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.
If you teach Japanese, we'd like to hear from you
Tomodekki sits alongside whatever you already teach from - it isn't trying to replace the course, just to hold it together between lessons. The most useful thing you can tell us is how that actually works where you are: what you teach from, how big your classes are, what you currently set for homework, and what your school will and won't allow on student devices.
There's a student and teacher discount. Write from a school address and we'll sort it out for you and your class - it applies to individual accounts today, so nobody has to wait for procurement to get started.
Talk to us or write to hello@tomodekki.com
Teachers who talk to us now get early access for themselves and a say in what gets built.