Tomodekki for schools
The hardest part of teaching Japanese isn't the lesson. It's the six days between lessons, when vocabulary quietly decays and chapter five is gone by chapter fifteen.
That gap is exactly what a spaced-repetition scheduler is for, and it's the part of Tomodekki that transfers to a classroom most directly. A student who reviews for six minutes a day arrives at the next lesson still holding the last one.
What's relevant to a class
- Textbook alignment. The vocabulary and grammar ladders are designed to be mapped to a book's chapter order, so “we're on Genki chapter 12” sets what unlocks rather than fighting the app's own sequence.
- Kanji taught in the right order. Components before characters, characters before words — a student never meets a kanji before the parts it's built from.
- Furigana, pitch accent and audio on every word, from multiple speakers, so listening isn't a separate exercise bolted on later.
- Honest self-assessment. Four answer buttons with on-card guidance about when to press which. Students who mark themselves generously get a scheduler that adapts to it, not a grade that hides it.
- Evidence that holds up. The scheduling is built on the distributed-practice and retrieval-practice literature, not on a proprietary claim. The home page cites the three results it rests on.
What doesn't exist yet
We'd rather be straight about this than sell you a roadmap. There is currently no teacher dashboard, no class roster, no per-seat licensing and no assignment flow. Tomodekki today is a very good individual learner's app that a class could use individually.
Those things are the obvious next build, and what they should look like depends entirely on what teachers actually need — which is why this page exists before the feature does.
If you teach Japanese, we'd like to hear from you
Particularly useful: what you teach from, how big your classes are, what you currently set for homework, what your school will and won't allow on student devices, and what a tool would have to do before it was worth the administrative trouble of adopting it.
Write to hello@tomodekki.com. Teachers who talk to us now get early access for themselves and a say in what gets built.