流れ · Japanese from real clips

JojoScroll your way into Japanese.

Short clips of real Japanese. White words, muted readings, a green spoken cursor. Tap what you don’t know — and watch it turn known in every clip after.

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That ramen place by the station was sooo good!

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The loop

Watch. Tap. Keep scrolling.

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Watch something

A short clip. Anime, food, travel, a street conversation. Japanese still attached to the scene.

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Tap what you don’t know

White Japanese, muted readings, a green spoken cursor. Tap once — word, reading, one gloss.

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Keep scrolling

Jojo remembers it. Vocabulary, then a card, then a review. No thirty-minute lesson.

Mastery colour

Every word starts amber. Watch it turn green.

Drag through three months of watching and see one line go from a wall of amber to something you just understand — the same mastery ink that colours Jojo’s feed.

See it ripen

The same line, three months apart.

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きょう今日kyou はwaあさ朝asa からkaraあめ雨ame だったdatta けどkedo、ごご午後gogo はwaともだち友達tomodachi とto カフェkafe でdeはな話せたhanaseta。

It rained all morning, but this afternoon I got to chat with a friend at a café, and it was so nice.

Tap to understand

Tap a word. Tell Jojo how well you know it.

Every word opens a slim card: reading, one gloss, what it means in this line. Mark it — Learning, Familiar, Easy, Known — and the colour follows you into every clip after.

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Live demo
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This cat looks out of the window every morning, you know.

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まど · mado

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How well do you know it?

Jojo feed with glow theme
The feed page — karaoke line raised on a quiet dark plate, glow only on the spoken word.
Jojo curved dock — Library, Vocab, Feed, Profile
Curved dock — Library, Vocab, Feed panda, Profile. Hides while you watch.

The story behind Jojo

I got frustrated with how language learning worked. So I built the thing I actually wanted to use.

Raphael Momanyi — Founder & Developer

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I wanted to learn Japanese. So, like most people, I started with the apps everyone recommends. Duolingo. LingoDeer. WaniKani. Bunpro. Pimsleur. They all had something valuable to offer.

Then learning Japanese started feeling like another chore.

Stop what you’re doing. Open an app. Sit down. Finish a lesson. Eventually real life won. I’d open TikTok, scroll Instagram, watch YouTube — and spend twenty minutes without thinking twice. Then I’d tell myself I’d study later.

What if learning Japanese didn’t have to compete with the habits I already had?

What if I could learn while scrolling — not by turning the feed into a classroom, but by turning the thing I was already doing into one? Anime. Food. Travel. Street conversations. Real people.

That’s when Jojo was born. The app I wished existed when I started.

— Raphael MomanyiFounder & Developer, Jojo

Two ways to wear it

Sakura and Amber. Light or dark glow.

Same two accents as the app. This page is wearing Sakura dark. The switch restyles the site the way Profile restyles Jojo.

Sakura

Night indigo, neon pink glow. The default — soft weather with a loud cursor.

Jojo Sakura theme — Explore, Feed, and Vocab.

Amber

Warm paper, candy orange. The loud commute theme.

Jojo Amber theme — Explore, Feed, and Vocab.

Now on the App Store

Plant your first word.

A few clips a day, and your Japanese starts turning green. Download Jojo on iPhone and start learning in the flow.

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