it'll keep getting better out of pure self-interest :) ...but you can always buy me a コーヒー☕ If you're learning Japanese, or know someone who is - link in the first comment 👇 Built end-to-end as a solo project - design & brand by me, data architecture and code on Lovable, with Claude as a collaborator throughout. If you're curious how it all came together and my process, happy to talk about that too. ありがとう（Thank you）🙏

https://nihontomo.com/