App World Featured App, June 25 to July 2 2010!
HiraganaBobana teaches you the Japanese Hiragana alphabet using an adaptive self-paced learning algorithm. No previous studying is needed. Just play the game and have fun learning your new language! Seventy levels are included, one for each Kana. Progress though levels by maintaining your accuracy. After all levels are complete, try to get 100% accuracy! If you like this app, check out KatakanaBobana. Nihon Go!, NomimonApp, UmaimonApp, TabemonApp & DineSuki which are also from this author.
This game presents one letter at a time and three choices for a translation, one of which is correct. You make a guess and if you guessed correctly, you get a green check mark and if you guessed wrong, you see a red check mark. In either case, the correct answer is shown to you for a brief time so you can learn the correct answer.

Your personal 'accuracy' measure is at the top right of your screen when playing and is expressed as a percentage. Your accuracy is calculated as your correct answers divided by the number of questions you have answered. For example, if you have answered 4 questions and got 3 right, your accuracy is 75%.
If you can maintain a 25% accuracy you can get to level 4, if you can maintain a 50% accuracy, you can progress between level 5 to 9 and after that you need to maintain a 75% accuracy to progress each level. In this way, the game adapts to how quickly you are learning, allowing you to learn at your own pace. You are exposed to a small number of letters until you've demonstrated that you know them, and then you are exposed to more and can get to a higher level.
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