Free Japanese Flashcards (Online, with Audio)

Pick a deck below and start. Tap a card to flip it, use Hear itto play the pronunciation with your device's Japanese voice, then mark whether you remembered it. Cards you miss come back later in the same round, so you spend your time on the ones that need it.

How to study with Japanese flashcards

Flashcards work because of active recall — pulling an answer out of memory instead of recognizing it in a list. The struggle to remember is exactly what builds the memory. A simple, effective routine:

• Start with one deck. Learn all of hiragana before adding katakana, then move to N5 vocabulary.
• Say it out loud.Use "Hear it," repeat the sound, then check the reading. Linking sound to shape locks it in.
• Be honest with grading. If you hesitated, press Again. Easy passes you did not earn just hide the gaps.
• Review daily. Five short sessions across a week beat one long cram. That spacing is the whole point.

Why spaced repetition matters

Re-queuing missed cards within a session is a light form of spaced repetition. The stronger version schedules each card across days and weeks, timed to the moment you are about to forget it. That is what the FSRS algorithm does, and why a dedicated app remembers your schedule when a web page cannot. For the full method, see spaced repetition explained.

More free Japanese flashcard resources

• Japanese flashcards hub — the full guide, plus every deck and app.
• Kana quiz — type-the-romaji recall drill for hiragana and katakana.
• Hiragana chart and katakana chart — reference grids with audio.
• Best Japanese flashcard apps — how the popular options compare.

Take your flashcards off the browser

This tool is a free taste. The Inku iPhone app adds recorded pronunciation audio, a curated 515-word N5 deck and 391-word N4 deck, phrase packs, handwriting practice, and true cross-day spaced repetition that schedules every review for you. Try Inku free for 7 days.