Learning Japanese? Did you know the Japanese language has two phonetic alphabets? Hiragana for native words, and Katakana for foreign words. This game focuses on helping you learn or practice your knowledge of their phonetic alphabets. You can use this game as a test of memory or as a learning tool. You will match the Japanese characters to their correct Romaji (English characters). You can play with all the characters from either Hiragana or Katakana face up to test your knowledge; or test yourself in a memory match with all the cards face down for extreme hard mode. Struggling with a row or two? That's okay! You can focus on several specific rows or just one row at a time, face up or face down. Your choice! Hajimemashouka? Will you begin?

UPDATE:  Bug fixed where if you restart the game and already picked a card the game crashed and added in it's own icon

UPDATE:  Bug fixed where the Katakana chart was showing Hiragana for a row

UPDATE: Bug of the English cards not showing up fixed
Play Again button added back in.

When you publish and see a few flaws and must re-upload. I'll be putting back in the play again button for anyone who cares. I also did update shortly after posting it for typos in the game. Gomenasai. ごめなさい。

Full Version of the game now out!!!
This version has both Hiragana and Katakana and you can choose what columns you want to study or take on the entire chart for each! Please enjoy!

Ver 1.1
This version has face up or face down matching now so you can challenge just your knowledge of Hirigana or you can challenge both your memory and knowledge.

NOTE:

There is no way to resume your current game from the menu/settings

Known bug: The pause button does not change back to play if you pause to use the settings button and start a new mode.

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, Linux, HTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Authorkatame13
GenreEducational, Card Game
Tagsjapanese, language, memory, Mouse only, Short, Touch-Friendly

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Hiragana_Matching_Game.zip 5 MB
Hiragana_Matching_Game_ver1.1.zip 5 MB
BasicJapaneseMatchingGameLinux.zip 16 MB
BasicJapaneseMatchingGameWindows.zip 15 MB

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This game will be on sale tomorrow Nov 26 - Nov 30th on Google Play! Please checkout the game there and have it on your phone for on the go learning!

A really nice tool for learning Hirigana and Katakana.

My advice, having played it: 

Pay attention to the face up vs face down options, and the selecting from charts. 

If you don't know any of the sounds, start off with just a single row in the chart selector. Do each one of the rows for a bit till you think you have it down, then increase the number of rows.

Once you get to doing all of them face up, and feel pretty quick at it, from there, move to face down, working your way up again. 

I find this matching game does a great job pushing my memorization of the symbols quickly, and it's a lot more enjoyable than boring practice sheets! 

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Thank you! I was trying to make it fun for people to practice and learn! Glad it is helping!