About Norolu Learning JP

Japanese learning materials have long been built around the assumption that the student is growing up in Japan. Meanwhile, the number of people coming to Japan from abroad — travelers, new residents, exchange students, families joining an overseas posting — grows every year. What they actually need isn't textbook-perfect grammar parsed with a dictionary; it's the one line you can say at the airport without rehearsing, the short exchange at the convenience store, the calm with which you tell a taxi driver "to here".

Norolu Learning JP is a hand-curated collection of those "say-it-now" lines — 10,762 phrases across 1,238situations, each with romaji, kana, audio, the other person's likely reply, and a small note on body language. We don't try to be everything to every learner. We focus on what a traveler or new resident actually needs this week, today, right now.

Built by Noroshi Inc., a small Japanese company founded in February 2020 and based in Mine, Yamaguchi. Learning JP was created to help non-Japanese workers in elderly-care settings pick up the language and become familiar with Japanese culture. Every example, every audio file, and every etiquette note is reviewed by the operator, one at a time.

It's simple to use. Formal (keigo) and casual phrases are shown side by side, so the feel for when to use the polite form with a shopkeeper versus the casual form with a colleague comes to you naturally as you read. Every phrase can be read aloud by your device's built-in speech synthesis — and some also carry audio recorded by a real voice — so you can learn by listening and saying the words out loud.

No sign-up is required, and the core is free for good. Your progress is saved only inside your own browser; it is never sent to our servers. Pick one situation you'll likely meet next week, and start there.